chrispix


quality posts: 6 Private Messages chrispix
itsme1964 wrote:Tried that already. Only got the usual automated response with nothing since. And honestly, Im sure they can delete my acct but I dont have much faith that my info will be completely wiped even if they say it will..it still will likely be archived/cached so looks like i'll be pushing higher up the 'totem pole' then service@woot



I emailed service@woot.com too asking them to remove my accounts. No response yet.. Still not heard anything back yet..

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
chrispix wrote:I emailed service@woot.com too asking them to remove my accounts. No response yet.. Still not heard anything back yet..



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Ha, check this out. I got an email from woot saying they saw my post and deleted my account and If I wanted to come back I'd have to sign up again. I replied back saying I want more then just my account deleted. I needed all personal info removed from their archives/cache.

No response back on that and im not holding my breath cause why am I even able to post and everything is exactly as it was before, if they say they deleted my account? I could click and buy something right now. LOL....If they couldnt get that right I doubt they have a clue how to remove my personal info in the manner I want it done as I simply do not feel safe with the 'new woot' having my personal info archived/cached.

But I'll bet they manage to delete this post in record time!

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
chrispix wrote:I emailed service@woot.com too asking them to remove my accounts. No response yet.. Still not heard anything back yet..



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Yet here I am.

((
Subject: Account deletion CRM:00343845 Date: 5/29/2012 12:43:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: service@woot.com
Hey there itsme1964,
We saw your post in the forum, but the last email we received from you was on 05/27. We went ahead and deleted your account per your request in the forum. You will need to create another account if you want to purchase later on.
Please let us know if you need further assistance.
Kam
=
))

inkycatz


quality posts: 105 Private Messages inkycatz
itsme1964 wrote:
But I'll bet they manage to delete this post in record time!



I'm going to try something radical here so we can get this convo back on track...

Maybe try logging out?

I'm just hanging out, really.

duanekimball


quality posts: 0 Private Messages duanekimball

Need a left margin

solidstiles


quality posts: 3 Private Messages solidstiles

If Facebook redesigns are any indication, in a year and half when Woot tweaks the design a bit, I'm sure we'll see plenty of posts like:

"You mean I have to scroll FURTHER down the page to see the Woot!Plus deals? Woot!Plus is the only reason I even visit this site anymore."

"Having the entire writeup on the front page makes the page too cluttered! What is this, a LiveJournal?"

JustMe1


quality posts: 1 Private Messages JustMe1

Came back this morning to see if I had gotten used to the new design yet. I hadn't. Didn't even make it past the first (of two) pages to look at the main item, and didn't bother to spend time clicking through to look at anything else. Bummer, but then I guess the One Day One Deal thing died a long time ago.

Moueska


quality posts: 30 Private Messages Moueska
solidstiles wrote:If Facebook redesigns are any indication, in a year and half when Woot tweaks the design a bit, I'm sure we'll see plenty of posts like:

"You mean I have to scroll FURTHER down the page to see the Woot!Plus deals? Woot!Plus is the only reason I even visit this site anymore."

"Having the entire writeup on the front page makes the page too cluttered! What is this, a LiveJournal?"



This response somehow made me lulzy. The only thing constant online is change.

That being said, the woot!Plus stuff is OK if it's of relevant interest to you. But it's still too darn big right this second. The above "futuredated" comment dramatized by SolidStiles still stands if the icons/linkpix are smaller.

Kingflynn


quality posts: 0 Private Messages Kingflynn

Woot has jumped the shark. I'll still check in for the t-shirts, but don't have interest in the other "deals", or the once-a-week woot offs.

golncor


quality posts: 2 Private Messages golncor

too much crap, not enough woot..

ooosadface


quality posts: 2 Private Messages ooosadface

Is voting closed already or do we access the poll from somewhere else?

Doesn't matter. I feel like I'm browsing Woot-Mart now. I liked the simplicity of a deal a day with awesome write-up right in front of you. It's what made Woot my first stop every morning. I'm not going to tirade about, "bring it back or I'm outta here", but I also won't be making Woot my first stop with my morning coffee anymore. I don't like being blasted in the face with, "BUY THIS, OR THIS, OR THESE!".

