What are you doing at midday today? I’ll tell you what you’re doing! You’re sitting by your computer, browser open with one tab set to Giz AU (like it always should be) and another browser pointed at Catch Of The Day. Because tomorrow is their birthday, and they’re going special crazy. $200 for a Wii (half price), $99 for a PS2, $99 for a TomTom Satnav, $99 for a 4GB iPod Nano… that’s your Christmas shopping done right there. And that’s just shopping for yourself. What you get your friends and relatives won’t matter after the bargains you score here today.
Toastie
October 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Oh yeah im on to this one. I saw this a couple of days ago. I think there will be some reselling on ebay to make tidy profit. Nice.
Report PermalinkShane
October 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM
I dare say it will be almost impossible to get the Wii and I doubt they would have much stock. More likely they only have a few as bait to get people to the site.
Report PermalinkiNoob
October 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Just following link on the page to DailyDeals.com found this
http://www.dailydeals.com.au/motorised-peppermill-p-14198.html
WTF!?!? LOL
Report Permalinkferal
October 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Thanks for telling everyone… NOT!
Actually Im not that interested in the wii, just some of the other things they might have…
Report PermalinkAndrew
October 29, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Good Luck logging in for the start – at 11:50am, I am getting this page… http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/sorry.html
Report PermalinkToo many people on the site…
johnny j
October 29, 2008 at 11:53 AM
they are freaking LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i kept checking the site, and now it gave me the “too many people online” sorry page.
but actually, if you use the url
“http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/index.php”, it GOES in!!!!
they get no problem with the server limitation.
all they doing is bringing attentions and registrants, then too cheap to make the deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREAKING LIAR
would be the last time to that site EVER!!!!!!!!!!
Report PermalinkAdam
October 29, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Never mind about stock levels, you gotta access the site first – http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/sorry.html
Report PermalinkSt3v3
October 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM
hahah 12:01 and the site goes down!
Report PermalinkLuke
October 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Well whatever their tactics are, they worked: it’s midday and the site is down with too much traffic.
Report Permalinklostincanberra
October 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM
…and their website will choke.
Report Permalinkrob
October 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM
as expected, the site’s crashed. epic fail. they should’ve known the massive response. tsk tsk, there’ll be a lot of annoyed customers…
Report Permalinkrossco
October 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM
pretty sure giz crashed the site.
Report Permalinksteven
October 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM
site is borked under the strain. bork borked.
Report Permalinkretort
October 29, 2008 at 12:20 PM
site is down.
Report Permalinkretort
October 29, 2008 at 12:22 PM
…and now its not.
please disregard previous.
Report PermalinkDman
October 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Just keep on trying everyone!
Report PermalinkSam
October 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Has anyone managed to buy anything yet? If I don’t get that steam mop I’m gonna crack it.
Report Permalinkankur
October 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Still crashed for me.
Maybe if we say what is up each hour people will know whether its worth sitting there refreshing trying to get on?
Report PermalinkMiles
October 29, 2008 at 3:38 PM
This is crap… been trying since 12pm and by the time the page lets me in, that deal has sold out…are these people for real.
What’s chance of rainchecks? About the same as a snowflake in hell?
Report Permalinkmichael
October 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM
this is pathetic, if you want to run a promotion so big make sure you can handle the traffic catch of the day!
Report PermalinkToothman
October 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM
First up was the Mini RC Heli, then a DVD player, then the photo frame but I haven’t been able to get in for the last 50 mins; what was the fourth item (which I’m sure is sold out now!)?
Report PermalinkGeorge
October 29, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Sigh at their website being down…
Anyone know what the 3pm or 4pm Catches are/were?
Report PermalinkAdz
October 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM
1 item per hour. It’s 4:11pm and already these items have had their hour:
Micro R/C Heli
Samsung DVD player
7″ Photo Frame
4GB iPod
Current hour has a 1.5″ digital photo frame.
Report PermalinkMatt
October 29, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Pretty disappointing so far. I tried for a solid hour to get on between 2 and 3… too bad for me cos thats when the nanos were on. Pretty much all I was after… that and maybe a cheap hd box. There must be some trick to increasing your chances of getting on the site. any ideas?
Report Permalinksimon
October 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM
its borked so they dont have to sell the good items, ie the ipod nano – i couldnt even access it across 3 different computers each witha differnt net speed/ip. its fixed i tell you. id find it hard to believe, even if u did click “catch it” that u could make it to the checkout without a sorry.html – its bs
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