OutWooted
Outwooted Closing...
Recent changes to Woot have pretty much killed the entire reason for Outwooted's exsistence, so this will probably be the last post.
Good luck Woot!
Posted by Dane on July 22, 2005 | 0 Comments
Motorola Home Theater System DCP501
Woot: "The Motorola DCP501 home theater includes a DVD/CD/MP3 player, 100 watts x 5-channel amplifier, and an AM/FM stereo receiver, so you can turn your living room into a grand film palace (or a smokin’ hot discotheque) without ever leaving the womblike security of home. And it’s all in one austere grey unit, so you don’t have to worry about embarrassing yourself by tripping over a tangle of wires. When you can’t hop a streetcar to catch the latest George Raft picture, your next best bet is the DCP501. "
Woot price: $129.99
Posted by Dane on June 28, 2005 | 0 Comments
Saitek Executive Backlit Keyboard
Woot:
So you're up late, composing amorous responses to online personals; or maybe you're in the midst of a grippingly suspenseful text adventure game. The cool, blue glow of your monitor is the only light in the room. This level of illumination is perfect for the mood, but how are you supposed to see the featherplucking keyboard?Don't turn on your desk lamp. Besides spoiling the atmosphere, you'll wake your mom.
Woot price: $19.99
Posted by Dane on June 27, 2005 | 0 Comments
George Foreman Grill and Rotisserie Bundle
Woot: "According to legend, George Foreman invented his first lean grilling machine in the early 1970s, as a way to sanitize steaks for consumption after they’d been used as compresses on his sparring partners’ bloody, sweaty faces. The grill became an international marketing phenomenon, and Foreman embarked on an enormously successful second career. It was as if the old, terrifying pugilist George Foreman had perished in one of the dozens of grease fires ignited by failed grill prototypes, and a new, affable pitchman George Foreman had risen from the ashes like a phoenix."
Posted by Dane on June 06, 2005 | 0 Comments
Fosgate Audionics FA61.0 Bookshelf Speakers
Woot: "You’re the kind of person who appreciates the finer things in life, are we right? You surround yourself with the finest imported tapestries, the most luxurious leather appointments. You won’t sleep on anything with a thread count of less than 600. You drive in only the most high-performance motorcars, with only the most outrageously excessive onboard amenities. After all, life’s too short to settle for average. And yet you persist in attempting to appreciate music through those tinny, outdated, frankly inadequate speakers of yours. No wonder you never have anyone over – the embarrassment could be socially fatal."
Woot price: $139.99
Posted by Dane on May 26, 2005 | 0 Comments
InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 DLP Projector & 76" Screen
Woot: "Let there be light - digital light! And let its name be the InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 DLP Projector. And you see this light, and it is good. And a new world of entertainment comes into life; and all the creatures of fur and feather, all the Spurs and Suns and Pistons, all the Renee Zellwegers and the Jack Blacks, shall all live and multiply in this world forevermore, in the fullest color and the lifelike-est detail. And the light shall lay down with the DVD player, cable or satellite receiver, VCR, or game player, yea, or all at once, and no man shall call it perversion."
Woot price: $799.99
$1379 at ComputerHQ.
Posted by Dane on May 24, 2005 | 0 Comments
Early Warning EW-3100 Radar & Laser Detector
Woot:
Some might say that legal speed limits are pretty reasonable. After all, there’s a car for every man, woman and child in America, and anyone who’s had the misfortune to ride in one knows that most of them are piloted by dim-witted stooges who don’t know the first thing about driving, and aren’t especially curious to learn.So why not regulate these obliviosos a little bit? You know, give ‘em a guideline or two, and maybe suggest a maximum velocity? Then, when a few especially dangerous cretins inevitably pile up on the freeway, maybe one or two of them will survive.We’ll tell you why not: Because that’s socialist talk! What good is freedom if we fetter and hamstring it with namby-pamby laws written by mealy-mouthed lawyers?Alas, hamstring it we have. Limit your driving speed the government does. Freedom to drive dangerously fast you still theoretically have, but caught you must not get.The Early Warning Radar/Laser Detector EW-3100 lets you scope out the law enforcement situation on any old patch of blacktop from Muskegon to Muskogee. How you choose to act on this information—well, that’s your business.