I do love some things about it too, here are a few...

- The top bar/tab menu that scrolls with you is clean and slick and unobtrusive.
- The font seems crisper and the light borders here and there help keep things organized gracefully.
- The gradients on the buttons and tool bars are subtle yet give depth that breaks up the 'flatness' of the monitor (if that makes sense to anyone else, as a web developer, it does to me).
- The Ajax-like ability to expand the text box I'm typing in is not just cool but helpful at times like this when I need to see more of what I'm typing.

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
inkycatz wrote:I'm going to try something radical here so we can get this convo back on track...

Maybe try logging out?



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You dont think I tried that? Not only that, but all my info is still stored here which is really my main concern. As I posted yesterday and as I emailed woot after they said my acct was deleted....I was more concerned that ALL MY PERSONAL INFO be deleted and it needed to be done manually by somebody in IT. Simply deleting my acct Does not accomplish this and my personal info IS archived/cached on your site and they replied back saying they deleted all my personal info.....Just clueless. My personal info was not deleted and its doubtful they know how to properly delete it.....Im looking at the email right now with woot swearing all my personal info was deleted from their site. I KNOW this to be untrue because A) As I told them, deleting my acct does not remove my archived/cached personal info on YOUR site and B) As I read the email saying ALL PERSONAL INFO INCLUDING CREDIT CARDS AND ETC IS NOWHERE IN THEIR SYSTEM, here I am looking at ALL MY PERSONAL INFO, INCLUDING CC INFO ON YOUR SITE RIGHT THIS SECOND.

One last thing and I am not sure if this was even discussed and nor did I read the pages of fine print but I will. When woot decided to change, in my opinion they did more then just 'change the layout'...It's a totally new website/business, not just a new layout. Im wondering if it was legal to purge all users info to this new website without permission from us the user. I'll dig thru the fine print but this is akin to belonging to one site....yet that site changes, is sold or whatever, creating a completely different website/business you want no part of but your info is purged to the new company without your permission. Im not happy about this. As I said, I can get over a new 'layout', but this is far more..this is an entirely different business now tied in with links to tons and tons of outside, sites, many of which are not trusted sites. Had I known this was what was happening...creating a new business, not just a new layout, I never would have given my permission to purge my info to the new biz without me 1st checking it out to see if I want to be part of this new business.....Only a fool blindly signs up to websites without fully checking them out.....As far as I know, nobody was asked for permission to move all their stuff to this new business and maybe they didnt have to if its buried in the fine print somewhere, but in my opinion, that is quite dubious. Woot now relying on number of members to figure out how much to charge advertisers. Obviously they didnt want to 'wipe the slate clean' and have no members and then wait to see how many re-sign up on the new site, but that would have been the 'morally correct' thing to do. But woot didnt give folks that option and instead just moved us all over here and now after my acct was deleted and all my personal info deleted from your site, I find it DUBIOUS that my acct is still active and im staring at ALL my personal info that was supposedly deleted. Now for the last time...Im not concerned so much about the actual acct deletion as I am about having all personal info removed and its quite obvious woot will say they did this but it will never happen....they dont know how to....So, what I expect next is they WILL figure out a way to fully delete my acct but my personal info will still be archived/cached on woots system no matter how many times they say its been removed and sorry, but at this point, I believe what I see and what MY IT tech told me, not what woot is telling me, which is obviously wrong, but even if not obviously wrong, I still believe my IT guy and he assured me it was more difficult then woot claims to fully remove personal info.....and obviously he is correct, as all my personal info still sits here and will stay archived/cached unless it is manually removed by experienced it. Now I expect to be told 'it was done..ALL PERSONAL INFO DELETED' as they've already told me, but it wont actually be done....I wont be able to post...sign in and out buy and etc, but my personal info WILL STILL BE ARCHIVED/CACHED on here. I told woot I needed proof this was done...they simply sent an email assuring me it had been done.....yet all my personal info still sits on woots site and no matter how many times they tell me its not, I know its still there and always will be.

