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How long will an item stay listed during a Woot-Off if it doesen't sell?

Aug 21, 2012 11:58 AM

I know that items listed on Woot-Offs stay up until Woot! has no more but what happens if, by some chance, the item doesn't sell or if it's selling so slow that it may take a very long time to sell all of them? Does Woot! put a time limit on items like that?

jnissel jnissel

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I see some orange flashing lights on the main page — what do they mean?

No, you aren't seeing a side effect from your allergy medication. You have found a Woot-Off, a short term frenzied mutation of our product posting procedure. In Woot-Off mode, a new product is launched immediately after the sellout of the previous deal. There is a half-Woot-life of 12 hours maximum on any product within a Woot-Off that does not sell out. The number of Woot-Off items, sequence and quantity will not be announced. When Woot-Off mode is over, the orange lights will disappear and our normal schedule will resume. Depending on its success, this may be a mode we would go into once or twice a month for a relatively short duration of time (24-72 hours generally).

lichme lichme
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@lichme: Thank you. I would have thought it would be much less than 12 hours.

jnissel jnissel
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@lichme: But the conspiracy theorist in me says they have phantom buyers to sell items and bring them back if they are selling extremely bad.

caffeine_dude caffeine_dude
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I wonder how many products have expired from the half life maximum...

Sure seen some roombas that took forever to disappear.

auzroz auzroz
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@auzroz: I don't recall an item ever reaching the 12 hour point. I don't even think one made it to 6 hours, but if one did somebody will correct me.

wilfbrim wilfbrim
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@wilfbrim: Oh, trust me, in the early woot-off's items definitely hit the 12 hour time limit. Don't remember any specific examples.

mrmucox mrmucox
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I have seen items taken down during a woot-off when NONE were sold in 30 minutes or so.

miken927 miken927
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I have a feeling these dumbbells on sport.woot are about to test the "how long can you go" theory...

the18thtee84 the18thtee84

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