Deals.Woot

@shrdlu: I like the movie quote at the end of your comment.

I'd say the really expensive items are fun to see every once in a while...they're just the other spectrum of the really crappy stuff that has no use but people still post (such as the instant poop that just graced the fresh page).

It's almost just funny to see how bizarre some items sold on the internet can be though this doesn't mean that I really vote them up, but I'm not too bothered by seeing them and who knows...maybe someone is looking for a tank or an island.

I enjoy seeing them, they put a smile on my face.

@shrdlu: While it may be the 10 of clubs, there's a very similar repetitive line in "The Brother's Bloom" with a magic trick - now that I think about it I want to say it may have been the 10 of hearts. Good movie by the way, worth a watch.
Also, giving away free bottles of wine...I wouldn't mind some (too bad that distance between us would hinder such a service by me to help you out with your overstock)

eh I just ignore them. They amuse me, I might even vote for them because they are funny. But, they are only posted to make us laugh. Folks need to lighten up or we are going to turn into being way too PC about what deals get posted here.

@shrdlu: It is almost summer time. White is an excellent summer wine.

@lavikinga: screwtops are meant for drinking right away according to my dad.

@hobbit: Seriously? I better get busy.

@catbertthegreat: TNX

@dancook07: I must respectfully disagree, sir. This site has been "one of those sites" since the very beginnings. It's going to keep right on happening. I've never posted such a thing, and wouldn't, but they keep happening, and will continue to do so.

For a while we had an idiotic rash of FREE crap, and I found that far more annoying than the million dollar islands. For one, many of them were just tricks, and didn't come through. Many others were private offers, and inundated unsuspecting web sites with a zillion and one requests that were NEVER going to be fulfilled. Still others were simply fakes, encouraging people to give up personal information, or adding people to mailing lists.

Really, life is too short to worry so much about the occasional deal making it to popular that doesn't fit someone's narrow idea of what a deal is. I almost bid on the Colbert Desk (on eBay) that was on here. I just couldn't decide where to put it. No, I'm not kidding.

So it goes.

I never said that I wanted peoples' opinions censored, and it is something I can live with (I would be a sad person if I couldn't deal with what is or is not 'fresh' on the website). I was merely stating my opinion that I believe some of this is ridiculous, and it seems that some of you took that to mean that I'm outraged at how deals.woot has 'devolved'. The point of deals.woot, as I see it, is to share good deals that have been found. The rankings are, and should be, up to the members (of course, the sponsored deals are section on their own; however, even they are ranked by the users).I PERSONALLY did not expect this to be an exotic marketplace.

I do ignore the things I don't like, and I do find SOME of it interesting.

It's not that I'm so much bothered by these quirky things than the fact that they're not really a 'deal' per se. An amphibious car for $200,000? There is no way to call that a 'deal' or not. I suppose it depends on the market for such things (of which I'm no expert).

It seems that one man's deal is another man's aggravation. I'm not crazy about eBay deals, you're not crazy about high ticket items, @shrdlu's not crazy about free deals, and I'm guessing there are a whole lot of folks not crazy about bacon deals.

Obviously, though, there are a whole lot more folks that love bacon deals than there are those that don't, and never doubt that a silly deal will become popular.

Part of the appeal of Deals isn't just the deals, it's the fun. Big, expensive stuff can be entertaining. I posted a guitar-shaped toilet seat for April Fools. Ridiculous and ridiculously priced, I know, but it was cool and fun.

Pretend like Deals is the Clearance Bin at your store of choice. You have to sift through lots of useless crap, still-over-priced-yet-in-the-clearance-bin crap, ugly stuff, stuff that's not your style, stuff that makes you laugh, but you'd never buy. You keep looking through it all, because just maybe there's one treasure at an amazing price.

@catbertthegreat: I agree. They bring a smile to my face, sometimes make me giggle. It's my little moment of, "If I was a millionaire."

However, I am THROUGH with all of the yucky posts, the gross, prank stuff. It's not a deal if it something no one wants.

I think it's divided between people that come to woot to look at things (people that like high cost items) and people that come to woot to actually BUY things (people that don't appreciate high cost items)
It's hard enough to find good posts as it is, and when 1/10 posts is over 1000 bux and 8/10 are normal priced or spam it's hard to find something that's actually a deal AND something you actually want to spend any money on