Woot! Sells! Out! With! Yahoo!
Posted in Random by Evan at 9:51 am
This post was published 2 years 6 months 8 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.According to a post on the Woot! blog, the site everyone enjoys getting cheap stuff from is selling out. Check the blog post for the details. What I’m more focussed on is people saying that this “selling out” means the site is useless. Some don’t want to hear anything about it and are not going to bother with Woot! while others are excited. What do you think of this?
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Secretly every fledgling site owner wishes they would be bought out by Google or some other big player so I have no problems with them selling out. Bravo Woot founders.
It doesn’t really seem like they’re selling out, but rather just making a partnership with Yahoo on a new venture. Sure, Woot is very grass-rootish, and Yahoo is a conglomerate, but it does look like Sellout.Woot and Woot will be two distinct sites. Good job for them for becoming popular enough that a big fish took notice (and didn’t completely take over and rebadge the hell out of it, ala Flickr)
Jealousy gets the best of us.
Wow. I can’t imagine why people are getting so bent out of shape with them copying the woot.com site to a new directory, changing the color from yellow/green to Yahoo purple, and assigning a vhost of sellout.woot.com to this new, different colored copy.
Basically, you now get two woot offers a day instead of one. *shrug* Maybe I’m missing something.
I don’t see any downsides, besides maybe I won’t be able to get a bag of crap because of the influx of new Wooters.
So, basically, from what I’m seeing, I now have two ridiculously low-priced products to choose from per day, instead of just one. How is that bad?