Surprised I hadn't seen anything about this. or maybe my forum searching sucks.

Wonder how it will go and if everyone's servers can cope. So who has registered?

Brisbane Times Story

More than a million Australians are expected to spend "tens of millions of dollars" in a new online sales event on Tuesday, prompting the 150 retailers who are on board to check their servers can cope with the onslaught. Big name stores like Myer, Target, Westfield and Dick Smith are among those who have signed up for the 24-hour sale known as Click Frenzy, touted as Australia's version of Cyber Monday in the US. Last year, Cyber Monday attracted 10 million shoppers and generated $US1.25 billion ($1.2 billion) in sales. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/buyers--and-servers--brace-for-click-frenzy-as-sales-hopes-soar-20121119-29lkt.html#ixzz2CeQMWvUx

Actual site

Is it one of those theres where they have amazing deals and extremely cheap stuff, but only like 2 of them available and it sells out in half a second?

Is it one of those theres where they have amazing deals and extremely cheap stuff, but only like 2 of them available and it sells out in half a second?

Yeah. One of my sites i signed up to for daily deals has that every now and again. Dont even bother cause the site fails to load once a new deal is available and once it does, its all gone. Lucky fuckers to whoever gets the good shit.

Still, im registered, worth checking out.

nats knows the game.

me! this is like stocktake sales but without the pushy old ladies.

YES! I've always wanted Telstra bed linen!

Bigpond Bed Linen bundled with a set of Bigpond towels and Bigpond bathrobe, $0 upfront on a 24 month contract.

What, no jokes about Telstra bed linen providing better "coverage" yet?

What, no jokes about Telstra bed linen providing better "coverage" yet?

Damnit, I was thinking it when I read dais's post, and then got to yours :(

$499 for a Kogan 46" TV? Who the hell wants to buy a Kogan branded TV? Besides, it's available on kogan.com.au now for that price :P http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/46-led-tv-borderless-full-hd-digital-tuner-usb-input/
Only 6 star energy, 50Hz, no DLNA (or network) and a 1yr warranty?

If it's not that one, they do have a 100Hz panel for under $700 (which would make it ~$500 if it's 33% off), but yeah... not worth even looking at.

No thanks, I'll save my much-earned gold pieces for a Samsung Series 7 Smart TV or Sony EX720 or similar.

last edited by Raven at 08:29:47 20/Nov/12

https://www.facebook.com/clickfrenzy?ref=ts&fref=ts

Let them know about your experience.

Expected as much.

From what I'm reading the sales aren't that great anyway, mere dollars off already highly priced items. Could there ever be an online sale that doesn't crash?

I need a new fridge, were any of the participating places doing good deals on fridges?

More interested in the American sales soon.

more like .... dickfrenzy.

Epic bargains are a thing of the past. Every day online pricing is so competitive there simply isn't much room to move on discounting unless they're a douche rip-off store like Harvey Norman.

Got myself a security camera system and dishwasher - both things I was going to have to buy for the new house, and both cheaper than I could find by any thorough googling... so saved about $400 there.

Pretty happy with that.

30% off at Windsor Smith got some sweet leather shoes bargains.

Smartcompany estimates that the made over $1million in advertising and go in to some details breaking out what money various companies forked over

Click Frenzy fail: Retailers spend $1 million on ads for site but questions already flying

There's also quotes from very unimpressed businesses.

Noobs?

They cleared over one million dollars and (apparently) forked out next to nothing on infrastructure. They probably have something in their contract covering 'best effort' to remain up, so it's no loss to them, they just run everyone's adverts for an extra 24 hours, probably a whole week, and call it 'payment in kind' for their failure to serve adverts when they were meant to, that's if the companies have any recourse at all.

Then next year they'll be able to do it again. They'll get plenty of press covering how they failed last time but they've learned their lesson blah blah blah, and they'll convince advertisers to go with them because of all the media coverage, and this time they've got AWS to cover them, who have unlimited capacity (which they won't chose to pay for), so they can claim the issue won't be repeated, but will be.

In the mean time they'll get lower level advertisers on board to advertise on their apology email that they will send out, with a few token sales on it to all those people that unnecessarily handed over their details.

Click Frenzy has left us 'internally damaged', say small retailers

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/biztech/click-frenzy-has-left-us-internally-destroyed-say-small-retailers/story-fn5lic6c-1226521343731#ixzz2CpgEHe47

RAAANDAAALL

I'm itchy inside again

they only counted on 1 million visit over 24 hours,

I think they got confused in working out their figures, they might have only been counted on 1mil paying visits, and not counting on the traffic of lookers,

honestly for the amount of press etc that they had, it is a pretty major oversight (doing a noon to noon might have helped ease the traffic flow)

I ended up making a toys r us purchase for my boy for Christmas. Got him a Trampoline for cheaper than I've seen them at Target, BigW and Kmart so I'm happy enough.

Didn't eve bother looking last night.

Nice way to test a denial of service counter
Just saying...

Marketing gets to say it's been a successful campaign over the amount of traffic driven to the site, they then get to blame the failure of the website on infrastructure and "can't pay click through owing to technical issues"

or is it?

/paging Facepalm!

last edited by HERMITech at 00:44:17 22/Nov/12