Cyber Monday promotion.
15% off ALL Ultimate gift cards at Australia Post online shop.
Gift cards sent directly to your home with free delivery.
Limit of 10 x gift cards per customer.
Participating retailers include JB Hi-Fi, EB Games, The Good Guys, Nike, Xbox and over 100 x other retailers.
Offer Monday 28th November 8:05AM – 11:59PM AEDT.
While stock lasts.
https://auspost.com.au/shop/gifts/gift-cards/view-all
or
Nobody could have predicted this!
I think they have like 10 cards each available in stock??
Anyone actually manage to buy a $100 gift card card? Everything is out of stock.
The $100 home isn't even showing as discounted, unlike the 50. "SALE" sticker and $42.50.
Lol what a joke it is
Now I feel Coles is better at least you can get some on first day
So they had like 10 of each in stock.
wouldnt handle the traffic@!
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IT Tech support still haven't got to work, so have to wait until then…
sure we can refresh page every 5sec for the ozb spirit
I can see in the search box then all were out of stock or service unavailable.
Game over. Time to take my son to school
me too .. told him you have to walk yourself earlier but I think I stand no chance with these cards.. going to drop him
Lol….ozb priority: bargain first, kids drop off second
hahah this is amazing!
Ozbargained
The system is down already
Woke up at 7am for nothing (QLD time).
Added 8 cards to the cart last night (mixed of HIM/EATS) after logging in to my Auspost account.
This morning the cart has been cleared.
Try to add HIM cards and it says max limit is 2, then kept crashing on checkout.
Same, shame shame AusLost.
You have to feel for those Western Australians who woke up at 5am ;p
Added three ultimate him, pressed add to cart, went to cart and it was empty.
I wonder if anyone was successful?
Wow, out of stock and website issues. Downvoting
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Its actually 'auspost' doesnt have any style
Their server probably thought it's a DDoS attack
Ozbargainer DDos?
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The first time in history everyone sitting in front of a monitor and keep refreshing the browser at 8am.
Its 5am here in WA
I got up at 5am and did not get anything.
5am in some parts of the country :D
Clearly you weren’t around on 3080 launch day 😜
Not everyone plays computer games.
So far from the truth but if thinking that makes you happy! 🙂
Happy to suggest how to test your website for handling web traffic and not even peak web traffic
I got 10 x $100 home at 8:05am but website already was playing up
did you manage to buy it? it was out of stock from 08.00
I bought them. Have confirmation email (8:04am).
question is did you actually purchase? or just get it in your cart for it to crash?
Yeah, I got them. Tried card payment first but got an error, tried Paypal after and it worked. Just checked my email, it was 8:04am.
Perhaps some more luxury watches as a year end bonus would give motivation to upgrade the server??
would need min 2 watches each as we all have two wrist
AuPost is such a joke!
Auspost XML got no Style
Nothing nothing angry
What a sh1tshow
What a steaming pile of dumpster fire!
Managed to add one card, and the website died in the middle of checkout.
Managed one $50 Him. Better than I expected I guess..
Can't get any card. Poor planning by Aus Post for this promo…
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Crazy. Crash and burn.
Logged in at 8:06 and cards were OOS already.
they were OOS at 8:03
They were showing OOS even before that.
Yeah I checked last night, all the $100 denominations were already OOS
haha basically
You're always late mate.
Website down :)
access denied, only the gift card section is denied
The entire online shop is down.
can still access the home page and even calculate my postage
The entire online shop is down.
I suspect this is a publicity stunt. Someone losses money here. Think about it. Not all retailers would give such heavy discounts to the card network company. And then coles / auspost may contribute some but not all of the cost. Very likely TCN has to show sales at the end of the year to attract investors. This way, they show growth when actual sales are likely very low with normal prices. So what do they do, provide a limited stock and run such sales to show demand.
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What a waste of time….useless!
yeahh nahhhh, what a waste of time
What a joke :(
I will pass this one so hard to get it haha
Managed to get 10x 50 teens and 10x50 kids…. the limit is 10 per category i suppose
no you didn't
My checkout gave me an 502 error but I received a confirmation email from auspost
Hope they send me my cards 🤞
Apparently the Australia Post staff have pre purchased all of them and will be selling them door to door with the mail deliveries; just a rumour
Very AUPOSTy.
Expected
What did AusPost think was going to happen? Poor planning and demand forecasting on their front
Bought these from BigW 3 store days ago at 10% Off - Not sure if promo is still there.
Aus Post Shop seems still cant handle customer….neither in store or online. The shop portal is down…showing like a Ddos attack.
unlikely to have been 3 days as I went Tues and Fri last week and couldn't get the discount the latter time.
either way that deal is up
when I picked the 500$ one and the discount was not working. but the 100$ one and 50$ was working. so I took those with self checkout.
Pakenham store manager had the advertisement removed as I had to hassle with why 500$ one not working.
you had a lucky register or something my friend.
I bought a couple $50 on the Tues without issue and when I returned on Friday tried both $50 and variable and neither came with any discount
@JDMcarfan: Yup, the manager had to bring 100$ ones from the back office for me…their were only 50$ or 30$ ones in store.
@shahzad1482: They kept some for themselves. I bet thats what the staff do at most places but you can't blame them
I.T. at Auspost: “we have DDos attack since 8am”
Oh dear. It will be today’s news headline. The ransom is Cartier watches.
The Him cards were already out of stock before 8:05am.
Also they were marked as discounted prior to 8:05am as well.
Now the website is broken
Unobtainium
Got 3 in cart and was allowed to pay, went through paypal but site was down after payment authorisation. Now the money is paid to paypal but no order confirmation from AU Post..Anyone experiencing the same situation?
Yep, same!
Same here - got x2 Him cards. Either it gets posted or order cancelled
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Reckon Coles deal is much better coz its checkout won't be crashed by too many customers but will just be slower. Didn't Auspost ever think about a queue system like Mycar and PPQ?
I checked last night. and was holding 10x in each category. The cart had a life till 2am atleast…now all gone..appearently cant take more then 1x ine ach category, but yes the shope website seems down and cant do anything.
eshop is closed.
Out for toilet break - Back in few hours….
Don't forget to flush and wash your hands
I'll rather stay away from aus post, site is dodgy. Don't want to be chasing bank for my money
I looks like some insider task….maybe for employees or relatives trying to make profit…
This sale or information was not advertised in their regular website earlier.
The cards were not available from around 8:02am
Now somebody from inside, or employees could have both heaps and now they can show all are gone because it was in huge demand…we are just witness for it maybe
also two incomplete info here in post:
1) it was on sale from 8:00am not 8:05am as listed in that post (which was misleading, so all went out in those 2-3 minutes even if they sold anything in real)
2) the max allowed was 2 only for public (unlike other days)
that also didn't work
so yes as somebody said maybe publicity stunt or maybe for employees
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