What is checkout.org?

Thumperchick shared some links said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 11:46am ET

I see the new responses being posted by @JonT and am now curious. What is checkout.org? I mean, besides the quick blurb on the landing page:

CHECKOUT.ORG IS A SITE FOR MEDIOCRE LABORATORIES PARTNERS TO OFFER EXCLUSIVE DEALS.

What does CO do that the other mediocre sites currently do not?

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Ignorant said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 12:05pm ET:

An outlet to sell vacuums.

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- @Ignorant does it suck?
  
  Thumperchick said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 12:16pm ET
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- @Thumperchick don't most .org's ?
  
  ilovereality said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 12:23pm ET
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oppodude said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 4:11pm ET:

I bought a vacuum. Saw it on SlickDeals. Needed a Dyson DC41. They had a Dyson DC41. Solved my needs. This is a great endorsement. :-)

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shawn said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 10:52pm ET:

If you look back on the homepage of mediocre.com there's a "need a b2b solution" button that points to middling.com. We've been doing third-party fulfillment for other websites through middling.com for a while now. We ran into a couple of sites that don't have a checkout process, so we took the one we built for meh.com and put it up at checkout.org to handle some smaller batches of orders. We didn’t bother to announce it since it’s more infrastructure than anything else.

What's nice is someone else is doing the promoting, so we can sit back, sip our margaritas and, uh, box up everything and ship it out.

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- @shawn Wait, we are supposed to be getting margaritas?
  
  MEHcus said Fri, Dec 5th 2014 at 9:36am ET
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- @MEHcus On sale next week, right? Isn't this a staff member testing it?
  
  oppodude said Fri, Dec 5th 2014 at 11:20am ET
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- @shawn So in other words, I could set up a Meh competitor and subcontract it out to you guys.
  
  editorkid said Fri, Dec 5th 2014 at 12:39pm ET
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- @editorkid sounds like fun. when do we get started?
  
  shawn said Fri, Dec 5th 2014 at 12:55pm ET
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- @shawn I have to build up my inventory. Right now I'm warehousing 1,600 paper bags.
  
  editorkid said Mon, Dec 8th 2014 at 3:51pm ET
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Stallion said Tue, Dec 9th 2014 at 5:10pm ET:

Its a pretty kick a$$ domain name for sure.

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silverqueen said Fri, Dec 19th 2014 at 11:56am ET:

I don't get it either. I just went there and there is nothing there? I don't see anything there to buy. No vaccumes or kitchen thingies. What is it supposed to be? How does one find out what is for sale? Is there a secret to it?

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- @silverqueen read @Shawn's comment a few up. He explained it.
  
  Thumperchick said Fri, Dec 19th 2014 at 1:24pm ET
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- @Thumperchick @silverqueen if it wasn't super clear, you'll find deep links to checkout.org deals listed on other sites.
  
  shawn said Fri, Dec 19th 2014 at 1:42pm ET
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- For example
  http://www.offers.com/checkout/#offer_id=2680677
  
  Ignorant said Fri, Dec 19th 2014 at 2:32pm ET
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silverqueen said Fri, Dec 19th 2014 at 2:34pm ET:

@shawn, @ThumperChick
Well I went and re-read the comment and it mentions https://middling.com/ but when I click to go to that site, there is nothing there. the page appears blank except for a link to email middling.com/ and the link back to mediocre.com, so I guess it is not for me. I don’t get anyware with those links. Shrug

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- @silverqueen middling handles the wholesale and fulfillment for other sites. Nothing there for us.
  
  See my example link from offers.com above for a site using checkout.org
  
  Ignorant said Fri, Dec 19th 2014 at 2:39pm ET
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