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.
Sam
October 29, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Dammit! 5-6 was the steam mop and I missed it. If anyone managed to score one, I’ll give you 50 bucks for it.
Report PermalinkJosh
October 29, 2008 at 7:34 PM
I have been refreshing their website every 10 minutes since 12:00 noon and haven’t been able to purchase a single item. What a load of BS. Anyone else had any luck?
Report Permalinkxistor
October 29, 2008 at 7:42 PM
stupid setup really.. what about previous good customers who have bought lots from there before, cant even get onto the site >.
Report PermalinkMarilyn Marvelli
October 29, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Cach of the day birthday bash is a crook of S@%T. I have tried all day and it just keeps crashing. Surely you guys can come up with something a litle better than this.
Report Permalinkmummy
October 29, 2008 at 9:24 PM
GPS sold out in 4 mins..and I lucked out and got to checkout very quickly……and it was gone.
Report Permalinkmonkeyzu
October 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Scam! Bought the item, went to checkout, says “Item is sold out, please remove from cart” – but I only just put it in my cart…. dodgy.
Report PermalinkFreida
October 29, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Makes no difference if you manage to get onto the site and actually are lucky enough to get to a point where you are confirming delivery addresses it then proceeds to tell you that they are out of stock, maybe they only had five of each item in the first place. It seems pretty clear that their inventory management system isn’t very high tech. If I am confirming delivery address the item shoud be mine! Scammers
Report PermalinkMarilyn Marvelli
October 29, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Catch this has been a very disappointing. It 8.25pm and I still have not been able to purchase one item you have offered. I agree with most people if you wanted to run a promotion this big make sure you can handle the traffic. Not happy Jan.
Report PermalinkMaz
October 29, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I have been trying since midday to just be able to get one item from Catch of the day and it has been imposible. I agree if you going to promote so big make sure you can handle the traffic. NOT HAPPY JAN.
Report Permalinkdrew
October 29, 2008 at 11:07 PM
That was a waste of most of the day – with the way that the key items such as the Wii, iPod, TomTom causing a complete shut down of the site, I wouldn’t past someone inside to leak those hours out…
Happy Birthday catchoftheday.com.au pity I couldn’t enjoy the cake due to your web/mysql servers constantly dying.
Report PermalinkSheila Hunter
October 29, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Yes I agree hopelesss it is now 11.32 I have been trying to get on sicne 6.00pm and NOTHING if you want customers then fx the site to handle the load. Its as bad as trying to book a flight when jetstar advertise. YOU JUST MISS OUT ON EVERYTHING
Report PermalinkMichael N
November 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM
I tried to grab the camera and the wii. I got to click on the button, but when I tried to checkout, it wouldn’t let me. When it did, it was already considered sold-out.
Yes, such is life. However, if someone is doing a promotion like this, shouldn’t they be prepared for it? For a company that reputedly knows about computers and such, I feel it is pathetic that they were caught unprepared like that.
Report PermalinkKym
May 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Interesting. They are doing the exact same thing today.
Report PermalinkI have been trying to purchase & can’t even get one thing.
Sold out in 3 minutes? I don’t think so!
Scammers