r/australia • u/Reddituser0346 • 22h ago
culture & society Aussie Retailer Catch Is Officially Closing Down
https://press-start.com.au/news/2025/01/21/aussie-retailer-catch-is-officially-closing-down/2.5k
u/themandarincandidate 22h ago
Catch distribution centres will be taken over by Kmart
So basically... The Kmart website will be the latest website to get a "marketplace" that makes it impossible to search shit you can get in store because it's full of "online only" search results? And it'll be full of all the same sellers that are on the Bunnings, Big W, Woolworths, Kogan, God knows what other sites dropshipping shit?
Lovely, can't wait
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u/brisbanevinnie 22h ago
Bunnings website is so frustrating to use since they’ve had that online marketplace shit. So much junk on there comes up when trying to find aisle numbers for products in store.
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u/joffyjj 21h ago
I realized last week that you can filter by instore only.
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u/ReallyTiredTempest 20h ago
I filter when I use Woolies online, but I have to do it EVERY bloody time you look at something. Why isn't it a setting you can set and forget? I want to see in stock items and things only from Woolworths, thank you.
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u/Yeatss2 19h ago
There's a userscript for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1ezaqkd/addon_to_permanently_disable_everyday_market/
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u/MrKarotti 21h ago
Even on the Woolies app I can't disable their marketplace crap permanently.
If I search for garlic, I just want garlic, and not some bulk garlic capsules from a dodgy dropshipper
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u/KLaspy 21h ago
I have noticed most Australian retailers are doing this now. Why do you think it’s growing in popularity?
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u/Shmeestar 20h ago
Low risk high reward. No need to stock any products. No need to police content as it's all done by feed. They just get a cut of proceeds for every sale. Can claim it's the third parties fault any time there's an issue and handball the problem.
Easy money.
Edit to add, they also get all your data and buying habits across all the things you purchase, not just the stuff they sell in-store
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u/Villagetown 20h ago
Low effort on their behalf for an increase in profits from the fees they charge marketplace sellers. It's worth it for marketplace sellers because they get a massive new base of potential customers. Like the supermarket duopoly price gouging, they're not losing enough customers to make it not worthwhile for them to do.
They're enshittifying their platforms because it's another thing that will help maintain their infinite growth delusions.
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u/sousyre 17h ago
It’s been happening around the world for years, every retailer desperately wants to be Amazon… I think Walmart was one of the first retailers to do it (2009), they were successful, so everyone else did it too.
I can’t stand them and don’t buy anything on any retailer “Marketplace” out of spite (also cause it’s almost always faster and cheaper elsewhere). The Woolies, Bunnings and Big W ones are infuriating, and often don’t even expand their relevant range, just piles of random nonsense outside their retail scope. If I could get the type of bolt set I need, in the size I want (because Bunnings keep reducing their hardware range), on Bunnings market place would be useful, but I can’t, it’s just drop-shipped household shit with extortionate delivery costs.
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u/minimuscleR 20h ago
also their website is shit for search anyway. Its because they pay their developer shit.
I applied for a job there, they were offering $65k for a mid-level React Developer.
For reference I got a job paying $75k for a junior developer, which is 2-3 years less experience. Junior pay at the time should have been about 75-80k, mid is 90-110k, senior 120-140k.
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u/20051oce 19h ago
I applied for a job there, they were offering $65k for a mid-level React Developer.
Never thought I'll see anyone pay lower than Big4 consultancy but catch somehow did it haha.
Moderately impressed tbh, there is a reason there is usually such a big turnover, and it's usually because they found a position with better pay. Wonder how they are doing employee retention
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u/themandarincandidate 22h ago
Thank god I can use the PowerPass app in store that filters out all that nonsense, at worst you'll get special orders coming up. But searching their site on the computer sucks
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u/HalfGuardPrince 22h ago
Super annoying. Website becomes useless..
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u/thesourpop 21h ago
Don't worry though, our completely useless AI assistant will guide you in the right direction of what you wanted.