Moueska


quality posts: 30 Private Messages Moueska

If they continue to "not believe you" and maintain that they deleted you, you know you can always send them the permalinks to your posts for proof.

/shruggity

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
Moueska wrote:If they continue to "not believe you" and maintain that they deleted you, you know you can always send them the permalinks to your posts for proof.

/shruggity



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LOL...They have them. But does it really matter? Im here posting. I can log in and out. I can buy something right now using the info THEY HAVE ON FILE.

I actually thought about doing just that...Buy something and ask how it was possible to do so if they've told me repeatedly acct was deleted, all personal info is gone and bla bla bla.....But, im not going to buy anything.....nothing I want, nor am I clicking on any links.

Again, at this point woot could tell me anything they want, as they already have, but it simply is not true and the fact im here, with all my personal info staring me in the face on this site when I was GUARANTEED it was removed and the ability to buy if I want, is all I need to know they have no clue how to delete my personal info..they claim they can, they claim they did, but OBVIOUSLY, they dont know what they are talking about, and I'll again stress what my IT guy told me and I'd bet any amount of money that what he says is correct, which again, I think is as obvious as can be to anybody except woot.

But no time to waste on this right now...I'll give it a few days and see if it changes but im likely going to have to move in a different route with this and ensure I get solid proof (not them saying "we did it") my personal stuff has been removed from their archives/cache. Its NOT as easy as they think it is to to do this which they do not comprehend, nor do I think they care...This is the 'new woot' where making money trumps what their customers want. That too is obvious...The negative backlash over the 'new woot' was overwhelming, but do they care? No. Thanks, but no more time to mess with this now.....

smectic


quality posts: 0 Private Messages smectic

WOOT is DEAD!

Ok, I gave it a try, honestly.
But still hating it!
too much crap on the page, too many ads, even the language went from "selling cheap crap for geeks" to "selling great products from the best brands for cheap" kinda attitude.

Might succeed in getting a new audience, but will loose its fan base waiting for a smart writeup or a geeky twist on a denial product that suddenly seems necessary...

in 3 words

you lost it

;]

plpitto


quality posts: 0 Private Messages plpitto

Hate the new layout. I used to be able to find deal after deal. I used to love looking at the different tee-shirts and now I can only find one shirt everyday. It was so much better when you could click on the different woot links at the lower right and each one would take you to a new set of deals. I could spend hours pooking around, now 3 mins and I pretty much covered it all. Go back to the old layout!!!!!

LuckySlevin


quality posts: 1 Private Messages LuckySlevin

Not a fan of the new layout. Too clustered. Too clunky. Too full of... EVERYTHING. I agree with cnflrpngrkn's analogy: too Yahoo when you should have been thinking Google.

The witty & humorous product descriptions were one of the best selling points. Even if I wasn't interested in the actual product, I'd come to read the description. Now, that's been--in effect--hidden.

I appreciate the hard work and effort put into such a modification, but I feel that you didn't keep your core audience in mind.

LuckySlevin


quality posts: 1 Private Messages LuckySlevin

While there are a few (very few...) things I like about the "new layout," it appears, overall, that Woot has sold itself as a B of C ... Sad-face.

By the way, What the heck is up with B..o..C (without the ..) being automagically changed to "Bouts of Consternation." and W...T...H = What's the Features???!?!?!?! Geesh.

I can't wait to see the video of Ken Jennings opening a Bout of Consternation!

grimor


quality posts: 7 Private Messages grimor

I've bought a few woots... and for the most part I check all the sites once a day and follow the wootoffs...

That's pretty much over with this layout. If someone mentions a decent woot I'll pop in but I definitely won't be checking the site daily in it's current layout.

The Stuff you Bought layout is horrible as well. It was nice having links to the blog and discussions. I just want a list of stuff I bought, not 51 pages of big images and less information.


