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What's wrong with you woot?

Jul 26, 2012 7:14 AM

So the wootoff just finished. I'm sitting up chatting with the group and my wootalyzer pops up with the goldbox amazon deal of the day. it's a special promo being offered by woot.com. I get to looking at it and realize that the set of snaplock bowls would have done much better on this wootoff than half the stuff that was repeatedly shown. Some one suggested that woot was trying to test the concept of goldbox deals, to which i asked "wouldn't that be why they have the plus sites?" to which we had no answers. I understand that not everybody has the same taste in what they are looking for during a wootoff, but why save the good deals for amazon?

moosezilla moosezilla

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I think Woot is still exploring their options with the whole cross posting on amazon.

They have offered similar deals on the Woot sites many times so it's not like they are leaving us out.

They still love you, but Woot wants an open marriage.

skippykj skippykj
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Bigger market. If they put it on the wootoff then they lose their supply for Amazon and at $20 people probably wouldn't have bought it anyway because Lock and Lock has been offered for less.

rabidmonkeyoncrack rabidmonkeyoncrack
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Just another thing to make woot less wooty

mkentosh mkentosh
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This wootoff I snagged several things that I thought were very good deals.

However, for the most part, it felt like an orgy of sloppy-amazon-seconds. :$

dmaz dmaz
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In regards to the product being offered today, I thought it was a pretty good deal at first too, but then I read the reviews. Holy crap! Exploding glass!? Nothx...

Think I will splurge a bit and get real Pyrex just to be safe (literally).

the18thtee84 the18thtee84
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i dunno, but the shampoo isn't helping!

pemberducky pemberducky
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Perhaps woot just has a second-rate brand manager. Or Amazon has visited one upon them. (No offense, guys, but it's starting to look that way.)

izzyizzo izzyizzo
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It was also one of the rare occasions when woot offers totally free shipping. BTW, unavailable now at 3:15 woot time.

jsimsace jsimsace

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