Sure are a lot of 2006-2009 era commenters that have only 5-20 posts with no purchases in years showing up here. And all of them are positive on this change.
Guess Amazon has commandeered some old dead WOOT! accounts to offset the changes' negative reviews.
Sad.

I generally like the new site a lot. I don't really dig how much it seems cluttery now, but I see what you're trying to do here. I appreciate a lot of the information, but it feels like a glob of info that's not separated enough. I get why you'd want to flow so much info together like this (if too much segregation, it's easy to establish patterns to ignore things), but it can come across as too much info and too cluttered for now.

I know I'll get used to it, but it was quite clean before. There wasn't as much to present as you have now, and I'm looking forward to doing a tiny bit more "shopping" at Woot-- even though my disgust for shopping is partly why I like Woot... just a few things to look at and I go on with my day.

I only posted to add a point towards maybe graphically separating things a little bit (subtle background colors or even some faint lined boxes -- I know you're doing some of this now, but maybe it's still too subtle.

Thanks for all the hard work. There are some FANTASTIC features in here! Overall, it's quite a grand thing. (Yes, grand.)

do not like new woot site

i'd have bought one of these laptops had it been new and not refurb. took me 5mins to figure out if it was new or refurb.

do not like new woot site go back to old. thank you.

I like the new site. Heck I just bought the laptop because the site looks good. Not sure what the gripes are all about.

worst woot-off evar.

Lazarus2 wrote:Sure are a lot of 2006-2009 era commenters that have only 5-20 posts with no purchases in years showing up here. And all of them are positive on this change.
Guess Amazon has commandeered some old dead WOOT! accounts to offset the changes' negative reviews.
Sad.

How can you tell how recently someone bought something?

vladistov wrote:The question is: Do people buy more or less when their pupils dilate?

They search travel sites.

I won't be coming back. Writers: sorry.

Is there a laptop discussion somewhere? Thinking of this for my son for college. Not a gamer, mostly too much reddit and YouTube.

Do you think it will arrive in time? He's a sophomore.......

No images appear on the page for me.

The site is terrible- great there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

The site is beautiful- thats great!

Now hoa waout a meaningful dicussion about the laptop. Does anyone have any experience with this model, looks like a good deal, provided you are not lugging it around.

um, it is shiny now but can ee get some sort of one column simple fluid layout for mobile browsers? thanks ... typing from a fire, kindle fire

looking for a new daily-deal website other than this "new design" woot. any suggestions? i really really really do not like it. it's stupid.
and i should have seen it coming, based on their poll from a few days ago. i could have had a 2-3 day head start on finding a new daily deal site. bleh, stupid woot

j647 wrote:Is there a laptop discussion somewhere? Thinking of this for my son for college. Not a gamer, mostly too much reddit and YouTube.

Do you think it will arrive in time? He's a sophomore.......

You didn't say in time for what, but I'll take you at your word you posed a serious question. Here's the product mentions in this thread:

eastcobbler wrote:dang i need a laptop and was about to buy but no hdmi?

thomas998 wrote:Got my wife this same laptop from best buy for 309 about a month ago and it was new. This is a refurb and thus a pretty poor deal. I guess the cost of the new site graphics are going to jack the prices up on everything.

Frankly I wouldn't recommend the laptop for anything beyond email and lite surfing... It is very slow.

collinvh wrote:Having worked on a 17" laptop I must say it could replace a desktop. For me, it was alright to travel with but I wouldn't say the same if it was any bigger.

thumperchick wrote:About the product:
I love my Toshiba. It's a core i3, but in the same family as this one and it works great. With one flaw, the touchpad is heat sensitive and if you rest your hands near it to type or while navigating with the other hand, it can affect the direction of your cursor.

kentuckygirl wrote:Okay, first...today's woot. Good, bad, indifferent? I have had a Toshiba before but the power cord was crap and after replacing it a BAZILLION times, I chucked it.

bmw66x wrote:The product is $439 NEW on Amazon

fatdragon wrote:A 17" refurb with a netbook processor, 90-day warranty, and low-DPI screen. A good deal for folks wanting a large screen and only need to do basic tasks like low-intensity web surfing, Skyping, and basic MS Office work. Not good for multitaskers, gamers, or users who need portability in a laptop.

fatdragon wrote:Answered this a while ago but I lost my connection:

3 hours on the pathetic 48wH battery. For DVDs and HD content you should probably expect closer to 2 hours. You'll make it coast to coast in Panama or Trinidad, but not in the US unless your seat back has an AC power port.

GregBulmash wrote:Benchmarks put the CPU at slightly above a netbook. This is a browse and mail machine.