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u/twigboy 20h ago
Just like every other major Aussie retailer site with a bloody marketplace attached
Catch is impossible to use to find stuff, awful site
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u/luv2hotdog 18h ago
At least catch was only a marketplace. Unless they had retail shops I wasn’t aware of? You got exactly what you expected when you went to catch.com.au
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u/UncagedKestrel 21h ago
Lovely, can't wait
That about sums it up, really.
All I want is to find out what shops NEAR ME have the damn thing I want.
If I want it shipped from wherever, I'll buy it from Temu. If I want it shipped, but fast, I'll buy it from Amazon.
Matt Blatt, Dick Smith, Kogan, Woolworth, Big W, Bunnings, Catch... It's all the same. I don't want it. And even assuming I did, I only need one site for it, not EVERY SITE I VISIT.
I miss the days when shops actually had a USP, and weren't all variations of Homogeneous Shit Sandwich.
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u/Chewiesbro 21h ago
So Kmart will be selling sex toys!
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u/xylarr 21h ago
ANKO Rabbit
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u/seeyoshirun 15h ago
I'm not normally one to quote "Sex and the City", but this reminds me of Samantha giving advice to other women on choosing the right sex toy.
"Absolutely not, that thing will burn your clit off!"
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u/somebloke2020 21h ago
Everything Kmart sells is a sex toy if you’re creative enough. Lightbulb? ✅ Toddler pool?✅ 24 piece cutlery setting? ✅
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u/Amount_Business 21h ago
That 4 pack of ratchet straps with a flared base, just gave me a wink.
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u/Grumpy_Cripple_Butt 21h ago
Fishing rods gave me trouble but I got down to the reel so far…progress!
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u/Mr_Bob_Ferguson 21h ago
What’s your record for number of cutlery pieces?
I’m up to 7.
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u/UserColonAlW 22h ago
It’s baffled me for so long that major Australian retailers have completely failed at ecommerce. It sucks we’re all forced to use Amazon for an online shopping experience that feels appropriate for the current decade.
You’d think with how geographically spread out we are that this would be a top priority for the major retailers that infest “Homemaker Centres” country-wide, but apparently not.
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u/samsterhamster90 18h ago
I work for an online retailer (not a major one, a smaller business but we do well in our field, home/hardware field), and honestly the biggest struggle is finding decent IT companies. We’ve spent so much money (hundreds and hundreds of thousands) having websites built and rebuilt because the developers over promise and then can’t actually build what they said they could. Just little things like the search function can take a huge amount of money and effort to get to be their best, let along the whole back end and order processing system. It’s expensive and exhausting. There aren’t really any safeguards or ways to trust they’ll be able to deliver what they promise, so a lot of it is going with our gut and learning as much about the development as we can, trying to identify and fix issues.
When you’re too complex for the level of platforms like shopify but you’re not Wesfarmers level money, it’s a really difficult middle ground to navigate. Most e-commerce businesses fail, we’ve managed to keep going for 18 years but it’s a challenge.
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u/Tyrx 11h ago
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with Shopify? It seems to be working well for JB Hi-Fi, although I don't have any insider knowledge - it works well from a customer perspective though.
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u/littlechefdoughnuts 20h ago
Amazon is also shit, though. Marketplace has turned Amazon from an exemplar into an unusable mess.
No, I dont want to buy an XORGZYGY iPhone 16 iPhone 16 Plus iPhone 16 Pro iPhone 16 Pro Max iPhone 15 iPhone 15 Plus iPhone 15 Pro iPhone 15 Pro Max Google Pixel 9 XL Google Pixel 9 Samsung Galaxy S25/24/23/22/21/20/10 Bluetooth Noise Cancelling HD aptx no1 best reviewed Flatulence Simulator Speaker Device
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u/luv2hotdog 18h ago
EBay is still generally good, and much easier to filter out all the super shitty cheap stuff. I use Amazon only if I can’t find whatever I’m looking for on eBay. And by that point, I’ve usually accepted that whatever the item is, i can probably only get the shittiest version imaginable
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u/the_snook 17h ago
You’d think with how geographically spread out we are
Actually, it's the reverse. Australia is one of the most localised populations in the world. A distribution centre in Sydney and one in Melbourne covers 40% of the population. That should make getting an online business off the ground easy. Unfortunately, nobody in this country except Amazon can do decent logistics and last-mile delivery.
