I believe Woot is now owned by Amazon, so that would explain the shipping and packaging stuff from Amazon.
My personal theory on this sale is that Amazon just unloaded a bunch of their slowest selling games with the most stock left to Woot to put on sale. That would explain the large number of LRG-distributed titles in the sale since Amazon is the main retailer for those.
That said, this has been one of my favorite sales so far this year. Got a bunch of games at 50% off or greater discount, many of which never went on sale before. Plus free shipping for Prime members.
Amazon bought them out years ago. Pretty sure anything sold on Woot was just something that's not selling enough or can be sold on Amazon.
And agreed, this has been a great, low key sale. Nothing was OoS within seconds and most of the prices were good. Picked up Syberia CE, Undernauts, Yurukill, Piofiore LE, Harvest Moon CE, and Psyhonauts 2 Motherlobe Edition. I literally just bought Syberia and Psyhonauts from Amazon for like $165 and $50 a few weeks ago and just returned them. Sucks some of the prices went down further AND there was that Woot App promo for Prime users, so I had to do another order to save like $40. Luckily Woot returns are easy.
But I swear, Amazon gives Woot orders the bastardized Amazon treatment for shipments for larger items... Syberia CE looks like it was kicked around a lot before being shipped. Harvest Moon CE was within it's original CE box which was then put in another box for shipment that showed up fine.