How the Woot was lost: Shoddy Goods 052
3From @dave:
It’s so weird to realize I’ve been doing the Meh thing years longer than I did the Woot thing at this point. That still feels like a major part of my life—and I also still keep up with friends from that time, several still over at Amazon even. I also check in over there and love seeing something pop up with a little of that weirdness from time-to-time, even if they’re not likely send a team of writers to CES for a week of Worst Awards anytime soon. Got any fond memories of Woot, or other similar stories to Jason’s?
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I’ve repressed it all. To look back at such glorious memories is far too painful. Like gazing directly into the sun.
@medz I have a nice set of pans I won in the bunker game right before they fired everyone. It makes me a tiny bit sad every time I cook an egg.
I remember crying (not literally) inside when it was announced the breakfast octopus had sold woot to amacrap. At that time i did not have an amazon account anymore (i had gotten rid of it years before back when you could do that thing (My earlier shopping on amazon was limited to books (the paper ones) and amazon auctions where a few good craft vendors had left eBay for because amazon was less costly to them))
So I scrambled my password, put in a fake email account (yeah you could still do that back then) and never looked back
Shirt.woot as a dating site.
While things didn’t work out, as my last task was driving a loaded Uhaul + trailer 1,300 miles – sometimes I wonder how things may be different now.
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