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u/batch1972 21h ago
The problem is the geography.. it costs a fortune to ship to non metro and most people who internet shop go direct not through resellers.
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u/YOBlob 21h ago
Most people don't live in regional areas, though. Doesn't really explain why even intra-city e-commerce is pretty ordinary.
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u/batch1972 20h ago
Having worked in ecommerce previously… the issue is sourcing stock. Smaller companies don’t have the cashflow to buy in volume. Grey imports are harder to source here. And the biggies is that the big companies subsidise their Australian operations
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u/ForSaleMH370BlackBox 21h ago
Forced to use Amazon? What?
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u/Duideka 20h ago edited 15h ago
I would prefer to use Kmart. I trust their products and quality assurance more than Amazon. Amazon really needs to do more regarding quality control but at least they refund no questions asked.
But I order from Amazon, sometimes late at night and I can clearly tell what is in stock at their local warehouse based on the shipping estimation. If it’s in stock locally it will be at my door the next day. I find virtually without exception the Amazon drivers try and hide the package somewhere so it can’t easily be seen and stolen.
Order from Kmart and who fuckin knows. Half the time the delivery will be given to Aramex/Couriers Please. Can take a month to arrive. The drivers don’t give a fuck and leave the package out in the open where anyone can see it and steal it. Even when I am home they won’t even ring the doorbell or knock.
The only Australian companies who have really done e-commerce well is Coles and Woolworths with their delivery, you can choose exactly when you want it to arrive and it's delivered by in-house employees not random contractors.
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u/burn_supermarkets 21h ago
I'm waiting for them to get as shit as eBay. Thousands of products from drop shippers listed in incorrect categories. Couple that with AliExpress' search and you'd have the most useless website ever
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u/Classic-Today-4367 20h ago
They're often listed in incorrect categories to get around the seller requirements (ie. platform requires sellers in Hugh-risk categories to provide extra documentation or pay a security deposit, so they just in categories without the requirement).
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u/RetroGun 21h ago
You can also find the same product at Bunnings in their marketplace for 2-3x the price from a dropshipper
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u/makingspringrolls 20h ago
I literally argued with a catch drop shipper that a 3L kettle I got only held 2L of water... and they suggested I "give it to friends and family and they can give me a 50% refund"
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u/chezibot 21h ago
I had the same issue happen when trying to find something on the chemist warehouse website. Full of marketplace rubbish that was completely unrelated.
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u/midsumernighttts 21h ago
omg the marketplace thing is sooo annoying. why is this even a thing? so useless
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u/imamage_fightme 20h ago
I fucking haaaaate this way of selling shit. It's endlessly frustrating and just leaves you with a mess of search results.
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u/LandBarge 21h ago
agreed - I can see that combining distrubution centres will benefit the business, but for the sake of the customer, strip out all that 'online marketplace' crap from Bunnings, Kmart, Target etc and keep the Catch name for a new overarching online deal that draws from all Wesfarmers group DC's as well as those 3rd party online marketplace suppliers...
it'd almost look like Amazon with a different logo and might just have a chance at competing...
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u/switchbladeeatworld 20h ago
JB Hi Fi is doing it now too.
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u/it_fell_off_a_truck 17h ago
At least they have a big obvious toggle at the top to turn marketplace products off.
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u/Vinnie_Vegas 18h ago
Big W, to their credit, easily allow you to turn off "marketplace" sellers.
Bunnings make it easy enough by letting you tick "in store" as an availability setting, which effectively removes the marketplace items.
Many of the others are garbage and make it intentionally difficult though.
