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no use, they couldn't care less, great advertisement for them, and i doubt anyone actually gets half the items lol…ingenius
CatchOfTheDay Birthday Bash, $150,000 Worth of Freebies with 1 Cent Shipping!
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siawkia on 29/10/2012 - 17:33 catchoftheday.com.au (18 clicks)
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Last edited 31/10/2012 - 00:00 by 1 other user
Dates
Closing Date
31/12/2013
Prizes
Description
stuff
No. of Prizes
1
Total Prize Pool
$150,000.00
Entry Requirements
Open To
Australia-wide
Entry Limit
Entry Methods
Facebook, Twitter/X
Prerequisites
n/a
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Love it or Hate it!
This time, at least they are letting us know the quantity of the items!
Quote from their website:
We couldn't have done it without you, so on our sixth birthday we didn't want to celebrate with anyone except YOU. How are we going to celebrate together? Free stuff! Why not? Everyone loves something free, and when its time to celebrate nothing beats a giveaway. Here’s the rundown:
- We'll be giving away $150,000 worth of goods for 12 hours, with one item featured every 10 minutes, one freebie every 10 minutes means a total of 72 giveaway opportunities
- Every item will have different quantities in stock, you can see the stock availability for each item below (scroll down!)
- Just pay 1 cent shipping (this is a system restriction - relax scrooge!)
- The party starts at a mystery time on Wednesday 31st October, the starting time will be announced on email, Facebook and twitter so make sure you subscribe / like / follow us below, or you'll miss the beginning.
PS: I probably shouldn't have to post this deal as it would mean more competition from fellow ozbargainers!
mod - Note: they will be requiring you to agree to receive emails from them, daily, before they will let you onto the site, today
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lol.scoopon.
this service is unavailable. say what? D:
its amazing TWICE I got the ADD cart on the screen, but adding to cart does not register anything..
It may as well not be a button.
How does anybody actually get anything..
grrthis service is unavailable. say what? D:
Now Scoopon has crashed (same servers?)!
Cool, now they find a new way to do internet attack.
No more zombie network required, just a limited number of junk, a webpage stating it's free, a link to whatever site you hate, and a lot people like us ozber.
Need DDOS?? Who ya gonna call? COTD or OzB hoards!
this is waste….just another trap….
Scoopon Server down now.
now they're just getting us to advertise for them by liking them on facebook —"
Why there is no button called "Hate" on facebook? It's not fair.
That's the reason they dare to do this, otherwise they will try their best to hide the facebook link atm.They also deleted my comments on FB
Got the 1c photobook. At least I can sleep tonight knowing I got something…
congratulations! it's good to actually know it's possible now :)
Spoke too soon! Damn! :(
Not getting any email from scoopon…oh well, didn't have to pay so no harm done.
Nowww, my fellow OzB'ers on with the hunt!!! Charge!
I got to the point where it was processing the "payment" and the next screen it takes me to is that "it's too late - you've missed out" :( SO CLOSE and if I didn't have to logon to my scoopon account I may have gotten one!!! Oh well… next time.
What load of crap, like us in facebook and get nothing.
Woah! 15 mins between items now!?! What happened to every ten minutes?
it's 10 minutes :/
When I click "Add to Cart" NOTHING HAPPENS!
Such a scam!
I've verified the requests are happening, but the add to cart requests just hit CotD's servers and getting an Internal Server Error after a prolonged period of time, followed eventually by an out of stock response that the web page (doesn't) then render.
Which leads us back to the servers. Connections are timing out cause the server can't handle the load.
IMHO I don't think they'll ever upgrade their servers/provider, as the want the attention for publicity/marketing sake.
Its business tactics & psychology ppl…
totally a scam!!!
Might as well go to do something more productive (like make money), someone call me when the dora headphones come up (prolly be gone by then)….
interesting, but not all that surprising
where is the list of items and qty.
gone
https://www.mumgo.com.au/product.php?product_id=45457&event_… Still seems available.. picked up some.
Thanks! I picked 1 up too. Super!
It's all gone so quickly. This is madness :(
Madness? THIS. IS. OZBARGAIN!!!!!!!! (Kicks COTD into a giant hole)
…. X_x!!!!
Click on add to cart and nothing happens then it logs me out saying out of stock.
It is a scam.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT…ABSOLUTE SCAM!!
Oh? You only just found out? Today marks the 6th time they've done it! Happy scamaversary!
Apple TV is gone…. zzzz
back to life…for apple tv i got all the way to processing order, but of course i've been beaten again… its still on that screen.. sigh got me all excited for nothing..
More items with more qty, like thongs damnit!
I found the qty list…
CK Free For Men 100ml EDT
Is thats whats next?It was. Now its 'Dyson Animal Handheld Vacuum Cleaner'; which also was now.
Guess its safe to assume we hopefuls will be stuck to the edge of our seats till 11pm tonight?
nah I got to go places.