Woot price: 42.99
$85.49 at Amazon.
Posted by Dane on May 23, 2005 | 0 Comments
Rio Carbon 5GB MP3 Player
Woot: "iPod spelled backwards is Dopi – and that's what you are if you buy one of those overpriced, overhyped machines instead of this unheralded Rio Carbon player. Its 5GB storage disk holds more than the $199 iPod at a much cheaper price, its battery runs longer, and it's free of Apple's charming proprietary file-format shenanigans. Even the Carbon's slim, tapered, business-card-size design bests its trendy big-bucks rival! This is turning into a rout – we'll stop before it gets too ugly."
Woot price: $124.99
$174.99 at Amazon.
Posted by Dane on May 21, 2005 | 0 Comments
Rockford Fosgate RAV DVD1 Player w/Free 5.6" LCD
Woot: "Rockford Fosgate put their near-mutant-level expertise into designing this unit. Yes, it plays regular old CDs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs. It even plays MP3-encoded discs - you can pack the collected works of Mike and the Mechanics, Johnny Hates Jazz, and Richard Marx onto one thin slice of shiny plastic, and feel their power in full Rockford fidelity. But most importantly, the masterminds at Rockford loaded this with DVD playback and a mighty assortment of features like Dolby Digital and DTS decoding for 5.1 playback - yes, in your car! "
Woot price: $259.99
$399 from Zeb.com.
Posted by Dane on May 19, 2005 | 0 Comments
HP 7350 Photo Printer w/Free Photo Paper
Woot: "What's not to like about the HP 7350 Photo Printer? It's as versatile as a Mandrell sister, quieter than Dubya in the Double Jeopardy round—and it serves up photos at up to 4,800 x 1,200 optimized color dpi on premium photo papers. Why, your snapshots will nearly be nice enough to hang in the foyer, save only for the tragically low photogenicity of your friends and family."
Woot price: $69.99
$39.99 at Amazon.
Posted by Dane on May 18, 2005 | 0 Comments
SanDisk 128MB & 802.11b WiFi CompactFlash Card
Woot:
The next time you’re in a Wi-Fi-equipped coffee house, library or gentleman’s club with your non-WiFi-equipped laptop or PDA, just click the SDWCFB-128-768 (catchy name, huh?) into the appropriate slot (see below) and hang ten on the Supermation Infohighway (no more parenthetical asides, we promise), saving up to 128MB of perfectly legal downloads (OK, just this one more).You got your Flash memory in my Wi-Fi capability! No, you got your Wi-Fi capability in my Flash memory! Two great features that feature great together!
Posted by Dane on May 13, 2005 | 0 Comments
Mediocre 3.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical
Woot: "So it goes with this terminally underwhelming digital camera. It is utterly mediocre in every particular, except the extent of its own mediocrity. You can point it at something and wind up with a viewable JPG, but that's really about it. We're talking one seriously pedestrian, middling, passable, undistinguished, prosaic, two-bit, penny-ante, entry-level piece of technology here, folks."
Woot Price: $69.99
$97 at Compuplus.
Posted by Dane on May 12, 2005 | 0 Comments
Audiovox Portable DVD & VHS System with 5.6" LCD
Woot:
This contraption’s wee, adorable 5.6” LCD monitor is detachable, so you can use and store it separately from the main unit. Add up to two more (sold separately) for a completely trippy polymonitor viewing experience!The VBP-5000 has one foot firmly planted in the past, kicking it old-school with our best-loved analog format, V-to-the-HS. With the other foot, it strides confidently into the morrow, cold rocking that hot, new home movie medium, DVD. Audiovox says the VBP-5000 is perfect for watching movies in your car, hotel room, office and home. Just don’t come crying to us when you crash your car and lose your job.
Woot Price: $129.99
$197 at Shop.com.
Posted by Dane on May 11, 2005 | 0 Comments
Rio Chiba 256MB MP3 Player
Woot: "Not only will it gently cradle 256 righteous megs of boss tuneage in its shapely bosom, the Cheeb will let you have its way with all five bands on its equalizer. And it's not jealous: invite a 512mb memory card along for the fun and Chiba won't bat an eye. Yes, it's refurbished, but in today's social climate we prefer to call it 'born again.'"
