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Woot's Founder Creates New Deal Site, Meh

Meh

So, anyone that has followed the evolution of Woot.com (one of the original deal a day sites) knows that the company grew wildly after its founder Matt Rutledge really got some really great sales going. One of Woot’s most interesting things was that they were very strictly one item per day and that was it. They started to expand into things like t-shirts and other products, but it was mostly one item a day. They also had some of the wittiest product sales pitches in the universe and today, after they’ve been acquired by Amazon, they pretty much seem like Amazon’s dumping ground. If Amazon

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Woot Crashes the Price of Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch to $159.99

Woot.com, an online discount website owned by Amazon just released its latest ‘deal of the day’. And what a deal it is, slashing the price of an Galaxy Gear Smartwatch by 46%, from $349.99 to mere $159.99. Is it enough to kick the sale volume up? Woot! now offers Galaxy Gear smartwatch for $159.99 As you can see on the screenshot above, you cannot order more than a single unit of the watch, but opening multiple accounts isn’t exactly a problematic thing to do. If you want to, of course. By all accounts, Galaxy Gear failed to land on the sweet spot of tens of

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