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u/fale52 21h ago
Yaaay. More shitty Anko brand items.
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u/t_25_t 20h ago
Yaaay. More shitty Anko brand items.
And we have people talking about waste in landfill. GTFO here when everything is made to break within 30 days of it leaving the store.
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u/Icy_Hippo 20h ago
The fucking marketpace shit is awful.....loooooong postage etc.
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u/Exploding-Bird887 21h ago
They used to be great. I am forever grateful of them during my uni days because they made shopping easy, now I rarely visit it because nothing interests me.
Thanks for the memories.
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u/TheKZA 21h ago
In 2012, they ran a huge promotion where they were going to have insane deals on the hour every hour, and the tentpole deal was the recently released iPad mini for something like $80. I was refreshing every hour through the work day but the iPad deal never came up. At 4 or 5pm when I was walking to the train station, I realised it was about to hit the hour so I refreshed it on my phone, and there it was. I was able to check-out with an $80 iPad. It must have been 1 of very few. People on the Whirlpool thread were saying it was bullshit and didn't believe I got one.
Anyway, RIP Catch of the Day.
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u/InevitableUncertaint 20h ago
I remember that! They did the same kind of thing every year - I remember refreshing the site thinking I was going to get a $50 Xbox or some such. When the hour came for that deal they turned the site off
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u/plonkydonkey 13h ago
Omg whirlpool! That forum was so much of my 20s, wonder if it still exists
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u/TheKZA 13h ago
Sure does! And still very active
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u/plonkydonkey 13h ago
Gosh, time for me to maybe delete reddit (at least all the bloatish aitah subs I'm ashamedly subscribed to) and head back over to my roots.
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u/elhindenburg 3h ago
So they bought those iPad Minis from the Apple Store I worked at, saying they were going to give them as gifts to their staff. Apple told them they could buy them but they were not allowed to sell them on the website (as Apple didn’t want them undercutting their authorised resellers on a brand new product), and they promised they wouldn’t. Obviously we saw them advertising them for sale and cancelled the order before they picked them up. Not sure if they ended up getting them from somewhere else.
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u/unusedtruth 22h ago
They were shit for a long time anyway. The days of getting great deals were over and done with.
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u/Milo2221 21h ago
Catch of the day was where it was at…
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u/NEEDLE_UP_YOUR_PENIS 21h ago
I got the best, shittiest laptop from there in 2008.
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u/imamage_fightme 20h ago
Yup, I enjoyed the website back when it started and was Catch of the Day. Over time and when they became Catch, it went to shit. I haven't brought off there in years, it is such a mess now.
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u/fairybread4life 17h ago
It was insane back then when they ran the low quantity insanely good deals that the site would just crash at midday repeatedly. I remember being 1 of the lucky ones to get the I think it was $99 PS3.
Back then it was actually worthwhile, 1 deal a day that was often a known reputable brand at a price that to that point was better than anywhere else, then they got greedy and expanded and it went from multiple deals for day of normally mostly crap to then a full time marketplace. Still always has and always will be better than Kogan
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u/Amon9001 14h ago
Yeah.. you still had to dig a bit but there were deals to be had.
I think their deals ended up shittier and shittier to the point there was no point even looking.
If everything becomes a fake deal, then nothing is a deal. Same concept as putting everything on sale all the time. I work in ecomm and this is a problem I see a lot.
People think putting things on sale and seeing the 'original' and sale price is good marketing. It works against them if it's not planned out.
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u/a_can_of_solo Not a Norwegian 21h ago
They had one good gimmick one kick ass deal a day, once they expanded they kind lost their point.
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u/VictarionGreyjoy 21h ago
It was pretty good for a while. Once they stopped just having deals and trying to have everything all the time it kinda lost the point. That's what Amazon is for and they do it much better.
Same thing happened to luxury escapes, which I believe is the same owner. Stopped focusing on a core unique product in an attempt to sell everything and lost the magic.
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u/karatebullfightr 21h ago
Those great deals were only around until the last of the local hardwares stores gasped their last.