Woot Price: $49.99
$91.99 from Amazon.
Posted by Dane on May 10, 2005 | 0 Comments
InFocus Screenplay 7200 High Definition DLP Projec
Woot: "The Screenplay 7200 is built on TI's HD2 Mustang DLP chip, which delivers 16:9 1280×720 WXGA resolution for an extraordinarily sharp widescreen picture with gorgeous, highly saturated colors and brightness to spare. The chip is 70% faster than the DDR (Double Data Rate) chip in InFocus's 4805 projector, which makes for even better performance and cleaner, more noise-free video. In layman's terms, this means when you pop in UNDER SEIGE, the 'splosions look awesome."
Woot Price: $2199.99
Posted by Dane on May 09, 2005 | 0 Comments
Woot Off
Today's a special day on Woot. See that purple light? Know what it means?
Woot: "No, Barney's secret police are not raiding Woot, this is a new beta test mode called 'Woot-Off.' Woot-Off mode is a short term frenzied mutation of our product posting procedure. During this mode, a new product is launched immediately* after the sellout of the previous deal. There is a half-woot-life of 12 hours maximum on any product within a Woot-Off that does not sell out. The Number of Woot-Off items, sequence, and quantity will not be announced. When Woot-Off mode is over, the purple lights will disappear and our normal schedule will resume. Depending on its success, this may be a mode we would go into once or twice a month for a relatively short duration of time (24-72 hours generally.)"
Posted by Dane on May 06, 2005 | 0 Comments
Omnifi DMP1 20GB Car Media Jukebox
Woot: "Your MP3 collection...on wheels? It's more than just a beautiful dream. Simply install dis herre DMP1 Mobile Media Jukebox wherever you'd put a car CD changer, and wirelessly load it up with up to 20GB of music from your PC. Thanks to the auto sync feature, it can sit out in your garage and fetch the content you want while you're snug in bed, like a faithful puppy without the mess. You'll roll off to work every morning armed with a fresh batch of tunes, news, audiobooks, whatever -- enough to keep you relaxed even through the Ventura Freeway's nastiest traffic snarls. In a pinch, you can use the USB-equipped removable HDD (20 gigs, remember?) to shuttle data between home and work, or to grab your own copies of a friend's killer collection of audio files (hey, what the recording industry's lawyers don't know won't hurt you)."
Woot Price: $139.99
$239 from Amazon.
Posted by Dane on May 05, 2005 | 0 Comments
MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer with Tilt Wheel
Woot:
Maybe we're biased, or maybe we're just selling it today, but this is our favorite mouse since Mrs. Brisby. It's accurate, it's speedy, and it's got wheel functionality so bad (meaning good) we've half a mind to spell it FUNKtionality.Rotate the scrolling wheel, and your fantastic voyage through documents and Web pages is as smooth as Paris Hilton's denuded nethers. Press the same wheel to toggle between open windows: multi-tasking's a snap!
Of course, by "multi-tasking," we mean "keeping your spreadsheets open in case your boss walks by while you're playing a Tetris emulator."
Woot Price: $12.99
$39.99 from Amazon.
Posted by Dane on May 04, 2005 | 0 Comments
Cuisinart Stainless 12-Cup BrewCentral Coffeemaker
Woot: "Imagine it, man -- twelve cups! Consider the possibilities... buy a dozen donuts and have a whole cup of coffee with each one. Stage a production of 12 Angry Men and serve a complimentary cup of coffee to each member of the cast. Or buy the Woot-maximum three units, set their timers for morning, and wake up to 36 sense-shattering cups, ready and waiting to help you start your day! Consider your mind officially blown! There's no limit to the fun you can have with your favorite bitter, scalding stimulant and the Brew Central. What, you don't like fun?"
Woot price: $39.99
$49.99 from Smart Bargains.
Posted by Dane on May 03, 2005 | 0 Comments
How Woot.com Won Fans in E-Commerce
Brian Carlsness needed to unload some merchandise.The managing director of e-commerce at Rockford Corp. of Tempe, Ariz., wanted to get rid of his inventory of a device that streams digital content to home stereos.
