Catch Of The Day
It appears that Zazz is not alone. Catch Of The Day is the new kids on the block of 24-hour-cheap-deal websites. Launched last Wednesday, it looks disgustingly similar to Zazz! — from its home page, 3 product images with Javascript roll-over on the front page, product discussion forum, dry humour on the product description, etc. Almost a clone, I’ll say. The website is also a bit buggy at the moment (like giving out tomorrow’s deal?) But who cares as long as it gives me cheap gadgets! :)
Catch Of The Day is also based in Melbourne (I guess that’s where all the good shoppings are), and is part of Daily Deals. So far for the last couple of days it has brought out quite a few great deals, so I decided to add them onto the sidebar, alternate with Zazz on the front page of this blog.
Thanks to young_dazza who notified me on the forum.
It is worth remembering that Zazz itself is a copy of another site, http://www.woot.com
Matt — yes I have acknowledged that when I wrote about Zazz back in June this year (see my linked post). However there has been *lots* of those one day deals site over there in the states, but few (now 2!!!) over here.
Also Zazz is a copy of Woot in concept, but if you look at the site structure of the Catch Of The Day, it is very similar to Zazz. Placement of product images. Forum links. Compare the two and you know what I meant.
think the website is http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/ the link you have up top is /au/
Aargh! Thanks for the correction :)
Well i have had a bad experience with CATCH OF THE DAY, I had bought three products and i only recieved one, after contacting them numerous times, they had said they ran out of the product and know by bank is chasing them for my refund.
I have purcharsed a dvd player, was faulty so i rang the manufacture, they said this catch of the day is not authorised to sell their product, according with the manufacture the goods could be stolen, so i tried to get my money back but they refused to pay me back my money, i think i have been ripped off, do not purcharse anythink at all from them, if anythink goes wrong u will regret to have purcharsed any goods to them they robed me 250 dollars…
My brother and brother in law have bought several different things through catch of the day and they rave about it. Wonderful Service great delivery may things happen just like anywhere
Just made the mistake of buying a camera from Catch of the Day (aka Daily Deals) only to find it was useless to me outside the house and didn’t even have a User Manual.
Interesting to read this blog. I haven’t met anyone who has had a good experience with Daily Deals. Only those with a sad story to tell. Because they haven’t received any help from the site they have found the best way to solve the problem is to contact their bank and have them reverse the credit card transaction. But give it all a thought. If stuff is bulk dumped on this site is it because it cannot be sold anywhere else? Where, for instance, someone could actually examine the goods first and see if they are really worth anything or just rubbish.
CATCH OF THE DAY - This website deliberately misleads customers with their photos and product descriptions. I have sent them several emails and have tried to contact them through their website. They have not even bothered to reply.They have also deleted the purchase record in the log in account,why am I not surprised?.The goods looked fantastic on the photos claiming to be worth hundreds of dollars.The stuff I received was less than worthless.I was not expecting too much but was stunned and angry when I saw what they had sent.My blood boils thinking that they are doing this to thousands of people!!!
These cowards dont even have a phone number or genuine contact name, the only thing that is not a lie on their website is the ‘NON REFUND’ policy.
Shut these rip off sites down!
CATCH OF THE DAY!!!!!! Never will i buy or recommend anyone else purchase from these mob! I purchased a product from them which took longer than the promise delivery date! Not only that but was only able to play with it for 5-10 minutes until it broke down! I’ve emailed them immediately asking them the procedures to getting an exchange. Since then til now(3 heading to 4 weeks)all i got was an email basically asking me to check the battery. They don’t replies to emails and there is no contact number anyway!!! Its a joke and to be seriously No worth all the hassles. They should be shut down!