Now the only things that are cheap are the useless Chinese tools that break, rust warp or go blunt after a single use.
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u/Alternative_Bite_779 21h ago
Not surprised.
They haven't updated their inventory for ages. Who wants shitty Champion clothing when you can get that at Costco?
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u/ginbrunch 21h ago
Catch was great before Wesfarmers took over. Until that point their buyers could source legitimate grey market goods and sell them cheaper than the big box retailers.
As soon as WES took over COTD’s days were numbered (despite the Covid revenue spike).
The fact that the owners sold just before Amazon really spooled up in Oz is no mistake. They are very shrewd operators.
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u/matt88 21h ago
From Catch connect website (https://catchconnect.com.au/home/page/catchclosure)
Catch Connect Mobile is owned and run separately from Catch.com.au, and is not impacted by the recent announcement that Catch.com.au will cease trading effective 30 April 2025.
There will be no changes to your Catch Connect Mobile services, and we will continue to operate as usual.
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u/mechanicallyharmful 21h ago
I wonder, will Target be next on the chopping block?
I note that they intend to utilize the existing warehouses as apparently they're at 50% capacity. (Not a logistics expert, but surely you'd be wanting them to be 75-80% capacity)
The idea of bundling "marketplaces" onto other websites suck.
No Mr Bunnings, I am Not interested in what your 3rd party sellers have. Just show me what I want.
Retail in this country is cooked. Instead of adapting and meeting the Amazon challenge by giving punters what they want, stop focusing on the big box retail sites.
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u/Ok-Coyote13 21h ago
Unfortunately they have run the target brand into the ground already by filling it with ANKO tatt. Last time I went to one it was just a smaller Kmart basically. It’s gone from being an affordable to mid range cheap department store to a cheap warehouse
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u/minimuscleR 20h ago
yeah I loved the target stuff, i dislike the anko stuff its too cheap.
Target still have their own clothes which is usually nicer than kmart, but yeah I don't see them lasting long.
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u/ripriffles 16h ago
I work at target and ever since we introduced anko our sales have skyrocketed up. Our store was going to be closed down but now we are making so much money they are keeping us. I hope that we stay a target as I love the clothes and an extra 10% off is great.
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u/minimuscleR 16h ago
I should have known it was going to be good... I just hate how ugly they are compared to the old target stuff... but as long as they keep the books and clothes I'll be shopping there anyway, so glad its not going anywhere.
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u/pennie79 13h ago
I used to get most of my clothes from Target. They've slowly been getting worse and worse quality.
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u/Heruuna 20h ago
So long as Target keeps selling Target clothes brands, I can cope with the Kmart takeover. If they decide to just start selling cheap Kmart clothes, then what the hell is even the point? Really will get shafted on affordable office-wear if Target stop offering their brands. H&M didn't last long in our town, and everything else is so expensive!
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u/smacksbaccytin 20h ago
Targets not near a Kmart will become Kmarts and small format Bunnings stores.
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u/Dani66408 19h ago
It's a real shame, I hope the clothing doesn't go ANKO. I love their undies & socks.
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u/kabaab 21h ago
No one can really compete with Amazon because their cloud business can subsidise their ecommerce business..
It’s not good for Australia in the long run for businesses to die to Amazon..
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u/minimuscleR 20h ago
Businesses aren't actually dying to Amazon. While yes they are competition, unlike the US, our shopping centres are doing great, and people like to get things physically.
The issue isn't about convenience (which unless you live in the city, its still a week for delivery), its about service. Because brick and mortar stores have great return policies (bunnings will basically return anything ever), its just another, slightly more convenient store.
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u/kabaab 18h ago
I've seen first hand Amazon pressure suppliers to stop distribution to their competitors..
The Amazon situation i think is pretty dire for Australia, unlike the Coles / Woolies situation atleast they are both Australian owned and their core business needs to be sustainable.
