After a long day of E3, Adam (our manager) and I settled in for a bus ride back to the hotel. Just as I settled in the guy in front of me was leaning back in his seat. Flashbacks of my 3 ½ hour flight with the guy in front of me sleeping and snoring comfortably with his seat down and me trying to search for leg space. Just as I started to search for leg space he turned around and said “I just want to let you know that I’m not being a jerk the chair is broken.” I instantly liked this guy. This sparked a great conversation of who they were and what they were there for. I fell in instant lust when they described what they did. Jason Toon, and Scott Lydon work for Woot.com.

The founders of Woot.com came up with an ingenious idea and added humor to the whole process. The idea of Woot.com is that they sell exactly one item a day at a really reasonable price. Genius marketing plan, it guarantees that people will come back each day to see what they are selling. They even have shirt.woot!, where the community designs the shirts and if theirs is picked they get a cut of the profits. For the wine connoisseur there is wine.woot! which features different wine set each week.  Suffice it to say, when I got back to the hotel it was the first website I visited. I was hooked. I’ve told everyone I know about this site.

They manage to sell a product in a fun way. Instead of getting just the breakdown of its features, you get a fun and often sarcastic description of why they even thought of putting this product up on the website. Even their question section is hilarious. They straight up tell you that if you have buyers remorse to sell it on eBay. Nice to see some honesty from a company.  They even list the stats of first time buyers, who the first sucker was as they say, to who the latest person to Woot is. They have even managed to break it down to percentage bought per hour, which 12am seems to have the highest percentage, to how much each state Woots.

Thank goodness that seat was broken so that I could meet Scott and Jason from Woot.com. Otherwise I would not be able to be sitting here telling you all that you need to immediately (after reading this blog of course) go to Woot.com and become instantly addicted to the idea, the blogs, the podcasts (which have nothing to do with the products), and the humor. Thanks again for the awesome Woot monkey, my son loves it!