So I check my email and find that woot has updated their Terms of Service. I'm dorky enough to read that kind of stuff, so I clicked and found something interesting in the preface to the terms.

It said, " blah blah blah (including woot.com, wine.woot.com, shirt.woot.com, sellout.woot.com, kids.woot.com, deals.woot.com, and any future site operated by WOOT, blah blah blah." Note the bolded text.

Okay, the "blah" parts are mine, but I didn't make up that deals.woot.com thing. It's showing a blank page right now, but what gives? Is "deals" going to be a site for especially crappy woots or something?

fait wrote:So I check my email and find that woot has updated their Terms of Service. I'm dorky enough to read that kind of stuff, so I clicked and found something interesting in the preface to the terms.

It said, " blah blah blah (including woot.com, wine.woot.com, shirt.woot.com, sellout.woot.com, kids.woot.com, deals.woot.com, and any future site operated by WOOT, blah blah blah." Note the bolded text.

Okay, the "blah" parts are mine, but I didn't make up that deals.woot.com thing. It's showing a blank page right now, but what gives? Is "deals" going to be a site for especially crappy woots or something?

Well you notice beer.woot.com redirects to Regular.Woot.com...

Let's see what else is out there.

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966).woot.com redirects to shirt.woot.com

fait wrote:So I check my email and find that woot has updated their Terms of Service. I'm dorky enough to read that kind of stuff, so I clicked and found something interesting in the preface to the terms.

It said, " blah blah blah (including woot.com, wine.woot.com, shirt.woot.com, sellout.woot.com, kids.woot.com, deals.woot.com, and any future site operated by WOOT, blah blah blah." Note the bolded text.

Okay, the "blah" parts are mine, but I didn't make up that deals.woot.com thing. It's showing a blank page right now, but what gives? Is "deals" going to be a site for especially crappy woots or something?

My guess is they are going to start selling non-gadgety type stuff on deals.woot. Just a guess, though.

Did a DNS lookup and deals.woot.com routes to http://wootdealsweb-1938921364.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com

There is a Twitter account created...it was there at least since August 20th. No guarantee it is actually Woot's though, but I think it is. No updates and not following anyone yet. I am the only follower so far.
http://twitter.com/wootdeals

arcsus wrote:There is a Twitter account created...it was there at least since August 20th. No guarantee it is actually Woot's though, but I think it is. No updates and not following anyone yet. I am the only follower so far.
http://twitter.com/wootdeals

Haha, so am I. Sweet.

New development.

Did a trademark search on http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk for Woot.

And look what showed up.

Word Mark DEALS.WOOT!
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Promoting the goods and services of others through the advertising, promotion, and/or distribution of discount offers, special pricing promotions, coupons, and/or rebates; purchasing advice and information about products and prices on internet sites in connection with purchases made over the internet; providing a searchable online advertising guide featuring the goods and services of other on-line vendors on the internet; advertising and commercial information services via the internet; advertising via electronic media and specifically the internet; providing advertising space on the internet

IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Providing an online forum for discussion of product deals, discounts, pricing, and promotions
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 77697860
Filing Date March 24, 2009
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Published for Opposition August 25, 2009
Owner (APPLICANT) Woot, Inc. CORPORATION TEXAS 4121 International Parkway Carrollton TEXAS 75007
Attorney of Record P. Weston Musselman, Jr.
Prior Registrations 3012788;3397587;3499780
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

bdecker202 wrote:New development.

Did a trademark search on http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk for Woot.

And look what showed up.

Interesting. Good find. So wondering if it is going to be like a side deals site?

arcsus wrote:My guess is they are going to start selling non-gadgety type stuff on deals.woot. Just a guess, though.

Like Time Shares and vacation hot spots?

Jumped on the Trade Mark bandwagon and look what else we've got...

Mark Image
Word Mark WOOT CELLARS
Goods and Services IC 033. US 047 049. G & S: Wines. FIRST USE: 20051108. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20051108
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 77184846
Filing Date May 18, 2007
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition November 6, 2007
Registration Number 3372411
Registration Date January 22, 2008
Owner (REGISTRANT) Woot, Inc. CORPORATION TEXAS 4121 International Parkway Carrollton TEXAS 75007
Attorney of Record P. Weston Musselman, Jr.
Prior Registrations 3012788
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "CELLARS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

But I think that might be the branding for the woot wine stuff.

Double0doug wrote:Jumped on the Trade Mark bandwagon and look what else we've got...

Mark Image
Word Mark WOOT CELLARS
Goods and Services IC 033. US 047 049. G & S: Wines. FIRST USE: 20051108. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20051108
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 77184846
Filing Date May 18, 2007
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition November 6, 2007
Registration Number 3372411
Registration Date January 22, 2008
Owner (REGISTRANT) Woot, Inc. CORPORATION TEXAS 4121 International Parkway Carrollton TEXAS 75007
Attorney of Record P. Weston Musselman, Jr.
Prior Registrations 3012788
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "CELLARS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

But I think that might be the branding for the woot wine stuff.

bdecker202 wrote:Yeah looks like it. It was trademarked on
May 18, 2007

Woot Cellars is a brand of wine they sell on wine.woot occasionally.

bdecker202 wrote:New development.

