Monday, April 01

Undeca-Fun! Woot Launches 11 New Sites In One Day!

by Jason Toon 2 months ago

Like young America making the Louisiana Purchase, or the core My Little Ponies officially admitting the Cutie Mark Crusaders into their sisterhood, today Woot more than doubles its territory in one bold stroke! We're launching no less than 11 new sites today, each focused like a laser on a particular niche of today's ecommerce retail online shopping marketplace of today.

Of course, this daring thrust raises questions. What's the big idea? Is this a historic day or an historic day? And most important, can we really offer a wide enough variety of deals to justify so many new categories? Check out today's deals on all the new sites for the emphatic answer to that question…

Thursday, February 28

Suddenly Lost Your CEO Job? Woot's Hiring

by Jason Toon 3 months ago

So your company was hemorrhaging money and the Board of Directors decided you weren't the man for the job anymore. Tough break. But look at it as an opportunity: an opportunity to work for Woot!

Right now, the Woot jobs page lists openings for everything from Senior Vendor Managers to Software Developers, from Director of Inventory Planning to Member Services Representative. You'll want to build your typing chops back up before you apply for that last one. You probably haven't done much typing lately, and 70 WPM is not negotiable.

We're sure you'll land on your feet, and maybe those feet will be under a desk here at Woot. One word of advice, though: during the interview, you might not want to make the claim that you "helped invent daily deals." We won't fall for that one.

Friday, December 21

Apocalyptic Giveaways All Day on Woot's Facebook Page!

by Jason Toon 5 months ago

So here we are. The end of the world. Guys, it's been swell. But before we all ride the cosmic handbasket into oblivion, there's still time for one more naked promotional ploy.

Mortimer, the more impulsive of our two spokesmonkeys, is tidying up his cubicle for the impending Armageddon. And he's dumping the contents all over Woot's Facebook page. Go there, LIKE us, and watch for giveaway announcements throughout the day to win a piece of "problem inventory" to call your very own!

Of course, no amount of unwanted consumer junk can stave off the inevitable devouring of everything you hold dear. Goodbye, cruel wooters. We'll catch you fools on the flippity-flop.

Friday, December 14

The Lamestreaming Media Live Wootcast: Coming Monday!

by Jason Toon 5 months ago

Just what the Internet needed: more of our ugly mugs. This Monday, December 17, at noon and 4 PM central, you can watch, chat with, and cruelly mock Woot as we stumble through our first-ever live Wootcast!

We're calling it The Lamestreaming Media Live Wootcast and it'll be rife with dumb jokes, pointless product demonstrations, and candid talk from the sensational Woot "personalities" you've never heard of! Submit your questions and comments now! And we'll see you Monday!

Monday, December 10

Armagedd-Off: Cataclysmic Deals The Mayans Never Saw Coming

by Jason Toon 6 months ago

Portents. Auguries. Signs. They all point to the world coming to an end in about another week and a half. At least, they do if you squint really hard at some selectively chosen bits and pieces of Mayan mythology. To mark this reasonably important occasion, help you prepare for what's next, and give you a shot at some inexpensive Christmas gifts in case the Mayans were just kidding, we present Armagedd-Off 2012, a three-day Woot-Off of cataclysmic proportions.

But that's not all. Totally goofy Armagedd-Off 2012 trading cards will appear in the photo galleries for twelve of the hundred of items in this Woot-Off. By collecting them all, and following the clues carefully encoded in them thousands of years ago by ancient Photoshop clerics, you can find your way to a special never-before-seen t-shirt of Earth-shattering power! Here's how it works:

Find all twelve trading cards between now and Wednesday.
Assemble the clues into a word that will fill in the blank at the end of this URL:
shirt.woot.com/offers/__________ .
Buy the special t-shirt you find there! (Yes, buy. It took some work to collect those Star Wars proofs of purchase, too, but you still had to pay for Boba Fett.)
No, there is absolutely not a Bag o' Crap involved anywhere in this thing in any way. For real. This warning is not us being cute. If you could see our faces, you'd know how serious we were. Please don't get into this expecting you'll wind up with a Bag o' Crap. You won't. Mark our words.

