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The SKINS Summer Sale - up to 80% off Selected SKINS Compression Tops & Tights - Free Post

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Just popped onto the SKINS website and came across their up to 80% off sale. A few examples -

Mens Long Tights various colours $39.99
Mens Half Tights various colours $29.99
Mens Long Sleeved tops various colours $29.99
Mens Short Sleeved tops various colours $19.99
Mens Sleeveless tops various colours $19.99 (Originally $9.99)

The Ladies section seems to be very limited in sizes, only had XL in what I was interested in hence ended up buying Mens XS in what I was after.

Youth items are also on sale.

Free postage too…enjoy!

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  • holy crap! wicked deal :D

  • Wicked. Buying a lot here….

  • god prices!!!

    • +3

      God wears compression gear?

      That must be in the Book of Repetitions…

  • What benefits do you think you are getting from wearing compression sportswear?

    • +11

      It makes you look super pro

      • +5

        And/or like a super hero! ;)

    • +5

      Seriously though, reduced muscle soreness and increased recovery time is what I actually experience.
      I do not wear the items during exercise, I wear them under normal clothes after playing.
      My ageing body normally complains (in the form of sore muscles) for a few days after playing, but I find the soreness is either reduced significantly, or eliminated altogether when I remember to take my compression gear.

      I believe the theory is that the compression squeezes the blood out of your capillaries, thereby assisting the body to remove lactic acid buildup from muscles and therefore reducing the amount of muscle damage and as a side effect reducing muscle soreness.

      • i agree and experience the same, it's no marketing bs. i run a little and get no sore calfs the next day with tights, i ran once without them and was sore for a few days. they are win, but sadly out of stock.

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Z2NcAMaDg
      Improved blood flow should in theory mean better performance during exercise. However I think they are more commonly used for recovery, reducing the severity of DOMS aka exercise induced muscle damage (EIMD)

  • +1

    Nice prices , no more 'S'izes :(

  • Bought a couple of the sleeveless top. At $10 they are I guess cheaper than some of the generic Target and Big Ws…

  • Got to the website late but think I've managed to score a pair of the half tights (checkout is taking ages though).

    Cheers!

  • +2

    anyone having trouble accessing site?

  • Website's flooded. C-c-c-c-can't checkout.

  • Website is dead. Even entering through a google search hit is not working.

  • yep checkout has been looping… FAIL SKINS

  • i missed out last time and this time still can't load the page

  • I got to the checkout page and it died there in my hands. Sigh.

  • Yup same on checkout page…..

    awesome time to fail hahah

  • Great deal, but after 100's of attempts to get into the site, I managed to get through only to find they have limited sizes left. There are no 'M' for males and no 'M' for female pants. I haven't bothered to check mens or womens tops. Brilliant prices though.

    • -1

      grr, i had an M in my cart when it died!

  • thanks

  • great deal! thanks for the post. just got some half tights, was hoping for some long ones too but none in my size. i found i couldn't even get to the checkout in firefox, but IE worked better. be patient, it took around 15 minutes to submit order information before the paypal screen came up.

  • Anyone have luck using the newsletter discount code
    "SIGNUP10%"

  • For those want an update, I just purchased a few items, all went through. Just be patient (paid by paypal).

    • Same same, it took a while and a few reloads but it got there in the end.

    • no piont if the only size left is xl

  • Was finally able to get thru as well

  • Got through to submitting payment method before it seized up completely, no doubt by the time I get it to work the items I want will be gone..

    Might be lucky as it seems everyone is a medium or a small or here and i'm a large.. nobody touch the LDL full lengths please ;D

  • do they have size 7X?

    • +1

      really?

      I think from memory the highest was 2XL or 3XL..

  • Soooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • My F5 key is starting to wear out.. stuck at the page trying to check out!

    • +11

      there will be a deal on ozbargain for keyboards soon. dont worry. keep hitting the F5 key

      • LOL had me chuckling for a while

  • Can't even access the site

  • man, it was perfectly fine at 8:25am WST now its fullyeee borked :(

  • Can someone explain technically what kind of traffic brings a site like that down? How many people would have seen this deal and want to buy SKINS? I guess it is not like hundreds of thousands of requests are hitting it every second. Are we talking tens or hundreds of requests per second? Is it usually in the server's CPU speed, low memory or internet bandwidth?

  • -6

    Really simple.

    Use a PROXY to access the website…

    Direct Link to the shop by Proxy: http://jsproxy.com/search.php?u=6cc4a6b81f55a0bce7Oi8vc3Rvcm…

    • +2

      If a site is down, it's down.

    • I take it it wouldnt be secure to check out via proxy would it?

    • +10

      Are you a troll or simply ignorant?

      When a site gets ozbargained, it runs out of resources to serve any more requests - regardless of where you try to access it from. When it really was down, I checked with isup.me and a US VPN - both didn't work.

