What Have Been The Top 5 Best Genuine Deals Ever Posted on OzBargain?

heartychat on 23/10/2018 - 12:01
Last edited 23/10/2018 - 12:28

I’ve been on Ozbargain for many years and been wondering what have been the top 5 genuine deals ever posted on Ozbargain?

When I mean genuine, I’m excluding price errors, deals where you need paid membership, competitions, limited supply freebies and severely limited supply items (e.g. only valid for the first 3 people). I’m just interested in the best pure deal that has ever been posted.

Legitimate price matching or price beating counts as a genuine deal, as well as discounted gift voucher purchases which stacked with other discounts too.

If you could link the bargain too for reference, that would be great!

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  • stirlo on 23/10/2018 - 12:09
    +38

    Staples $20 free coupon when they launched in 2011. So many free packages of random office supplies delivered to my address when I was a poor student

    • heartychat on 23/10/2018 - 12:16

      Haha. I love it!

    • mini2 on 23/10/2018 - 12:51
      +1

      That was fun. I've still got boxes from HP papers from that deal.

    • watwatwat on 23/10/2018 - 19:11

      Lol I remember that deal. I had a mountain of paper and supplies. They'd send 2 pens I a gigantic box with bubble wrap.

    • H_J on 25/10/2018 - 13:56
      +1

      I only finished those a4 papers last week.

    • gimme on 25/10/2018 - 17:06
      +15

      BEST DEAL EVER was when I stayed off OZB for month. SAVED ME THOUSANDS!!!

      • treeman on 26/10/2018 - 14:58
        +1

        This is hilarious as I haven't seen nor heard anything from staples since.

        Are they still around?

        • MrGareth on 26/10/2018 - 15:38

          They are "winc" now :)

  • cazmods on 23/10/2018 - 12:10
    +17

    Xbox one S Minecraft for $179 through Amazon.
    i think it was for $170 if you used Cash Rewards.

    • stirlo on 23/10/2018 - 12:13
      +3

      Also the Nintendo Wii U Premium Mario Kart deal when Target ran out of the basic model and substituted it for Premium.

      • heartychat on 23/10/2018 - 12:18

        How much was the typical price for these at the time, and the savings?

      • SupeNintendoChalmers on 24/10/2018 - 10:39

        got one of those :).

        Still use my Wii U almost daily

        • Tunblor on 24/10/2018 - 20:23

          What do you play? I've been looking for things to play on mine, bought one second hand recently and Softmodded it.

          • SupeNintendoChalmers on 24/10/2018 - 22:48

            @Tunblor: Breath of the Wild. Amazing game

          • Theycott on 26/10/2018 - 21:06

            @Tunblor: Breath of the Wild
            Zelda HD remasters (WW and TP)
            Smash Bros
            Look in to Wii U Usb Helper if you haven't yet

            Set up nintendont and play GC games too

    • fratzhaus on 25/10/2018 - 10:56

      Best purchase ever. I got a $50 Amazon gift card for ordering something that had a price error just a day before that sale went live.

    • pennypincher98 on 03/11/2018 - 14:13

      Yeah especially considering it was 1TB - I used $25 Amazon credit I won from Hyundai to bring it down even further!

  • John Kimble on 23/10/2018 - 12:13

    What is your criteria for "best? Biggest percentage discount? Most clicks/upvotes?

    • heartychat on 23/10/2018 - 12:17

      Discount amount, not clicks or upvotes.

      • opt on 24/10/2018 - 19:18
        +6

        Don't think discount amount is a good criteria either. I've seen a few deals on new cars, those probably had the highest discount dollar amounts, for example this BMW 320i/330i deal probably has a saving of over $5k, it has also received well over 250 votes (and 4 pages of comments). But I doubt anyone, even the OP themselves let alone those who voted or commented actually bought one. Here is another : Infiniti Q60 GT (a discount of $13k from RRP and almost 200 votes)

        So even though those deals have very high discount amounts and votes I don't think it benefited the ozbargain community much. Do you consider them to be top deals ? I don't.

        IMO if you want to objectively find the top genuine deals, then you should see the ones with (highest discount * number of people who actually bought it) which you can't realistically measure here and not reflected in votes or comments at all as noted in my earlier examples.