Woots: 121 Items: 236-2 Last Woot: 05/07/2012 Woot Wage: $4,559.41

demorse43


quality posts: 0 Private Messages demorse43

Not a fan of the new design. Like others, I find it way too busy. I do like the top banner area though. It looks good.

spawn0701


quality posts: 0 Private Messages spawn0701

Don't like it. Takes too long to open. Not as fun looking. Odd navigation.

blocked


quality posts: 0 Private Messages blocked

I don't like the new layout at all. To cluttered, to busy, too many scripts. The old layout was clean and easy to navigate around. The new layout really has a late '90s/GeoCities feel (I'm surprised they didn't include a "marquee" tag.

My first woot was in June of 2006. I've purchased a bunch of stuff since then. I'll probably be back, but I don't think Woot will be on my daily browse list anymore.

messyt


quality posts: 1 Private Messages messyt

Yeah, woot will continue this mistake. It's some foolish fool web designer's pet project that convinced woot's management that he has a great idea to make woot more money. The only problem is it's failing! So bad! Hahaha, f- u woot! I seriously hope you crumble like myspace! Lol, see what happens when you change your lay out? You get layed te F-out! Crucify woot's new lay out! Keep the pressure on! This is a witch hunt! Lets smoke out the designing culprit and burn him! Revert back to the old page or face a lot of negative posts or else! BoohahahaM

messyt


quality posts: 1 Private Messages messyt

This is hilarious stuff! I does suck when sites give u'r personal info out. All of A sudden you start getting strange emails from random places! Woot? Is that all your doing?

itsme1964 wrote:(long post)



grimor


quality posts: 7 Private Messages grimor
messyt wrote:This is hilarious stuff! I does suck when sites give u'r personal info out. All of A sudden you start getting strange emails from random places! Woot? Is that all your doing?


You do know that woot has no obligation to remove your information right? You agreed to give it to them and agreed to their usage of it per their TOS. Regardless what you want, they will maintain your information in their system because they legally have to for financial reasons (sales tax, income, etc...) Get over it and move on, or get a court order. Until then, just stop coming here and take your illogical rants to some other site.

Edit: directed at itsme1964 since woot's forum doesn't quote 2 layers deep


Woots: 121 Items: 236-2 Last Woot: 05/07/2012 Woot Wage: $4,559.41

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
messyt wrote:This is hilarious stuff! I does suck when sites give u'r personal info out. All of A sudden you start getting strange emails from random places! Woot? Is that all your doing?



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Yep, SLAMMED with Spam now. Never had a problem with spam maybe got 3-5 per day)before but since 'clicking on links on the new woot', not only did my virus protection go nuts picking out all sorts of nasty crud embedded in the links and the dubious sites, nut now im getting 20+ spams a day.

And yet again today, my acct has not been deleted, my personal info, ALL Of IT still resides here, even tho I have in writing from woot that ALL MY PERSONAL INFO IS GONE FROM THEIR SYSTEM AND CAN BE FOUND NOWHERE, ANYWHERE IN WOOTS SYSTEM....Yet there it all is!

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
grimor wrote:You do know that woot has no obligation to remove your information right? You agreed to give it to them and agreed to their usage of it per their TOS. Regardless what you want, they will maintain your information in their system because they legally have to for financial reasons (sales tax, income, etc...) Get over it and move on, or get a court order. Until then, just stop coming here and take your illogical rants to some other site.

Edit: directed at itsme1964 since woot's forum doesn't quote 2 layers deep



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"stop coming here"...."take illogical rants to another site"

1st, dont order me around or tell me what to do or not to do.

Next, why take this to another site when its about woot? Now THATS ILLOGICAL!! Like posting this elsewhere is going to solve anything? No, It NEEDS to be posted here and again, you saying to take it elsewhere is very ILLOGICAL!

You think this is 'illogical'? I sure as heck dont. I have in writing from woot that ALL MY PERSONAL INFO IS GONE FROM THEIR SYSTEM AND CAN BE FOUND NOWHERE, ANYWHERE IN WOOTS SYSTEM....Yet there it all is!

So, very far from 'illogical' to me.

Lastly, while you claim woot will keep my personal info, let me ask if you know how to read? ((I have in writing from woot that ALL MY PERSONAL INFO IS GONE FROM THEIR SYSTEM AND CAN BE FOUND NOWHERE, ANYWHERE IN WOOTS SYSTEM....Yet there it all is!))

