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Have you noticed on sellout.woot that when an item sells out, they are replacing it that day?

Oct 30, 2012 5:55 PM

I noticed this during the woot-off last week that even though they were not technically participating in the woot-off, as they sold out of items, they replaced them with a new item. Same thing happened today, the bamboo kitchen items sold out and now there are batteries being sold.

This is a nice feature, it just makes me have to check the site more often. But you could score if you've already bought something and have the unlimited $5 shipping for the rest of the day.

lmensor lmensor

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I just noticed that and came here to ask something similar.

Glad to see I'm not going crazy.

cowboydann cowboydann
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http://sellout.woot.com/forums/default.aspx shows that it's happened a couple of times already in the past week. I like it.

chris12345 chris12345
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Cool! It's like a mini-woot-off.

cengland0 cengland0
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Oh! Hey!
Deja Vu all over again.

j5 j5
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This is a Good Thing.

kmeltzer kmeltzer
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FWIW, if you follow the sites on Twitter, you'll get a tweet when something new goes up.

https://twitter.com/wootsellout

thunderthighs thunderthighs
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They did this also on Tech woot October 24, the same day, offering 2 laptops. Sellout was the 23rd and 24th (note that both days were woot-off days). When an item sold out really quickly, they would rarely offer a second item in the past on the same day. This sales method certainly will draw more attention.

whatsamattau whatsamattau
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I guess that makes it a little more interesting......I'll keep an eye on it more now.

jsimsace jsimsace
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@thunderthighs: Thanks for the tip TT!!

lmensor lmensor
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Soooo pretty much we should be urging everyone to buy three of everything on sellout and we could get a whole wootoff feel going everyday?

chellemonkey chellemonkey
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@chellemonkey: That's a great idea, start buying!

@cowboydann: Crazy is relative, and the feeling like you're going there gets worse as you get older!

lmensor lmensor

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