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Dick Smith: "Almost Everything on Sale" - MEGA LIST - 3181 Items

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Dick Smith: "Almost Everything on Sale" - MEGA LIST - 3181 Items
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[Deactivated] on 26/05/2015 - 20:47 myci.ga (26762 clicks)
Last edited 27/05/2015 - 13:43 by 1 other user

I didn't know any other way to present this data as there are 3181 items on sale.
I just whipped it up into a crude table & hosted it here http://myci.ga/r/dse/

I took a snapshot of their prices on 23rd May, and compared it to today & calculated % saving.

Click on the Product IDs, if you find anything useful post it.
Seems to be a lot of ipad / iphone covers.

edit: product names added

edit #2: "Tricky Dicky" - I've updated product prices for 27th (today) and filtered items that have gone UP in price since Saturday.

Top 500 or so discounted items (thanks stratbargain) here

Electrical & Electronics

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  • Moondog on 26/05/2015 - 20:49
    +197

    Jesus, plus one for effort mate.

    • polyteknika on 27/05/2015 - 00:15
      +2

      More like.. plus 3181 for effort

    • [Deactivated] on 27/05/2015 - 01:31
      +3

      Amen to that.

      Didn't find anything I liked…but that's just me.

      Amazing work.

  • gilbarc on 26/05/2015 - 20:50
    +19

    Not possible to do a product name column?

    • [Deactivated] on 26/05/2015 - 21:17
      +21

      Wheres the fun in that? 3181 surprises!

      • GnarlyKnuckles on 26/05/2015 - 21:43
        +2

        Here's what seems to be the best ENELOOP deal included in the sale, if you're interested in the 'High-capacity/pro' type version of these batteries; it's good because click-n-collect is available, and I think all these are still made in Japan:

        http://www.dicksmith.com.au/batteries/eneloop-xx-lsd-1-2v-95…

        • running on empty on 26/05/2015 - 22:46
          +1

          Got myself some AA eneloops, 14.80 is fairly decent. Snoo's list confirmed I saved 49%

    • ABZ300 on 26/05/2015 - 21:48
      +6

      Thanks OP for taking the time to put this together & for sharing it.

      Thought i would post up here in case anybody was interested:

      http://www.dicksmith.com.au/promotions/hot-deals?dir=asc&ord…

      The above link seems to have all the items listed in the sale & a few others so anybody that wants to see exactly what is up for sale can check it out. Enjoy.

  • steff on 26/05/2015 - 20:51
    +3

    +1 for the sheer effort mate - good job!

  • muncan on 26/05/2015 - 20:51
    +11

    Excludes PT7378, PT8458, EC8858, EC8859, etc etc

  • prawin on 26/05/2015 - 20:52
    +1

    +1 the effort you put up

  • hippo2s on 26/05/2015 - 20:53
    +9

    Really need product name in a new column, can't click 3000+ times! Good effort

    • Kevan2 on 26/05/2015 - 22:07
      +1

      Change hands and wipe. l?l

    • [Deactivated] on 27/05/2015 - 01:23

      Done

    • Marrk on 27/05/2015 - 01:28
      +2

      Hardly a valid reason to neg, the OP obviously put in a lot of effort..

  • swiggity swag on 26/05/2015 - 20:56
    +24

    But are there any bargains?

  • s12345 on 26/05/2015 - 20:58
    +8

    someone do a wget and a regex to pull out the product names ..

    • starionx on 26/05/2015 - 21:01
      +108

      Seems like you know what you're talking about… so you do it! ;)

      • vandagar on 26/05/2015 - 21:26
        +6

        Tried it…they don't want the load on the server.
        <h2>Your Request Was Disallowed</h2>
        <p>Your request matches one of our rules put in place to protect our customers. If you are a legitimate user please contact us via our website to have this incident investigated.</p><p>www.sli-systems.com</p>

        • starionx on 26/05/2015 - 21:35

          Oh well. Thanks for trying Vandagar. :)

        • crunchy9178 on 26/05/2015 - 21:48
          +2

          Change the useragent when you wget using —user-agent argument. Google for a useragent string that you can use.

          Should work. Just can't be bothered coding and hosting the thing…

        • mathew42 on 26/05/2015 - 21:48
          +12

          It works if you specify a user agent:

          wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 (Debian-1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1)" http://search.dicksmith.com.au/search?w=PW8901W

          Primitive attempt at blocking that is trivially bypassed. The --random-wait can also help.

        • vandagar on 26/05/2015 - 22:28

          Thanks, been awhile since I've done any scripting so thought I'd take a look.
          I found an alternative anyway and wrote a script. It will take a long time 2+ hours if it works so check back in the morning!

        • Jayphen on 26/05/2015 - 22:31
          +20

          Hey, I'm already running one and have pulled 700 product titles so far… Maybe you could alter your script to start from the bottom up?
          I've been adding the titles to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KeFMoUU-aq097gYjjVYi…

        • tomwood on 26/05/2015 - 23:04
          +1

          @Jayphen: very kool, should be added to description!

