OT: Welcome to Woot!

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Someone mentioned recently that a very few people write into this listserve.

I practice alone so I like talking with colleagues.

I also hold a vestigial few socialist neurons from my youth that believes we can all share our resources and each of us will become wealthier in the bargain.

(That worked out to a point until I noticed that there were always some guys who showed up at the potluck with Budweiser and bag of Doritos and ended up eating salmon and drinking the Heineken. Then I became a hard hearted fiscal conservative. Are there no poor houses!!!)

Having said that, I will now share- with no hope of compensation, a website that a patient pointed out called woot.com.

They have daily specials of weird stuff like the car charger you can’t live without.

Enjoy!

E. Abrahamson, D.C.

Chiropractic physician

Lake Oswego Chiropractic Clinic

315 Second Street

Lake Oswego, OR 97034

503-635-6246

Website: http://www.lakeoswegochiro.com

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Date: 21 Apr 2010 02:30:12 -0500

Abrahamson <drscott@...>

Subject: ***SPAM*** Welcome to Woot!

Dear scottwoot3122,

Welcome to the warm embrace of Woot, the first, best, and most hygienic daily deal site! Sit still a

minute because you need to know this stuff:

You're now a registered member of all four of our sites: woot.com, shirt.woot.com, wine.woot.com and sellout.woot.com. Don't be alarmed. We'll explain more later. Typical orders take up to 5 business days to ship from our warehouse (except for overnight t-shirt orders, which go out sooner, and wine orders, which take longer). If you order an item during peak times like a Woot-Off, it can take a little longer. Once we ship it, delivery time to your door depends on FedEx or SmartPost. Once the item ships out, you can access your tracking data by going to Your Account and

clicking on the order number. If you have a problem receiving your order, or you receive the wrong item, contact service@.... If you receive your item and it doesn't work, contact the manufacturer first. They made the junk. Let them deal with it. If they turn out to be total tools, contact service@... and we'll grudgingly provide some further assistance. If you receive your item and decide you don't like it, take it to eBay or pawn it off on one of your so-called friends. We don't want it, either.

That goes for Woot.com and all of the sites in the Woot.com family. There's some specific stuff

you might want to know about each of the others. And here it comes now.

Shirt.woot - Check the size chart, check the size chart, check the size chart. It's at the bottom of the

product description for each sale. If you order the wrong size, we won't take it back - your only option

is to gain or lose weight so it fits, possibly including painful, costly cosmetic surgery. If you want your

overnight order the next day, place it by noon Central time. International orders generally take about 3-

4 weeks to arrive. Looking for an old shirt design? If you're lucky, it'll still be for sale via our

Reckoning page. If you're somewhat less lucky, it might turn up as one of our weekly Shirt.Woot

Classics. If you think your one-year-old can design a better shirt, encourage your

one-year-old to enter the Derby, our weekly design competition. That $1,000 prize can buy a lot of

Binkies.

http://shirt.woot.com/derby/

http://shirt.woot.com/Blog/?cat=reckoning

http://shirt.woot.com/Classics

http://shirt.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx

Wine.woot - First, don't get your hopes up: wine orders can only be shipped to certain states, so read

the entire list of eligible states before you print up the invitations to your wine party and place your

order. Ineligible orders will be cancelled and refunded. If you do complete your order and receive the

tracking data, make sure you give it some time to update. It won't be uncommon for it to take a little

while for real, actual data to show up. You might call the data " late " - we prefer to think of it as " aged " .

http://wine.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx

Sellout.woot - Don't be confused or disoriented by the redirect when you visit the site - we just have to

run you through before you come back to Woot turf. It's perfectly normal. You should

know that we actually sell things here at times that could partner nicely with items from the regular

Woot website, giving you a chance to have your cake and eat it, and then take a bite of another guy's

cake when he's not looking, and mmmm...cake...is this email almost over? We're getting hungry.

http://sellout.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx

Kids.woot - Keep in mind that Kids.Woot is a site that sells childrens' products, not necessarily a place

you'd want your kids hanging out. We make every effort to monitor the content and activity in our

message boards, but you should approach Kids.Woot with the same circumspection you'd bring to any

other adult-oriented site. Well, not " adult-oriented " in the nasty sense. We just mean it's for mature

audiences only. But not " mature " as in- ah, forget it, you know what we mean.

http://kids.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx

Bear with us a moment more and we can all get on with our lives. If you email service@...,

make sure you include your order number and/or username. We'd hate to have to track you down

through other, less savory means. And this last bit of information is critical: when you look at your

order history and panic because you don't see an order you placed, make sure you are logged into the

Woot site you purchased it from. Your Wine.Woot orders won't show up in your order history if you're

looking at it on Shirt.Woot, and so on. And you'll be upset, and we'll be upset, and we'll each say things

we don't mean, and even though we'll eventually work it all out, things will never be the same between

us again.

Last but certainly not least, happy Wooting!

Woot Member Services

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