Sellout.Woot: Yahoo Attempts To Court Students

In a few short weeks, students will be pouring onto campuses across the country with boxes of junk in tow. For freshmen, this means the crunch is on to max out mommy and daddy’s credit cards with all the necessary swag you need to survive: an iPod, laptop, television, etc.

Luckily, Yahoo, in their quest to become relevant again, has you covered.

Introducing Woot.com, an online retailer that sells one product (usually some sort of electronic gizmo) a day at reduced prices.

Today’s hot tech item? A 30GB video iPod, priced at just 130 bucks. Thank me later.

If tech stuff isn’t your fancy though, Woot has several branches that may still appeal to you, including offshoots that sell cheap wine and hipster t-shirts. What more does a prospective fraternity brother need?

While Woot is making a strong bid to join Half.com and Barnes and Noble on the list of cheap go-to websites for students, will college-goers bite?

Probably not; they'll be too busy messing with Google's Knol.