Fight along with a band of plucky humans as they struggle against the mutant threat in a blasted-out nightmarescape they never made! And maybe get your hands on a weird little t-shirt! If there's a better way to spend your last days on Earth than Armagedd-Off 2012, we don't want to know about it, because we have to work this thing either way. Now get into that discussion thread and work with your fellow humans to figure this thing out BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

Monday, December 03

Jingle Binge: More Holiday Stuff Than Any Stocking Can Hold

by Jason Toon 6 months ago

Open up and say "ho ho ho!", because there's a sleighful of holiday cheer charging right down your throat! On the first day of Jingle Binge, our pop-up shop gives to you a deluge in a deal tree.

It's got gifts. It's got presents. It's got stocking stuffers, White Elephants, artery stuffers, Secret Santa surprises, gelt substitutes, offerings to Mother Gaia: if it's something you give someone around this time of year, Jingle Binge is positively engorged with it.

But as with all of our pop-up shops, it only lasts a week. Jingle Binge wraps up Sunday, December 9, so surrender to it now. The only thing worse than regretting your excessive indulgence is never having any indulgences to regret.

Thursday, November 22

Enduring Holidays: A Pop-Up Shop to Help You Survive the Season

by Jason Toon 6 months ago

This time of year is rife with parties, feasts, fiestas, family dinners, and other joyous celebrations of human kindness and tests of human endurance. Wouldn't it be nice if your favorite ecommerce site set up a one-week-only pop-up shop stocked with supplies to help you get through the get-togethers with your holiday spirit intact?

You see where this is going. Presenting Enduring Holidays, a weeklong event dedicated to maximizing your holiday pleasure and minimizing your holiday pain. From fun activities to enjoy with a group to solo distractions to enjoy in sweet isolation, Enduring Holidays gives you the ammo you need to fight off the forces of holiday tedium and tension.

It's only up for one week, with new deals popping up every day. Don't miss it and run this year's gauntlet of festivities without outfitting yourself at Enduring Holidays. Who knows? You might even look forward to next year's.

Monday, November 19

What's Popping Up On Woot November 22-28?

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by Jason Toon 6 months ago

Family holiday get-togethers are always an unstable mixture of fun and celebration on the one hand, and tedium and tension on the other. This Thanksgiving, Woot is going to help you get away from it all with a weeklong event at pop.woot.com - that link will just take you to the front page of Woot right now, but that all changes at the stroke of midnight this Thursday morning. We can't say much more than that at the moment. We'll see you at pop.woot.com on Thanksgiving. And unlike your relatives, we promise not to criticize your career choices or spout belligerent political rants. At last, a holiday celebration you can look forward to!

Thursday, November 01

Woot Goes Mobile (Yes, Finally)

by Jason Toon 7 months ago

Hold on to your threadbare Uggs, because Woot has finally lurched into the mobile era. Today we announce our first-ever mobile-optimized version. Yes, the young people of today who access the 'tubes on their newfangled cyberphones can get off of our lawns and onto Woot Mobile!

Just "boot up" the browser on your iOS or Android phone and "net-surf" over to Woot.com for the mobile experience we've owed you for a long time now. Hey, there's the "I Want One" button you've always loved. Just tap the product description, and…

Monday, September 10

Pieces of Crap Giveaways: Woot Lays It On With A Trowel At Facebook

by Jason Toon 9 months ago

There comes a time in every ecommerce site's journey through life when she must grit her teeth, roll up her sleeves, and get down to an unpleasant but vital task: getting rid of some of the sample products that seem to collect in every corner like cobwebs in a Victorian widow's decrepit mansion.

And so, in the grand Woot tradition of suckering our fans into doing our dirty work, we present Pieces of Crap! All this week, Monday through Friday, we'll be conducting mini-express-lightning giveaways of single items we no longer want and never needed.

How can you get a piece of the Piece of Crap action? Just "Like" Woot's main Facebook page and watch for the giveaway announcements in our news feed. We'll ignore the perhaps more pertinent question of why you would want to. As we always say at Woot, "Your personal problems are none of our business." Now get out there and enjoy the hell out of that crap!