Thursday, September 22, 2005

woot.com

Is this how you interact with your clients & customers? if not, why not... some of us would love it! Enough of us to keep your business in the black and not the red? Let's find out.

"LAUNCH EVENTS

*customer* I see some kind of weird-looking pope hat on the main page. What’s that about?
*woot.com* A Pope hat? Oh, that. It’s supposed to be a rocket ship. In any case, that’s our LAUNCH EVENT indicator! And boy, are you a lucky cuss. Spying the LAUNCH EVENT indicator is like catching sight of a leprechaun, or the elusive white whale. When you see it next to a Woot item, that item is available on Woot and nowhere else! Woot is the first and only place you can get such a doo-dad!
*customer* What do you mean “the first and only place?” Everything is attainable.
*woot.com* True, but assuming you’re not a cat burglar, or an industrial spy, or the manufacturer’s mistress, you won’t have had an opportunity to pick up a Woot LAUNCH EVENT item before you see it here.
*customer* How come? Where do “LAUNCH EVENT” items come from?
*woot.com* It could be that you’re looking at the item’s initial market launch. Or it could be a special sneak preview just for Wooters. It could be that legislation banning the item has just expired. It could be that the item uses totally new technology bestowed upon us by a benevolent race of visiting aliens. (Overwhelmingly, it will be one of those first two.)
*customer* If this LAUNCH EVENT item isn’t available anywhere else, how am I supposed to shop around and make comparisons?
*woot.com* Yeah, it sort of seems like you can’t.
*customer* Why do you keep putting LAUNCH EVENT in all caps?
*woot.com* To fully convey its majesty.
*customer* Maybe I’ll just wait until this item becomes more widely available, so I know what other users think of it.
*woot.com* If that’s how you want to live your life, sure. Fine. There are those who would say that your type will inherit the earth. Until then, though, the rest of us will have all the coolest gizmos." - woot.com info

i'll save the idolation... tho this site is fantastic, and fantastically successful. This site does NOT ship to Canada (amongst other places), much to my chagrin... i've been watching for over a year now. i love it, how about a CDN site along the same lines? localized version? something to ponder...

Find my cheeky dabbling's from a few years ago here. Marmalade Promotions "This is NOT our office". Marketing ROCKS!

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