Australian shoppers are being handed an early-year excuse to click “add to cart” as one of the country’s biggest online sales events, PayPal Frenzy, kicks off this week, featuring more than 250 brands slashing prices across fashion, tech, travel and homewares.
Running from 7pm AEDT Tuesday, 3rd March through to midnight Monday, 9th March, this year’s edition marks the largest line-up yet, bringing together major retailers such as Dyson, JB Hi-Fi, Sennheiser, Ray-Ban, THE ICONIC and David Jones—all dropping limited-time deals across their online stores.
What began three years ago as a digital shopping collaboration between online payment providers and Click Frenzy has quickly evolved into a fixture on the national retail calendar.
Timed neatly between summer sales and mid-year clearances, the event now signals a key period for consumers chasing early autumn bargains and retailers looking to boost online momentum.
The Deals Worth Watching
This week’s markdowns cut across every budget and category.
Major Retailers
- Chemist Warehouse: Up to ½ price off selected vitamins and supplements
- Rebel Sport: Up to 40% off selected footwear and clothing clearance
- Priceline: Up to 50% off skincare
- Target: Spend $200, save $50 on selected bed, bath & home
- THE ICONIC: Up to 25% off sitewide (women’s, men’s, kids, home & beauty)
- David Jones: Up to 30% off selected fashion (online only)
- Calvin Klein: Buy two, save 20% / buy three, save 30% (exclusions apply)
- Tommy Hilfiger: 30% off full price (exclusions apply)
- Van Heusen: Three shirts for $119
- Mimco: 30% off full-price bags (online and app only)
- Petbarn: Members save up to 40% off selected items
- Big W: ½ price on new MCoBeauty lines
- Kogan: Up to 70% off TVs, tech, furniture and more
Women’s Fashion & Accessories
- Decjuba: 20% off sale
- Strandbags: Up to 50% off handbags
- Bras N Things: Prices from $5 (selected styles only)
- Ray-Ban: 20% off select sunglasses, glasses and custom frames
- Sunglass Hut: 20% off select luxury styles
- Guess: 30% off full-priced styles (code: 30OFF)
- Betts: 25% off sitewide
- Charles & Keith: 10% off first order for new customers (code: AUFRENZY10)
- Ghanda: Extra 20% off sale items (code: EXTRA20)
- Nine West: Extra 60% off already reduced sale styles
- Oakley: 20% off select eyewear and apparel
- The Oodie: 25% off almost everything
- Billabong: Up to 50% off sale
- City Beach: 20% off when you spend $100 on select full-price items
- Novo Shoes: 20% off full price
- Adrift: 20% off full-priced clothing (no minimum spend)
- Angara: Up to 15% off fine jewellery
Beauty & Wellness
- Glo Skin Body: 20% off Dermalogica
- Eye of Horus Cosmetics: 25% off select beauty
- The House of Mouth: 15% off teeth whitening
- Mermade Hair: 25% off sitewide
- The Collagen Co: 15% off sitewide
Men’s Fashion & Accessories
- Industrie: Up to 50% off
- Surf Dive ‘n’ Ski: Up to 50% off sale
- Mosmann Australia: 25% off sitewide
- Politix: Up to 50% off selected styles
- Thomas Sabo: 20% off select styles
- RVCA: Up to 50% off sale
- 47 Brand: 50% off storewide
- Mens Den: 25% off storewide
Home, Tech & Living
- Dyson: Up to 55% off floorcare
- Big W: $70 off Philips 4.2L digital air fryer, ½ price Shark PowerPro stick vacuum ($274.50)
- Kleva Brands: Everything under $99, up to 50% off
- Camera House: Up to 20% off selected cameras and lenses
- Mammotion: Save $200 on Spino E1 robotic pool cleaner
- Sennheiser: Up to 50% off headphones and headsets
Special Travel Deals
- Captain Cook Cruises: 25% off Sydney Harbour lunch cruises, 50% off Sydney Harbour experience
- Traveloka: Up to 50% off flights, hotels and activities in Japan and Thailand
- Flight Centre: No transaction fees when you book online
- Travel Online: Extra $250 off packages, with additional savings up to $3,500 across Bali, Vanuatu and Thailand
- Sealink: 20% off Kangaroo Island and Magnetic Island tours, 15% off Tiwi day tours
- K’gari Explorer Tours: 20% off day tours from Hervey Bay or Rainbow Beach
Retail experts say nationwide sales like this reflect how Australia’s shopping calendar has moved decisively online since the pandemic, with ‘frenzy-style’ events now generating similar levels of hype to Boxing Day or EOFY sales.
Shopper habits have changed, too. Many now approach these flash events with a strategy—saving wish lists, setting alerts and hunting codes shared on TikTok or Reddit deal threads.
For consumers feeling the squeeze of persistent cost-of-living pressures, this week’s sale could offer some relief, at least for those willing to scroll through the bargains.
Deals are running online through participating retailers here, with new offers continuing to drop throughout the week.