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[eBay Plus] AirPods 2 $99, Google Hub $99, Dyson Fan $359 (OOS) | Google Home $59, Cybex Mios $569, Dyson Hairdryer $385 @ eBay

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[eBay Plus] AirPods 2 $99, Google Hub $99, Dyson Fan $359 (OOS) | Google Home $59, Cybex Mios $569, Dyson Hairdryer $385 @ eBay
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PODAIR

Official eBay response re $99 AirPod cancellation email:

Thanks for taking advantage of eBay’s $99 deal on a set of Apple AirPods on Monday.

You may have received an error message suggesting your transaction was from a compromised account. This is not the case. Please ignore this email and any associated actions. You will receive your AirPods.

We apologise for any alarm caused and are looking into how this occurred. Should you have any questions, please contact the eBay Customer Service via www.ebay.com.au/help

We thank you for shopping on eBay.

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Just read this on news.com.au and seems too good to be true! Enjoy :)

Sets of AirPods will be released hourly from 10am. SOLD OUT

100 Pairs Released at: 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm

Google Home $59 Code PHONIC.
Google Home Hub $99 Code PIVOT. SOLD OUT
Google Home Mini $29 SOLD OUT
Cybex Mios Stroller Black Anna K $569. No code. Use code PAPER for additional $50 off = $519.
Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer $385 Code PROTECT. SOLD OUT
Dyson Hot+Cool Fan Heater White/Silver $359 Code PROPEL. SOLD OUT
Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set $15 Code PSYCHIC. Deal post SOLD OUT

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  • kimba88 on 15/07/2019 - 17:41

    I was hoping to get the dyson hot and cool fan. Anyone know if it's likely to be restocked or where I can get one from at a similar price? Thanks.

  • mthwstwrt on 15/07/2019 - 17:42
    +1

    Finally got checkout- my PODAIR code didn't apply & I was charged $249!

    Trying my luck with eBay customer service before I cancel my order

    • jtran on 16/07/2019 - 03:51
      +1

      Same thing happened to me, cancelled the order, but rung them up and apparently ill be able to re-purchase with the discounted price.

      • Whycee on 16/07/2019 - 10:09

        I did the same thing!

        Who did you call to confirm this? I thought they wouldn’t be able to apply the code retrospectively so was expecting that I’d have to cancel the order. Would be awesome if I could still get it at $99 though

        • jtran on 16/07/2019 - 18:01
          +1

          Just search up eBay customer service and scroll to the bottom and click call us

    • myfriendscallmebob on 16/07/2019 - 19:46

      I got charged $243 for my AirPods. tried canceling my order yesterday. Today got an email saying the airpods have been sent and the address is an old one too. Called eBay customer service and they said seller rejected my cancellation request. There is nothing they can do. :(

  • strike1 on 15/07/2019 - 17:48
    +5

    Tried every drop for AirPods that’s 8 in total. Had the item in the checkout with payment and coupon 4 times still missed it. Not my lucky day :(
    Cheers to everyone who got one!!

  • rye on 15/07/2019 - 17:54

    2 were sold at 5:11pm: https://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&ite…

  • MagicMushroom on 15/07/2019 - 17:55

    Maybe Amazon will price match tomorrow? Their system is much better.

    • Zazer on 15/07/2019 - 19:09
      +1

      doubt it :(

  • jimjon on 15/07/2019 - 18:03

    waste of time

  • profar on 15/07/2019 - 18:14
    +1

    Hooked 2 in cart and was firing multiple duplicate screens and ended up with 0 .

    Thought I did well getting a couple to cart :)

    • Cyberninja on 16/07/2019 - 08:21

      Hooked 2 in cart

      1 txn pp - so it would have never gone through.

  • Uncaged on 15/07/2019 - 18:28

    I had the checkout page ready, spam click nada and then got bumped out after it said something about a change iirc.

    I kept trying buy it now til about 1711 but no luck and to hear 2 orders got through at 1706. So annoying!

  • bibimbap on 15/07/2019 - 18:34
    +2

    Tried all morning. Got nothing.

  • Zazer on 15/07/2019 - 19:08
    +7

    friendship ended with ebay. now amazon is best friend.

