Hopefully this means that Woot.com will begin seeing some of the goodies that are available on Amazon.com.

I can see it now, bags of crap filled with refurbished Kindles and old chemistry textbooks. Ah what a world.

Thanks woot!

Now the freakin' song is stuck in my head.

It is as if a million howling monkeys suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

And now thanks to Woot i now know many rhymes to the word Amazon.

of course that means that the black boxer's get free prime shipping....right?

Does this mean the Woot! site will finaly work on my Kindle's crappy web browser?

I hope that the free-wheeling humor does not stop - some days it's the funniest part of my day to read Woot!

Congrats! I have so enjoyed your site and have made some great purchases. Hopefully you will be allowed to continue but not have to worry so much about paying the bills

dontwantaname wrote:So now I work for free for Amazon?

Yeah....uh.....ouch. :|

I know a certain game that I use...STILL play that used to have volunteers ingame that were officially sanctioned. Well, that went on for a couple of months before the publisher decided to make a stink...which was Microsoft. I'm imagining the convo went something like this:

MS: GET THEM OFF THE SERVER!!! NOWWWWWW!!!

Turbine: Uh, what?

MS: These VOLUNTEERS are a liability! What if someone decides to sue for compensation of services rendered?!

Turbine: They signed a contract stating they receive nothing.

MS: SO WHAT!! WE'RE THE PUBLISHER, WE OWN j00, RAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRGGGHHH!!!!

Turbine: Um..right. *fires advocate staff*


Hopefully Amazon has a bit more foresight than that, but who knows. These things happen to change a lot more things in the background than I think Woot would like people to believe. It will be painfully obvious in a short time if things go south.

Will definitely be interesting to follow the first few Bowl of Cereal threads and see what people get with their letters...

Yes we all have heard "we will still be the same company" many times before when someone is gobbled up by one of the big boys.

Haven't it seen it happen.....Ever !!

It was good while it lasted.

BFD !!!
Now get back to work !!!

American Enterprise alive and well--and somebody will be making some BIG BUCKS on this deal. Good for you!!

lippsman wrote:Yes we all have heard "we will still be the same company" many times before when someone is gobbled up by one of the big boys.

Haven't it seen it happen.....Ever !!

It was good while it lasted.

I agree..let the synergies begin!

Wow! sold out to the MAN!

Way to go dudes!!

NOOOOO!

I love Amazon but they can't have my Woot. No. I'm gonna hold my breath until I turn blue and then I'll go on a hunger strike. Oh? It won't work, and I'll just starve to death in about fifty years, when the last stored fat cell in my body finally dies of starvation? Nevermind. (Weeping quietly in corner of room, paper grocery sack pulled firmly over head.)

Congrats!!

Can I borrow a dollar?

i guess this marks the begining of the end of woot....oh well...hope you at least made a bucket of cash...was nice while it lasted

amazon sucks so bad...its gotta land here as well

My only concern would be....
will this affect wine.woot.com in anyway possible?????

Good for you-bad for me-not an Amazon fan. I try and avoid that site. Only used as a last resort. Have had multiple problems with my orders- time to find another (Woot) resource for me. I am disappointed. Thanks for letting us know.

Congrats to Woot! Thats awesome for you guys

Welcome to the Darkside.............

Hopefully, most of the people at Woot rang the cash register on this deal! BTW, if you need any investment advice, let me know and I'll send you my credentials. Seriously, good for you - and I hope good for those of us that really like dealing with Woot...

I will remain optimistic that you will be independent, but won't be surprised if you are not. I like Amazon, but like you guys way more.

Congrats! Probably the beginning of the end though

Oh well, it was a fun ride!

And this is supposed to be a good thing?

Amazon?

Honestly the things people do for money, like sell their souls ...

donatom3 wrote:I know, the only way this could get better is if they merge with Costco and Google now.

From your lips to gawd's ears!

sellout i guess is real prophetic

also what happens with the relationship with yahoo?

Hey, maybe this means they'll start using Amazon's cloud computing to run the woot servers, so maybe they won't crash every time a Bowl of Cereal comes up? :P

Wow, congrats!

Does this mean that your servers will no longer lag when the Book of Crap comes up on Woot-Offs? Or will you still have such crappy servers that 100 simultaneous hits by all 60 of your customers will cause your servers to lag?

If i'd wanted Amazon I'd have gone to amazon, Good bye woot.

solstone wrote:It is as if a million howling monkeys suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

Nice. (cue ominous symphony music)

That’s not good! I like the independent rebellious teenager, I don’t want him to get a job…

lippsman wrote:Yes we all have heard "we will still be the same company" many times before when someone is gobbled up by one of the big boys.

Haven't it seen it happen.....Ever !!

It was good while it lasted.

sad but true

I've worked for two big companies that were purchased. For about a year they left us alone then the changes begin, slowly at first...

No one suspects the WOOT ACQUISITION.... or the SPANISH INQUISITION for that matter

Ay Carumba!

Congrats.

Wow. Maybe Amazon will actually teach you how to ship to Alaska now! Awesome.

W00t! Looks like mom is getting a refurb'd Kindle for xmas.

Congrats on the deal boys, Amazon is solid. Plus, now your AWS cloud services should be free... cheap bums ;)

Hoping for the best but not really counting on it. Will withhold judgment for a year and see what Woot looks like then.

Wow, talk about sellout.woot. Why'd you have to sell out to the establishment? I hope things can stay the same.

If I have Amazon Prime do I now get free 2nd day shipping?