Exclamation sites Woot! and Yahoo! team up!

by Brad Linder Sep 12th 2007

Oh the humanity! It's a bird, it's a plane! In the course of human history, there have been many sentences that demanded an exclamation point. But very rarely, if ever have we been able to issue three completely appropriate exclamation points in one sentence: Woot! and Yahoo! have announced a partnership!

If you don't get it yet, the exclamation points are actually part of both company's names. Well, kind of. Woot includes one in its logo, but not in most references to the company name. As for the last exclamation point, that's just there to express our own excitement.

Woot, for the uninitiated, is a website that offers one item for sale each day, usually at an extremely deep discount. There's a limited supply of each item, and if it sells out, you're out of luck until the next day when something else goes on sale. Occasionally the site goes crazy and has a Woot Off where as soon as one item sells out another is made available until the company decides it's over.

Apparently Yahoo! has approached Woot about offering a daily Woot item through Yahoo! Shopping. Starting at midnight tonight, there will be a new Woot item available from the front page of Yahoo! Shopping every day. It will be a separate item from the one sold that day at Woot.com. The upshot for Woot is that more customers will learn about the company (and buy products from it). And Yahoo! gets a little geek cred, and a daily sale item for its front page.

Tags: bargain, sellout.woot, shopping, Woot, Woot!

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

B said 12:31AM on 9-13-2007

It also means a lot faster sell outs.. which is gonna suck..

Tony C said 8:50AM on 9-13-2007

Depends... Today's "pod" coffee machine may look like a good deal, but the cost of the single-serve coffee packs will far eclipse the price you plunk down for the maker in the long run. Even if you try to go the "roll your own" pod route. I'd expect the "Gourmet Coffee Cafe" guys to try and upsell you a refill subscription as well. Grain of salt, people. Grain of salt.

BUT, if the 72 pods it comes with are actually good (it's usually hit or miss) and compatible with all pod-type coffee machines and if theirs sucks, you can use another one from Philips, Melitta, Black & Decker or whoever your favorite appliance manufacturer is.

And it's funny, because you can actually just go to sellout.woot.com and bypass the shopping.yahoo.com portal altogether.

Maybe the upshot is, since it's sponsored by the bigshots at Yahoo!, their "sellout" prices might be even sweeter deals than the normal Woot! stuff?

artifex said 8:41AM on 9-14-2007

I just went to sellout.woot.com and it redirected me back to the Yahoo page. Don't see the Woot on that page. Oh, maybe I have to turn on ads. :)

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