Confused. Why is this one I found cheaper? This is a better model.
https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-500GB-MZ-V7E500BW/dp/B07BN4NJ2J/
Itâs selling for $89.99 there, with double the capacity and faster speeds than whatâs being sold here on Woot. So very confused.
Not sure but hereâs the one weâre selling for $149 on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-960-EVO-Internal-MZ-V6E250BW/dp/B01LYFKX41
Bad Deal all-around:
- Everything about the 960 EVO is worse than the 970 EVO down to the warranty of 3yrs vs 5yrs respectively (according to Samsungâs site).
- The 960 EVO was also released in Oct. 2016 vs. the 970 which was March 2018.
- The list price shown for this deal on Woot is $20 cheaper than the example provided by @ThunderThighs. Selling a product on your parent site for well-above MSRP and then basing your discount on that isnât a âdealâ. (not trying to imply conspiracy with this, just either poor internal communication or weak justification IMO).
The 960 EVO itself is still a really good drive; itâs just 3 years old and not remotely worth what Woot/Amazon is selling it for. If you want this drive look elsewhere and save a bunch.
We price a discount to the market (and Amazon). We know that wooters are savvy shoppers and will do their research before purchasing.
This must be TT after having to respond to the umpteenth million post about X product is N dollars cheaper at site Y.
This gigantic useless stock photo and your comment is not useful feedback on this thread.
Back to the topic; note that my original link also shows the same 970 EVO 500GB model with half the capacity (250GB) selling for $20 more on the same Amzn page. So, the original link I posted (https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-500GB-MZ-V7E500BW/dp/B07BN4NJ2J/) is actually one of those rare algorithmic pricing deals that will likely revert in another month or two to what one might expect the product to be priced at.
Like @ThunderThighs said, just perform your due diligence and shop smart. Not Wootâs fault their corporate overlordsâ fancy computer robot thingies price their bajillion online products the way they do. I was just confused because I might have been mistaken about the productâs specs itself, not confused as to why Woot was just doing their thang.
I totes disagree, mon chĂ©ri. It is a post modern kritique on the mocked âconfusionâ presented as a seditious passive-aggressive dominance assertion when being cloaked in bootstrapped victimization.
The break down:
- Confused.
Introductory step that takes many liberities with a single word. It asserts that the item posted was not clear, and in fact goes as far as to rob you of the status quo state of sureness. The victim claim is clear that you are now in a negative state because woot, and by extension that you put the post in the forum to be read - the woot staff, put you there with their item.
I will go as far as to extend the notion you are not actually confused, but have a competence level to know that pricing can vary far and wide on the information super highway.
This establishes false bootstraped victimization, and lays bare your adversarial claim to wootâs pricing. You were not a victim, but concocted a situation where you can cast yourself in that light.
- Why is this one I found cheaper? This is a better model.
Taking the false victimization claim a step further you show proof that your searches have yielded a substantially better savings elsewhere, or in this case, the mother ship. Your skills at pricing are vastly better than the mechanical beast that is woot. This is you asserting dominance.
The format, as a question, shows you are passively deferring explanation to a more knowledgeable source. The very source that - a scant few words earlier - you claimed robed you of your sureness. You could have optioned to directly create a statement about the price comparison, but now your supine to your tormentors to call them out to answering the pricing structure of, essentially, another company.
This lays clear the passive-aggressive dominance assertion. You establish you are better at pricing, but drop the gauntlet to the woot employees to answer the unanswerable on how another company prices things.
- Itâs selling for $89.99 there, with double the capacity and faster speeds than whatâs being sold here on Woot.
You lay out further evidence of the superiority of your find, and show your grasp on nuanced product specification comparisons.
- So very confused.
Lastly you end as you started, but this time you express you are even less sure of things increasing the magnitude of what woot employees have done to you by at least one.
To recap:
- boot strapped false victimization.
- passive aggressive proof you are better than woot
- more proof your âbetternessâ.
- victimization impact magnification.
The impact of this series of steps is Wormtongue-esque vehicle for you to crow your greatness and simultaneously make woot-folk feel bad. Not to inform the masses or make better the universe, but to play the victim and cast aspersions on the intent of woot-folk, and generally make it known they should be âbrought down a notchâ.
I presented a pragmatic alternative by pictographically displaying the narrative of a human being pained in front of a computer as a more accurate presumption of the reaction from the umpteen-thousandth post of âgotcha blameâ being assigned to the woot staffers vis a vis how many times I see forum members scramble to crow an exploit in the pricing schematics of woot with the implicit blame that the employees themselves are malicious doing the actions.
In the thirty-thousand foot view of things you had the opportunity to spin out positive comment, or even just neutral, into the universe but took the opportunity to cast your lot in with the negative. You followed up with a casual dismissal of my post as if there was an insulting lack of worth in it, when - as above shows - it was pregnant with a litter of worth. The world has enough negativity as it is you aught not add a new paper cut to the lot.
To swing this wagon train back to the start, and answer you, yes, yes my comment and stock photo were useful feedback on nature of the unnecessarily negative minutia you let loose into the ether of life and upon the woot staffers. If folk choose compassion in the small actions the world would ultimately be a better place.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
You had fun writing that, didnât ya? LOL
Just a little.
I had fun reading itâŠ
Hahaha nice! TouchĂ©; well-written. I came back to this 2 weeks later to see this absolutely beautiful retort to what youâve apparently been armchair warrior-triggered by an attempt of mine to insult you with my mere single sentence response about your dumb stock photo - which, yes, was directed at you personally (the rest of my post there was for general consumption as I really wanted to get the thread back on topic of the NVMe product in question).
I feel compelled to respond, though, even now - 2 weeks later - that as eloquent as your psychiatric evaluation of my banal research into a tech product was, you missed my point in my OP above and dove headfirst into what is clearly a thoroughly enjoyable past time of yours (kudos for having a hobby!).
Fact is, I was actually, just, confusedâŠ
That said (because what I genuinely felt in my OP is clearly no longer relevant here, thanks to you), Iâm really happy your prodigious, bottomless imagination helped feed an internet-based passion of yours (even if your deft analysis did have little glittery sparkles of those imaginary assumptions of my personal psyche, very nice touch!) - and it especially makes me so very cheerful that a single sentence directed at you could make you so butthurt that youâd launch into such a wonderful soliloquy of a retort for lilâ 'ole me. And - now that weâre commenting on the existential nature of humanity, the woeful of the fate of those youâve labeled as being generally bad for all of humanity (e.g., me? I guess?), and glanced on the topic of selfish altruism, please, let me join in alongside you for this ride.
I hope you can now slurp up all the sarcastic, passive-aggressive molasses dripping off the dank corners your monitor screen from this post, since Iâm totally not trying to be snarky at all anymore! 
I canât image search as skillfully as you though, so youâve got me there. No witty pictorial memes from me. Also, I canât write as lengthily as you do. Got me there too. We should split the bill on the popcorn for the audience, if you ever return to this. lol.