what is kids.woot?
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About Kids.Woot
- You guys are selling kids now? Is that legal?
- Only if you’re a famous pop singer or movie star, and even then you have to go to Africa and pick them up in person. Kids.Woot sells stuff for kids. By “stuff” we mean everything from carseats to apparel to educational toys & games to non-educational toys & games – all the accoutrements that make your little bundle of joy so damn expensive. By “kids” we mean anybody from 0 to 99, obviously skewed toward the lower end. If you’re 100 or older, beat it. We don’t want your business.
- Why a kids site?
- To give you an excuse to keep wooting after the baby comes along. To provide useful, high-quality kid accessories and still leave you money for the occasional Happy Meal. And most of all, to give us parental wooters a place to chill without the petty, self-centered drama that non-parents are so caught up in. Oh, you don’t know which iPod case will impress that girl at the vegan bakery? Yeah, get back to us when you’ve had to deal with a diaper full of diarrhea at three in the morning, or when you’ve had a colicky baby howling at you for six straight hours.
- Ah, so a dot-woot store where my kids can shop and play, a bright orange creamsicle Woot wonderland? Where do I drop them off?
- No, no. Exploiting underage shoppers is one innovation we’d rather not claim. Kids.Woot is an 18-and-up joint, intended for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches, friends, and other grownups who have reason to buy stuff for children. (Or for inner children.) While we may look all bright orange and cheerful, we’re still part of the scary, scary Internet. Especially that button up there that says “Community”. That’s like the Wild West of every dot-woot site – your kids shouldn’t go there, or even know it exists. There are many other corporate entities standing by to help train your toddlers to tweeners to be good little consumers. We’re grateful to just have you in our clutches.
- How does this store work?
- Like the other Woot sites: we offer a new deal every night at midnight Central time, in limited quantities at a discounted price. Only one product is available at any given time. If you want one, you click that big orange button that says I WANT ONE. When it sells out, or the next midnight rolls around, that deal is gone. No backorders, no rainchecks, no do-overs. And no, we don’t tell you what the next product is. What fun would that be?
- What other Woot sites? This is the only one I know.
- There’s the original flavor, Woot.com, featuring daily deals with an emphasis on electronics since 2004. There are our wine and t-shirt sites, Wine.Woot and Shirt.Woot. There’s our partnership with Yahoo! Shopping, Sellout.Woot, which slings the same kind of hash we serve up at regular old Woot. The FAQ on our main site goes into way too much detail about all this. Or dive into the unofficial user-edited morass of the Woot Wikipedia entry. But you probably won’t truly
understand hate all of our quirks and tics until you invest waste some time hanging out in our community.
- What?!? You consider today’s product a kids’ item? I’d never buy that for my newborn/toddler/pre-teen/inner child!
- Oops, sorry – that chainsaw and whiskey bundle was supposed to go on Wine.Woot. We realize that people have strong ideas about what’s appropriate for their kid, and that they might have differences with us on occasion. The good news is, nobody is forced to buy anything from Kids.Woot. We’ll be clear about the intended age category for each item, and we’ll always choose products with an eye toward safety, utility, and fun. We intend to explore a wide range of items with the general qualifier that kids might like them. As with all dot-woots, we can’t please everyone with every offering – in fact, failing to please, say, 98% of our audience is a good day’s work around here.
- I have a purchasing question, returns question, complaint or other silly consumer “need” – where do I go to get help?
- See the original woot.com FAQ for purchasing and warranty basics, which do not differ here on Kids.Woot. Post a question to the community or visit the Write Us page to ask a question directly. Set your expectations low; this is bargain-hunting, not luxury retail. We’re not perfect, but we strive to be straightforward and efficient. Scan our community and the Internet for further backup reference.
- What if I have a question about the product, or I own one and love it, or I own one and hate it, or I know of a better product that does the same thing, or I know where to get this product cheaper?
- Then get into that day’s discussion forum and blab your story to the world. We won’t stop you. Maybe somebody will know the answer to your question. Maybe you’ll know the answer to somebody else’s question. Maybe your opinions or insights will save somebody from buying something they don’t really want. Maybe, if you find it somewhere cheaper, we’ll buy it ourselves. Just keep it PG-13 and expect to have your opinions challenged. Wooters never met an argument they didn’t like.
- Why is your own product description saying such unflattering, bizarre, or ridiculous things about the product?
- Because who in the hell enjoys reading boring old vanilla-Pollyanna sales copy? Most copywriting exaggerates the good, ignores the bad, and carefully avoids saying anything controversial, interesting, or frank. We’re the opposite of that. We’d rather have your respect than your money today, especially if that respect helps you open up your wallet tomorrow.
- When’s the first Kids-Off? Random Kids? Bag O’ Kids?
- Maybe as soon as we think of some better names for those things. Or as soon as you do. If you have any ideas for those, or for any other aspect of this newborn e-commerce venture, by all means let us know in the World of Kids.Woot forum. As far as we’re concerned, every parent is an expert, at least on those rare days when they’ve had enough sleep.
