arctickiwi wrote:I've only joined this whole thing a month ago, server lock-up killed my chance at a bag during the last one, but I'm not disappointed. That was 48hrs of a lot of variety. Better than waiting 24 hours for the next item to be posted.

I agree. I look forward to the Woot Offs for the variety, speed, and most of all, the comments. I need a laugh every now and then.

nanaejt wrote:Come on, don't be like that. You've been here six years and it's people like you who have kept the site financed with your frequent purchases. Give it a day or two and you may feel better about this.I hope to see you at the next WootOff!

I have to ask. Does anyone here actually like the new website? I rarely visit anymore because the page is so busy. It's hard to focus on the one woot product I want to look at with all the other stuff on the screen. This will prob be my last time this site. It's been a while as it is....I miss it but definitely not like this.

dernst_ca1 wrote:Of course you all know that woot has held krapless wootoffs after their birthday for three years straigt now.. Dont you?

This.

grasshopper2 wrote:I have to ask. Does anyone here actually like the new website? I rarely visit anymore because the page is so busy. It's hard to focus on the one woot product I want to look at with all the other stuff on the screen. This will prob be my last time this site. It's been a while as it is....I miss it but definitely not like this.

I still prefer the old layout, same reason, this just seems way too cluttered. And don't bother trying to check it on a mobile device. There's so much crap everywhere now it's hard to scroll and move around without accidentally clicking a link/ad. I used to check woot every single day, now I sometimes miss a day. The site is just too annoying to use. Hope I get used to it, if not, meh

grasshopper2 wrote:I have to ask. Does anyone here actually like the new website? I rarely visit anymore because the page is so busy. It's hard to focus on the one woot product I want to look at with all the other stuff on the screen. This will prob be my last time this site. It's been a while as it is....I miss it but definitely not like this.

We'll miss you... (No we won't!)

Everyone complains when something they like changes. Stick around long enough and you'll get used to it. I did. I particularly like the $5 shipping on same-day concept combined with the multitude of purchase options. Why else would I have bought so much useless crap at the last wootoff.

bryan1436 wrote:Amazon Reviews

Walmart Reviews

Gadgeteer Reviews

Geek.com review!

For the most part, positive reviews! Let's hear it for a non-roomba hard-floor cleaner!

I have owned three of these (mostly because I caught my two year old standing on them thinking it was a weight scale)... Former Roomba owner (many versions). If you have wooden floors it is a must have. Buy the swiffers at costco. I run it every morning when I make my coffee and hardly ever vacuum. Three dogs and a cart, 4,000 swft of hard wood floors.

First review ever on woot. Love this thing (we have the new black ones).

why...i don't know.

This is a good buy. I just recently priced this and even with Bed Bath and Beyond's 20% off coupon, woot still wins.

grasshopper2 wrote:I have to ask. Does anyone here actually like the new website? I rarely visit anymore because the page is so busy. It's hard to focus on the one woot product I want to look at with all the other stuff on the screen. This will prob be my last time this site. It's been a while as it is....I miss it but definitely not like this.

I have no real problems with the revamped site.

I love the Sherlocked writeup! If I didn't have wall-to-wall carpeting I would have bought one just for that!

Does it work on tile?

grasshopper2 wrote:I have to ask. Does anyone here actually like the new website? I rarely visit anymore because the page is so busy. It's hard to focus on the one woot product I want to look at with all the other stuff on the screen. This will prob be my last time this site. It's been a while as it is....I miss it but definitely not like this.

I'm with you. I sent in feed back suggesting that if they wanted some central navigation page, make that NOT the front page. The front page of plain ol woot.com should be the item, the FULL description, and links at the bottom or side to the other woot sites.

The new front page should be parked at something like Woot.com/navi or something.

[edit] Let me add - I'm *not* with you on leaving I hope they will move back towards a cleaner presentation, but leaving the site because the layout isn't quite right is much akin to saying I'll move to Canada if I don't agree with the results of an election. No offense, Canada. Love your moose. And hockey.

Now y'all know there is not an infinite supply of Brigade of Campers#39;s and they just whipped them out the other day.

As for this robot, I'm really on the fence. I have a couple of Roomba's which need new batteries. Do I spend more and try a new technology or spend half the money for new batteries which may last only a year? We are almost entirely hard floors, and I'm very tempted by the little swiffer cloth.

