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Apple TV $39 Diablo III $20 Flip Flop $1 Amazon Kindle $59 Silver Bracelet $10 1TB HD $49 @COTD

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I got an email from Scoopon confirming the COTD flash sale. Below is the email:

The votes are in, and it's all about to start! Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11AM AEDT, we'll be launching the latest edition of our "FLASH SALE" (our popular hour-by-hour sale where the products are decided by our customers). Simply enter the Catch of the Day site at 11 AM AEDT and we will be featuring 12 deals, one deal per hour on the hour. Here are some of the featured deals:

Apple TV – Just $39
Diablo III – Just $20
Traditional Black Havaianas – Just $1
Pandora Silver Bracelet – Just $10
WD 1TB Hard Drive - Just $49
Amazon Kindle - Just $59
and 6 more fabulous deals!

Remember, this is a members only promotion and as such you will be required to login to gain access. Also note that as always, the quantities on the flash sales are strictly limited and vary from deal to deal. We advise that anyone who may find a few server crashes or waiting around too stressful to give this event a miss. It gets pretty crowded, but there's always outstanding value in this amazingly democratic event!

It seem that they will be doing 1 deal/hour. I am not sure if its by the most popular order first or not.

If yes then it will be Diablo 3 from 11am-12am, then the Apple TV > WD 1TB Hard Drive > Amazon Kindle> Pandora Silver Bracelet and lastly $1 flip flop. They also said and 6 more fabulous deal, so may be they will might be doing the next 6 popular as well.
Good price but stock is limited and the server may crash. If you dont have the time or patient then just give it a miss as they suggested, dont go for it and then complain that they wasted your time. If you do have time and patient then good luck getting a great bargain.


Mod: Please let me remind you again the Voting Guidelines of OzBargain, especially regarding to the negative votes. We will revoke votes that do not have valid reason.

Not Okay —

COTD sucks

Okay —

  • Bait advertising — requirement membership but no stock
  • COTD's server crashes when I am trying to complete the transaction.
  • Their website is no usable.
  • Quantity is too limited to be called a deal.

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closed Comments

  • +1

    If they repeat the Diablo sequence the next deal might be one of the bait items.

  • +4

    is this some kind of sick joke? thongs, now tents?

  • +1

    Waaay too many crap deals

  • +1

    Diablo seems to have been the only item to sell out so far, with the others not even getting to "almost gone" status. Have people gotten bored of the Crash-of-the-Day event?

    • +2

      Diablo is the only item worth getting so far. They could give some of this stuff away for free and I wouldnt take it.

  • all that people in the warehouse for approximately 2 items in stock…..

  • Crap of the day!

  • Pandora Bracelet

  • Pandora Silver Bracelet

  • pandora silver bracelet is in the top 6…..along with 2x camping tents, havaianas and deals from our "sister site". SURE………

  • … aaand they're all gone.

  • +2

    Sorry
    Pandora Silver Bracelet
    is sold out!
    Please remove it from the shopping cart to continue with checkout. so that seemed to last 1-3 minutes then.

  • Build the bracelet of your dreams, sick where do i put the lightsaber?

  • They should have something every half hour, because waiting 1 hour is annoying!

    • +3

      agree.

      i think they put it as 1 hour to ensure they collect a large enough pool of suckers to impulse buy their clearance crap (i.e. non oz-bargainers).

      although it looks like a few oz-bargainers bought the thongs. i have no idea why.
      and the more I think about why, the more I lose faith in humanity and a reason for living.

  • +1

    So who wants to guess the next item? I'm guessing iphone cover.

  • Digital Camera apparently

  • +8

    you have got to be kidding me.

    facebook only deal?

    i've had enough of these mind games.

    COTD is like an unpredictable and hormonal girlfriend, doesn't know what it wants to do at any given time
    so keeps you guessing and annoyed.

    • …but think.. the Facebook 'Like' could be for the Apple TV you've been daydreaming about all day.

  • +1

    Fujifilm FinePix AV200 Digital Camera $29.95 + Shipping

  • +5

    I refuse to 'like' COTD on facebook and let people get suckered into this bait advertising. This is almost like Dick Smith sale (different circumstances same only 1-2 item in stock). this is definitely not supposed to be on ozbargain.

    • +3

      agree. they're disgraceful!

  • +3

    I have wasted time on this and therefore it deserves my well reserved negative for the day. Makes no sense for something to be sold out at 12.01pm. It takes longer just to process the orders. So there is no way it can be sold out in less than a minute. System can't process/update it that fast.

  • +1

    Oh wow, the cameras sold out too? People are biting the bad deals as well now?

  • +1

    well, cotd has more than lived up to my expectations today :)

  • +2

    Very disapointed, couldn't get Diablo 3.

  • Kindle

    • Woow I got one. I'm actually not really saving much….kinda started regretting it by the time the sale went through, but then again….will be handy.

