questions → does woot have a problem with newegg?

vote-for17vote-against

Does woot have a problem with newegg?

Oct 3, 2011 9:32 AM

This will probably come up missing if the answer is yes.... But why does every newegg deal that I post here get removed from public view? They are there if I search for them but not if I look for the fresh deals.

magicgoat magicgoat

10 Answers answer

Sort By:

vote-for13vote-against

No problems with newegg. You're just posting so many newegg deals within minutes of each other so it only shows the latest one. Then, you'll notice little icons on the last deal and a message that says "more deals from newegg posted by magicgoat" (or something like that).

This happens no matter which site you post a deal from.

cengland0 cengland0
vote-for5vote-against

@cengland0: that sucks...I see it now though. Alot of people will miss alot of good deals with that system imo. Thanks!

magicgoat magicgoat
vote-for5vote-against

I discovered this with @wootbot.

The bot posts a lot of deals throughout the day but you can only see the last one. If you use the keyword search, you can see them all but not if you're scrolling through the list. I don't like that design but I'm sure woot has it's reasons for doing it this way. Probably so one person doesn't monopolize the entire site but I'm not sure.

cengland0 cengland0
vote-for6vote-against

It's perfectly easy to see them all: just click on the text line that asked if you want to see more deals at X store by user Y.

magic cave magic cave
vote-for5vote-against

Well I have noticed that deals pretty much stop getting ranked up when the get put into the small boxes... I think that is a problem, because that means people dont look there and we can never get all of are deals ranked up so we can get ranked up. Make sense?

magicgoat magicgoat
vote-for9vote-against

I almost never post more than one deal from the same site (on the same day) because the minized deals might as well be nonexistant. I've never had one go popular. I pick what I think is the best deal and post it. I figure someone else will come along and post the others....

jimmyd103 jimmyd103
vote-for14vote-against

@magicgoat: this system is balanced against a considerably worse outcome of retailers scripting "deal" suggestions that flood the fresh. Even though it's intended to be an unedited/raw feed of input deals, it was still in need of some infrastructure so as not to be too spammy.

you are correct on the negative downside. one known thing we need to do to help is to default show the highest vote count while on the fresh tab.

for what it's worth, I always click through to view collapsed newegg deals because I know they tend to feature/release multiple deals at a time.

snapster snapster
vote-for6vote-against

I agree with @snapster. It's really the only way to prevent someone/anyone from posting a TON of items from one vendor. Spam prevention is a necessity, unfortunately, just like the "caution: contents is hot" on coffee cups. It's sad to say, but people tend to take advantage of the system (what ever that system may be).

bogie21 bogie21
vote-for2vote-against

could also be that you are posting a duplicate that gets flagged and removed so you don't see it when you come back.

justincredibleg justincredibleg
vote-for2vote-against

There are sites that woot "has a problem" with and won't let you post deals from. Etsy.com is one I ran into recently, which was a shame since it was a darn fine deal...

kcjones99 kcjones99

Stats

Asked
Oct 3, 2011 9:32 AM
Asked By
magicgoat
Answered
10 times
Viewed
670 times
Voted Against
0 times
Voted For
17 times

Similar Questions

Related Deals

Not a farewell, just a forced redirect.

It's true, Local.Woot is no longer, but please don't despair.

Never-ending savings are still to be found on Deals.Woot each and every day, so come on in. Don't think of it as a time for tears. Think of it as a way to bring us all closer together under one roof.

Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.