I am in for one. Looked at a lot of reviews, prices, etc., and this is the best offer. Had a Roomba once but it kept getting stuck in spots. Like that it can also mop. My dogs should enjoy it, at least for a while.

Does it suck that there were no backpacks of crocodiles? Yes. That is the highlight of every woot-off. But I'm not mad about that. Lord knows I wouldn't have had a chance at one anyways. What we should be mad about is the insane number of TVs, headphones, and speakers. Woot now takes the MSRP and posts it as the original price... then sells it for the close to the same price as everyone else (although cheaper than the MSRP). What happened to the deals Woot?

Thanks for the replies. I was wondering what the thoughts were on the site now that it's been up for awhile.

drunkenalien wrote:Ok, everyone get your woot-off complaints out, so you can hurry up and tell me all about this Mint hard floor cleaner.

I *love* my Mint. We've had one for a couple years. It's super quiet (especially after listening to Roomba grind around my house), you just use the swiffer pads that are available at Costco (cheap!) and turn 'er loose.

About 11 months into a 12 month warranty, my first Mint started acting weird - it wouldn't go forward. It kept thinking it was stuck on something. I am convinced this is my fault because I moved it while it was running (instead of stopping it and then moving it like a normal, patient person would). Their customer service was top notch - immediately sent me a new Mint with a new 12 month warranty.

The only negatives I can really think of - 1) The "mopping" cycle doesn't ever seem to finish with the mopping pad (Swiffer or otherwise) still being damp enough to do any good, but that might be more a product of the pads I use than the Mint's issue and 2) There's not really any way to keep it to one room. It stops at thresholds (...usually) but if you have a wide expanse of tile that goes throughout your house (like I do now at our new home), I'm not really sure how you'd keep Mint contained. I have heard the GPS doesn't accomodate multiple rooms (in one go) but have not noticed any problems with this myself.

cbiscuit14 wrote:Does it suck that there were no backpacks of crocodiles? Yes. That is the highlight of every woot-off. But I'm not mad about that. Lord knows I wouldn't have had a chance at one anyways. What we should be mad about is the insane number of TVs, headphones, and speakers. Woot now takes the MSRP and posts it as the original price... then sells it for the close to the same price as everyone else (although cheaper than the MSRP). What happened to the deals Woot?

Amazon's buyout.

sevillada wrote:ya, sorry, was working and tried to be brief...too brief I guess.
At sweeping, it does an ok job, but once the pad gets dirty, it won't do much. I opted for disposable ones so that they pick up everything, but they need to be changed 2-3 times every time you want to use it, so it is a pain.

For what it's worth, I can clean an entire large room with one Swiffer pad without problems (sometimes more than one room if the rooms are small). I hated the Roomba, which I see in your earlier post that you prefer

piercedgeek wrote:I still prefer the old layout, same reason, this just seems way too cluttered. And don't bother trying to check it on a mobile device. There's so much crap everywhere now it's hard to scroll and move around without accidentally clicking a link/ad. I used to check woot every single day, now I sometimes miss a day. The site is just too annoying to use. Hope I get used to it, if not, meh

I will visit when I get around to firing up the old desk top or one of the laptops lying around. but for now I'm content sitting around the pool with the iPad. And to one of the previous comments I welcome change, $5 shipping and of course Bags of cats!

grasshopper2 wrote:I have to ask. Does anyone here actually like the new website? I rarely visit anymore because the page is so busy. It's hard to focus on the one woot product I want to look at with all the other stuff on the screen. This will prob be my last time this site. It's been a while as it is....I miss it but definitely not like this.

There are some things about the redesign that I do like...The nav bar across the top with quick "mouse-over" thumbnails...the $5 All You Can Ship.
The main page of each portal though is just obnoxious to me. I've tried to give it a fair shake but it's definitely not growing on me. It just looks like the internet threw up all over my Woot! page.
Totally agree with the person who finds mobile browsing to be a chore. I don't bother to even try on my phone anymore. As "mobile" is the wave of the future I'm not sure how that's going to play out for my beloved Woot! but it's not looking good...literally...I mean...it looks bad...both figuratively and literally...I mean...OH NEVERMIND

offspeedkills wrote:No bags of crap really? Why??? Was the site design THAT expensive?