SuzieQ145 wrote:"features" - With the tin-like speakers, it is difficult for two very close adults to watch a DVD without stopping every few minutes - each questioning the other - "What did she saw? Should we go back 30 seconds?"
With two pair of headphone and splitter - same problem, but to a lesser extent.
Also, cable from power wart seems determined to slowly back out of the laptop, you will not know it until the batteries level shuts down system.

Wylo wrote:Absolutely will not work on gaming. Very very low end processor.

txbrigg wrote:Dual Core...in my day we had zero-core and we liked it!!

Anyone know what software comes with the PC?

Whoo Hoo Woot ! I think I'm going to cry. Sharon ! ! !

Now all of my countless hours of searching for the actual price and calculating the percent savings are wasted. Woot you crushed a nerds dream.

Site won't alow orders. Mus be the upgrade has fixed it so nothing works. Now I've had time to consider he value and have chosen not to buy. WTG Woot! Your upgrade should give all of your peoplpe a chance at a new career soon!

Going to take this old goat some time to find things but looking good,change keeps the blood flowing.

Did you pull the short straw for the night shift ThunderThighs?

I own a small website and I know what changes like these can do to a userbase. You've been on the ball and it's great that woot had staff on to let members have that connection through what has been a somewhat traumatic experience for some. (as evidenced by some of the posts. :p)

Just wanted to say thank you!

~Zara

Some of the changes are nice. Message notification (now more clear), % off retail - Awesome.

I just fear this site will turn into something like thatdailydeal, if random adds start creeping into pages, it will sadden me.

Sidenote, Local Woot is a great idea.

I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it! I want to go home to the old Woot!

Its bothering me that I don't know how long $5 all you can ship will last also there is no buffer area on the right side of this page so a tiny part of the box I'm writting this comment in is cut off and when I scroll to the left side because this page doesn't fit on a 1024 pixel display some text is cut off too. :o I'm scared what am I missing?

Glad this change did not start during a WootOff I would have burst a blood vessel trying to find things. Looks good from what I see so far. I say put the past behind us and embrace the future! Surprised at the negative comments people have on day one,wonder if most are still using WindowsME.

Well. The Konami Code's gone. I will not be tolerating this and I shall never Woot again.

I don't like it, seems barren of personality.

I really didn't like the last change when it sold out but this is kind of a deal breaker altogether.

years.

i do like the video. really. their voices are exactly how I think they should be. well done. now quit messen around and put it back.

I'm old --it reads better -- love it

i dont like that there is no list of "quality posts" on the front page and its too fancy. the tabs are ok, everybody is doing tabs now, might as well follow the flock.

bottom line is woot was a simple page that offered a single item once a day, period. now its information overload with multiple items. It is less appealing and you will lose many loyal consumers. simplicity and humor were the keys to woots ongoing success, a year from now, woot will be a fraction of what it once was. i knew it was just a matter of time, the sellout is complete.

The new web design reminds me of the TV screen from the movie "Idiocracy."

Or the car Homer Simpson designed for his Brother.....

The short attention span crowd will love it.

-glen

Well Woot ain't WOOT anymore. just another page of Amazon products.

opaulw wrote:Well Woot ain't WOOT anymore. just another page of Amazon products.

BINGO!! That is the best description yet of this new Bag Of Krap.

Hmmmm. Re: the new site. Or newly redesigned site. Hmmmm....

I am wondering just what all these changes will mean for my WootOn! app I use in webOS on my beautiful Palm (HP) device. Yes, I use a Pre3 by HP, and have always, yes every morning, checked all the Woot.com affiliated sites on that nifty webOS app. I wonder if it will still work. Maybe they'll have to redesign that app. But wait, webOS is dead, as HP killed it, so maybe there's no one out there to redesign that app to handle all this new content. Hmmmm.

I'll go try it and see what happens. Maybe I'll get back to you.

I guess this post is sort of along the lines of the old, "Does this work on webOS?"

Holy crap, I feel like I'm at senior center and they changed the recipe for Tuna Noodle Casserole. Those complaining that they have to CLICK on something to get to the full product description are probably the same Bags Of Crap that don't use their directional signals, as it would either interfere with their phone conversation, or they are too busy swimming in Lake Me to be considerate of others. A pox on your house.

I am happy that Woot is trying to improve instead of fading into the background. Perhaps if we all tried as hard as woot to better ourselves we would have a better place to live.

Now, play nice, and I am going back to listening to my vinyl records, because they just sound better.

FLOBBEDY FLOO!

wow woot cleans up good. i was wondering what woot was doing in the bathroom for so long. the only problem is that i fear change but i suppose i'll get over it eventually.

Un0fficial wrote:*Takes a deep breath*

Ahh that new woot smell.

That's not a "new woot smell"

Woot just farted.

therealjrn wrote:

Thanks for the update. It is just an office/you tube/Firefox machine. Short battery life may make it a no no.