  • Navgsc on 15/07/2019 - 20:06
    +3

    My first ever neg (likely the last)! Highly deserved it for the waste of time despite carefully following the instructions.

    • Hardly Normal on 15/07/2019 - 20:11
      +3

      There was only ever going to be 800 of them… you go into these things expecting to get nothing.

      • googoogaga on 15/07/2019 - 22:18
        +5

        I'd prefer if they released 800 of them at 10am instead of waste my time throughout the day.

        • Hardly Normal on 16/07/2019 - 13:59
          +1

          Yeah, it would be nice but I understand why they don't. The whole point was to drive people away from Prime Day. TBH I was surprised they were even doing 100 every hour.

    • ATangk on 15/07/2019 - 21:23

      Were you around for the click frenzy monstrosities?

  • Dwight Schrute on 15/07/2019 - 20:15
    -2

    thanks op got 17

    • Karimov on 16/07/2019 - 08:32

      What the? How lol?

  • bugman on 15/07/2019 - 20:45

    Ebay this is not the way to fight amazon….and this is on top of the price jacking "discounts"

  • cooluser123kappa on 15/07/2019 - 21:23
    +2

    Remember at the start of the day when people complained about 30 second sellout times?

    It was difficult to get if you didnt ozbargain the site yourself, but if you began to ozbargain because you found out how to ozbargain from ozbargain you are up against 100s/1000s of other ozbargainers. And then complain that there are bots/dodgy seller/insider trading/scuffed system/amazon is better/wasted whole day when you purely relied on ozbargain to ozbargain and not your own ozbargain initiative.

    Thanks ozbargain, ez cop

  • PeterToan123 on 15/07/2019 - 22:32

    Sitting here for the past 20 minutes refreshing got a good feeling something might pop up and guess what it did. :) manage to snag a pair 10:25 PM

    • toblerone21 on 15/07/2019 - 22:37

      congrats, I'm not giving up either, it's been sitting at checkout for 6 hours now- I'm guessing you just kept on spamming confirm and pay?

      • PeterToan123 on 15/07/2019 - 22:43
        +1

        I was just refreshing the ebay listing and it happened to show a few in stock and checked out like any other ebay purchase.

  • iamnic11 on 15/07/2019 - 22:33

    WTH?
    User ID Price Quantity Date of Purchase
    ez ( 116Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:27:06 AEST
    o    a ( 0 ) New eBay Member (less than 30 days) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:50 AEST
    kk ( 101Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:42 AEST
    h    a ( 2 ) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:39 AEST
    ki ( 117Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:28 AEST
    r    m ( 209Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:17 AEST
    de ( 5 ) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:16 AEST
    h    o ( 1204Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:26:11 AEST
    ih ( 1 ) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:25:55 AEST
    s    a ( 6 ) New eBay Member (less than 30 days) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:25:53 AEST
    en ( 368Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:25:36 AEST
    1    3 ( 40Feedback score is 10 to 49) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:25:31 AEST
    yn ( 130Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:25:21 AEST
    c    k ( 296Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:25:16 AEST
    ok ( 2 ) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 22:24:57 AEST
    -    t ( 7 ) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 21:20:13 AEST
    to ( 139Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 21:18:56 AEST
    o    g ( 315Feedback score is 100 to 499) AU $249.00 1 15-Jul-19 21:07:09 AES

    • maverick1 on 15/07/2019 - 23:19

      a few more sold around 23:11, seems seller has been releasing 10/hour from 9PM and probably was the last of the lot as I guess the code expires midnight..

      • qzcbmo on 15/07/2019 - 23:43

        code expires 16/07

    • RogueWolf on 15/07/2019 - 23:52

      Do you have the link to the original deal, can’t find it anywhere

  • r98 on 15/07/2019 - 23:20
    +1

    Got one at 11:11pm.. seems like there is more!

    • maverick1 on 15/07/2019 - 23:24

      lucky you…i barely managed to add 1 in my cart until it sold out again…

      • maverick1 on 15/07/2019 - 23:35
        +4

        wohoo..10 more in the mkt..finally scored after wasting my entire day….

  • Sainter4Life on 15/07/2019 - 23:32

    So I could have waited until 10PM when there isn't anyone expecting instead of wasting my whole day. eBay, you have really done it…

  • 50cent on 15/07/2019 - 23:39

    Did anyone actually end up getting the Airpods?