There was already a Woot! Off this month - maybe that had something to do with it?

drunkenalien wrote:Ok, everyone get your woot-off complaints out, so you can hurry up and tell me all about this Mint hard floor cleaner.

I absolutely LOVE my Mint cleaner. We have 2 dogs and 2 cats, and the Mint cleaner manages to handle all the stray hair on the couple of hard floors that we have.

I should say that I have the Mint+ Model (The Black One), and only got it because I got such an amazing deal on it. ($5, NEW...gotta love the local Amish Store ).

Please explain what a brigade of campers is! Thank you!

Un0fficial wrote:They *just* sent out Brigade of Campers#39;s for their birthday... not even a week/week and a half ago.. seriously?

Key about this device is that it is a "Sweeper" (think robotic swiffer sweeper) not a vacuum like the Roomba.

Now what would be really cool is a robotic floor cleaner with "OnStar"! That way it could challenge burglars and double as a medical call device when you've fallen and can't get up!

bradslack wrote: 4,000 swft of hard wood floors.

4,000 square feet of hard wood?! Who even has 4,000 square feet of house, especially on the same floor?

That was a great demo.

The Mint started out with a perfectly clean floor and ended with a perfectly clean floor.

It must work. It didn't make the floor dirtier!

Howerbeek wrote:Every time I see this site I no longer appreciate the wit of the authors or the community feeling it tries to invoke. It is all pretense now - they've turned what was once a unique and original format into their permanent marketing campaign. I think this is the end of my loyalty and interest in this site. It's so disgusting that I almost want to boycott Amazon too.

Oh ! Then you should buy Apple products. Like WOOT, They are " SO HIPSTER, competitively priced, one-off and innovative" No Lemmings on their customer list at all. AND Apple technology is OPEN format so you can do your own thing with other apps, OS, hardware, specs etc.

Oh ! WAIT...---->> NOT ! ! !

Between the multitudes of people claiming they will never return to this site (and no one believing them), and the people spamming off-topic crap and posting dumb memes, I can find very little community feedback about the product this thread is for.

I really just came here to get some thoughts and opinions on the Mint and aside from a posted video made by someone else, I have learned nothing. Thanks, guys.

wife got one of these about six months ago. Battery lasted about two hours, took forever to charge up, got lost going to one from another, got stuck under everything, and didn't even clean that well. Wouldn't recommend this from my experience.

mykexyz wrote:I'm with you. I sent in feed back suggesting that if they wanted some central navigation page, make that NOT the front page. The front page of plain ol woot.com should be the item, the FULL description, and links at the bottom or side to the other woot sites.

The new front page should be parked at something like Woot.com/navi or something.

[edit] Let me add - I'm *not* with you on leaving I hope they will move back towards a cleaner presentation, but leaving the site because the layout isn't quite right is much akin to saying I'll move to Canada if I don't agree with the results of an election. No offense, Canada. Love your moose. And hockey.

This is how I feel. I understand youre more corporate now, and youre cross promoting your products...but this is just not what woot was about when it started. I used to come here first every day. Now, Im to the point where I only check if I have time.

The items have changed drastically over the years too. Entirely too many computers and tablets and vacuums now. This last wootoff didnt have a single item I could afford during the 50+ times I checked.

Im disappointed in current woot layout.

Why do I need this? My socks work fine.

We picked one up a couple months ago at Bed, Bath & Beyond (around $200 I think), but returned it after a couple of uses.

I think it would work best with wide open floor plans. We have a small living room/dining room with enough furniture to give the Mint fits. Depending on the clearance of your couch, it may bounce off or may get stuck... ours was the latter.

It has enough good reviews to show that it works for some people... but wasn't the right fit for our house (especially to justify the $200).

If I have a Roomba and there's a Mint on the floor... will the Roomba try to eat the mint?

vipermjb wrote:Why would I want a square Roomba?

Because real robots are square, like Bender's pupils.

thanks for the Brigade of Campers woot. u rok

offspeedkills wrote:No bags of crap really? Why??? Was the site design THAT expensive?

Exactly!

mlang1020 wrote:Amazon's buyout.

its the mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

This thing looks like a printer...