Shopping Website Jokes About Credit Crunch
Going Like Sixty — October 17, 2008 — Marketing
References: woot
Woot.com is a shopping site known for the irreverent descriptions of the single product that is on sale for one day at their website. They have taken their wise-guy attitude and applied it to their ad campaigns.
Woot.com is now advertising with Google next to searches for stock prices with an unusual approach: "Before you jump out a window, why not spend your remaining dollars with Woot?" and "You're broke, so what? You can live your life without gadgets, but you really call that living?"
Woot.com is now advertising with Google next to searches for stock prices with an unusual approach: "Before you jump out a window, why not spend your remaining dollars with Woot?" and "You're broke, so what? You can live your life without gadgets, but you really call that living?"
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