        So all you'll see here are some subjective/random deals people who are posting in this thread have benefited from.

        • drewbles on 25/10/2018 - 13:37

          I've never gotten less than 10% off the purchase of a new car. You just have to negotiate hard, and be prepared to walk away, as well as buying at the right time. $5k on a 330i is not even 10% :)

          Many people don't realise how easy it is to get them down to a better price. They'll always try and gouge you, but stick to your guns and new car discounts (esp. at specific times of the year) are easy to get.

          • opt on 25/10/2018 - 15:41

            @drewbles: That was just an example. I don’t know the actual saving of that deal (OP hasn’t mentioned, so I made a guess). Probably more than 5k and over 10%.

            But having said that, you can’t always expect at least 10% off every car. Everything comes down to supply and demand. From what I recall when the Ford Mustang was first introduced, buying at RRP was considered a good deal because the few who managed to get their hands on stock were asking way over RRP. I recall seeing prices well in excess of 10k over RRP! Admittedly that’s an extreme case, but shows how demand determines discount.

        • BuyoTheCat on 26/10/2018 - 09:25
          +1

          whatcha talking about noone buying those cars? I bought 5 BMW 330i and 10 Infiniti Q60

  • pantsparty on 23/10/2018 - 12:21
    +4

    How about when Appliances Online buggered up their pricing of the Kitchenaid stand mixers and honored the deal?

  • djones145 on 23/10/2018 - 12:23
    +4

    AMEX shop small is great
    pretty much 50% off travel for a few months

  • sam-1966 on 23/10/2018 - 12:27
    +35

    I still the think the Jacob's Creek mystery weekend was my favourite. $180 gave us a dozen bottles of wine and two nights for two including airfares and accom in Sydney from Brisbane.

    • spackbace on 23/10/2018 - 12:36
      +5

      Beat me to it 😂

      2 return airfares Perth-Mel and 2 nights accom :)

      Running around town for 2x doz of those bottles tho!

      • sam-1966 on 23/10/2018 - 13:06

        We were lucky that there was enough local stock that we could get ours and enough for a couple of friends. Wish they'd do something like that again!

        • spackbace on 23/10/2018 - 13:57
          +1

          Got the first dozen easy enough, went chasing the 2nd like a week or 2 later. Thanks to a tip-off on here we went across town to get them :)

    • Sweet3st on 23/10/2018 - 23:32
      +5

      It didn't get a lot of coverage here… but the Stoneleigh Wine flights offer was great! Picked up a half dozen bottles for under $60, applied (a bit of a process that), and got complimentary return flights Sydney to Christchurch with Air NZ!

      • StevePER on 25/10/2018 - 22:12

        Yep, off to Bali next week with that one.

    • ELH05 on 24/10/2018 - 15:28

      Agree !!

    • richmond12 on 25/10/2018 - 11:16

      Dam when was this deal?

    • konazz on 26/10/2018 - 00:02
      +17

      I remember that one. I yelled to my wife, who was on the phone with her mum, “get in the car, I’ll explain later”. She was like wtf, and then yeah ok. I remember finding the 24th bottle just before 11pm in a small suburban bottle shop. The cashier was like, wtf why are you two so excited!

      Ended up being an expensive trip, as our daughter was born 9 months later ;)

    • Ahan on 26/10/2018 - 06:22

      Did the same thing!

  • carlJack on 23/10/2018 - 12:49
    +8

    Samsonite spinner for buying 2 cases of Asahi super dry.

    • slick7 on 24/10/2018 - 11:48
      +2

      I got that - it was awesome. I was on my way to the bottle shop to get a six pack of beer but ended up with 2 cases of Asashi. The Samsonite is awesome for work trips (cabin luggage).

    • rohansi on 15/12/2023 - 10:57

      I've still got mine! Great deal.

      • kerfuffle on 15/12/2023 - 10:57

        Why are you bringing up a five year old thread?

  • try2bhelpful on 23/10/2018 - 12:50
    +23

    Round the world business class air fares from Virgin for $3400 each. (Melbourne -> Hong Kong -> London -> Los Angeles -> Melbourne.

