I first heard about Woot a few years ago. I was searching the web looking for websites selling whatever it was I was looking for….  I found the item listed for sale at Woot — then went to do some price checking, then came back to Woot the next day and found the item was no longer for sale.

The reason: They only sell one thing a day.. and the thing I was looking for was only available “yesterday”.

Yup. One item. And they won’t tell you how many they have for sale. When they run out, that’s it.

Woot is not the ordinary kind on online store.

At midnight every night they post a new item for sale. It is available until they run out or until 11:59pm when the next Woot starts. (If they run out early, they sometimes list a second item for up to 12 hours).

Aside from the daily Woot, the site occasionally offers specials like their “Bag O’ Crap” sales which are styled after Japanese New Years Day “lucky grab bags” — a tradition of merchants selling bags of assorted inexpensive items at a discount to encourage new shoppers to come to their stores, (the tradition is called Fukubukuro …seriously).

You might also run across a “Woot Off” which is when they sell off small quantities of multiple items, (one at a time until they run out) throughout the day.

Sometimes manufacturers use Woot to test market new products — if you run into one of these, you might get the latest, greatest new gadget at a serious discount

Then there’s 2-for-Tuesdays when items are sold in lots of two. Woot also sells a Shirt of the Day.. a different t-shirt design every day of the week — only available that day. Woot also sells wine — again, offering only one (different) bottle of wine every day!

To give you an idea of the corporate attitude at Woot: if you live in Texas, (where Woot is headquartered), and you buy something, enter the PROMO CODE: TAXSUCKS at checkout and they pay the sales tax.

For a totally different shopping experience visit:

www.Woot.com – the daily woot is usually an electronic product!

wine.Woot.com – a different bottle of wine each day!

shirt.Woot.com – a different t-shirt design every day!

NOTE: When you visit the Woot websites, check the upper left corner of the site — sometimes you’ll find a link to another retailer’s site where the PROMO CODE “WOOT” will get you a discount, other times it’s a “Side Deal” directing you to a discount at another site… yeah it’s advertising, but its targeted at discount shoppers.