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Is random shirt trading dead?

Feb 27, 2013 4:03 PM

Ok, we just had a random shirt sale a few weeks ago and hardly anyone is trying to trade or even talk about what they got. Just six months ago, the trade thread would blow up with people excited about what shirts they got or wanting to trade for other shirts. Now it's a ghost town in there. I'm afraid this will be my last random shirt purchase since the last two times I didn't like any of the shirts and not one person has wanted to trade.
Is woot shirt trading a thing of the past?

tippypaws tippypaws

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I actually got 3 cute and wearable designs this time! I was planning on checking the thread to try and pawn off, I mean, offer my previous randoms.
The reason I don't go check bask as often is that it is harder to get to the thread from the stuff you bought page.

chellemonkey chellemonkey
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I think it's general malaise.
The folks buying merch these days don't much bother with the forums.
See "Derby Vote Counts are in the loo" as an adjunct topic.

j5 j5
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Or maybe no one else is buying Woot shirts?

barnabee barnabee
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@barnabee: Or because the "trading forum" is 800 pages long? Or a combination of all our answers?

jsimsace jsimsace
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@jsimsace: I don't want to be a Chicken Little, but I truly believe the sky is falling here at Woot. It's too bad, Woot used to be a truly unique web site. Amazon is ruining a good thing.

The only thing keeping me around here is Deals and this community chat. I would miss most of the people.

barnabee barnabee
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@barnabee: Ditto. How much longer until we have the air let out here? The server issues the last few days make me wonder........ :(

jsimsace jsimsace

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