Don’t duck — there’s no owl circling overhead, but there’s a bargain gliding right under your nose. Woot.com sells “cool stuff cheap.” Only one item goes on sale each day, from midnight to midnight (actually 11:29 pm), and you can’t buy any once the time’s up. What does Woot! sell? Stuff like the Neat Receipts Mobile Scanner for $79.99 when it’s listed at Tiger Direct for $199.99, or the Pioneer HD 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player for $134.99 when its listed on Amazon for $199.95.
But Woot! doesn’t just sell technology. Today they sold out of the two-packs of First Alert Onelink Smoke Alarms with Voice Alert by 2:35 pm (okay maybe that’s tech, sort of). Another day they offered five random boxes of Marian Heath Xmas cards (which did not sell out).
So the problem becomes: How to keep up with Woot!? I don’t need one more thing to have to remember every day, nor do I want any more email than I already get (except from you, my blog readers). I decided the easiest way to get my Woot! on was to add Woot Watcher to my Firefox browser. Now I see a tiny listing of the latest Woot! item in the bottom right-hand corner of my browser. I mouse over it and see complete product info and whether or not the item is sold out; right-click and I’m sent directly to Woot!
Easy.
There’s also shirt.woot!, wine.woot!, and most recently kids.woot!. Recession shopping at your fingertips. Feel like wooting yet?
Hi Keri! – what’s your favorite Turkish recipe?
I don’t really have one. What’s yours?
[...] In fact, I thought the best coverage of the show this year was the Wootable Awards, which includes such honors as “Creepiest Innovation” and “Best USB Hub to Keep Your Weed In.” (If you aren’t familiar with Woot, you’ll want to be — see Geek on the Cheap #108.) [...]