How to Buy Cheap Stuff Online – Woot

Woot.com is a retail web site dedicated to bringing products to consumers at extremely low prices. Woot's tagline is "One Day, One Deal". In General, Woot sells one product per day until they run out or the clock hits 1!:59 PM. Then they move to the next day’s product. Products are never announced beforehand and can easily sell out in a few hours, minutes, or even seconds. It’s all part of the fun, according to Woot.com.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Check woot.com every day and as early as possible. Woot.com updates at midnight. Check the site early to ensure that you have the best possibility of buying the product. If you don’t check the site daily, you may miss something you may have purchased.

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   RSS. Sign up for woot’s RSS feed at http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx. Getting the feed will help you to remember to check the site daily, thus providing you with the best opportunity to purchase the extremely discounted items.

3. Woot-Off. Sometimes woot.com will change their format a bit and offer a “woot-off”. A woot-off lasts anywhere from 24-72 hours and is unannounced by woot.com. A woot-off means that when a product sells out, a new one becomes available so several products may be available during the term of the woot-off.

4. Random Crap. Instead of a legitimate product, woot.com will offer Random Crap, a grab bag of miscellaneous products kicking around the warehouse, however don’t be deceived into thinking it is garbage. The BOC, “Bag O’ Crap” is can contain several dollar store type items or significantly more expensive items, making the one dollar investment worth that much more.

5. Product launches. Woot occationally partners up with various companies in order to launch new products. An animated rocket ship on the page identifies a product launch and that the product, for that day, is only available through woot.com.

6. 2-for-Tuesday. Every Tuesday woot offers a two-pack product, doubling your savings! Sometimes the packs will even be more than two.

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   Woot Wine. If you are looking to purchase luxurious wines at discount prices, keep your eye on wine.woot.com for great deals.

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   Woot Shirt. Check out shirt.woot.com for great prices on shirts. Watch for random shirt day, where you can receive a random t-shirt at an extremely discounted price.

[byllz]

on 6/23/2008 Thank for the tip, I will have to save this website.

[JasneJ]

on 6/22/2008 Very cool. I checked it out & book marked it.Thanks for the article.

[houdini16409]

on 6/9/2008 Very cool site, I will have to check this out!

[shadowynight23]

on 5/31/2008 Now I look at this everyday. There are some pretty great deals. Thanks!!

[dsarokin]

on 5/30/2008 Anthony, great article, but you forgot to mention how painfully FUNNY the Woot site can be. It's worth visiting every day just to read their dopey write-ups.