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Catch of the Day Game Sales - Up To 80% Off
Steve Farrelly
Sydney, New South Wales
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Catch of the Day is having a pretty decent game sale with a huge number of bargain bin prices on even some big names in games. Check them out here.
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09:19am 22/05/12 Permalink
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scuzzy
Brisbane, Queensland
15356 posts
None of you guys buy Diablo tomorrow OK, it's mine, I called it
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09:39am 22/05/12 Permalink
Taqtik
Melbourne, Victoria
11 posts
None of you guys buy Diablo tomorrow OK, it's mine, I called it


Don't you mean today? lol
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09:42am 22/05/12 Permalink
arkter
Gold Coast, Queensland
777 posts
Don't you mean today? lol

Nope, it's tomorrow... confirmed.. no need to lurk the website today
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10:09am 22/05/12 Permalink
Taqtik
Melbourne, Victoria
12 posts
Nope, it's tomorrow... confirmed.. no need to lurk the website today


haha sneaky... very sneaky...
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10:18am 22/05/12 Permalink
Mosfx
Gold Coast, Queensland
1122 posts
Some good prices but nothing that interests me.
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10:30am 22/05/12 Permalink
d^
Melbourne, Victoria
970 posts
Only 2 PC games out of all of em.
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10:33am 22/05/12 Permalink
Twisted
Brisbane, Queensland
11658 posts

COTD...notoriously fucking horrible. They never have enough stock. $10 says they've got like 10 copies of Diablo 3 up for grabs.
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11:03am 22/05/12 Permalink
Mass
Brisbane, Queensland
1194 posts
first lot up was the $1 Havianas, but only in size 4-5 mens......who the fuck is lining up for those.....surely there aren't that many jockeys looking for cheap thongs
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11:06am 22/05/12 Permalink
TiT
Brisbane, Queensland
4902 posts
haha so they got thongs for sale but for size 4 and 5 for males lol!!!
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Taqtik
Melbourne, Victoria
13 posts
$10 digital Set top box is the 12:00 deal
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12:01pm 22/05/12 Permalink
Mass
Brisbane, Queensland
1196 posts
thanks for the heads up, saves me trying to even get on
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12:02pm 22/05/12 Permalink
BladeRunner
Queensland
693 posts
sold out with in a min or less.
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01:04pm 22/05/12 Permalink
parabol
Brisbane, Queensland
6997 posts
It's most likely an email harvesting exercise to get people on their newsletter and details forwarded onto sister sites / affiliates, since you can't view the site without entering an email address and agreeing to spam.
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01:22pm 22/05/12 Permalink
scuzzy
Brisbane, Queensland
15357 posts
haha what a cunt website, said the Diablo thing was tomorrow when I looked at it this morning
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01:48pm 22/05/12 Permalink
TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
7988 posts
COME ON $39 APPLE TV
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01:51pm 22/05/12 Permalink
trog
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Brisbane, Queensland
36222 posts
It's most likely an email harvesting exercise to get people on their newsletter and details forwarded onto sister sites / affiliates, since you can't view the site without entering an email address and agreeing to spam.
It's a great idea - have "limited stock" to encourage the scarcity effect. I have no doubt they're losing money on a lot of those products; they must've done the math and figured out that it is a more efficient way for them to get subscriber info than any other method.

I would like them to have to announce how many items they have so to figure out what my chances are of getting something. e.g., I can't believe they'd have more than around 10-20 copies of Diablo 3 if they're selling it at $20 - I assume they're paying $40-50 for each copy.
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01:57pm 22/05/12 Permalink
TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
7989 posts
Loss leaders, just a standard practice in any sales business. Their cost of user acquisition would more than justify these unbelievably cheap sales. Take the D3 promo, if they had 100 copies and paid $60ea and sold them for $20ea it's a loss of $4000.

Cut that up into the number of people who added themselves to their subscriber list in the lead up and it's a great marketing exercise. Even at $1 per acquisition that's ridiculously low, much cheaper than any CPC campaign and then the re-marketing opportunities means you'll cover the loss made super quick.
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02:39pm 22/05/12 Permalink
deadlyf
Queensland
2615 posts
I'm pretty sure the "Voted by you" part is 95% bullshit. From the list they had there were a few clear below cost products like the Diablo 3 or Apple TV but a lot of the other stuff was either reasonably priced or cheap shit like the thongs or bracelet that no one would have really voted for but they are putting up because that is what they always intended to do.

I'd say they picked the most popular below cost item and went with that and the rest they will just claim was voted for.

Still, I'm hoping for a cheap Apple TV or external HDD, but as a safety precaution I won't hold my breath.
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TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
7991 posts
Cock smokers, I bet that had like 5 in stock as I hit that page at exactly 8.00pm, added an AppleTV to my cart and went to checkout to get a message they were sold out.
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