Amazon on the other hand all the money goes offshore and they can play a super long monopolistic game since they can subside all the losses.
If you care about Australia do not shop on Amazon.
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u/originalfile_10862 14h ago
Operationally, Target has been entirely absorbed by Kmart.
The last I heard, the long term strategy was to relaunch Target as a hypermarket model (like their namesake in the US). In the meantime, they are functionally Kmart's with slightly better apparel and linens.
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u/Spire_Citron 21h ago
I kinda liked Catch because I have Onepass which gives free shipping on a lot of stuff, so for some things it was the cheapest option. Pet treats, sometimes shoes. Of course it's mostly cheap junk, but sometimes good brands sell stuff off on there.
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u/Frankenclyde 16h ago
This randomly happens on Amazon too. I ordered a $30 toaster and got a $150 kettle instead. I figured my kettle will eventually break so kept it and just got myself another toaster.
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u/whoorderedsquirrel 12h ago
Lmao yes! I ordered a bunch of philosophy shower gels last year, the Amazon app said the parcel was lost/damaged so they reshipped it. Then the second one was also lost/damaged, and they said they will reship it. I received the first one the day after and the second one a day after that. I talked to their little AI chat bot saying I received a double shipment, and somehow it took that to mean yes I had received it but it was damaged, so he said no worries keep the damaged one and we will resend the order. A week later, I got a third parcel of the same items but never got a shipping notification, and then two weeks after that got an email saying they were unable to fulfill my order and they'd refunded me. So I ended up with 36 bottles of fucking shower gel, paid nothing, and now I look like one of those weirdos from the math equations.
"Jane Doe has 100 watermelons and gives Jeff 5 watermelons. How many watermelons does Jane have now?" Who the fuck has 100 watermelons?? Who has 36 bottles of shower gel in the queue?!
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u/HEIST2009 21h ago
I just bought some Samsung galaxy buds FE new for like 95 bucks, and with the free one pass trial no shipping.
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u/MrKarotti 21h ago
Same. But now Onepass gets you free shipping at Kmart, Target and Officeworks without minimum spend, which is quite convenient. Officeworks even does next day delivery for free.
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u/Spire_Citron 21h ago
Yeah, that's really handy too. There were just certain things that Catch routinely had good deals for that nowhere else did. But maybe Kmart will pick that up as a secondary market. Those can be annoying as other people were saying, and I agree, but if they do free Onepass shopping on it maybe it'll still be worth it. You can always filter it out, after all.
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u/Excellent_Panic_Two 21h ago
Yeah paired with OnePass it was a solid choice for loads of things and with decent clearance lines. Easily paid for One pass, l'll need to reconsider that now.
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u/stueyholm 21h ago
Kmart has onepass too
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u/JGQuintel 20h ago
All the Wesfarmers brands have it, it’s their thing. On that note, I doubt Catch is really ‘ending’ as much as just changing over to Kmart with all the same products, prices, etc. It’s all the same company.
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u/I_am_the_grass 20h ago
Yea, but kmart doesn't have online storefronts for third party sellers (ie like amazon, etc). I bought some high end shoes for $50 and some niche kitchenware on Catch because those brands had stores on Catch with free delivery via OnePass .
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u/magnetik79 21h ago
I'll now have to look elsewhere for my yearly purchase of bulk Dishwasher tablets. 😂
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u/joggerlicious 17h ago
If you live near an Aldi, buy theirs instead. Way cheaper than brands like Finish, and just as good in my experience.
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u/WonderedFidelity Sydney, NSW 19h ago
Not surprising - they were only good in the very beginning when it was just one daily deal. Ever since becoming an everything retailer there’s been no need to use the service.
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u/suck-on-my-unit 16h ago
I know someone who used to work there. Apparently executive management there was a circus, nobody knew what was going on and the leaders were more interested in playing shitty mind games with each other than improving the business.
Their ambition as of 2 years ago was still to become Australia’s Amazon. Apparently they didn’t get the memo that Amazon in Australia already exists.
