California summary and related information.

As of August 2006, various state laws only allow delivery to thirty-two states (and DC) while Woot only ships to the lower 48 states in normal cases.^[19] Woot, like all internet wine sellers, must be in compliance with state tax and liquor laws and therefore the wines are shipped directly by wineries to individuals.

— Utah — 1:893^[15]

— California — 1:876

— Maryland — 1:865

— Washington — 1:828

— Nevada — 1:637

On July 26, 2005, a post in the Woot Blog provided several statistics about Woot customers, including the following:

A semi-periodic woot podcast where the podcast team "squish" together various sound clips so they are not to be readily identifiable. Then there is a competition to correctly identify each clip and what they all have in common. The winner gets a heartfelt congratulation and a prize of little or no monetary value. As of now, the 37th and final Sonic Trivia Quiz aired Thursday June 21, 2007.

Since January 10, 2006, Woot has offered two-packs of products every Tuesday. These products have ranged from TV games to keyboard and mouse combos to toasters. A customer can purchase up to three two-packs, for a total of six items bought. Woot also uses this day to offer larger quantities, such as a 10-pack of keyboards, a "3 for Tu3sday" offering FM transmitters or a "4-for-Fuesday" offering of lighted USB cables.

On September 20, 2005, a post in the Woot Blog provided several statistics about Woot sales, including the following:

On every weekday, at the same time as products are announced, Woot.com also publishes a podcast. This podcast briefly describes the item up for sale, and features an often-humorous song or skit relating to the product up for sale. These podcasts are recorded by Matthew Shultz.

Woot shirts are silk-screened onsite in Woot's Carrollton, Texas facility. Shirt design submissions are reviewed and selected by an editor in the St. Louis, Mo. offices of Woot. Most designs are from established artists, but Woot also conducts a weekly internet design submission contest (see Shirt Design Derby below). Prints are made on blank t-shirts purchased from American Apparel. The base shirt color is chosen by the designer; to date, a large array of color selections have all been used, ranging from black to white, and from pastels to bright colors.

Reviews of Woot from Epinions.com

Whenever a product related to the Magellan company is sold (mainly GPS devices), a special song is featured. It always begins with the lyrics "Ferdinand Magellan, the Circumnavigator, He crossed the danged Meridians, He crossed the danged Equator..." One notable listener mailbag consisted of a teacher writing in to ask for the chords of the song, so that he could use it in his class.

Woot is an Internet retailer based in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas. It was founded by electronics wholesaler Matt Rutledge and debuted on July 12 2004^[2]. Woot was the pioneer of the "One deal a day" business model on the internet. Woot offers one discounted product each day on its web site, woot.com. The product is available for 24 hours; it "expires" at midnight (US Central time) and is replaced by a different product for the next day. For the first several months of operation, the site only offered a new item from Monday to Friday, with Friday's item carrying over until Monday at 12:00 a.m (CST) , or until all items were sold. In 2005, Woot began offering products 7 days a week. Woot has a community of customers who share their opinions on the site’s forums. Products vary but tend to emphasize computer components and electronic gadgets. Woot takes its name from the widely-used online interjection “w00t!”. Each product sold is referred to as a "woot". Woot also stands for Want One Of Those.

Woot's tagline is "One Day, One Deal." Generally, Woot offers one product per day until its stock of that item is sold out or the product is replaced at midnight Central Time with the next offering. If a product sells out during its run, the next item still does not appear until midnight, except during Woot-Offs. Products are never announced beforehand and can easily sell out in a few hours or even minutes of frenzied buying. In contrast to a market characterized by ever-expanding consumer choice, the Woot.com approach relies on the elements of simplicity and surprise. Customers may typically buy up to three of the day's item, although the site has been known to limit product quantity to one per customer on occasion. Woot does not reveal how many units remain available in a given sale, but animates the "I Want One" button when 10 percent or less remains. If the product sells out, the site lists how many were sold. The company charges a shipping fee of $5.00 per order regardless of quantity of items purchased, shipping weight, or shipping destination. Woot mainly uses FedEx and ships only to addresses within the continental United States. Beginning in June 2007, Woot started using FedEx SmartPost, a service that uses the US Postal Service for delivery, for some smaller items and Bags of Crap. ^[3]