        • sellingoutsoon on 26/05/2015 - 23:43

          @Jayphen: Wow, fast work. Pretty good work too. Rather impressive…do you do this for a living?

        • Jayphen on 26/05/2015 - 23:49
          +1

          @sellingoutsoon: Kind of… I'm a UX designer, but also do front-end dev.

        • sellingoutsoon on 26/05/2015 - 23:54
          +1

          @Jayphen: Nice work :) if you want the possibility of some more, contact us with your CV, cheers.

        • vandagar on 27/05/2015 - 00:04

          @Jayphen: Good job! Haven't written a bash script for 5 years so was a bit slow to fill in the bottom!

        • Jayphen on 27/05/2015 - 00:08

          @vandagar: Thanks for the help! I used Ruby for mine :)

        • SpaceNinja on 27/05/2015 - 00:42

          TIL all ozbargainers are anonymous animals

        • [Deactivated] on 27/05/2015 - 01:29

          @mathew42:

          That works but is very slow on 5000 products in their catalog.

        • WatchNerd on 26/05/2015 - 21:43
          +8

          You just broke the 1st rule.

        • starionx on 26/05/2015 - 22:27
          +5

          @luke73:

          Bwahahahaha…

          … and the world makes sense again. :)

    • Price Hike on 27/05/2015 - 00:11

      Just out of curiosity, how was this done, or what skills do you need to do this? I would like to learn. Was it taught from a free Udemy course?

      • Randxyz123 on 27/05/2015 - 00:23
        +1

        It is scripting (programming) in unix. You can learn a lot of the skills online for free. If you are interested in learning scripting or any type of programming the best thing to do is practice. For unix the best thing to do is to get yourself a raspberry pi and practice.

      • Praeto on 27/05/2015 - 00:40
        +1

        There are numerous ways to accomplish this, but it boils down to:

        1. Grab the web page from DSE.
        2. "Pass" the web page content using regular expressions or some kind of "scraper" to identify the specific content you want from the page.
        3. Store the results in some format for later use.

        It can be done fairly easily with basic knowledge of most scripting languages (Python and Perl as an example). You can also do it with "bash scripting" (on *nix), where you call a number of programs that already exist to accomplish each step.

        A good place to start is googling "web scraping".

        • gadgetguy on 27/05/2015 - 07:40
          +5

          By "Pass" did you mean "Parse"?

        • Unrvl on 27/05/2015 - 14:17

          @gadgetguy: both could be used in this context!

        • Praeto on 28/05/2015 - 07:42

          @gadgetguy:

          Oops, that I did. That's what I get for replying to Ozbargain posts at 1am in the morning. :)

    • [Deactivated] on 27/05/2015 - 01:24

      Done

  • [Deactivated] on 26/05/2015 - 21:00

    Anything good on sale?

  • Ughhh on 26/05/2015 - 21:00
    +7

    http://search.dicksmith.com.au/search#?p=Q&lbc=dse-au&uid=81…

    That seems to work, not 100% sure if it list every item though.

  • ozblogger on 26/05/2015 - 21:03
    +1

    +100 for the effort … we'l surely crash their servers with all these queries :)

  • c64 on 26/05/2015 - 21:04
    +2

    the original prices are bs. i mean $27 for a usb cable?? http://search.dicksmith.com.au/search?w=XH3362

    • Phreakuency on 26/05/2015 - 21:06
      +3

      $75 for a basic ipad case rrp too ;)

  • JJJ on 26/05/2015 - 21:04

    how the hell did you populate this..good job mate

    • cathole on 26/05/2015 - 22:35
      +3

      the mythical com-puta

  • cbeard on 26/05/2015 - 21:05
    +1

    Are all of the previous prices here correct? For instance, according to the table, this 1.5m RCA cable was previously $25.98! $2.21 is a reasonable price for it now, but I find it hard to imagine it being more than $5-$10 previously.

    • mattacrazy on 26/05/2015 - 21:08
      +1

      Seems to be, Google cache page from a few days ago has it at that price http://puu.sh/i12cm/bf150704a2.png

      • King Tightarse on 26/05/2015 - 21:11
        +6

        Wow the ones that used to come free with every analog product that everyone has muliples of
        What are they on eBay like $1? DSE really hit the bong with some of their prices.

        • Charity on 27/05/2015 - 10:10

          they jack it up so it looks more impressive (to a layman) when they have a sale.

          doesn't fool a "professional" ( I hope), but sadly works for the general uninformed public.

      • [Deactivated] on 26/05/2015 - 21:12
        +1

        could be some errors, but yeah crazy prices hey!

  • nahi11 on 26/05/2015 - 21:07
    +5

    Don't know what PR1353 yet but I'm definitely getting it.

