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How should a Local-Deal-Site with a nation-wide deal be formatted?

Jun 10, 2012 2:46 AM

Or, Why Was My Deal Deleted: Mark MCLVII

So last night I posted the Amazon Local deal for free $30 voucher off a Kindle Fire. It was not a duplicate at the time (I checked twice). However, it was pointing to one of the markets that I'm subscribed to (Tampa, not that it ought to matter). As far as I can tell, these types of deals are available in all markets, but there's not any sort of national page that avoids naming a particular region.
Today when I checked, my deal was deleted, but another deal had 100+ votes for the same thing. I wasn't surprised, as I often see these deals in the fresh tab, vote them up, only to see them replaced by a different poster the next day. Is the only criterion that the deal that picks up steam the quickest gets the greenlight, or was there a problem with the way that I posted the deal that caused it to get deleted instead of the other?

stark stark

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I had my little vent yesterday, and was voted down for pointing out something similar with the Xbox deal. Basically, if you think you were done wrong on a deal, tattle on the new one to get a mods attention, or send an email to service@woot.com.

But if possible, I would try to point the deal to a generic location, if possible. Sorry your deal got toasted.

As an aside, why do these companies advertise local deal, when they keep posting nation-wide deals? Who do they think they are? Woot?

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@stark: You said you posted the deal last night - don't know for certain, but it might be the deal wasn't active yet. Deals staff has said not to post a deal until it is actually live. Might be why it was deleted. Probably had nothing to do w/formatting as long as it was a national deal.

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At one point yesterday (fairly early in the day, although I can't pinpoint a time), I saw THREE postings of that exact same deal (different wooters)----all on the FIRST page of "top" deals (not under the fresh tab.) The one at the top had been posted 7hrs (I think) prior to when I saw it, and had by far the most votes at the time. The times of the posts of the other 2 were about 3 hrs prior to seeing it and an hour prior. Those two duplicates apparently got deleted, which I noticed before going to bed. If you posted one after that, I didn't see it.

I did think it odd that the 2 duplicates I saw were posted by black triangles with familiar names, but I don't recall who they were. I just remember thinking, "hmmmm.....I would expect a black triangle to know better."

I don't know if that helps you or not. I'm only reporting what I seen wiff my own eyes, occifer.

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