In lieu of typical product sales, Woot occasionally offers a fukubukuro-like blind grab bag called “Bag O’ Crap” (“BOC”, although it ships inside a box). This includes dollar store items and may also randomly include (significantly) more expensive electronics items ^[5]. Customers may buy up to three "craps" for $1.00 each. Shipping costs $5 regardless of the number of craps -- 1, 2, or 3 -- ordered. Customers normally purchase in quantities of three to both minimize the percentage cost of shipping as well as increase the chances to get a high-value item. The "BOC" typically sells out within minutes of furious ordering, overloading the woot.com servers in the process as potential buyers frantically try to reload the ordering pages. This is considered to be part of the fun by most Woot forum members, but leaves many people angry and frustrated. Officially, the Bag O' Crap is sold under the title of "Random Crap." Since "BOCs" are often referenced in the Woot forums, Woot's forum software filters the text to spell out tongue-in-cheek phrases with the same initials, such as "Blinged-out cabbage", "Braille on Cookies", "Bandolier of Carrots", "Big old Cooter", "Bathysphere of Curmudgeons", "Boot of Coal", "Barrage of Chastains" and others. Sometimes, other common phrases in the forums are replaced as well. For the June 1, 2007 BOC, the lone word "crap" was replaced with the phrase, "crizznap, foo." On July 12, 2007, "WTF" was replaced with "Where's the Feet?". On April 1, 2007 as an April Fools Joke, the Bag O' Crap was offered for the price of $1,000,001.00 with the regular price of $5.00 for shipping. A coupon code ("please") was discovered in the product image and utilized by Woot users to receive a $1,000,000 discount on the BOC, thus reducing the price to the standard one dollar.

On a few occasions, beginning with the "Gamma" Launch of the Neuros MPEG 4 Recorder, Woot has partnered with another company to launch a new product on its website. This "Launch Event," designated by an animated rocket ship, indicates Woot is the first and only place (as of that day) that has an available quantity of the sale product. The icon representing the rocket is not clear to some users, and is often referred to as the "Pope hat".^[6]

Woot began beta testing Woot Wine (aka wine.woot!) on May 22, 2006, and officially launched the spin-off on Monday, Oct 2, 2006. The slogan is "One Week, One Wine". They provide identical statistics to the main site, as well as the "percentage of sales per day". The week begins on Monday. On December 4, 2006, Woot began selling their own private label on Woot Wine. The name of the wine is Monkey Prize and it is described as a Woot Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon. A Half case of the wine has been sold for $59.99 and received an 89+ review from Gary Vaynerchuk in Episode 137 of WineLibrary.tv, a video podcast wine tasting.

Also known as shirt.woot!, the site sold their first shirt on July 20, 2007 after a short beta test. The website began by offering one new T-shirt design every weekday. Beginning on September 1, 2007, shirts are also offered on Saturday and Sunday. All shirts cost $10 on the day they are introduced (but see also Second Chance below). Unlike Woot's other sites, shipping is free via FedEx SmartPost, although an overnight shipping option is available for $5. The first shirt sold was a "Woot Launch" shirt to celebrate the launch of the site, modeled after the rocket ship, or "Pope hat" icon associated with new product launches.

Beginning on Monday August 20, 2007, Woot shirts introduced the 'Reckoning' process for determining which shirts would remain available on a SECOND CHANCE basis. By compiling the sales statistics on shirts that are in demand after each shirt's initial launch day, Woot staffers eliminate weekly all but the 20 top selling shirts from the Second Chance pool. These shirts are then designated RSVP (Reckoning Survivors Very Purchaseable). Shirts offered in the current week and in the prior week are 'exempt' and thus not initially 'Reckoned'. However, these shirts begin accumulating 2nd chance sales statistics immediately for use in 'Reckoning' beginning in their third week. Shirts no longer available become RIP (Reckoned Into Perpetuity). Woot has frequently updated the rules regarding Reckoning. Originally, only 10 shirts (other than the 'exempt' group) were retained as RSVP. Effective September 21, 2007 this number was increased to 15. And on November 12, 2007, the RSVP total was further increased to 20. As a result of 'Reckoning', the total number of different shirts available for purchase at any time will vary. The greatest number will be available just prior to the weekly Reckoning. The Reckoning Pool is announced on Friday, usually with a plea to 'save' the shirts with the lowest totals by purchasing them. This pool is designated MRI (Monday Reckoning Imminent). Weekly reckoning results are then announced midday on Mondays, with a final chance to purchase that week's 'Reckoned' shirts until midnight. On Tuesday, the RSVP pool is fixed at 20 shirts for the remainder of the week. Until further notice, Woot intends to continue the availability of the "Woot Launch" shirt, and will not subject it to the 'reckoning' review.

