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Would an 'Expiration Date' feature be possible?

I've posted a few deals recently that use time sensitive coupon codes and was wondering if any of the code monkeys at deals.woot had considered adding a feature that, when posting deals, allows you to set a date and time when the deal automatically switches to 'Expired'. Seems like this could help clean out old deals faster then waiting for users to expire their own deals or enough people to tattle on it. It would also keep all those expired deal-of-the-day deals out of the top day list.
Does anybody else think this would be a useful feature?

by apocello42
asked 6 months ago

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Already been asked:

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/e3b3bc52-a371-4b0c-8141-775f5b22d33b/can-we-put-an-expiration-date-on-the-deals

cengland0
6 months ago

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@cengland0: I saw that but not sure if this is the same. That one seems like a general "after 3 months deals automatically expire" sort of thing. I want to be able to set the date and time before posting the deal.

apocello42
6 months ago

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@apocello42: Okay, fair enough. So how about this question then:

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/ee351649-4d2e-4ecd-b3ed-e502a20cd1fd/feature-request-expiration-date-on-deals#13

cengland0
6 months ago

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@cengland0: Makes you almost wish woot had their codebase open for checkins ... course .. then people'd mess with the ranking algorithm and do other silly things and the whole place would go to the dogs.

psaux
6 months ago

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@psaux: That would be different how exactly?

secretagentman02
6 months ago

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@secretagentman02: You're saying our dear D.W has already gone to the dogs?

psaux
6 months ago

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Now that I can expire my own deals, I guess I do not care either way.

caffeine_dude
6 months ago

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