Woot / Slickdeals.net

[MJZiggy]

Woot has a woot-off today. Every time an item sells out, they put up a new item. They have some unbelievably good deals today.

I bought the microsoft MP3 player last week for 99 bucks. That was an amazing deal. Works like a charm. Better than my old, broken iPod ever did.

Once upon a time, wootie-pies, there was a handsome young man who came upon an iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220. The iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 could sense and find dirt, provide up to 120 minutes of cleaning power, recharge in three hours and was smarter than any regular vacuum, yet was lying there, unable to move. The young man looked down, and saw that the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 was caught on a piece of a pizza box that was smeared with peanut butter and cat hair. The young man clicked his tongue with pity and helped the poor Roomba free. It did not say thank you or look back, it merely rolled on, cleaning the forest and heading toward the recharge station it called home. The young man went along his own path as well.

Years went by, and the young man was now old, and had also somehow been captured by bandits! The bandits threw the old young man into a pit full of sharp sticks and poorly stuffed bean bags. They yelled from above and threw inexpensive cheese at his face, as bandits often do. From deep in the dark corner of the pit, the old young man heard a rumbling of stair-sensing technology coming to lif, and he trembled as it began moving through the Virtual Walls that kept it in check, growing closer and closer to him…

It was the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 he had rescued all those years ago! Surely, he thought to himself, surely it will repay my kindness today! But no, my friends, the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 simply rolled over him without remorse, pity, or any spark of good intentions whatsoever, as though he were just another dust bunny. And that brings us to our moral, wootie-pies. For now you understand why all of nature abhors a vacuum.

I just bought one....my whole house (upstairs at least) is hardwood so I always wanted one of these. Sweet!

May it suck better than my old hand-me-down Roomba (that was given to me right after I bought a new vacuum). I have more fur 'round here than the little guy can deal with, but it does pick up the dust, etc.

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From what I hear if you have Animals the Roomba doesn't work very well. A better option would be RG's Dyson. They work great for pet hair.

[MJZiggy]

I'd have loved a Dyson but you started this thread right AFTER I bought my new vacuum. Actually, I can't complain, though. The thing picks up great, has a rotating head so I can vacuum under the couch without moving it, and is light enough to carry up and down stairs.

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After my last dog (Buford ) made the trip to the happy hunting grounds I have not had a pet so the Roomba was a good option for my home. Only dust bunnies.

[Jimx29]

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Damnit. I missed the 1 dollar bag of crap. To end the wootoff, they do a "random bag of crap". Last time, it contained plasma TVs. That's right. 1000 people got a 6 dollar plasma tv.

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Woot is cool if you live in the lower 48. If you live in Alaska or Hawaii you have to have them ship it somewhere else. I have family in Portland Oregon and I travel a bunch so I pick my stuff at my sisters house but it is still a pain.

BTW....the Roomba I bought went berserk and had to be returned...luckily the company is going to send me another. Well.....Luckily?

[the_idle_threat]

I wooted today.

[MJZiggy]

I'm jealous...can I borrow it?

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I'm jealous...can I borrow it?

If it goes nuts again you can have it.

[MJZiggy]

Thanks for the offer. You can drop it off when you come for beer (if it goes nuts again and if you get out this way)...Actually I was referring to Idle's floor washing version, though.

[the_idle_threat]

Yeah, I can probably spare one. I bought three.

Gonna give one to my parents as something fun to play around with. And as for me, I need one because somebody has to wash the floors around here ... Sure as hell hasn't been me.

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Yeah, I can probably spare one. I bought three.

Gonna give one to my parents as something fun to play around with. And as for me, I need one because somebody has to wash the floors around here ... Sure as hell hasn't been me.

You bought three of the Scooba robots? Do you allow the Yak herd into the house at night or something?

[the_idle_threat]

Yeah, I can probably spare one. I bought three.

Gonna give one to my parents as something fun to play around with. And as for me, I need one because somebody has to wash the floors around here ... Sure as hell hasn't been me.

You bought three of the Scooba robots? Do you allow the Yak herd into the house at night or something?

I am the Yak herd.

No, I bought three because
1) I thought I might give at least one of them away,
2) I read a little about them prior to completing the purchase, and I guess they tend to be only marginally reliable. It won't hurt to have another as a backup or for parts,
and mainly 3) at the time of purchase, I got caught up in the consumerism of it all and had to maximize the value of what seemed like such a GREAT DEAL!
In hindsight, one would have been plenty.
I still plan on giving one to my parents, though. I think they'll get a kick out of it.