Did a trademark search on http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk for Woot.

And look what showed up.

The way I interpreted that is that deals.woot will be a slickdeals/fatwallet type of site.

kerneltrap wrote:The way I interpreted that is that deals.woot will be a slickdeals/fatwallet type of site.

Kind of does sound that way, yes. Hmm...

The site has stuff on it now

deals.woot.com

Check it out.

camaroboy101 wrote:The site has stuff on it now

deals.woot.com

Check it out.

It's forbidden now.

chris12345 wrote:It's forbidden now.

Forbidden... but does acknowledge that it will be something.

My guess is that it will sell coupons, discount codes, etc for other online stores.

Gatzby wrote:Okay, you caught us. Deals.woot is the website for coordinating our intraoffice poker games.

i'll raise 25.

Gatzby wrote:Okay, you caught us. Deals.woot is the website for coordinating our intraoffice poker games.

Whats the buy in?

camaroboy101 wrote:Whats the buy in?

we play for pink slips - some while wearing them.

Snapster wrote:we play for pink slips - some while wearing them.

t00n only wears those becuz he supports Breast Cancer Awareness.

Snapster wrote:we play for pink slips - some while wearing them.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Okay went to deal.woot, got this awesome all black page(black is very slimming)


threw in my password and got the page arcsus posted

I received slides from a Jay Johnson (Director of Deals.woot)'s presentation on deals.woot as part of my Boggy Old Creature. I'm curious if anyone else did. It's basically paid links to one item on another site, similar to the woot side deal.

trueicon wrote:I received slides from a Jay Johnson (Director of Deals.woot)'s presentation on deals.woot as part of my Boggy Old Creature. I'm curious if anyone else did. It's basically paid links to one item on another site, similar to the woot side deal.

no not me. Did you post what else you got?

Double0doug wrote:Well you notice beer.woot.com redirects to Regular.Woot.com...

Let's see what else is out there.

so do cookies.woot.com, pants.woot.com, gadgets.woot.com and sansa.woot.com

alien88 wrote:Pics or it didn't happen.

That would make for an interesting picture.

As fait would have it, this especially crappy thread has been selected for a semi-official deals.woot hijacking:

So, as you’ve seen by our feeble attempts to hide our work, Deals.Woot is indeed under development. At the moment, our developers need some help beta testing and load testing our new systems before final features and polish are applied. Word has it service companies want to charge lots of money to automate simulated users stomping around the site. While these simulated robot-users might have been good at some things, like keeping their mouths shut, they aren't so good at forming opinions. Our Solution? Let's have a free beta test party for black box wooters!

From here forward, you may see some public discussion from select black box users who will soon be invited to participate in a private beta test of the Deals.Woot platform. While there is a Q&A section on the Deals.Woot site itself, this thread will serve as backup and for general free form public discussion.

The handful of you performing early reconnaissance and posting in this thread before its hijacking will be added to beta access soon. Those of you who were black box as of yesterday and have your newsletter boxes checked should receive an invite email. Beyond that, we will have our focus on the site, making tweaks and responding to suggestions and inquiries here for a bit. When we think the site is working ok, we’ll expand the beta out to include more users.

If you’re not in yet, don’t fret – Deals.Woot is a community deals site so there’s not a lot to look at before the community goes to work. We’ll get you in here asap.

I hope I get invited into the beta.

I will keep my Fingers cross.

camaroboy101 wrote:I hope I get invited into the beta.

I will keep my Fingers cross.

And crossed, and crossed, and....

*grin*

On the other hand, I've been wondering what the deals.woot.com site was going to become. It's nice to see that it's something fun and upcoming.

Oh ... and pics or it didn't happen!

I think if you were here before 2.0 and are still here, you should qualify.

Or joined in 2004.

pooflady wrote:I think if you were here before 2.0 and are still here, you should qualify.

Or joined in 2004.

there will definitely be value there inviting our charter and early supporters - this early small beta is filling a limited purpose for us and should spark quicker overall readiness of the site.

I imagine we'll move down to accepting purple-box wooters first though (and without much delay)

Snapster wrote: Our Solution? Let's have a free beta test party for black box wooters!

From here forward, you may see some public discussion from select black box users who will soon be invited to participate in a private beta test of the Deals.Woot platform. While there is a Q&A section on the Deals.Woot site itself, this thread will serve as backup and for general free form public discussion.

Pretty sure you have to have a black box to be in on this for now.

nice to see a little early access to those of us that have dropped a lot of coin.
site looks good and no bugs so far.

GadgetGod wrote:nice to see a little early access to those of us that have dropped a lot of coin.
site looks good and no bugs so far.

I'm getting a lot of server errors trying to post or respond to posts in the ask the wooters section.