does anyone have an application to monitor Woot-Offs?

aesoprock00 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 01:19 AM

i'm not sure how many of you know about it, but woot.com is a very cool website. they sell one item every day (new items show up at 1am EST) and remain there until the next day, whether it sells out or not.

about once a month, they have what's called a "woot off" where, as soon as one item sells out, another item pops up in it's place. they're usually very cool products, tech gadgets or home products, they've branched out a bit recently. woot-offs will last between 24-48 hours, or until they sell everything in the warehouse.

there are a few apps for the iphone for monitoring woot and wootoffs, but does anyone know of any for Windows Mobile? searching the forums for woot and woot-off didn't bring any results.

thanks!

**ou2mame** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 01:55 AM

what about twitter?

aesoprock00 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ou2mame

what about twitter?

I've never actually done any twittering. i think i'm actively trying to avoid that part of the internet. It'd be nice to just have a simple app that functions as a woot tracker, maybe with just a description, picture, and "buy" link, that refreshes every so often.

aesoprock00 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 02:19 AM

i found this:

http://www.wooters.us/programs/mobile.html

i'm going to give it a try

**nuguy** · #5 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 09:41 AM

it says it will expire today, and a new download will be available today, I'll wait to see what's available tomorrow...

milwbmw · #6 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 12:42 PM

Just follow them on twitter...you'll be glad you did....super easy!

aesoprock00 · #7 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 01:00 PM

i've been testing out the program i linked above during the wootoff so far, and it's been pretty good. fast notifications that pop up in the system tray like any other notifications or messages. the program looks pretty good too, with a description page, picture, BUY link, sellout counter, and some other nice customizable features.

it does say that it expires today, so we'll see what happens there.

I'm just not into twitter. is it really that exciting and awesome? I've not been able to get into it, and i've never seen a very compelling reason to try it.

jasonsf · #8 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 02:05 PM

I don't know about their mobile app, but the webpage tracking seems to work well. Good find!

Jason

kmartburrito · #9 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009, 09:48 PM

I normally visit mywoot.net during wootoffs with Opera. It automatically updates every 15 seconds, and you can hit the buy button to go straight to woot.com's buy page.

parkjam · #10 (**permalink**) 09-23-2009, 02:34 AM

+1 to the wooters.us mobile app. Don't know if you gents realize it or not, but PPCGeeks member Baffles is actually one of the developers of wooters.us, as well as a few other nifty apps.