On September 12, 2007, Woot entered into a partnership with Yahoo! and created a new site, sellout.woot.com. ^[7] All product offers and fulfillment are managed by Woot; however, one can only access the site through Yahoo! Shopping's front page. New products appear at the same time as other Woot sites, seven days a week. The use of the word sellout is a double entendre referring to the implication that woot.com "sold out" by associating with Yahoo, and also refers to the goal of each woot offering which is to sell out their entire stock of inventory or that it is sold outside of the normal woot website.

Woot also offers Photoshop contests every weekend, with cash prizes going to the top 3 entries. There are also several honorable mention winners, each of which get free shipping on an order. One off-topic or poorly edited entry is awarded a Monkey Prize, which is typically a random monkey-related item of little or no value. Often, users will create an intentionally poor entry^[8], inverting the typical goal of achieving the first, second or third prizes. Certain images recur in contest entries. "Brave Woman," the name of one such image, is a woman who originally appeared in conjunction with the Oct 22, 2004 Woot-Off,^[9] which began with sale of the "Ab Tilt Abdominal Exerciser with Backrest"^[10] and culminated with the sale of item titled “Brave Woman Adventure Kit”.^[11][12]

As of July 20, 2007, Woot states that it has "over 800,000 registered members".^[13] Woot says that it sold its 1,000,000th item, a 4GB micro hard drive, on February 5, 2007.^[14] According to Woot's Jason Toon, woot member "cchillman" has received his item as the prize and Woot has refunded his money.

Occasionally, instead of the usual song or skit, the podcast features a "Podcast Mailbag" segment, where Matthew reads and replies to a piece of e-mail submitted to Woot.com. Both the listener's mail itself as well as Matthew's reply to it are often humorous and/or sarcastic in nature. These readings are accompanied by a piano melody, and previously ended with the sentence: "E-mails not answered on the air will probably not be answered at all; therefore, if you have an emergency, do not e-mail podcast@woot.com; instead, dial 9-1-1."^[17] With the advent of SayNow, the Woot Podcast Mailbag has consisted of voicemails left by users using the SayNow system. Matthew plays the voicemails on the podcast, often with derisive and humorous comments. The podcast mailbag ending line has now become: "E-mail your comments or questions to podcast@woot.com, or click the goldenrod phone icon on the main page at woot.com for instructions on using SayNow to listen and reply to podcasts on your mobile telephone."

Whenever a product related to the Bluetooth wireless technology is sold (Bluetooth USB adapters, cell phone headsets, etc.), a special song is featured. Sung by the crew of a pirate ship, this song tells the tale of "Bluetooth, the most fearsome pirate on the Seven Seas" and his many nefarious deeds. During the middle part of these songs, a lone voice of dissent among the crew speaks out, complaining that Bluetooth is a technology, and has nothing to do with pirates. The Captain always comes back with a smart rebuke.

Community members have contributed back to the site by offering Woot-related services. A collection of alert services can be found here, which alert when the next Woot product is listed. Others include a forum, wootswap, to swap Woot-purchased items, an Apple Dashboard widget, a Vista gadget, and an IRC bot that spits out the product name. Woot's success has also spawned multiple competitors and similar businesses. Woot's One Deal a Day business model continues to be copied by sites such as Zazz and MidnightBox. Woot's only known offshoot sales sites are Woot Wine, Woot Shirts, and Woot Sellout.