the products are decent, but it’s the ad copy ….
I WISH these people had an affiliate program … or maybe they do but I keep missing the link because I’m too busy laughing at the day’s ad copy …
woot.com has been around since July of 2004, the creation of electronics wholesaler Matt Rutledge, and the purported originator of the “One deal a day” sales model.
Each day woot (along with several niche spin-off sites) offers one product, usually a close-out or factory refurb. The picing is generally pretty good, but it’s the ad copy that makes a trip to woot worth the bandwidth.
Woot eschews with the manufacturer supplied product descriptions, and instead delivers off the wall product descriptions and sales pitches in the guise of bad Eastern European spam, strange detective stories, oddball travelogues, and other wild narratives.
A daily “sharing of the woot” has become a tradition at my office, and we even sometimes buy things from them too.
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