    Proper Business class lay flat seats, lounge access - PJs/amenities kits, etc. They even gave us the status credits, miles, etc. (only 2 sectors, so we had to top up with a flight to Perth this year to get Gold status.)

    We did it last year in September/October. Couldn't believe our luck when it came up on the site. Walked out the door and booked that day.

    • DiscoJango on 24/10/2018 - 10:59
      +1

      how much time did you have to set aside to travel to all those destinations

      • orangetrain on 24/10/2018 - 18:50
        +1

        Looks like 2 days of going to each airport lounges.

      • try2bhelpful on 25/10/2018 - 10:15

        We did roughly 6 weeks. Out in Early September back mid October. Most of the time in Europe doing Switzerland and France.

  • try2bhelpful on 23/10/2018 - 12:55

    The other one we got onto was "Buy 6 or more bottles of Penfolds wine (including 2 from Bins range) for $120 or more, and you can buy a Vintec SG30 30 bottle wine cabinet including P&P."

    I got one and so did my little brother. They even delivered to Apollo Bay for that price.

    • try2bhelpful on 25/10/2018 - 15:43

      The wine cabinet was $150 including postage. Lost it in the transfer.

  • Pharos5 on 23/10/2018 - 13:32
    +16

    Samsung S6 edge $200 off at JB + another $200 off for trading in any working phone (including cheapo bricks from 1998).

    • Top G on 25/10/2018 - 13:59
      +1

      my s6 edge from JBs is still going strong, albeit the non removable battery is a bit shit

  • endotherm on 23/10/2018 - 13:37
    +6

    This same question pops up from time to time. See a previous thread here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/180374

    My favourites are:

    • the D-Link DIR-865L AC router when that was new technology (they were being sold for $84 and there was a $100 cashback, essentially paying you to pick up a free modem… PROFIT!!!) https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/102502

    • The Lavazza A Modo Mio Minu coffee pod machine. From memory, got as low as $15 each at Target, but $50 cashback. But wait, when you registered the machine they sent you half a dozen packs of pods, maybe $100 worth. Then they offered the half price milk frother for registered machine owners. The deal that kept on giving… :) https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/205926

  • gamble on 23/10/2018 - 13:44
    +7

    For me is the Macbook air 13 (2013 model) during an ebay sale in 2014 for $800ish. I believe it was Kogan. I got an email next day saying that they ran out of the 2013 model and so to honor the deal they gave me the latest model (2014). Happy man

    • heartychat on 23/10/2018 - 18:17

      This is my favourite one so far.

    • kiitos on 24/10/2018 - 08:41

      Wow, that was good, I was going to post a similar one in more ways than one - Macbook Air for $999 at Dick Smith when it was a real store, something like 300-400 off RRP I think.

    • crentist on 24/10/2018 - 11:32
      -2

      And the 11 inch was $500. I had a 13 but picked up another. Sold the old one to a coworker for the Kogan sale price. A year or two later sold the Kogan one for profit.

  • Cheap Steve on 23/10/2018 - 13:51
    +27

    16 Grill'd burgers for $20 tax-deductible needs to be added to the Ozbargain Hall of Fame.

    • raymosaurus on 24/10/2018 - 15:19
      +1

      Oh yes!! Me and my girlfriend are about to enjoy our last burger of this deal. 😍

      • John on 25/10/2018 - 13:59

        Wait, yesterday was already our last burger??? Noooooo

        • raymosaurus on 26/10/2018 - 20:16

          Mmmm. Spewin'. 😭

    • Donaldhump on 25/10/2018 - 08:53
      +3

      It’s not tax deducatable for the record.

  • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2018 - 13:52
    +24

    Top 5 Deals on OzB?

    1) NES Mini @ RRP
    2) SNES Mini @ RRP
    3) Latest KFC or HJ burger @ standard price
    4) The $2 opal transfer discount which was part of the normal pricing structure
    5) Free Ozbargain T-Shirts if you arrive 15-20 minutes early

    • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2018 - 16:00
      +12

      4 negs? where are the thousand or so people who actually upvoted these deals

    • onetwothreefour on 23/10/2018 - 16:48
      -4

      How about we list the top 5 deals you've posted?

