Woot's April Fool's
7Meh decided to make us trip out.... Woot has this graphic on their front page (While also selling sneakers).
Click on the link, and you get this...
Yeah, I'm glad Meh exists.
People on the forums are missing the old Woot. Just come over here, kids!
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It then disappears till you hit refresh. :) Someone else posted a BOC thread saying the link would change from Rickroll to BOC sometime today...
@sohmageek Was that a theory or was that officially stated?
@BillLehecka Dunno, I don't frequent the forums there, I felt like an idiot for refreshing the community page for 5 minutes however :P And you've lost your goat now!
@sohmageek It could be legit... things have been done like that in the past. But on a day like this, who knows.
@billlehecka @ACraigL It was. Sold out they are. I didn't get.
@sohmageek Not so fast... that one was sold yesterday via a twitter link.
@sohmageek @ACraigL - Yeah, woot posted a handful of BOC links on twitter last night, one-offs.
@sohmageek It finally went live with a link for a bag for a penny with free shipping. Sold out an hour ago.
Are they not allowed to be creative?
My Theory: This smacks of dropping the ball. Slap together a graphic that leads to an "April Fools" gag page, set up few Bags of Crap to be sold at random later, smile at audience act as if it all went according to your carefully laid out "brilliant" April Fools Day gag.
It's almost unfathomable just how bad they now suck.
Anyone else notice the blinking eye at the top?