So, IN WRITING FROM WOOT...ALL PERSONAL INFO IS GONE FROM WOOT...NOT TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE......But there it all sits...my personal info, my CC info...Everything...

So, why dont you mind your own business as this is between Woot and me. Why dont YOU take your drivel to another site!

All I know is I have, IN WRITING THAT NONE OF MY PERSONAL INFO IS ANYWHERE ON WOOTS SITE, yet it is ALL STILL HERE!

I agree with you on 1 point...Woot will keep this info. But in writing they said NONE OF MY PERSONAL INFO CAN BE FOUND ANYWHERE on WOOT..They said it was PERMANENTLY DELETED AND NONE OF MY INFO IS ANYWHERE ON WOOT.

Clearly it is.

But, you sir need to mind your own biz.....Im not happy being lied to by woot by telling me ALL INFO is gone..NoWHERE TO BE FOUND....But its all still here.

If you dont care about your personal info, thats your choice but you have no right to stick your nose in my biz or tell me what to do or not to do.

Wow, talk about ILLOGICAL! YOUR post is 110% ILLOGICAL!

gcosta


quality posts: 2 Private Messages gcosta
itsme1964 wrote:
blah blah blah blah... and blah yet once again.



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Man, I won't try to take away your right to be ticked off for whatever reason (I for one am really ticked off by Woot's crappy new layout and overall trashing of everything it stood for -- namely simplicity and coziness) nor am I wishing to pick up a fight, but I'll tell you something: you are BY FAR the most repetitive ranter I've ever seen!

I used to be a little neurasthenic like that; yoga helped me overcome it. I sincerely hope you find your own fix.

firemellow2


quality posts: 1 Private Messages firemellow2

Yeah.... It still sucks.

D3lusional


quality posts: 2 Private Messages D3lusional

Dear Woot!,

Damn you ugly.

Sincerely,

d3lusional

grtauk


quality posts: 0 Private Messages grtauk

Apparently my laptop screen resolution isn't good enough and I wasn't at home much yesterday and tried to view it on my cell phone. FORGET IT! This is an Android phone and while it could render the page, trying to pinch (or whatever you call it) to expand the screen was horrible. While trying to log in I got a popup that took over my whole screen!

Today I noticed that the ads at the bottom of the screen are the same! I don't have a stereoscopic screen, why do we need duplicate ads at the bottom. My wife tried to buy something on Friday (not sure what) and apparently her account has been banned and writing to service didn't even warrant a response.

I too am afraid that if this is the future of woot. I'm done.

dfholter1


quality posts: 0 Private Messages dfholter1

RIP, spirit of Woot. I don't care for the new format. What is to be gained? What needed to be improved over the old model? Way to go, Amazon.

richmondhokie


quality posts: 2 Private Messages richmondhokie

So - are any woot-staff reading any of these - I have browsed 15 pages of comments - and I have failed to find ANY that way they love everything.....in fact - it looks like everyone hates pretty much everything except the tabs at the top, but I have yet to find any shift back to the old style.

Why solicit feedback if all you are gonna do is ignore it?

I will have to concur with many posters here - I am not "leaving" woot, but it used to be my first stop every day, but I will likely just now wait for my txt messages for when there is a woot-off and only visit then.......sorry - im not gone, but I definitely wont be here as much any more

thericochet


quality posts: 23 Private Messages thericochet

I hate the new redesign and think woot is pretty much dead (as a great, unique concept) as much as the next person...but it's crazy people like itsme1964 that give woot the 'out' to completely ignore the complaints from rational people who actually make sense.

Stop it. Both itsme AND woot.

Edit: I also find it funny that itsme only joined less than 5 months ago and has only bought 3-9 items here and is being so psycho.

His/her/its lunacy doesn't make the 'new woot' any less crappy though.

chezdragger


quality posts: 0 Private Messages chezdragger

So what Woot is telling me is, the next time (if ever) I try for a Bouts of Consternation I will just get a link to this site? Crappy.

