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Why does @wootbot love these Motorola radios so much?

Nov 24, 2011 5:31 AM

It's posted the same deal 5 different times in the past 5 days:

http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/78c557dc-dd78-402e-a0c8-09fb43e8988b/motorola-mj270r-talk-about-2-way-radio-with-up-to-27-mile-range
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/dc6f04d3-07bd-4a99-94b4-909813bebfa2/motorola-mj270r-talk-about-2-way-radio-with-up-to-27-mile-range
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/55491366-c72d-4782-9b6a-b2b0dab778c3/motorola-mj270r-talk-about-2-way-radio-with-up-to-27-mile-range
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/accbbf88-7e0c-4425-adc3-7f3cc330d437/motorola-mj270r-talk-about-2-way-radio-with-up-to-27-mile-range
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/d83e99e5-74ad-439e-8bf2-9572896cbbc7/motorola-mj270r-talk-about-2-way-radio-with-up-to-27-mile-range

Any thoughts? Personally, I think it has a crush on them.

okham okham

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Maybe it's feeling reminiscent of the beginning of the internet deals era. There was a very famous deal on TalkAbout 250s at the leading edge of the dotCom period. I think the site was called Accompany or something like that. Anyway, it was a group-buy site except they'd not anticipated the scale of the response. The sheer number of people buying drove the price so low that people wound up paying a couple of dollars including shipping. I think the company took a bath. I seem to recall them not lasting long after that. I guess they should have capped their pricing algorithm.

Course, this is all something like a 12-year-old recollection, so I may have details wrong.

EDIT/PS: On a side note, don't be what more serious radio owner/operators call "a bubble-pack bandit." Get your GMRS license if you're going to use that frequency range/wattage.

psaux psaux
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Or maybe he's dropping hints for @girlwootbot, so she'll know what he wants for Christmas. ;-)

jimeezlady jimeezlady
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@psaux: I hate to be that guy, but a very similar set of radios helped us convoy through southern Africa. I think if you use them like intended, they shouldn't cause too much trouble for the pros.

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