  • +2

    and sold out in like 10 secs??!!! ahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahah

    • I got it into the cart… but then… nada.

      • Ditto, in the cart and then it said it was sold out.

      • +1

        Same. Why do I bother…

    • +1

      Got to the last page of the checkout before being booted back into the cart: "please remove sold out item blah blah blah"

  • wooo scored the kindle for the girlfriend =]

    • congrats.

  • This isn't baiting, what sane company would want to annoy so many people all at once?

    Am guessing this sort of deal in the past has stirred up the anti COTD sentiment here. What sort of marketing people think this is a good idea?

    btw, got the kindle in my basket, put CC details then it is out of stock. They owe me for 5 minutes of my time wasted if basket items aren't reserved for long enough to complete checkout.

  • 1 deal per hour…

    More like: 1 deal for 1 minute every hour.

  • +2

    I literally added the kindle to my cart, and went through the payment and clicked confirmed before 6:01 and guess what? 'Sold out'

    Catch of the day is the worse bargain site I've come across closely followed by fishpond.

    • whoa, fishpond after cotd?:o

  • +1

    Guys….. Look what I just found
    http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5151266754

    • +1

      the guy who posted that is a virgin and still believes in Santa. thats about how believable it is to get a bargain on catch of the day.

  • 24 x Premium Recycled Nike Golf Balls… really!?

  • +1

    Recycle golf balls … meh

    (Details: 24 x Premium Recycled Nike Golf Balls $4.99 + shipping - http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfish_info.php?products_…)

  • apple tv sold out

    • lol that was fast. Was surprised to see it's the latest one tho. 1080p output. Oh well.

    • +1

      Sold out in about 2 minutes

      • not able to be jail broken

        • regardless. I'm still staring at my checkout cart. :'(

      • less than that

  • daym i was eating dinner
    forgot about this one haha

  • NO!!!

  • -4

    man i have a gift, got the apple tv as well, sorry boys and girls

  • ATV3 for $39. Probably only had 3 in stock.
    Sold out in 2 minutes (possibly quicker)

    • I tried to get it in between site crashes and failed.

  • only WD 1TB Hard Drive - Just $49 left

    • Anyone know if that's USB3 or USB2?

    • +2

      i wouldn't be suprised if it was IDE since you're dealing with cotd :)

      • Can you really still get one of those as an external harddrive?

  • +2

    beats by dr gay - $249
    FFS

  • -1

    beats headphones $249.00

  • -1

    Beats By Dr. Dre Studio HD Headphones - $249.00

  • WD 1TB Elements External Hard Drive

  • -2

    woo 3 for 3

    • +2

      USB 2

    • The levels of envy emitting from my block of mass is off the scales right now… Over 9000!!!

    • I have to admit the Kindle and the WD 1TB aren't "amazing" deals but I'm getting these for other people. The ATV was an excellent deal though =]

      • +1

        well yeah congrats then but you don't have to rub the fact that you got all 3 in.

        • Yea I'm probably being very bad mannered here, sorry about that everyone. At the same time I don't like it when people get all self entitled and complain about the sale, if you don't want the drama then just don't bother with it.

    • +6

      n00bi3z is a friend or relative of a catch of the day employee.
      no sane person would promote or try to justify COTD's ridiculously unfair unethical bait advertising behaviour in any shape or form.

      • +2

        The facebook page is full of people like n00bi3z. Probably family and friends, or the actual workers

        • -4

          I was going to write a long post but I think it would be a waste of time. If you think COTD is behaving in an illegal or unethical manner please contact the ACCC to voice your complaints. If they come back with a response you find unsatisfactory you are free to obtain further advice from a lawyer that deals in this area.

        • +1

          I don't doubt that at all. they probably create fake profiles just to like the page.
          As long as they appear popular in the eyes of the public, they will continue to mislead and bait people to their site for their crapathons.

  • sold out

  • damn no luck with this one

  • Not a bargain. Marketing gimmick if anything.

  • ,,,,,,,,,,,, Got one Apple TV ,,,, but my cc shows two transaction of $ 45.95,,,, yes ,,wasted 4 hours of my life ,, got a good deal ,,, still not worth wasting my time !!

  • damn this is so bad i have to revoke mine own +
    I swear i will never post another scoopn/cotd deal no matter how good it is.
    I guess i took the hit for all the people who posted this after me

  • As much as i hate cotd, all the people who complained about the lack of sizes and colours of the Havaianas, are ALL wrong. If you had gone to the fb page and clicked on the flier, it clearly said there would only be available Black or white only, sizes 35/36 HAVS.

  • Just got informed that Diablo was dispatched yesterday. Wtf three weeks lol.

    • Just a follow up, received it today and its the full version in BNIB!

      • yep, same, bnib retail - just activated

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