Is it time for some pre-spring deals.woot cleaning?
I just went through all my posted deals and expired all the deals that aren't valid anymore. I suggest we all clean out our postings, so that we can clean up the site and keep the "Why is the price not showing up correctly when I hit I Want One?" questions off the site.
The easiest way I found to go through my deals is to search "@your_user_name -is:expired"
So here's searching mine: falcondeal -is:expired
Please excuse the non-@, it's the only way I could get the link to work.
Any other ways we can clean house?
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falcondeal
asked 3 months ago
good for you. i did mine last week. i just clicked my name and expired everything i knew was old.
lets face it we all know we got a bunch of old out there.
It sounds like a good idea to me. However I have 72 pages of deals. I don't have the time to clear them all. I suck. I do periodically go through some though. Perhaps someday I'll catch up.
@gideonfrost: Only 40 pages of non-expired... lol. I noticed most of my recent ones were expired before I could even get to them, thanks to tattles and the Staff.
@gideonfrost: wow. how do you not go thru and clean up expire sometimes. once a week and it wouldn't be at that many. (yes, i did go thru and tattle some for you, i need tattle points currently)
I went through mine! Down to only a page of live deals.
@jsoko: how are you getting a sort by what is live vs RIP? i only have tabs for added, commented, voted for, voted against.
@moosezilla: use @falcondeal's tip, and search "@moosezilla -is:expired" and you get: http://deals.woot.com/deals/search?q=%40moosezilla+-is%3Aexpired
You only have one live deal
I'm upvoting this due to the sheer AWESOME of the suggestion.
I have a bit of OCD so I actually check everything at midnight and 1am. It drives me NUTS that I have to expire them and not just destroy them, blasting them out of existence. Now they just sit there chillin' with their RIP, reminding me of deals passed. sigh
@kllangellier: I think it's still valuable historical pricing information, especially since many deals tend to recur and it might tip someone off who searched and found the RIP'd deals that they might wait for another 'sale'.
@gideonfrost: Thanks for the easy tattle points :)
And now a question - what's the easiest way to figure out of a deal with a coupon code is still valid? I have a number of deals like that, and it's tedious to have to go through the whole "shopping cart" process to see if the coupon has expired yet...
@tsfisch: I try to put the expiration date for the coupon in the description when I first post it, and then I can quickly see if it is past its expiration. But sometimes none is given... Otherwise, you're right, this is tedious work. I do try to keep up with my listings, but I don't have as many as @gideonfrost or others.
i'm working backwards from 6000th of top deals tattling on all the old (profanity) thats toast
Good suggestion. Just went through all my posts and expired everything that's no longer valid. If I get some spare time, I'll start somewhere in the middle of popular flow and start exploring/ tattling!
I tend to keep an eye on my deals, checking them at least once a week. Since I don't post more than a couple every week, it's a bit easier for me.
I also try to take a few minutes anytime I do a search to check out a few of the deals that come up and tattle on anything that's expired. I don't do tons, but if everyone did this, I think we'd have a much cleaner site.
procedural questions, everyone. I'm still not sure what to do in these cases. I've read conflicting answers:
1) the deal price has gone up or down by a little bit (I would leave it alone)
2) the deal price has dropped an additional 10% (can you fix this by tattling)?
3) the link is broken - can you assume the deal is over or do you need to look around on the site for the item?
Doing it right now. I'm sure @jumbowoot would really appreciate our efforts...
For #1, if it's gone down, I leave it alone. If it's gone up, it depends on what the percent of the total price is. e.g. if it was $150 and gone up to $152, I'd leave it alone. If it was $3.99 and gone up to $5.99 I'd tattle.
For #2, I currently leave it alone (as noted above). Would be nice to know if we could tattle for the deal to be updated, or if we should re-post the deal.
Fore #3, Usually this means the deal is over, since the link is often a special link to a sale page. I typically will tattle in this case.
@tsfisch: thanks - that makes sense. I have tattled before when the deal price has dropped and asked for the lower price to be posted, but I know others have said tattle then repost the deal. I would only do that if I thought it was a good deal in the first place - sometimes, they aren't much of a deal anyway.
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