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Liquidation site that ended up getting enshittified when amazon bought it out.
Was golden for finding great deals. Now it's just maybe a couple of dollars off stock amazon no longer wants.
I noticed the severe enshittification, but I didn't realize it was due to an Amazon buyout. That makes a lot of sense. I used to check it every day and now it's just when something like this post crops up, out of curiosity.
There were some interesting write-ups around the time he launched his follow-up, Meh. This D Magazine Article is a good overall view of what went wrong with Woot.
I got my poop knife from meh!
The worst thing is they killed off the hilarious weird dialogue they used to do with their mascots.