      The store works directly now - probably because all the common sizes are sold out.

      If you want to be arrogant, you should make sure you know what you're talking about first.

        • OK, you're a troll.

        • +11

          actually eug is right.
          our store is hosted in one place, hong kong.
          so no matter where you are coming from, if it's down, it's down.

        • Hey SkinsIT
          Can you tell us how long it will be till you get the store checkout working?
          Thanks

        • +1

          hey engineeringprof

          just posted down the bottom, but the checkout is still working (we are receiving orders), it will just take a bit of perseverance to finalise your sale.

          once the traffic dies down, it should be fast again.

          thanks

        • +5

          Thanks to SkinsIT for coming to OzBargain to explain the situation.

          OzBargain was down for 8 hours this morning. Looks like it is back online doing its business to bring down other websites :)

        • the real question scotty, is who brought down ozbargain ?

        • Posted on the blog this morning:

          http://blog.ozbargain.com.au/2012/status-down-8-february-201…

          Basically the hosting provider had some issues from the maintenance last night.

  • ah. all the M's are sold out for the ones I wanted. The one day I sleep in.

    edit ah crap cant checkout..

  • +1

    ozbargained

  • Was at checkout and it crashed

  • +1

    site down

  • how warm do these keep you? keep the wind out at all? ive zero experience with skins. cheers :)

    • +2

      Barely warm at all. Wind goes right through them. If you want something to keep you warm get the thermal skins that are meant for cold weather activities like snowboarding.

    • +1

      Yeah they aren't amazing for keeping you warm.

    • Ah cool! thanks for the feed back :)

    • +1

      I actually feel colder wearing them compared with not wearing anything - especially with a bit of wind. Probably because it wicks the sweat away.

      • Ditto..
        The effect of squeezing blood out of the surface flesh probably also contributes to the coolness feeling.

  • crap, went thru the whole thing, into the cart and 1 page away from purchase before it crashed!

  • ITS WORKING, i'm getting there boyz and girls!!

    • still cant checkout

  • Got items in cart but can't get to checkout

    • Same here. Can't even log in.

  • NoooOOoOO!!! its failing….

  • +6

    so sorry about this everybody, we literally got 'ozbargained'.
    we are doing everything that we can, but it may be flaky for a while.
    we are in the process of moving our servers from Hong Kong to the US in the next month or two, then hopefully all will be smooth for the next sale.
    please keep trying, we still have heaps of stock of most things.

    thanks

    • Are you planning on honouring the prices advertised in our shopping carts if the stock runs out? I'm sure that would make a lot of people around here feel better.

      • How can they? If stock runs out they have no stock to honour the price on…..????

      • sale items are all EOL (end of line), so if the stock runs out, we won't ever have it again in AU.
        please keep trying to order, we have people all around the world working on it.

        contact [email protected] if you have any further enquiries.

        • Can we email orders through if we provide our Skins account name?
          I've been stuck with my items in the cart and can't get past the "Proceed to checkout" button.

        • Can I submit an order manually over that email address LOL……

          ….actually, can I?

        • sorry guys, all has to be done on the site otherwise we will over sell on some items.
          keep trying!

  • +6

    Could everyone please go back to work and get out of their site - so that I can complete my order!

  • I got it! All done! Went through pretty smoothly considering all the traffic for the past hour.

    • same!! yay!! took over an hour to get to checkout and through it…but yay!!

  • submitting order information…

  • Done. Took 3 hours but at least it finally worked.

  • +3

    thanks for your tenacity guys!

    • +2

      Thankyou for coming on as a rep/tech support.
      We always appreciate knowing whats going on.

  • Got excited when it actually let me checkout and enter details. Submitted my registration and looks like server is overloaded again

    • Yeah it got better then worse =(

    • sorry zhou, i know it can be frustrating.
      we had to close http requests so that some of the orders could complete.
      should be good to go again soon, thanks for your patience!

  • It took almost an hour, but I got the order in. Thanks for the post.

  • Gahh my shopping cart timed out and now it's showing 0 items again! Have to start all over :(

  • Its super frustrating when you have a cart with 5 items and then you lose it all…. Almost ready to throw in the towel.

    • Agreed.. I had 6 items, readding them in now and it's going alright.. maybe it's just the checkout page that's the wall!

      • Ya, i got stuck at that wall for 45 mins before losing the cart. Now i'm struggling to add anything.

        • again guys, sorry about the frustrating nature of this!
          we are basically having to open up windows of time where people can get their orders done and then checkout.
          my advice at this point is, if you can add something to the cart, do it as quickly as possible and be ready with your payment.

  • went to try checkout again, get to basket page but it said:
    * Some of the products are currently out of stock

    … tried to checkout anyway cept its timing out again.

    I give up.

  • finally!!! hahahaha thanks skins

  • YEAH BUDDEH !
    Order has been processed.
    Took me 15 minutes. Guess i was lucky

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