So Mr. Carlsness turned to Woot.com. And in one day, he sold out the entire inventory of thousands of the devices at a steep discount. When Rockford first launched the product in the summer of 2003 it was priced around $800; it sold on Woot for $199. "We sold out in seven hours and 53 minutes," says Mr. Carlsness. "It was rather extraordinary."
Woot.com is indeed an anomaly in the e-commerce world. It sells just one product a day from one manufacturer, mainly closeout items on the cheap. A picture of the day's item is prominently displayed on the site's home page. The sale ends when the stock sells out or at 11:59 p.m., whichever comes first. These are products consumers have never seen in person -- or know much about at all. And with each day's sale launched at midnight Central Time, a product could sell out well before many people are even awake.
Posted by Dane on May 02, 2005 | 0 Comments
Wireless G Gaming Bridge & Free USB WiFi Adaptor
Wireless G Gaming Bridge & Free USB WiFi Adaptor
Woot: "The Motorola WE800G 802.11g Wireless Gaming Adapter/Ethernet Bridge is your fast and easy way to get cabled Ethernet appliances onto a Wifi Network. Plug it temporarily into your computer to program it, then plug it into your PS/2, Xbox, Internet-equipped refrigerator, Tivo, ReplayTV or printer—anything with an ethernet connection—and this becomes a wifi antenna for that device. Meanwhile, your device thinks it’s hardwired into the network, so it’s like a trip to the mini golf course: you won’t need any drivers."
Woot price: $49.99.
$81.50 at PC Nation (without the free USB WiFi adaptor).
Posted by Dane on May 02, 2005 | 0 Comments
Taz Foot Massager and Mystery Speaker Bundle
Woot: "OK, there's not really any good way to spin this, so we'll just tell you what happened. One of our purchasers was at an expo in Ypsilanti, trying to make time with his favorite sales rep. She's just his type: he's got a thing for girls with corrective footwear and lazy eyes. (Something to do with his first girlfriend, we understand.) Anyway, the two of them end up lacquered on root beer schnapps in a hotel bar, and before we know it, a shipment of these ludicrous things arrives at Woot HQ."
Woot Price: $39.99
$25.95 from Amazon (without the speakers).
Posted by Dane on April 29, 2005 | 0 Comments
InFocus Screenplay 4800 DLP Projector
Woot: "You get what you pay for, you say? In this case, you get more. You don’t need us to tell you that InFocus is the premier manufacturer of home theater components, supplying some 49% of the home market. DLP technology makes home projector images sharper, brighter and more lifelike than ever before, and nobody does it like InFocus. You probably know that the 4800 is the home theater version of their highly popular X1 business projector, but with true home video quality. Indeed, at 2000:1, it boasts the best video contrast in its class. And while it’s not quite up to the dazzling standard of the ScreenPlay 4805, it’s as close as you can get at a fraction of the price. "
Woot price: $499.99
$649.99 at Amazon.
Posted by Dane on April 28, 2005 | 0 Comments
Rio Cali Sport 128MB MP3 Player
Woot: "Wrapped in grippy, protective rubber, the Cali Sport 128MB mp3 player is built for the kind of rough treatment it’s going to take if you ever hope to slough off that surplus gut. With solid-state electronic innards, it carries over 60 songs, and is about as likely to skip as John Wayne was. Its integrated stopwatch with lap timer will tell you just how depressingly slow you really run, and with the Cali Sport’s onboard FM tuner, you’ll always have something to listen to."
Woot price: $29.99
$49.99 from Amazon.
Posted by Dane on April 27, 2005 | 0 Comments
MB Quart QLA46 OCTA Black Corner Mount Loudspeaker
Woot:
Ask an audiophile: MB Quart speakers are known all over the world for precision sound, advanced German engineering, and state-of-the-art construction. They’d probably be known farther and wider than that, too, were it not for the fact that in space, no one can hear you rock out to Pink Floyd.Thanks to our extremely-close-but-nonetheless-platonic friends at Rockford corp., we got our sweaty little mitts on some MB Quart QLA46 OCTA corner-mount Loudspeakers. We don’t mind telling you that we’re kind of excited.
Woot Price: $39.99
Posted by Dane on April 26, 2005 | 0 Comments