    • swiggity swag on 26/05/2015 - 21:09

      Simplism iPad Flip Case Orange

  • viki8702 on 26/05/2015 - 21:08

    I salute you op, great effort.
    Thanks.

  • aether on 26/05/2015 - 21:08
    +1

    Sodastream 1L bottles for $13.65 White / Black

    They're $16.50 at Target and $17.95 at The Good Guys

    • inkart on 26/05/2015 - 21:22
      +2

      even cheaper with 15% ebay code here

  • Jingqing Yang on 26/05/2015 - 21:09
    -6

    To many number. What a good one for me?

  • marka on 26/05/2015 - 21:10
    +5

    I thought i was going to sleep tonight.

    • starionx on 26/05/2015 - 21:11
      +2

      Tomorrow… maybe. :)

    • [Deactivated] on 26/05/2015 - 21:12
      +2

      sorry.

    • [Deactivated] on 27/05/2015 - 00:24

      Perfect bedtime reading.

      • zombie hunter on 27/05/2015 - 07:56

        that is very sad, however you are a ozbargainer, and like reading a bible

  • johnwinkle on 26/05/2015 - 21:12
    +12

    The Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard finally went down 3 cents!! Thanks OP!

    • [Deactivated] on 26/05/2015 - 21:13
      +12

      a penny saved is a penny earned… now you have 3!

      • tg on 26/05/2015 - 22:30
        +4

        Have you ever worked for Pennytel?

    • mr kindface on 26/05/2015 - 21:18

      $105.97 on their ebay store :P

  • andyv88 on 26/05/2015 - 21:12

    There's some decent Acme cases for MacBooks

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 26/05/2015 - 21:12

    Here's a funny aside/loosely related snippet… in a few minutes on channel ABC2 there's going to be a segment called "Hannah says FU to Dick Smith"… could be interesting.

  • unspoonsored on 26/05/2015 - 21:14
    +18

    I'm going to open each link out of respect OP.

  • bossmode on 26/05/2015 - 21:14

    Aaaaaaaaaaaand we're down!

  • Balls on 26/05/2015 - 21:14
    -2

    nothing, nothing worthwhile at all, at most save few bucks

    • giventofly on 26/05/2015 - 21:16
      +18

      Incredible that you went through all 3 thousand products in just 28 minutes.

      • GnarlyKnuckles on 26/05/2015 - 21:49

        "Incredible that you went through all 3 thousand products in just 28 minutes."

        Erm, that would be one per second roars, so methinks you are perhaps misunderstaning what was involved in the derivation of this post, just a little. Or I'm missing your (implied?) sarcasm.

        Not meaning to detract from the OP's awesome effort though! Great work!

        • giventofly on 26/05/2015 - 21:57
          +1

          Not sure what you mean. I was replying to Balls

        • GnarlyKnuckles on 26/05/2015 - 21:59
          +1

          @rorymeister:
          LOL, soz/my mistake, 'Balls' comment is collapsed/not shown so I failed to make the connection…

      • AndPlagueFlowers on 26/05/2015 - 22:40

        @rorymeister - cause u can do better

    • King Tightarse on 26/05/2015 - 21:18

      So save a few bucks! This is Ozbargain!
      The very first product at the top of the list, is a saving of $73.98 at 98.67% off.

  • giventofly on 26/05/2015 - 21:15
    +10

    OzBargain restores my faith in humanity. So many awesome folks out there putting in so much effort.

  • JetBombat on 26/05/2015 - 21:17
    +2

    That's what I call click frenzy!

    • Phoebus on 26/05/2015 - 22:33
      +13

      WRONG
      It's a DICK frenzy.

      • XeKToReX on 26/05/2015 - 23:23
        +15

        My ex participated in this last year!

        • iDroid on 27/05/2015 - 00:19
          +4

          Yeah it was great!!

    • GnarlyKnuckles on 27/05/2015 - 02:28
      +2

      "That's what I call click frenzy!"

      Aye, it's "frickin' crazy"…

  • gimli on 26/05/2015 - 21:17

    You must comment on the deal before you can cast positive votes.

  • INFIDEL on 26/05/2015 - 21:18
    +2

    Some old tech - land line phone parts, old TV, AV cables & SCART adapters, that seem still overpriced.

    So much I've looked through was much cheaper before when stores received their Quit Stock lists covering much of this.

    Then there are the usual high priced covers, stylus marked down.

    • mr kindface on 26/05/2015 - 21:24
      +9

      thanks, just found a case for my nokia 5110

  • 31mop on 26/05/2015 - 21:20
    +4

    Some things are still cheaper with buying on Ebay DickSmith with their 15% off sale..

    Ie this on the website: http://www.dicksmith.com.au/full-high-definition/changhong-4… is $367.25 but on Ebay it's $347.05

  • bghunter on 26/05/2015 - 21:21

    Awesome job OP but how did you do that? How long did it take?

  • starionx on 26/05/2015 - 21:21
    +2

    Wow… when did delivery go up to $8. Not cool. :(

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