Woot (originally W00t) is an American Internet retailer based in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas.
[3] Woot's main website generally offers only one discounted product each day, often a piece of computer hardware or an electronic gadget.
Other Woot sites offer daily deals for T-shirts, wine, children's items, and household goods.
[6] Woot's main site previously featured a daily podcast by Matthew Shultz, that briefly described the item up for sale and included a humorous song or skit.
Starting in August 2004, Woot began occasionally offering a blind grab bag officially called "Random Crap", in lieu of typical product sales.
[12] During the January 25, 2011 selling, the website received a record 3.1 million requests, and the product was sold out within eight seconds.
[14] Debuting on March 10, 2010, Woot ran limited one-hour versions of the Woot-Off called Happy Hour.
[17] The CEO, Matt Rutledge, sent an E-mail[18] to employees stressing that Woot would continue to operate as per usual.
However, in June 2014, he crowdsourced a new website called Meh to become the successor of Woot, citing dissatisfaction with changes made by Amazon.