    • vodamerc on 15/07/2019 - 23:45

      841 people have so far

      • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 00:41

        ?? 38 more people bought them since the supposed 5pm finish. A load at 11:40. Did they pay $99 too???

  • BOGLOAD on 16/07/2019 - 00:19
    -2

    Got a pair at 5pm by adding to cart 4pm after the product was set to invalid/sold for the earlier part of the day. I duplicated the cart window 20 times in chrome, then did a mad ctrl-shift-tab + click sequence at 4:59:50. 5 of those windows came back with successful order (all the same order number), and got just the one email and one charge on my CC. Worst eBay experience I’ve had after trying all day long.

    • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 00:42
      +5

      You got one though, yet why so sour? You weren’t expecting to buy 5 were you?

      • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 01:05
        +2

        I think people are genuinely unimpressed with how eBay have conducted the sale. I didn't get one but even if I did, it wouldn't have changed my opinion on how bad this sale is.

        • NixMo1 on 16/07/2019 - 03:52
          +2

          I don't get what was bad about the sale? 100 an hour, every hour. It literally came down to your internet connection, pc and how quick you are with keyboard and mouse, fortunately awesome for me. There was never going to be enough units for everyone and if you went in thinking you were guaranteed a pair, well….

          • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 10:08
            +4

            @NixMo1: I went in to this thinking I had half a chance given that there are 8 runs. The fact of the matter is a general consumer never really had any chance given how fast it was sold each and everytime. If you expect a normal person to be able to click on the 'Buy Now' button, enter the code then enter the credit card details to complete the checkout process in side 10 seconds then there is something fondamentally wrong. People worked out ways to checkout in 2 different runs and were posting guides in true OzBargin spirit. I'm not sure about you but most of us would agree if you had to use a specific guide to have any remote chance of getting something from eBay is just plain stupid not to mention you have to be in front of the screen every hour for possibly 8 hours. Looking at the number of new accounts in the transaction history it's clear that many have used bots so I wonder who really benefited. I gave up at 5:15PM only to find out at 11:30PM that there had been more stock added at different stages during the night so what happened to stock only appear hourly from 10-5? The way I see this is eBay's desperate attempt to lure people away from Amazon which in the process upset many Plus users. Anyways, congrats on securing a set of AirPods and to every other OzBarginer who did as well.

            • skido on 16/07/2019 - 10:41

              @Sainter4Life: That's actually really odd. Maybe they've cancelled some orders and so the system has automatically updated the quantity indicated in the revision time, but still included those cancelled orders in the "sold" count. Somehow the updated stock during the night was also sold out in a matter of seconds.

            • theguyrules on 16/07/2019 - 10:41

              @Sainter4Life:

              it's clear that many have used bots

              Not necessarily, they could be new accounts people made to get the eBay Plus trial. Probably just regular people following OZB guides.

              • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 11:47

                @theguyrules: You mean regular shoppers never shopped at eBay before and needed to create new eBay accounts? I sure some are legit but you'll be naive to suggest there are no suspicious activities going on behind the scene.

                • theguyrules on 16/07/2019 - 12:29

                  @Sainter4Life: No, I'm suggesting regular eBayers/Ozbargainers had already used the trial, and needed a new account to get access to the discount.

                  TBH, most of the Ozbargain tactics here including the one I used could be considered "suspicious" as no regular buyer could have got one without the tricks here.

                  • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 12:37

                    @theguyrules: Lol, sounds like some shonky business was going on. 'Trick' is the key word.

                    • theguyrules on 16/07/2019 - 12:40

                      @Sainter4Life: I'm not arguing that, but the tactics were known to anyone reading the thread here.

                      • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 12:52
                        +1

                        @theguyrules: My point was you shouldn't have to in the first place. I remember the Plus weekend sale was much better, some 99c deals had less than 100 units and was not sold out in 10 seconds. The Dyson V11 deal was unbeatable and they had 1000 units in bulk so it didn't sell out instantly.

                        • theguyrules on 16/07/2019 - 13:01

                          @Sainter4Life: I can’t see how they’d do it differently.

                          A Dyson vac isn’t on the same scale of popularity as AirPods.

