WOOT!

No, I am not excited, I am giving a plug to a strangely addictive site.  WOOT is a shopping site however they only sell one thing at a time. It is sort of like QVC for geeks.  The item rotates once a day.  The majority of the stuff they sell is refurbished or re-manufactured so most of the deals on there are pretty decent as long as you don’t mind refurb stuff.

The site has a blog sort of setup where people can comment on the item being sold, both good or bad.  Reading through the comments can either really sell you on the item or help steer you clear.  My buddy at work just picked up a re-manufactured Roomba Scheduler for $139 with only 5 dollars for shipping, quite a deal.

It also kind of reminds me of ONSALE.com which was sort of the original eBay kind of site.  In the mid 90’s I lived on that site.  They sold exclusively electronics and computer stuff, they would get a limited number of a product in and then people would bid on it.  If they had 100 of an item, the top 100 bidders got it.  The interesting thing was if you played it right, you could wind up paying much less than someone above you.  You wanted to come in as one of the last bidders on the list, that meant you paid the least.  It was a cool site.  Anyway, give WOOT a look.