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Can woot send me notices of deals for a particular product?

Apr 10, 2012 4:45 PM

I am looking for a deal on a particular TV. I'm not in a big hurry, and am ok to wait a few months for the price to drop. Would be nice if I could have a watch list of products and get notified when a deal pops up.

bhlowe bhlowe

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That would be nice, but there is no way that will happen. Your very best bet is to sign up for the daily email which will give you a recap of the deals being offered by woot, homewoot,winewoot, etc. As for any deals posted by users, those, of course, are available to find by reading here. Part of the fun of being a Wooter is waiting for that DEAL to come along never knowing when, but in the meantime, you see other things that strike your fancy that you MUST HAVE.

klozitshoper klozitshoper
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From woot or deals.woot, no. Your best bet would be to get the daily newsletter if you think the particular model might end up on a Woot site, and to search deals.woot periodically.

I'm fairly sure sites like Amazon have this feature? At the very least you could add it to a wishlist.

It might not hurt to just google to see if such a price watch service exists. Could be a third party site that can watch the RSS feeds of multiple sites or something

thedogma thedogma
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I use IFTTT to notify me. Take a look at some of my public recipes and maybe you can modify them to suit your needs.

csunwold csunwold
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Using IFTTT and that looks like it will work...
Thanks for the response! Still think it would be a good feature request...

bhlowe bhlowe
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Woot won't do it but you can use IfTTT.com to do it.

Basically, you configure ifttt to parse the RSS feed from Woot or deals.Woot and send you an email or text or whatnot when an item matches your criteria.

I have to run to a meeting, but if anyone needs more detail, please ask and I'll post more info.

Edit: I started my post before csunwold's but my boss asked me a question...

baqui63 baqui63
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that would be awesome

wvutkep1002 wvutkep1002
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In addition to @csunwold's fine advice to use IFTTT, remember that the advanced search screen can be used to build more advanced RSS feeds. Example: most recent sony or panasonic hdtv's between $100 and $1000 that are not expired (The requirement of >$100 gets rid of the things that are most likely priced too low to be a good tv)

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