Of course! You're MacGyver! Places to go, ppl to save…
i'll quit once i get osomething…anything…i swear (not really hehehe)
c'mon dora, come to papa
they should have just made it a new item every 1 minute, becuase everything is finishing within the first 10 seconds anyway, so its a waste of time just waiting around for 9 minutes each time…
Hmmm, that would make it 720 items in 12hrs…
no i mean 1 item a minute until all 72 are finished…so it'd only go for 72 minutes, that way the pain would be over a lot quicker and we could all just get on with our lives lol
Gotta say you've got a point there….save us from wasting our time.
"You took 12hrs of my life & I want them back, COTD!"
Catch of the Damned: Halloween spectacular. tried for 2 items, added to cart, unable to check out. Another scam from the masters
I just called in for an extra shifts at work.
Its easier and more productive. Plus, I can buy something that I want/need with warranty at a store that doesn't 404 from time to time.
Gave up on this mob months ago when I discovered them inflating the RRP of expensive items (ie using the original RRP which had long since been lowered). Have never been back since.
wastetimeoftheday.com.au
just stop going to that site and you can save your time :-)
farkin put something in my cart and kaboom a big ass list of details I gotta enter.
Brb out of stock.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
nopurchaseoftheday.com.au
this is bs, it sells out in a millisecond
Dooooorrrrraaaaa! Where art thou?!
wrong thread
whats the twitter deal? i cbb liking it to see…
doesn't matter, no one got one.
ta! saves me from corrupting my twitter account
Did anyone seriously expect to get something?
I got the thongs, I'm just waiting for the dora item… ^_^!
your a size 37-38?????
Wow what a hairy bag~! perfect for lobbing over your head for tonights halloween witches party!
next birthday bash should be their web host tied up as a piñata.
I got the Delonghi Nespresso machine, no joke ;)
Whoopee!
I negg'd ya
btw grats
what browser did ya use?
Chrome, if that makes any difference
Did anyone get the HTC? It was still available after 9 mins. The Add to Cart buttom simply doesn't work!
it was gone after 9 seconds, but its good to get ur hopes up anyway.
Is anyone getting constantly logged out by them? :P
I've decided to try this thing :PI log in and can see Welcome xxxxx
I add an item
I go to check out and it says cart empty and you're not logged in.
I even paid with paypal, but when paypal returned me to COTD, it showed the crash server message.
anyone know how the "add to cart" button works ? others here have said they cant click it/clinking dosn't do any thing but no one has explained it. I have tried on 3 computers and a mobile phone with 5 browsers and none react when the ?\"add to cart" is clicked. Is there a trick to it ?
ta
It's just a normal post. You can see it if you view the page source while the purchase button is showing. If you could be bothered you could probably just script the whole thing. That's probably what the people who've actually bought things are doing.
Yeay!!! I managed to get the Sunbeam Cafe Series Peace & Quiet Kettle. Not really what I wanted, but at least I got something.
Like some of you here, I managed to add stuff to the cart a few times, but the server crashed each time. Then I had to login and go through the whole process again, which means I am too late.
Keep at it, you will get something. Where is your ozbargain hunting spirit? When was the last time you bought something useful for $0.01?
Oh, btw I think I only manage to get the kettle because I still have $10 worth of store credit left, so that means I didn't have to punch in payment information.
where do u live? right on top of their servers?
i keep trying and never get anywhere… its stupid
Actually no.. I live 20kms out from Brisbane CBD, my internet connection can't even stream more than 1 Full HD Youtube video at a time.
I don't know if anyone else has any other tips, but I am logged in everytime before the countdown reaches 0 seconds every time, and I turn off images in my browser. I am using Firefox.
Just because I got something doesn't make me an expert on grabbing something from crashoftheday. But I am definitely going to try, try again.
it was a rethoric question considering i dont know where the servers are located, for all i know they can be located 20kms out of brissy (servers generally aren't in CBDs, too expensive to locate)
thanks for the info anyway:)
WOAH. Cool.
i can't add t cart but i refereshed the page with just 26sec left and it still had the kettle for sale LOL they must have a lot of them !
kettle was gone after a minute
really, thats strange i still had the add to cart button ! ohh well i guess its due to refershing so many times :)
"add to cart" button never works for me. is it specific to browser?
This is ridiculous. I had the sunbeam kettle on my screen for the whole 10 mins. Refreshed and each time it wasn't sold out yet. The 'catch'? You can't press add to cart.
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sgs3 in cart, goes to paypal, comes back to craponmyday.com.au and site crashed.
with that I am going to do something more rewarding with my time, like nailing my testes to a moving car.
got the galaxyS3!!!!! but i was actually aiming for the dora earphones :-D
Congratulations!!
I was going for the S3 and I didn't get anything. :(
i'm glad one of us got something!
how about i buy some dora earphones for you and do a swap for the S3? win-win for both
u cant get the s3 if no one can checkout
we all need to complain about this trap !