Meh.com - from the founder of Woot.com

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Dankk

Dankk

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Years ago, I actually enjoyed going to Woot.com. That was back when they were still a simple "deal-a-day" website, before Amazon bought them off and whored them out. Today it sits as a cluttered, over-designed shell of its former self, completely void of its original vision.

The founder of Woot (Matt Rutledge) recently left the company and is now trying to bring back that oldschool deal-a-day feel. Meh.com is the brand new place to find one single product - often unapologetically mediocre junk - every 24 hours.

http://www.meh.com/

Check it out. If you're interested.
 
dartworth

dartworth

Lifer
Jul 29, 2001
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meh...


"Before it can be eaten, generally, the breakfast octopus must be killed."
 
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Theb

Theb

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I like the description of the product.

I should stay away from the site though. I have way too much stuff as it is.
 
Printer Bandit

Printer Bandit

Lifer
Mar 16, 2005
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Fuck Speaker Docks.

We're sick of your bullshit, speaker docks. "Doiee, lemme stick my phone on you because I'll never need to send a text or check my email or do anything else with my phone while I listen to music and maybe I'll forget I put my phone there and walk out of the house without it because speakers you guyez DUHHUHUH."
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are they in the business of selling shitty products?
 
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smackababy

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Oct 30, 2008
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Dankk said:
Years ago, I actually enjoyed going to Woot.com. That was back when they were still a simple "deal-a-day" website, before Amazon bought them off and whored them out. Today it sits as a cluttered, over-designed shell of its former self, completely void of its original vision.

The founder of Woot (Matt Rutledge) recently left the company and is now trying to bring back that oldschool deal-a-day feel. Meh.com is the brand new place to find one single product - often unapologetically mediocre junk - every 24 hours.

http://www.meh.com/

Check it out. If you're interested.
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Don't kid yourself, woot was terrible long before Amazon bought them.
 
Dankk

Dankk

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Printer Bandit said:
are they in the business of selling shitty products?
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Probably.

People seem to be buying it though, the speaker docks sold out literally just a few minutes after I posted this (They were $15/ea)
 
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Fritzo

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
41,920
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This guy is brilliant: Make a successful web business, let a big company that doesn't understand how it works buy it out and ruin it, then open a new web business doing almost exactly the same thing. He could make infinite money :awe:
 
Phoenix86

Phoenix86

Lifer
May 21, 2003
14,644
10
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Fritzo said:
This guy is brilliant: Make a successful web business, let a big company that doesn't understand how it works buy it out and ruin it, then open a new web business doing almost exactly the same thing. He could make infinite money :awe:
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Wonder if Amazon will be interested in his new site. :sneaky:
 
GoodRevrnd

GoodRevrnd

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Dec 27, 2001
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Fritzo said:
This guy is brilliant: Make a successful web business, let a big company that doesn't understand how it works buy it out and ruin it, then open a new web business doing almost exactly the same thing. He could make infinite money :awe:
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How long ago did he sell Woot? You'd think there'd be a non-compete for a few years after selling.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
60,067
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Thanks for the link. I loved, and miss the classic Woot. I like buying random cheap junk on occasion, with the emphasis being on random. Not a re-badged Amazon.
 
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desura

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There was a long article about this a few weeks ago.

I think he should never have sold woot to amazon. He clearly regrets it dearly...

Meh.com isn't the same as woot.com either. Just the sound of it.

I'll keep tabs on it though.
 
Leros

Leros

Lifer
Jul 11, 2004
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Every single thing I bought on the original Woot was disappointing crap.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Leros said:
Every single thing I bought on the original Woot was disappointing crap.
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I loved the mp3 players. I still use my Sansa I got years ago. I used to get bunches of them, and my daughter would give them away as gifts with (shhh) pre-loaded music. It's like a nicer version of the mix tape.
 
Dankk

Dankk

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lxskllr said:
I loved the mp3 players. I still use my Sansa I got years ago. I used to get bunches of them, and my daughter would give them away as gifts with (shhh) pre-loaded music. It's like a nicer version of the mix tape.
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One of my friends bought one of the original, brick-shaped, shit-colored Zune MP3 players for under $100 from Woot... I wanna say it was back in 2007 or so. I believe he still has it, and I believe it still works.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
25,134
2,450
126
Dankk said:
One of my friends bought one of the original, brick-shaped, shit-colored Zune MP3 players for under $100 from Woot... I wanna say it was back in 2007 or so. I believe he still has it, and I believe it still works.
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I got my brown Zune from Woot for $89. The player was cool, but the sync software was terrible. I made one hell of a mess out of my album art!

Microsoft never found a good use for the built in WiFi feature, either. A Pandora app would have been awesome on it, but instead they came up with a silly "squirt" song lending thing that nobody ever used.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
25,134
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The stuff that I bought on Woot was hit or miss.

Here's some stuff that was good:

My Dyson DC28
My HP Touchsmart 23" Touch screen AllInOne PC for $600 (back when a new one was $1500)
My M-Audio Studiophile speakers that were labeled refurbished but were really new
My Mr. Beer home brewing kit
My Yukon spotting scope
My Roku HD
Most of the t-shirts I got

But I also got a bunch of crap, like:

The potted rose bush that was basically dead on arrival
The Remington King Of Shaves razors, with left me with a 5 o'clock shadow at 10 am
The iRobot Roomba 530 that ate my cat toys and got constantly plugged with cat fur
My Pentax Optio digital camera, which takes worse pictures than my cell phone in low light
The Pinnacle HDTV on a stick, which got crap reception and had flaky drivers
The refurbished Netgear router that crashed once a week
The Optoma Pico projector, which has a dim screen even in a pitch black room
And all of those bags of crap that I lost out on because the payment processing server crashed.

That said, I stopped buying stuff from Woot when they stopped offering good deals on new stuff, and seemed to focus on selling whatever refurbished crap Amazon had laying around their warehouses.
 
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vi edit

vi edit

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Wow...it's like w00t uncensored. That description is a lot of LOL's.
 
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