      • Savas on 23/10/2018 - 18:04
        +2

        wow we could also list the top 5 you posted

        • kerfuffle on 23/10/2018 - 18:10
          -1

          To be fair on them, they have posted a lot more deals compared to the one from terminal2k (ignoring quality of deal)

        • onetwothreefour on 23/10/2018 - 18:52
          -2

          You could if you want but he's posting a comment about how bad the deals are on here with only posting one of his own. I'm not one of these people who think you have to post deals to be a member here but if you don't like the deals that are posted just move on or post some of your own.

          • Savas on 23/10/2018 - 18:59
            +6

            @onetwothreefour: wow he was only making a joke, no need to get upset

          • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2018 - 21:45

            @onetwothreefour: I picked on a specific subsection of deals, where the price is the standard price (and one thing about shirts which was a personal pet peeve). They aren't deals. I'm not having a go at most of the deals on here

    • JIMB0 on 23/10/2018 - 21:29
      +6

      PPSR check @ standard price.

      • Jackson on 26/10/2018 - 00:30

        This ia really juat a CSR so people dont get ripped for 35 bucks from some onselling scheister site

    • magic8ballgag on 24/10/2018 - 10:34
      +1

      Only BARGAINS must be posted, it's in the website name! /s

  • djones145 on 23/10/2018 - 14:13
    +4

    toilet paper deal
    where we stacked so many coupons and got 37 packets for toilet paper for 20 bucks for something crazy like that

    • TheBilly on 23/10/2018 - 19:12
      +7

      even your poop will start feeling performance anxiety getting through all that

    • Unrvl on 25/10/2018 - 11:14
      +1

      I remember that going back about 4-5 years ago. quilton toilet paper deal from woolworths. order online and it came to some stupid price when stacking a bunch of codes. i had half a room full.

  • EFC94 on 23/10/2018 - 14:15
    +27

    $40 rebel sport gift card for a $1 news ltd subscription.

  • dasher86 on 23/10/2018 - 14:29
    +16

    DELIVERY HERO…man I think I gained weight during that period.

    • andyhui01 on 24/10/2018 - 09:38

      Yes! Delivery Hero actually called me about 10 times in a row after I did multiple orders. lol. They sounded upset in the voice message

      • DiscoJango on 24/10/2018 - 11:17
        +6

        whats the story with delivery hero?

        • FrugalFrella on 25/10/2018 - 05:47
          +1

          I think they were just doing super constant new account discounts. I think it was like $10-25 off from what I remember

    • rawm on 26/10/2018 - 17:28

      Man, those were the days!

    • ldt on 30/10/2018 - 13:10

      I'd forgotten about that one! I ate SO much!

  • tunzafun001 on 23/10/2018 - 14:31
    +1

    The unlimited 25c per 1Gb data from Telstra.
    The unlimited free beer from Woolies for a month (1 bottle per rewards card per day).
    Unlimited free Whoppers from Hungry Jacks for around 6 months.
    Espresso machines, with 100% cashback that then brought about 50 odd free pods.
    The 5 litres of full synthetic valvoline oil for $4.
    Rebel free Sherrin (which came as a $80 gift card).

  • spackbace on 23/10/2018 - 14:49

    Double pass to Wicked the musical, just had to subscribe to the newspaper, except this was before they started forcing minimum membership periods 😉 and they stuffed mine up, I don't think I paid a cent for the subscription!

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/188709

  • Godric on 23/10/2018 - 15:05

    3 cent USB Xiaomi leds

  • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2018 - 15:20
    +9

    I think the $9 printer was the best deal ever. It was honored and don't think anyone missed out. They ended up upgrading you if they ran out of a certain printer. Great deal from Dell

    • DesiredUsername on 23/10/2018 - 16:12

      I got that printer, then my dad threw it out when i was overseas because it took up too much space and had no more ink left in it…

      • try2bhelpful on 23/10/2018 - 16:15
        +1

        Printers are sold cheaply because the money is in the ink. Close to the most expensive fluid on the planet.

        • DesiredUsername on 24/10/2018 - 08:58

          I am aware, but it was an all in one. So scanning documents was useful.

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