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Feature Request: Email me when a deal becomes active

Mar 4, 2012 8:41 PM

Wouldn't it be great to receive an email when deals.woot has a product that matches a keyword from your wishlist? For instance, I passed on some bowflex dumbells 7 months ago, I need a wheelbarrow (this spring), etc. So I could have a wish list: Dumbbells, Wheelbarrow, tank, etc. and something is added with one of those in the title or keyword, deals.woot could contact me so I don't miss it.

In the future, this could even be expanded to with logic, for instance, Wheelbarrow < 75.00 etc.

chrisandersoon chrisandersoon

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Yesterday, I learned about ifttt.com

It will do what you want.

Set up the fresh deals RSS feed with a match as the this and an email or SMS to you as the that.

The above sentence will make sense once you know a bit about ifttt.com

baqui63 baqui63
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here's the RSS feed for ”dumbells"

http://deals.woot.com/deals.rss/search?q=dumbells&page=1&sort=hesitancy

so if you subscribe to that in any RSS feed matching items should show up. I also highly recommend ifttt you can customize what happens when new items show up in this feed from tweets to facebook post to texts or emails.

to get an RSS feed to add just do a search then click on the grey RSS button at the top right of the search results and the url of that page is your feed link

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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here is the feed for dumbbells

http://deals.woot.com/deals.rss/search?q=dumbbells&page=1&sort=bestmatch

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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@gideonfrost:

Thanks. You just pointed out how to do something that I was looking for (search on deals posted by a specific user).

baqui63 baqui63
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@baqui63: Glad I could help. Who are you going to stalk?

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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@gideonfrost:

I am in the midst of a long term experiment to determine what is actually required to maintain my deals.woot rep.

So far, I've learned that posting deals and asking questions is not all that important. With no deals & only 1 question in the last month my rep stayed at 95-96% until 2 days ago, when it dropped to 93-94%. I do add content (comments & answers) EVERY day as well as vote daily and tattle occasionally.

So, to answer your question: OhCheri, at least initially, because I want to be able to vote early on her deals (they always go popular).

baqui63 baqui63
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@baqui63: Interesting concept.

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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Just received my first dumbell deal. Bad thing is the deal doesn't work (no promo code, but I did receive an email from IFTTT.com

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