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How do you go about finding "free" stuff on deals.woot!?

Feb 1, 2013 3:59 PM

Every now and then I get lucky and see a free deal before it gets the dreadful "free" tag and disappears into cyber space forever. Today I was able to score a song from U2 (One) for free from the post @tbgolladay posted below. But if I didn't stumble upon the post I would have never seen it. Is the only way to find free deals by searching for them? How often do you remember to search for them if that is the case? I never remember!

[mod: no need to repost the deal here, that's enough info for people to find it]

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The FREE deals are there for everyone to see. The FREE tag just keeps them off the TOP tab. If you view the FRESH tab, you will see the U2 song on page 2 as it was posted an hour ago (it did not lose it's place). It was not removed from viewing. The TOP tab is for the popular/most active deals, but is was flooded with FREE, so something had to be done (most other deal sites have a separate area for freebies).

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http://deals.woot.com/deals/search?q=%23free+-is%3Aexpired

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@coondogg97: If you like free music deals, look through my old deals. I post a lot of music deals. A lot of the expired ones will still work. I try to expire deals based on age.

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Under the "Top" tab, click on "Popular Flow" instead of the default "Current Rank". The free deals are not banished from this list like they are from the "Current Rank" list.

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