What happened Woot? You used to be cool.

AUTbonerman


quality posts: 1 Private Messages AUTbonerman

The "New Woot" sucks like "New Coke," "Star Wars" with JarJar, and Yahoo/MySpace. Cluttered with ads, not fun, commercialized junk instead of neat finds. I'm gone.

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964

Woot, Why Delete this post? You are allowing people to sling harsh insults at me which I have not responded to but notice those harsh insults still sit and were not deleted. Meanwhile, you put me on probation for replying to an insulting post last week, and the current posts insulting me are 10x's worse then what you put me on probation for. Furthermore, If my acct was deleted, as you said it was, how exactly do you put a non existant account on probation, lert alone have my non existant acct being able to buy stuff using the non existant/canceled acct and personal info you guaranteed was removed from your site?

Woot, what you are doing is horrifying. You claim to have deleted my acct and all personal info, in writing, yet you didnt. And now your deleting my posts.

I am documenting this entire saga and you can choose to do the correct thing or the wrong this which will then bury your people with having to deal with and answer to the complaints that will be filed should you choose to do the wrong thing and delete my posts while claiming in writing my acct nor any personal info is on woot, which it obviously is. Once complaints are filed, YOU CANT IGNORE THEM AND WILL HAVE TO SPEND ALOT OF TIME AND MONEY dealing with it.

Here is the post you deleted :

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1st let me say all the insults folks are throwing at me are 100% uncalled for. Some say Im not rational. Or I rant. Or I should leave and post this stuff elsewhere.

Do you guys know how absurd all that is. My problem is with WOOT, so obviously WOOT is where this stuff should be posted. What good would it do for me to post about this on a totally different site? NONE!

I also feel strongly that ANYBODY in my position would be upset and would be posting here. It would make ZERO sense to post elsewhere.

Now, real simple & this should be quite easy for anybody to comprehend. The bottom line is WOOT told me IN WRITING that my ACCOUNT WAS CANCELLED...ALL PERSONAL INFO INCLUDING CC INFO WAS REMOVED FROM WOOT AND IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND ON WOOT. They reiterated this a 2nd time, IN WRITING and even went on to say that not only was my acct canceled and ALL PERSONAL INFO REMOVED INCLUDING CC INFO, but that since my account was canceled and all info removed, If I wanted to comment, buy something and etc, I WOULD HAVE TO SIGN BACK UP WITH A NEW ACCOUNT, INCLUDING PMT INFO. OK, that makes perfect sense. No problem at all. Quite obviously, if my acct was canceled then quite obviously, YES, I would need to re-sign back up.

However, what all of you who are ragging on me fail to comprehend is that if my acct was indeed canceled and all personal info removed and the only way to post comments, buy anything and etc would be to sign back up, then how and why is my supposed canceled acct still active, with all my info, my cc info and etc? I can post, I can buy and etc, ON THE ACCT THAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY CANCELLED, USING the INFO THAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY DELETED.

Furthermore, IF my acct was indeed deleted as woot told me twice, in writing, that it was, how did they manage to put me on probation (due to my reply's to a poster who was insulting me non stop)?? Does that make sense? My acct is deleted but they put me on probation. How exactly do you take an acct that no longer exists (according to woot) and place it on probation, let alone have the supposed deleted acct able to post, buy, do anything a valid acct can do?

Im very sorry if folks cant comprehend this or understand why this MUST be posted here on woot.

Lastly, like 95% of comments i've read, which are all very negative concerning the new woot, I simply do not feel safe having my personal info in woots hands at this time and they guaranteed me in writing that my info was NOWHERE to be found on woot, when quite obviously it is.

Folks, please do not flame me with insults. Your are welcome to not read my posts but if you cant comprehend why im posting HERE and why im upset then that's your problem. Im fairly certain 95% in my shoes would be upset as well and wondering how my acct can be active if it no longer exists.

Everybody have a wonderful day/week/year/life.......


-----------------------------------You're on probation!
You've been put on posting probation for this post for this reason: Personal attacks. (96)

Please stare at the scary cartoon dog for 96 hours and then try posting again.

