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How Do You React When Your Favorite Website Changes?

If there's one thing everyone loves, it's visiting a beloved website to find that someone has moved everything around. But how MUCH do you love it? Take the quiz and find out!

  1. Let's say your favorite e-commerce site streamlined the ordering process so that anywhere you click on the screen automatically purchases the product of the day and charges it to your credit card. You'd feel:
    1. Totally fine, because you buy EVERYTHING anyway!
    2. Happy, because you were SO CONFUSED about where to click before!
    3. Thankful, because it'd SAVE you all sorts of time!
  2. Imagine that your favorite e-commerce site stopped selling a variety of things and started selling mostly just celery. You'd be:
    1. Ecstatic, because you LOVE celery!
    2. Excited, because the site promoting a HEALTHY lifestyle!
    3. Enthralled, because you hated all those SURPRISES!
  3. Pretend for a moment that your favorite e-commerce site put together a new layout that seemed mostly the same, except that its coding could read your emails, compile a list of the most frequently used words and phrases, and then print those words and phrases on a series of mugs which they marketed directly to you. Your reaction would be one of...
    1. Relief, because you'd been meaning to print those EXACT MUGS yourself, but who can find the time???
    2. Piqued interest, because you've ALWAYS wondered what words and phrases you use most in your email!
    3. Sheer glee, because no one's ever done something so SPECIAL just for you in your entire life!
  4. Hypothetical question: how would it affect your opinion of your favorite e-commerce site if they replaced the daily product's features section with a LavaCam — a live stream of continuously flowing lava?
    1. It wouldn't affect me much; I NEVER look down there anyway.
    2. It would definitely IMPROVE my opinion! I love the color orange!
    3. It would lead me to recommend the site to my FRIENDS even more than I did before!!
  5. What if your favorite e-commerce site decided to do less of a deal-a-day thing and more of a deal-whenever-we-feel-like-it-and-maybe-no-deals-at-all-just-strobing-screen-and-some-house-music thing? You'd feel:
    1. An even STRONGER connection than before! How'd you know I like house music?
    2. Wonderful! I've been meaning to test my screen's ability to blink RAPIDLY!
    3. GREAT!!!! I GOTTA GET ALL THIS ENERGY OUT SOMEHOW, AMIRITE?!

Now count up your answers, and use our handy Answer Key to assess your ability to deal with change.

  1. If you answered mostly A, then put on your sunglasses because Woot is going to LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE tomorrow! Tweet your result
  2. If you answered mostly B, then take some ibuprofen and lay down because Woot is going to BLOW YOUR MIND tomorrow! Tweet your result
  3. If you answered mostly C, you better not eat anything for the next 24 hours, or else when Woot goes live again tomorrow, you will most-likely CRAP YOUR PANTS with excitement! Tweet your result

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As the Woot Turns

Episode 2: The Home and The Beautiful

"Oh man," Craig said, chuckling. "I can't wait to tell Mom about this."

"You will tell my sister nothing, do you understand?" Sylvia told him, stomping away from the furniture store and pushing past the other pedestrians. "I won't have her going off on another rant about my 'opulent' lifestyle and its alleged effect on my world view or whatever. It's quite enough that you're judging me, so let's just leave it at that."

Craig had to step lively to keep up. "It was a couch, Aunt Syl. A couch."

"It was the centerpiece of a design concept I had been planning for my living room for months, Craig. A lot of time and effort went into picking out that Ester Norton Original Seating Apparatus."

"Ester who?"

"It doesn't matter! The point is that suddenly deciding you're not going to carry the designer furniture line you've been carrying for YEARS without alerting your most loyal customers is incredibly bad business. I mean, do they have any idea how much money I've spent there?"

"If they didn't, I'm sure they do now. The security guard that detained you said you repeated that same question something like thirty times. Someone working must be at least a little curious to find out after all that."

Sylvia stopped and turned toward her nephew. "All I'm saying is that they could've emailed or Facebooked or twooted that's all."

"'Tweeted,' Aunt Syl. And you don't even use any of that stuff, not to mention the way you shut me down the moment I mention shopping online for..."

Sylvia raised her hand to Craig's face and shushed him. "I must mourn the end of my shopping privileged. I feel a highly-price caffeinated drink too large for me to finish might do the trick. Maybe if you promise not to say anything to your mother, I just might buy you one, too."

To be continued...

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Deals Without Woot

Six Feet Under Life-Size Reusable Wall Decals

DWoW!

From The Drawing Board: Rejected Woot Redesigns

When considering the redesign of Woot, we thought about this design, subtly suggesting an association with a certain other successful web entity. Bet you can't guess who!

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Woot Moments in History

1803, WASHINGTON D.C.
President Thomas Jefferson opens an amusement given him by his friend, Franklin Rutledge. The amusement is referred to as "The Duly Sealed Carpetbag Of Curiosity, Mostly Likely Of Value To None" and is often considered to be impossible to procure, even for a Mason! Once opened, Jefferson is astonished to find he is in possession of Arkansas, New Mexico, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, most of Colorado, a pair of Dakotas, and Louisiana. Naturally Jefferson is all smiles in public, but in a later letter to John Adams, Jefferson confesses "…sooner I would have had the large flat fireplace of which I was most enamored; still, (the territory) is a fine addition to the Nation for which it seems we so recently fought."

1917, NEW MEXICO.
Pancho Villa evades General Pershing and 5,000 U.S. Army troops for almost a year, across a strange and unexplainable path that sometimes curves back upon itself. This path, christened "The Smartpost Trail" by Major J.B. Rutledge, is later used to transport packages across the country at a low cost, but with speeds approaching those of the glaciers.

1938, NEW JERSEY.
After a harsh Halloween Eve, Grover Rutledge proves his spirit by getting up early to sweep the remnants of the Martian war machines into his custom-printed boxes. When the government arrives, Grover Rutledge is in a position to offer them a fine deal on the refurbished electronic components, and at a price far below what they might expect! Customer service issues are redirected to a small corkboard outside the offices, and two stout men are hired to remove the pins from any message containing profanity.

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