Have you seen the growing tension on deals.woot.com??
6You can find some here..
http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/fa4073f6-a719-4d44-a797-77b0841370df/why-doesnt-woot-com-accept-deals-from-meh-com#52e1446c-1114-4f0c-98fd-5fe926c34233
What are your thoughts on the ban and the powers that be?
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I love that they changed my comment that said "mods that aren't dickbags" to "mods that are dickbags". It just shows the animosity the mods over there have towards Meh. It's sad, really
That was sad.
Did they really change it? Wow.
seems childish
Wow, just wow. Lovely mod editing going on over there.
Second question was just axed. No reasoning no comments.
Well of course Woot is going to butt-hurt by meh.com -- I'm sure the team had a non-compete that said they would not start anything like Woot for X amount of time and I have no doubt in my mind that July 9th, 2014 was pretty close to when that time was up. It's not like Woot shouldn't have seen it coming, though. Just sour grapes on their part.
It was 3 years, and it was up in 2013.
Woot has really gone downhill. I used to hit up something from there at least once a month. Now it seems its just like all very slightly discounted items that they couldn't sell on Amazon.
+1
So true.
The best part about all of this...
All they're doing is drawing attention to Meh. They're basically saying they view Meh as a real competitor, and that they're incapable of rational decision making.
In a way, it's sad. There was a time when I would have defended Woot against just about anything. The community over there was second to none. In the past couple of years, they've bastardized everything good about that place, and now the community from there found a new home. I'd like to say that Rutledge was to blame, but Woot did this to themselves.
I guess I'm done there now. I really feel like they took things too far. Banning a competitor? Come on, Meh has one item for sale each day. Woot has 4000. How can anyone compete with that? :D
Plus they have Amazon as their backbone. That's like Superman complaining when Joe Public does something heroic...
This is what I had to say. Still holding out hope there's some kind of misunderstanding, but if they keep the ban I'm done with Woot for good. It's not like they didn't screw up my last THREE (3) orders anyway.
I don't understand it. Are they afraid Meh will overtake Woot? Woot certainly has lost the magic as of late. I used to have to work to keep my black triangle on Deals. Now, my rep goes up and I do nothing, rarely even logging on. That's concerning.
It's up now. Go do your thing, 'mehricans.
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The Meh deal listing ban has been [temporarily] lifted it seems. Hopefully it'll bring some not-yet-meh'd former Wooters over this way.
well done! i mean, eh, who cares.
I wonder if we can vote it up to the top deal of the day. Well... that's probably too much trouble. Let's not do that.
I wanted to vote it up but I've been doing an experiment. I haven't voted for anything in over a year (FEB 14, 2013)
Trying to see how long it would take to lose my black triangle. Voting deals doesn't seem to matter.
Anyone here recall the movie, "The Mouse That Roared?" It came to mind while reading the comments here.
Let's all remember that part of the problem with Woot these days was exemplified when comments about Darth Vader were deleted. It occurs to me that it's been a very long time since we did any theme-oriented postings. Shall we try, ummmm, Darth Vader stuff?
I'd keep it civil, but if you had to choose anything an octopus would be better. I think that was CGC's idea
lol, my Senator Palpatine comments are being deleted. I don't care really. The entire point of making them was to piss them off. It worked
Post up your octopus deals. I started last night... no one followed suit :(
Garth Mader hasn't been at woot for over a year. :O
@Thumperchick: Didn't last long, did he? Regardless, fooling around with it carries its own sense of nostalgia. We're here. He's not.
@CowboyDann: Meh. I've posted a toddler-size halloween costume. I'll ponder the octopus idea.
I added a couple of octopus related deals. It seems like an awesome idea to me ;)
"a couple..." Hah! You practically cornered the market! Those are some seriously creative finds.
New deal was posted over there. Not sure who posted it
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/e7cea875-d2d8-43cc-9c39-6531c7ad93c7/woots-ceo-palpatine-action-figure#0
I wonder who... >:)
I think I'm going to need some popcorn for this.
the deal is sort of meh
@lalian
We did it! Oh well.
There's an octopus lamp climbing the deals.woot rankings today.