SmackShopping
4Anyone here do SmackShopping on jellyfish.com back in the day? Before they got bought for their code and shut down by Microsoft...
Basically a mystery number of a random item would come up, starting at MSRP and the price would steadily drop. The goal was to buy in at the cheapest price you think you could get before it sold out or you were out of luck. They also had a leaderboard of such where when each item would start you would guess the final price. The 'Show' was usually around lunch time and I think usually went less than an hour.
I had a lot of fun shopping and playing and could be a good concept for meh I think.
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I think if @snapster tried that here we'd all wait until the price hit $0.00 then rush to buy. Although that DOES sound like a lot of fun, it might not be such a good business decision for meh. Especially since they have big new expensive offices with a view of Mark Cuban.
@DaveInSoCal We're not all that cheap!
I mean, I usually have no qualms about sparing a dime.
@narfcake Yeah, but you're the best of us.
@DaveInSoCal I remember it as being just one item up for sale at a time. Literally one. So if you waited too long, someone else would grab it before you could. It was quite the little mind game with yourself; do I jump on this Nintendo DS at $20 off the going price, or do I get greedy and wait and hope I can get it for $30 or $40 off? Nothing ever got as far as 100% off.
@narfcake Ten cents, you exaggerating right? Big spender!!
@pitamuffin Exactly. As long as it was something that people actually wanted it would sell. It was an internal struggle of do I want this or risk it selling out. Add in when you actually don't get an item you wanted cause you waited too long and you may buy earlier the next time something you want comes up.
I loved jellyfish.com and Smack Shopping. I was so pissed when Microsoft bought them out only to close it down. This is the reason my kids have Sony Playstation instead of XBox -- mom will not allow that evil company in this house.
I would love to see a reincarnation of that site. It was so much fun combined with good deal. The show was the most fun. Person with the closest guess to what the item would eventually be bought for got to stop the spinning wheel. Prizes were awarded. Some were awesome -- game systems and such -- and some were zonks. I won a rubber chicken. And I was damned proud!
Come on @snapster, you could make this happen!
@pitamuffin
I won quite a few things on the wheel including a chicken. Trying to remember what they called their random bag of crap, but failing...
I bet the full on code / rights could probably be had from microsoft for cheap as they really only bought the company for the cash back / search algorithms.