Originally posted by: Calgar99
Cool. But... did I miss something? Does Woot now have a newsletter or something?
-Matt
yes, there is a newsletter now.
You're holding in your Inbox the third edition of the Woot.com email newsletter,
America's leading source for periodic updates on the comings and goings and
to-ings and fro-ings of Woot. We've got all kinds of thrilling news to pass on,
assuming your thrill threshold is pretty low. Like what? Like this:
Crappy Birthday To Us With Our Biggest BOC Ever.
We celebrated our third anniversary on July 12 in true Woot fashion: with our
biggest Bag O' Crap offering yet. Also in true Woot fashion, things went a
little haywire under the strain. Bizarre things happen when people order 140,000
craps and we only have 10,000 to sell.
http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogE....aspx?BlogEntryId=2586
Keep Your Shirt On... For Now.
The chatter, rumors, and scuttlebutt are all true: Shirt.Woot will soon come
alive, offering one exclusive t-shirt design per weekday. Stop cluttering up our
product threads with questions about it and head on over to shirt.woot.com to
discuss the fascinating "Coming Soon" graphic.
http://shirt.woot.com
Woot 101: A Guide For Dummies, Beginners, And Veterans Alike.
Are you mystified when somebody mentions a Woot-Off, or the Daily Wootcast, or
our weekly contests? We've assembled a remedial guide to the many faces of Woot,
in convenient blog-post form.
http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogE....aspx?BlogEntryId=2595
Coppola Wines Direct To You.
This week, our little brother site, Wine.Woot, features a four-pack from the
winery of a certain Mr. Francis Ford Coppola. With easy-drinking,
summer-friendly Califonia reds like these, we think this guy might have a future
in the wine industry.
http://wine.woot.com
The Boring Stuff: Security, Privacy, Shipping.
Most wooters yawned when we rolled out a new, lawyer-approved security and
privacy update last week. But they had a lot more energy for a logistical
analysis of Fedex SmartPost, the official slowest Woot shipping method.
Security and Privacy:
http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogE....aspx?BlogEntryId=2581
SmartPost:
http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogE....aspx?BlogEntryId=2577
Can You Work It? We'll Let You Work It.
If you or someone you know lives in Dallas, needs work, and "gets" the Woot
lifestyle, peruse our help-wanted listings a glorious Wootarian future might be
calling!
http://www.woot.com/Jobs.aspx
Let's see, anything else? We guess that's it. We have a ridiculously busy week
ahead of us, with a ton of work to do between now and Thursday. So we're gonna
leave you with this: make sure you get lots of rest and there's plenty of room
on your credit card. You never know when you might need it.