Has Woot officially lost its appeal?

Aharami

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yea. pretty much. i just keep it open while I'm at work, but havent bought anything in a while
 

Vehemence

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Only thing I've ever bought from Woot is a new Logitech controller for PC that was like $5 or something. Exactly what I needed and cheap as hell. That was a while ago.

Every time I've looked since it's always been "meh"
 

vshah

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mostly, haven't seen anything i want in quite a while



edit: i just checked, and the usb hdtv tuner they have up right now doesn't look half bad
 

GagHalfrunt

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I don't even check anymore. All garbage all the time and the Woot-Offs are the garbage they couldn't sell the last time the stuff was listed.
 

TheInternet1980

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Originally posted by: dNor
Only thing I've ever bought from Woot is a new Logitech controller for PC that was like $5 or something. Exactly what I needed and cheap as hell. That was a while ago.

Every time I've looked since it's always been "meh"

They had a defective Casey Hampton fatheads on there once. His wang was slightly showing in the pose. I bought 6 of them and plastered them all over my house. I pretend to be Tim Couch when I get home from work at night. :thumbsup: :wine::brokenheart:
 

PeanutButter

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Hoopstick.com has it's ups and downs. Scored a WD 500gb on it's grand opening for $5 bucks.
There has been an iMac, some Dell monitors, that OCZ neuron impulse controller mabob, and this crazy Asus 680i board with 2 36gb raptors that sold out within 2 seconds or something.
 

Vehemence

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Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Originally posted by: dNor
Only thing I've ever bought from Woot is a new Logitech controller for PC that was like $5 or something. Exactly what I needed and cheap as hell. That was a while ago.

Every time I've looked since it's always been "meh"

They had a defective Casey Hampton fatheads on there once. His wang was slightly showing in the pose. I bought 6 of them and plastered them all over my house. I pretend to be Tim Couch when I get home from work at night. :thumbsup: :wine::brokenheart:

:laugh:

Go Steelers.
 

Aharami

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Spooner
are there similar sites that are better?

Yeah, it's called eBay + Microsoft Live Cashback

Live CB is like 8% now

yup, it's a joke.

funny thing is lots of people on ebay started inflating their buy-it-now prices by 20-30%. yea the CB doesnt come out of their pocket, but they just wanted more profit.
 

Ika

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Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Spooner
are there similar sites that are better?

Yeah, it's called eBay + Microsoft Live Cashback

Live CB is like 8% now

yup, it's a joke.

funny thing is lots of people on ebay started inflating their buy-it-now prices by 20-30%. yea the CB doesnt come out of their pocket, but they just wanted more profit.

No harm in that; hell, I'd do it if I could get more free money.
 

Ika

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Spooner
are there similar sites that are better?

Yeah, it's called eBay + Microsoft Live Cashback

Live CB is like 8% now

yup, it's a joke.

I got my 32GB iPod touch 2G for $389 - $30% cashback. I'd say that's a pretty damn good deal.

It was awesome, but you might want to look at the cashback % now. Still good?
 

Yzzim

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Spooner
are there similar sites that are better?

Yeah, it's called eBay + Microsoft Live Cashback

Live CB is like 8% now

yup, it's a joke.

I got my 32GB iPod touch 2G for $389 - $30% cashback. I'd say that's a pretty damn good deal.

His point is that cashback is now at 8%.

A lot of people got in on the 30% deal, some at 35%.
 

TallBill

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Originally posted by: NFS4

I got my 32GB iPod touch 2G for $389 - $30% cashback. I'd say that's a pretty damn good deal.

I got 100% cashback from not buying one ;)
 

Epic Fail

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Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Spooner
are there similar sites that are better?

Yeah, it's called eBay + Microsoft Live Cashback

Live CB is like 8% now

yup, it's a joke.

funny thing is lots of people on ebay started inflating their buy-it-now prices by 20-30%. yea the CB doesnt come out of their pocket, but they just wanted more profit.

No harm in that; hell, I'd do it if I could get more free money.

The beauty of free market, MS couldn't support the losses and lowered the cashback.
 

lokiju

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The only thing I ever bought was a $5 FM transmitter that I was going looking to buy at the time anyway.

But they really have gone down hill.

They used to have stuff you might actually want for cheap when they came out.