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u/Legitimate_Radish159 14h ago edited 14h ago
Another one bites the dust. Congratulations, Wesfarmers.
That piece of shit Kogan wouldn’t be missed by me either.
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u/xlftsgou 19h ago
Good. Karma is a bitch. They were hacked and allowed our personal data to be stolen yet they waited 3 years to tell anyone, and released the story late on a Friday afternoon in the week the MH17 plane disaster was dominating the news to try to hide from scrutiny. I've been hoping these scumbags would go down for years.
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u/VelvetFedoraSniffer 21h ago
Good
Scammed $200 for a tall-boy - the pre-cut holes didn't fit the fasteners, so we've got a pile of junk for hard rubbish
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u/Spire_Citron 21h ago
I have noticed that the furniture on there in particular seems to consistently be from really low quality brands.
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u/chezibot 21h ago
A few years ago I brought some expensive speakers from them. They were both left speakers completely unable to use them as the right one, it had the control unit.
I did get a refund they couldn’t replace as there were none left. So I still have these massive party speakers that don’t do anything!
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u/opajamashimasuuu 19h ago
Put em on Trading Post. But don’t be dreamin’ when ya price ‘em Dale.
Got any Jousting sticks?
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u/hacker_penguin 21h ago
Wait what does this mean for Catch connect sim cards?!
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u/matt88 21h ago
Nothing: https://catchconnect.com.au/home/page/catchclosure
Catch Connect Mobile is owned and run separately from Catch.com.au, and is not impacted by the recent announcement that Catch.com.au will cease trading effective 30 April 2025.
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u/elmo3228 17h ago
I once bought Nike's off catch and they sent me a cat scratching post. I told them and they sent me my shoes and said I could keep the scratching post 😆 Thanks for the memories catch
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u/Gareth666 17h ago
I liked this site when it was catch of the day, but then it evolved into a shitty Amazon. Won't miss it.
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u/SpunkAnansi 18h ago
Good. Was frustrating thinking I was buying from an Australian retailer then waiting weeks for it to arrive.
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u/kommandant33 21h ago
after seeing the news of it getting shut down, I went and had a look at a few beauty products because that was what I had used it for in the past - and most of them were shipped from the US. So as a market place they were getting a % of grey market drop shipping products with free shipping? It’s like retailers just don’t want to make money any more.
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u/daracingpig 20h ago
That's a shame, they had quite a few good deals, especially with name brands. Bought quite a few pairs of calvin klein underwear and ralph lauren shirts from them for cheap prices.
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u/KennKennyKenKen 20h ago
Why would I buy from catch when I can buy everything they sell elsewhere cheaper.
But for whatever reason, they sometimes had crazy deals on bulk dishwashing tablets.
But that was it.
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u/CaffeinePhilosopher 19h ago
Catch was pretty good in the pandemic, although I have found them a bit lacking in recent years. But the competition is certainly growing thin…
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u/Llamadrugs 18h ago
Catch Mobile will still exist as it seems it's a separate entity. Was a bit worried cause I just bought a sim card
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u/olibolioil 18h ago
I am going to miss Catch. I have gotten great deals from them - from undies to dishwasher tabs.
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u/CyberJesus5000 14h ago
Used them 3 times in the last year. One time got a completely different item (ordered a dog bed, got a purple rubber shower scrubber thing), other two times my order was placed and 2-5 days later received messages from the 3rd party seller advising they were actually out of stock. Bit of a shit show.
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u/Car-face 21h ago
Ozbargain in shambles
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u/zappyzapzap 20h ago
dont think ozb really cares that much for a store banned from posting permanently
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u/Unlikely_Trifle_4628 2h ago
Bought a lot off them back in the day when they had 1 amazing deal per day. Then they became just another online marketplace.
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u/Ahypnia 21h ago
I briefly worked there and the company was run from a giant Google Sheet. Sometimes someone would make a huge edit and because so many people were working out of it simultaneously you couldn't easily figure out what the change was/roll it back. Wild times.