Get out the way, we got a Wootoff!

I'm watching a Wii and it's getting into "shitty deal" territory. At about $75, +12.50 for shipping and you have at assume $50 or so spent on bids. (At leasts that's how I'd do it. I want a 32 in TV, and I'd be iwlling to buy 75 bids or whatever, and just consider that a part of the cost.) So, they're still well below the $200 asking price, but approaching it quickly.

 

There's one guy flat out determined to buy it. He doesn't even let the clock tick down. He just ups everyone every time. There are maybe 5 bidders at this point and this guy ups them every single time any one of them bids. He has to have spent a fortune on bids.

 

Wii sold for $107, plus $12.50 shipping. The guy used 300 bids, so in the end spent about $100 more than he would have had he just bought it at Wal Mart. Oops.

 

My research on Swoopo made it seem less than honest.

You can spend $25 20 times and still never win the bid you really want.

 

Yeah. Swoopo prolly won't get my business. I may try it on a few regular products, nothing glamourous like a PS3 or a nice camera.

The TV I was watching earlier sold for $900, including bids, shipping and auction price. He could have got the same TV for $600-$700 at a store.

 

A $170 hard drive just went for $73 with the winner bidding 126 times. He saved about $15.

From Swoopo's angle, they were down $15 from him, but way, way, way up when you considering there were probably three times as many bids, at the very least. If there were a total of 375 bids, they profited about $150 on the deal.

Even if you get a good deal, the company is always going to get a GREAT deal.

Bastards.

 

Moddy alert! Get your pistachios!

 

If you leave it plugged in all the time or never run it all the way down, your battery life degrades. I run mine down to the 5-10 percent range about once a week.



Oh, good Lord. Wootoff stalls for this.

 

Sonner is mysteriously absent. He's on Woot.com buying 100 of these right now.

 

The Peter Cetera song was vey well done.

 

.....and the Gateway is on the block.

 

Didn't take long. Now it's a "Eton Voicelink FR1000 Self Powered Radio with NOAA, 2 Way GMRS, and Flashlight."