Ubb9K4


quality posts: 1 Private Messages Ubb9K4

The new site FAILS if the user has cookies turned off. You all know that, right?

The site is HIDDEN behind a popup login screen and unusable EVERY time the browser starts. Selecting "No thanks, don't show me this again." DOES NOT WORK unless the user has allowed woot to store info on the user's PC.

The new site is unusable for those who don't want woot tracking them. The site is grayed out -- unusable -- until the user logs in or dismisses the popup.

Those of you who log in, realize that woot would rather track you than sell you something. What woot stores on your PC to keep track of you is more valuable to them than the sale of products.

Only suckers put up with that.

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964
Ubb9K4 wrote:The new site FAILS if the user has cookies turned off. You all know that, right?

The site is HIDDEN behind a popup login screen and unusable EVERY time the browser starts. Selecting "No thanks, don't show me this again." DOES NOT WORK unless the user has allowed woot to store info on the user's PC.

The new site is unusable for those who don't want woot tracking them. The site is grayed out -- unusable -- until the user logs in or dismisses the popup.

Those of you who log in, realize that woot would rather track you than sell you something. What woot stores on your PC to keep track of you is more valuable to them than the sale of products.

Only suckers put up with that.



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Great Post and exactly why im upset that woot claimed to have deleted my acct and all personal info, when obviously they didnt and now I think it could be quite dangerous using the site or allowing them to have your personal info.

1 thing woot has proven as fact is they cannot be trusted. 2 times IN WRITING they claim my acct was canceled and NO PERSONAL INFO IS TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE ON WOOT.

OBVIOUSLY, that is pure B.S., hence they lied as my acct is still active and all my personal info is still here, which I am not happy about.

Personally, I think its crazy to allow the 'new woot' to have all this info...Great day to all.....

itsme1964


quality posts: 0 Private Messages itsme1964

This is what I mean by the 'new woot being potentially harmful.

I received the following, ON WOOT VIA A PRIVATE MAIL/MESSAGE. 1st, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK (not sure if it will show the link in this copy & paste, but it was an ACTIVE link in my private WOOT MAIL, that my Virus Protection found was 'harmul').

This 'message' came PRIVATE and from a user who just signed up yesterday, with zero purchases, zero posts.

How many received the same via private woot mail?? How many received something similar from a different 'new person on woot'?

How many were naive enough to click the link?

Well, those that did clicked a 'harmful link' which puts both your computer, you, and your personal info in serious peril.

I could ask how I even got this private woot mail if woot claims my acct was deleted but i've been over that too many times already.

So, this simply brings us back to the 'new woot' and why it is not and never will be the old woot. Its now just a site, of which there are thousands of similar ones, that are very dubious at best while not caring about us, the customer and only cares about making money while allowing many 'dubious' activities to occur that can and will be harmful to many.

Why would the 'new woot' allow this? Why is the 'new woot' embedding Cr*p on your comp to track your every movement outside of woot? Why will the 'new woot' claim your acct and all personal info was deleted, when it was not? Why would 'the new woot' allow so many dubious companies to have ad's and links on their site that when clicked on, Scr*w the person who clicked the link? And why so many 'hook ups' with these nefarious sites? I could go on (as most of you know ;>)...) but the answer to all questions is 'this is THE NEW WOOT (which cannot be trusted and is not safe), NOT THE OLD WOOT (which was pretty safe and trusted)

The 'new woot' has 'sold out' for the most part and now are no longer the same fun, safe and trusted site it was and instead joins the minions of tons and tons of dubious sites that are here for 2 reasons...to make money on you and to scr*w you in many different ways.

Now, lets see if woot deletes this post (which I will archive in case they do) in an effort to hide the facts from its customer base. If this post is deleted, then that tells us everything we need to know, but even if not deleted, it means nothing....They have a HUGE C-Base with a very small % reading this so allowing this post to stay, doesnt effect woot in any way. They will still have tons and tons and tons of people unaware and still hasppily 'stepping in to their house of horrors'.





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