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In what order do you check the various woot sites?

May 18, 2012 12:03 PM

Just curious if anyone is as OCD as me about checking the sites in a specific order and your reasons doing so.

My order-
1. Main
2. Home
3. Kids
4. Wine
5. Shirt
6. Deals + Sellout

My thought process is this: The big ticket items and the off-chance there is a BOC on a regular day gives "Main" 1st priority. We are currently remodeling/renovating the home so "Home" gets 2nd. "Kids", "Wine" and "Shirt" are in the order that I generally show interest in the products that are offered. I save "Deals" for last because it requires the most time. I also don't have "Local" in my area, so I don't bother checking it.

Does anyone else remember (pre-"Deals" and pre-"Kids") that the panel used to be 4 perfect little boxes on the right side of the page? The sites used to cycle on each succeeding site so I could click on the top left box and reach all 5 sites in a specific order. Now I have to click all over to cycle.

What? Don't judge me, I told you about the OCD earlier.

curtisuxor curtisuxor

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I am on Deals around midnight and can see them from the thumbnails there. I'll usually click through to shirt woot or regular woot to get a closer look or if I feel like I have something funny/insightful to say.

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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Always save Deals for last because I know I will be here longer than any of the others.

dw1771 dw1771
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Deals first, the others only if the 'advertisements' look good.

caffeine_dude caffeine_dude
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I don't have a specific order... For me it depends on the deals of the day. I typically open up to woot.com or deals.woot first, then hover over the various site squares to see what I want to look at next.
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curtise curtise
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The main site. And, I just look at the thumbnails for the other sites. If something looks interesting, I'll go there. If not, I go peruse deals.

kmeltzer kmeltzer
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Celebrate your inner OCD!

ALWAYS Woot.com, then deals.woot, and the others from the thumbnails.

I'm afraid of the bad luck I would have if the order changed even the slightest. I'd probably login to kids.woot only to find out that there was a woot-off with 12 different BOCs while I was sleeping.

baronz baronz
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I go woot, home, wine, kids, shirt, deals.

The main reason I go that way is that main woot and home.woot are the ones most likely to have what I want. Wine is next because you can't go from kids to wine, but you can go from wine to kids.

I also like voting in the polls every day, so I'll go to some sections of the site even if I don't want the item, just to see the poll.

phoenixgirrl phoenixgirrl
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Main site or Shirt, then I look at thumbnails.

curli76 curli76
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@phoenixgirrl: Yeah, I noticed that you cannot go from "Kids" to "Wine" as well. Always a thorn in my side. So in my weird obsessive behavior, I have to click back to "Home" to click forward to "Wine".

I also do it in my order to answer all the polls first.

Thanks to everyone who answered so far. I noticed a lot of people check out the thumbnails before clicking. Part of the appeal of the woot family of sites is that the descriptions are original, creative and funny. I dislike very distant and clinical reviews and descriptions unless they are tech-driven sites like tomshardware or anandtech where things like GPUs are almost exclusively judged by benchmark tests.

curtisuxor curtisuxor
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I go to kids first even if I'm not interested in what they have because that's my daily woot email, and lazy link clicking, yay. From there I browse the little squares to see if I want to check out woot, home, or shirts and prioritize based on which looks best to me. After I'm done with those, I settle in to browse Deals and read/answer questions.

Save the best for last!

elandria elandria
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1. Main 2. Shirt 3. Home 4. Sellout/Deals 5. Wine 6. Meh I don't have any kids.

mstislavski mstislavski
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I didn't want to post this, because I didn't want my black triangle to go away from all the downcounts I bet I'm going to get, and I don't want to come across as being hypersensitive. . . but it's more important to me to get the word out that OCD is a serious, debilitating mental illness.

Everyone has their little obsessions and compulsions, but most people do not actually have OCD. To give you an idea of the difference: A person might go back to the main Woot! page before clicking on each of the other Woot! sites. This is a little obsessive and a little compulsive. If you worry that if you don't complete the task of going to each site within a minute while holding your breath or else you're going to get cancer--that's OCD.

When you use it as an adjective (which is wrong in itself), you let the term continue to become a part of the common vernacular, and you dilute its meaning to a point that it's harder to convey what real OCD and the suffering that goes along with it is.

curli76 curli76
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kids, main, wine, home, shirt, deals. would be wine after kids, but it doesnt show up on the kids site.

jeeperwoot jeeperwoot
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I always start at Shirts. Then, I glance at the pictures for the other ones, and I only click them if they seem interesting. If not, then Sellout next.

xcswmboy xcswmboy
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Deas, main, then which ever one catches my eye. I almost never go to wine, even if I wanted to purchase, it's usually too expensive for me.

conanthelibrarian conanthelibrarian
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I go Main-->Sellout/Deals-->Search for latest Moofi-->Home-->Kids(even though my kids are too old)-->Shirt. Lather, rinse, repeat.

mlsapack mlsapack

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