                          • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 13:16

                            @theguyrules: I was just using that as an example about having stock in bulk. The Dyson V11 was sold out inside an hour so for a $799 item, I'd say it's popularity is right up there. I think your might be over estimating the actual popularity of the AirPods and I could argue many didn't buy because of the product itself but because of the price. At the end of the day, you could double your investment if you do decide to resell. I have the feeling that many had the buy now think later mentality.

            • unco on 16/07/2019 - 10:57

              @Sainter4Life: I'm a general consumer. The first person to figure out the best method of buying was to spam the button would've been just trying it for the sake of trying it and others would have probably tried the same thing too.

              I'm sure other savvy people (not saying all others) wouldn't need a guide to try spamming the button either.

              The guide here was just confirmation that it worked.

              • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 11:55
                +1

                @unco: You are right, some found what worked for them and that's fair game. My point was this is not what online shopping is about, you shouldn't need to work out a system and wait an hour in between hoping you'll somehow get one then if you don't start the process again. That's exactly why I said I'd rather eBay just set a spcific time with bulk lot of stock so if it's sold out you know it's done. I much prefer to spend 10mins and be disappointed once than a whole day only to be disappointed again and again.

            • NixMo1 on 16/07/2019 - 11:56

              @Sainter4Life: I won't get too deep in to it but the sale as a whole ran without a hiccup on their end, hence it wasn't a poorly executed or a "bad sale". They delivered what they promised when they promised.

              First time I tried to purchase the pods, I got through to check out without an issue. I was like this is too easy so I took my time deciding where I wanted them shipped to. Any way I missed out. Second time around got them. I saw everyone having issues so I tried to see if i could get to checkout again. I tried 3 more times and succeeded every time. As a matter of fact the 4pm attempt are still in my cart. Same goes for the v10 dyson deal last time, I had no issue and secured one. This all goes back to internet, pc and keyboard/mouse ability. All 3 are needed. You can click all you want but if it's taking seconds rather than milliseconds to process what you're clicking, well it's not going to happen. Unfortunate for the guys who missed out but there's too many people on fibre with overclocked high end PCs who beat your average mobile phone user every time.

              Wish you luck in future sales, it would have been nice if everyone could have snagged a pair. Demand>supply.

              • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 12:12
                +1

                @NixMo1: Maybe I should rephrase, the format of the sale is bad. Getting to the checkout screen was not the issue, I managed to do that a few time but it also should be the No Stock message 3 times when I was spamming. Each time I had to go back to square ones, I'm on a high powered laptop which I would say beat 90 percent of what people use and a dedicated 200Mbps business link so I don't think it has anything to do with my internet or hardware.

                • NixMo1 on 16/07/2019 - 12:25

                  @Sainter4Life: Hmm yeah that sucks. It'd be nice to know if that only occurred with the use of certain browsers

                  • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 12:29
                    +1

                    @NixMo1: I was on Chrome, maybe I should sue Google for advertising it as the fastest browser. lol

                    • NixMo1 on 16/07/2019 - 12:29

                      @Sainter4Life: Lmao

                    • theguyrules on 16/07/2019 - 12:31

                      @Sainter4Life: Sorry you didn't get one, but plenty of ozbargainers did, and the methods posted here worked. I'm not sure about the issue where your cart was emptied, as that happened to me at least once too.

                      • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 12:35
                        +2

                        @theguyrules: I'm genuinely happy for anyone who did manage to get one. I was only expressing my feeling about the sale and as mentioned before, even if I did manage one it wouldn't have changed my opinion.

                        • Hardly Normal on 16/07/2019 - 14:12
                          +1

                          @Sainter4Life: To provide a contrary view, I thought the sale was great. It was like solving a puzzle when figuring out how the system worked and how to game it. It would have also been fun to make a python script to automate it all but that would have really ruined the sale if it released.

                          • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 14:32
                            +1

                            @Hardly Normal: This sale was still better than what click frenzy tried to pull on us recently. THAT was atrocious to no end.

                            • iMacca on 16/07/2019 - 15:41

                              @ATangk: I think it was good that ebay at least tried to do something a bit different, when I saw $99 airpods I thought there'd be no chance at getting some, then seeing they were releasing a batch every hour I thought "that's good, might actually have a shot at grabbing a pair in one of the releases".

