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
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 9:39 AMOh 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.
Shane
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:33 AMI 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.
iNoob
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:14 AMJust following link on the page to DailyDeals.com found this
http://www.dailydeals.com.au/motorised-peppermill-p-14198.html
WTF!?!? LOL
feral
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:47 AMThanks for telling everyone… NOT!
Actually Im not that interested in the wii, just some of the other things they might have…
Andrew
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:53 AMGood Luck logging in for the start – at 11:50am, I am getting this page… http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/sorry.html
Too many people on the site…
johnny j
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:53 AMthey 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!!!!!!!!!!
Adam
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:00 PMNever mind about stock levels, you gotta access the site first – http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/sorry.html
St3v3
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:01 PMhahah 12:01 and the site goes down!
Luke
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:03 PMWell whatever their tactics are, they worked: it’s midday and the site is down with too much traffic.
lostincanberra
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM…and their website will choke.
rob
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:11 PMas expected, the site’s crashed. epic fail. they should’ve known the massive response. tsk tsk, there’ll be a lot of annoyed customers…
rossco
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:13 PMpretty sure giz crashed the site.
steven
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:16 PMsite is borked under the strain. bork borked.
retort
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:20 PMsite is down.
retort
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:22 PM…and now its not.
please disregard previous.
Dman
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 1:42 PMJust keep on trying everyone!
Sam
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:30 PMHas anyone managed to buy anything yet? If I don’t get that steam mop I’m gonna crack it.
ankur
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:37 PMStill 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?
Miles
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:38 PMThis 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?
michael
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:44 PMthis is pathetic, if you want to run a promotion so big make sure you can handle the traffic catch of the day!
Toothman
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:51 PMFirst 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!)?
George
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 4:05 PMSigh at their website being down…
Anyone know what the 3pm or 4pm Catches are/were?
Adz
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM1 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.
Matt
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 5:09 PMPretty 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?
simon
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 5:13 PMits 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