Woot! is a company that sells junk to ‘computer geeks’.  From home appliances to computer equipment to kitchenware to electronic gear.  That’s no different than Best Buy or Fry’s, right?  Wrong.  Their sales are entirely web based, so they are like Amazon.com, right?  Wrong.  The key difference is they sell only 1 item at a time, and look for a target market.  That’s right, they typically hock 1 item on the website every 24 hours.  If it sells out in 30 minutes, great!  If not, then the left over stock sits in the wearhouse waiting for another chance.  Sales start at midnight central time (they are based in Texas), and they tend to sell out quickly.  They are selling ‘cool stuff’ that typically is end-of-life or is being replaced by another item.  They don’t provide support and recommend you contact the manufacturer for all issues.  The idea is to lower their costs, and push all issues back to the engineers that make the stuff.

So Woot! has a ‘Woot!-off’, which is like a massive sale of items.  Read the rest of the article to check out the revenue for the 24hr period of the current Woot!-off that is going on now.

. . Post . . . . . Quantity . . Price
4/13 12:00 AM . .1000 . . . $49.99 . . Western Digital Caviar 250GB Hard Drive
4/13 12:22 AM . . . 30 . . . $79.99 . . Koolvac KV-1 Robotic Vacuum
4/13 12:29 AM . . 200 . . . $22.99 . . Logitech Mobile Traveller Bluetooth Headset
4/13 12:37 AM . . 100 . . .. $9.99 . . Sushi at Home Kit for 4
4/13 12:43 AM . . . 30 . . . $49.99 . . Lightning Audio Complete Bass System
4/13 12:51 AM . . . 65 . . .. $4.99 . . World Series of Poker Wireless Plug and Play 15-in-1 TV Game
4/13 12:57 AM . . . 30 . . . $29.99 . . Zodiac Radar and Laser Detector
4/13 01:03 AM . . . 40 . . $189.99 . . iRiver 20GB Portable Media Player
4/13 01:16 AM . . . 69 . . . $39.99 . . BFG GeForce FX5500 OC 128MB 8x AGP Video Card
4/13 01:24 AM . . . 10 . . . $39.99 . . Monster Big Screen TV Kit
4/13 01:30 AM . . 200 . . . $49.99 . . Gyration Ultra GT Full-Size Keyboard Suite
4/13 02:14 AM . . . 86 . . . $14.99 . . Xact M3X X-Linx Two-Way FRS Radio – 2 Pack
4/13 02:34 AM . . 400 . . . $29.99 . . Nikko 1/14 Scale R/C Lamborghini Murcielago
4/13 05:56 AM . . . 66 . . . $29.99 . . The Ultimate Matrix Collection Limited Edition Collector’s Set
4/13 06:04 AM . . 200 . . . $89.99 . . Voq Professional Unlocked GSM Smartphone
4/13 07:20 AM . . . 80 . . . $49.99 . . Memorex Dual Layer 16x DVDR/RW USB2.0/Firewire
4/13 07:27 AM . . 500 . . . $24.99 . . Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
4/13 07:41 AM . . 200 . . $249.99 . . Audiovox Portable 10” LCD TV with DVD Player & In-Car Mounting Kit
4/13 09:49 AM . . . 60 . . . $39.99 . . Salton Fresh Soy Food Center
4/13 10:16 AM . .1500 . .. $49.99 . . Western Digital Caviar 250GB Hard Drive
4/13 10:30 AM . . . 50 . . $599.99 . . Denon DVD Entertainment System with iPod compatibility
4/13 12:48 PM . . 150 . . . $69.99 . . Garmin Rino 110 FRS/GPS Handheld
4/13 12:48 PM . .1200 . . .. $7.99 . . Zcyber i3 Mini Speaker Set
4/13 02:42 PM . . 470 . . . $34.99 . . Western Digital 120GB IDE Hard Drive
4/13 02:59 PM . . . 10 . . $799.99 . . Fosgate FAPT1+ Surround Processor/Preamp
4/13 03:18 PM . . . 16 . $1999.99 . . InFocus 50” Ultra-Thin DLP High Definition TV
4/13 03:51 PM . . . 20 . . .. $9.99 . . Su Doku Plus Handheld Electronic Game
4/13 03:57 PM . . 650 . . . $69.99 . . Soyo 1.8″ 20GB USB Hard Drive
4/13 05:17 PM . . . 35 . . . $69.99 . . Polaroid PDC 5080 5.1MP Digital Camera
4/13 05:23 PM . . . 90 . . . $49.99 . . BFG GeForce 6600 128MB PCI-Express SLI Video Card
4/13 05:32 PM . . 100 . . . $69.99 . . Palm Zire 31
4/13 05:51 PM . . 600 . . . $59.99 . . Creative Labs Bluetooth Wireless Headphones
4/13 09:13 PM . . . 50 . . . $39.99 . . Philips Progressive Scan DVD Player/VCR Combo
4/13 09:19 PM . . . 12 . . . $79.99 . . Philips DirecTV Receiver with Tivo DVR
4/13 09:26 PM . . 200 . . . $24.99 . . Memorex External USB2.0 52×32x52x CD-RW Drive
4/13 10:05 PM . . 200 . . . $69.99 . . Kensington SX2000 Speaker Dock for iPod
4/13 11:30 PM . . . xx . . . $14.99 . . RCA 8 Device Backlit LCD Learning Universal Remote

Total Sales = $482,727.81