Saturday, July 21, 2007
Deal A Day Sites
Technology
Wargamers as a whole are cheap: Witness the people playing games with “figures” made from bits of hair brushes and the howls of complaint when a manufacturer raises his prices a few pennies for the first time in five years.
Deal A Day sites offer great bargains and are a lot of fun to follow. For most of them, the format is the same: a single item in limited supply is offered for sale each day. When the site runs out of the item, the sale is over and you have to wait to see what shows up the next day.
Woot: the first deal a day site I found, and one I visit every day. They focus mainly on electronics, but even when you don’t like the offering, the item descriptions are brilliant writing. Fun occasional features of the site are the “Woot Off” and the “Random Crap”. During a Woot Off, the site offers a series of items in rapid succession. As soon as one item is out, another appears—no waiting until the next day. “Random Crap” is a mystery bag; you pay $5 and get a bag of random stuff. Some people have made out like bandits on this one.
Thing Fling: The second site I discovered. It features household and soft goods as well as electronics. It’s not quite a deal a day site, though, because items are offered consecutively. As soon as one runs out, another deal is posted.
Bits de Jour offers a new windows software deal each day.
MacZot offers new Macintosh software each day.
Yugster offers electronics.
Giveaway of the Day offers a different FREE licensed software title each day. Some of it is quite good.
Game Giveaway of the Day offers a different FREE licensed game title each day.
Shirt A Day offers a new t shirt each day. The more of each shirt they sell, the lower your final price is.
Daily Swag offers a variety of hard and soft goods.
3000Toys offers some good “while supplies last” deals on toys. I’ve seen some nice die cast stuff here.
Cigar Monster offers daily cigar deals.
Midnight Box is another deal a day for electronics.
Hat Daddy for daily hat deals. No. Seriously.
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