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WTF happened to Woot?

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LookBehindYou

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What in the fuck happened to Woot? Granted their deals have pretty much been dog shit, but now the entire site looks like a soupy bowl of pig shit with corn and peanuts.

That is all.

P.S. Fuck you woot, and the new web page you rode in on. :colbert:
 
they have gone to shit. the woot offs are crap and the bags of crap have..gone to crap.

top it off? the damn sight now looks like crap.
i still check it every day though heh
 
They've taken front page real-estate away from the product they're selling and the product reviews, and given it to woot-pod-casts and woot-blogs?

I'll tell you exactly what happened. Some idiot in their marketing department got hold of their corporate roadmap and now they've completely forgotten the point of woot.

I can hear the conversation now. "We don't want to compete on price anymore. We just /can't/. So we're going to up-feature the site and give customers more of an experience to offset our lower quality and higher-priced products!" Pointy-haired-bosses nod heads all around, and another website helps their long slide into obscurity turn into a race to obscurity.
 
Pulsar said:
They've taken front page real-estate away from the product they're selling and the product reviews, and given it to woot-pod-casts and woot-blogs?

I'll tell you exactly what happened. Some idiot in their marketing department got hold of their corporate roadmap and now they've completely forgotten the point of woot.

I can hear the conversation now. "We don't want to compete on price anymore. We just /can't/. So we're going to up-feature the site and give customers more of an experience to offset our lower quality and higher-priced products!" Pointy-haired-bosses nod heads all around, and another website helps their long slide into obscurity turn into a race to obscurity.
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I don't know why, but hearing "experience" in this context seems to generate an odd feeling: something ancient, something violent.

Marketing people: I'm visiting a website to buy something and get on with life. I'm not taking a few days off from work so I can stay at a fancy hotel and experience your website. I know you think your website is the best thing to happen to you since you had kids, or organized that fantastic Barbie-themed orgy with the warehouse workers across the street, but people also value usability and a logical interface.
Well, at least I do. Judging by what I see elsewhere, people appear to prefer shiny annoying objects that make stupid noises. So, I guess, carry on as usual. When you make the Flash intro, be very sure that the "Skip Intro" button is extremely tiny, no larger than 8 pixels.
 
SITE, it's site not sight.

website, as in location on the web
websight, as in... seeing with web?
 
I use to buy something from them every few months now I don't even bother. Their crap sucks bad ALL the time. They are turning into Amazon's step child. Selling refurbished crap.
 
Newsletter canceled, and bookmark deleted. I got tired of checking, only to find crap, and all the sister sites ruin the the concept. I loved that place for a long time. I still have a bunch of mp3 players I use, or give away on occasion, and my primary Sansa is still going strong.
 
lxskllr said:
Newsletter canceled, and bookmark deleted. I got tired of checking, only to find crap, and all the sister sites ruin the the concept. I loved that place for a long time. I still have a bunch of mp3 players I use, or give away on occasion, and my primary Sansa is still going strong.
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Same here, SO MANY MP3 PLAYERS.
🙂
I pretty much stopped visiting it when it was:
Roomba
Roomba
Refurbished ******
Roomba
Roomba
Roomba
 
couldn't care less, all their stupid deals went off at times I was normally sleeping so screw them 🙂
 
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