                              It ended up being pretty hard to get them, but I feel like more real people ended up getting a pair thanks to the posts on here than if they'd just released 800 at 10am and the bots did their thing

                              • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 15:49
                                +1

                                @iMacca: On the contrary I'd imagine there would be more people getting their chance at one if all 800 were released at the same time. The bots would not have been expecting it.

                                • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 15:56
                                  +2

                                  @ATangk: At least if eBay did that, you would give it a go for 5 mins. You either win or you lose inside that 5 mins and you walk away either happy or sad for a moment and get on with the rest of your day.

                                  • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 15:59

                                    @Sainter4Life: I wonder how much loss economically there is due to low productivity caused by these type of sales. Would it be equivalent to the man climbing the harbour bridge?

                                • iMacca on 16/07/2019 - 16:09

                                  @ATangk: Possibly, especially if they just released them with no warning, but I think they would have just taken 20secs longer to sell out. I doubt I would have managed to get them at 10am but thanks to the posts here I got a pair at 5pm.

                                  Again, I think it's at least good that they took a different approach, maybe it didn't work out so well but maybe they'll try something else next time. Ideally it should only have been open to people who already had eBay Plus.

                                  • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 16:14

                                    @iMacca: Minimum 100 feedback score? Or minimum perfect feedback score?

                                    • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 16:43

                                      @ATangk: Minimum feedback score would be nice, as the last thing eBay would want is for people to generate once off accounts which clearly many did.

      • BOGLOAD on 16/07/2019 - 14:12
        +3

        I'm not sour at the fact that I have a pair. I'm sour at the lengths that I had to go through to get a pair — that was horrible. Discovering that it needed to be in a cart already and to button mash. Absolutely none of my 'non-techy' type friends wouldn't have the patience nor sticking power to do this. Had I have not had 7 other goes and the information provided here, how would Joe Average go about procuring a pair? Have a look at all the 0 feedback accounts that picked them up - clearly bots or similar!

        • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 14:17
          +2

          Well said, couldn't agree more.

          • Global Nomad on 16/07/2019 - 15:39
            +1

            @Sainter4Life: Agree with you.
            One thing that may have helped level the playing field would have been to release the batches at a different time within each hour not always on the hour.

  • pewpewpew on 16/07/2019 - 00:47
    +4

    WTH they didn't stop at 5pm???!!!

  • skelty on 16/07/2019 - 08:11

    I managed to get 1 at 4pm

  • profar on 16/07/2019 - 08:36
    +3

    I duplicated the cart window 20 times in chrome, then did a mad ctrl-shift-tab + click sequence at 4:59:50. 5 of those windows came back with successful order

    Thanks bogchop I'm in the biz of forever evolving m8 :)

    • BOGLOAD on 16/07/2019 - 14:16

      @profar FYI was only one pair, just same confirmation window 5 times! :)

      • ATangk on 16/07/2019 - 14:32
        +1

        I got a total of 9 confirmation windows.

      • profar on 16/07/2019 - 19:47

        I know , edited out that bad part :)

  • BewareOfThe Dog on 16/07/2019 - 11:06

    Dyson hairdryer sold out.

  • xis123 on 16/07/2019 - 16:29
    +1

    Was about to get the $10 postage fee during that bug around the 12:00PM drop back re: $99 AirPods - however it's in the form of a voucher for eBay.. they rejected my request to have it sent back to my PayPal.

    • Sainter4Life on 16/07/2019 - 17:17
      +4

      So much for free postage for eBay Plus members. They should offer the refund as well as the voucher in compensation.

  • mixgrill on 16/07/2019 - 18:01

    Woah! We're up to 15 pages of comments

  • King Steuart on 16/07/2019 - 20:21

    Good to know Google nests are worth $99. Will confidently wait for the pricedrop.

  • toblerone21 on 16/07/2019 - 20:34

    Still on the checkout page lol, doubt there is any left since the last one they sold was 11.45 last night

  • Satirical on 16/07/2019 - 21:18

    Has it shipped for anyone?

    • Smigit on 16/07/2019 - 21:44

      Not for me, although expected delivery is Monday

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