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[VIC] OzBargain Meetup & Gaming Night: Free T-Shirts, Food & Drinks fr. 5:30PM Thursday (Nov 29) @ Pokéd (Bourke St. Melbourne)

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OzBargain is turning 12 years old and to celebrate we are having meetups all over the country.

Our Melbourne meetup will be at Pokéd @ 111 Bourke Street from 5:30PM Thursday and is a gaming night. Thanks to Justin from Pokéd and Gameology for lending out his venue and his time.

  • Free food (likely Pizza hut pizzas (Pepperoni, Veggie, Cheese) + Dumplings? or whatever suggestions people may want).
  • Free drinks (non-alcoholic).
  • Free OzBargain t-shirt. You must PM me with a size to reserve a shirt before Tuesday (27/11) 5PM Now Closed
  • Free games. We'll setup some games to play and we'll some other games to give away. (Suggestions welcome!)
  • Free Not a Bot virtual badge.

If you don't want to hang around or interact with anyone, that is fine. You can come in, write your username down (so I can give you a badge) and take a shirt (reserved)/food.

T-Shirts:

  • New orange running top design. Old designs are black and red orange. Pic
  • 36 Shirts (S: 2 Black, 8 Orange; M: 8 Orange; L: 7 Orange; XL: 2 Red Orange, 1 Black, 3 Orange; XXL: 3 Orange). There were at least 65 people in attendance last year.
  • You need to PM your request for a shirt. Deadline is Tuesday (27/11) 5PM. Now Closed
  • We will be prioritising those who have never received a shirt, contributions/time on OzBargain. (e.g. people who just sign up for account get low priority). Also allows me to not be bombarded with PMs all at once.
  • I'll PM you sometime on Tuesday/Wednesday to let you know if you've been reserved a shirt. If you haven't you'll be put on standby.
  • If you don't collect the shirt by 6:30PM, we'll go to standby list, followed by first come, first serve.

PM me the size you want and preference of colour.

Rough plan:

  • From 5:30PM: Meetup starts. Grab a name tag & shirt if reserved.
  • 5:30-5:45PM: Food arrives.
  • 6:30PM: Free t-shirts to those on standby list followed by whoever is there.
  • 6:45PM: Group photo (voluntary).

  • Facebook Event if that's your thing.


For people in other locations, we need your feedback and/or confirmations.

Event Confirmed Date Time Venue
Sydney North Shore #1
Sydney North Shore #2 YES Wed 28 Nov 5:00PM Cashrewards Office, Chatswood, co-sponsored by Cashrewards
Sydney West YES Sat 17 Nov 12:30PM Commercial Hotel, Parramatta
Sydney City #1 YES Thur 22 Nov 6:30PM Pizza Autentico, Surry Hills
Sydney City #2 YES Thur 29 Nov 6:00PM Spawn Point Bar, Sydney, co-sponsored by ShopBack
Brisbane YES Sat 24 Nov 12:00PM Hula Bar and Grill, Fortitude Valley
Perth
Melbourne YES Thur 29 Nov 5:30PM Poked Bourke Street, Melbourne
Gold Coast

TL;DR: Just show up next Thursday at Poked for free food & drink. If you want t-shirt, PM me.

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  • -1

    (profanity) yeah! I'm coming for JV's cotton socks.

  • pokes head out the Comp section

    Oooo chance to obtain t-shirt…I'm in >:]

    Cya some of ya folks there~

  • Sent in a tshirt request. :(
    Hope to get one as mine was probably the last request LOL.

    • Been getting the requests non-stop. It's not first come, first serve but will respond to everyone hopefully after 5PM today and definitely before the meetup. I think there have been ~154 requests…

      • Oh wow, I didn’t expect such a big turn around

  • +1

    Too shy to rock up. Have fun all!

  • +1

    @Craze that's why you should go. I've never been to an OzB event but been to a number of proper "meetup" groups and they're good for helping to overcome shyness.

    • Will check back in to hear how it went! City too far a hike to get to after work for me. Should be starting bout now?

  • +2

    Deadline for requesting a t-shirt has now closed. Will take me a while to go through all of the requests but will message everyone either tonight or tomorrow.

    • Out of curiosity, how many requests did you receive?

      • +1

        I'm still putting them in the spreadsheet but probably close to 200.

        • +4

          OK, info all in. 154 requests for 36 t-shirts.

  • Where's Sydney t-shirt?

    • +5

      In Sydney.

  • Finish work at 5:00 and have an appointment at 6:00
    I'll pop in for a bit to say hi, maybe get a slice of pizza and sign up for a "not a bot" badge
    :)

  • If a robot shows up can they still have the not a bot badge?

  • Free games. We'll setup some games to play and we'll some other games to give away. (Suggestions welcome!)

    Does anyone have captain sonar? Also not familiar with the venue so not sure if it's feasible or not but would love to try this game :D

  • +1

    Updates:

    • Everyone who has PMed me should have received a reply either CONFIRMING or put on STANDBY for the t-shirts.
    • Dominos are offering 50% off pizzas which makes the pizza extremely cheap. Also works for Melbourne range at $6.97 per pizza delivered. But if anyone wants to suggest other pizzas to order or hacks then let me know and I'll add it.
    • Thinking of another hot food item. Either something from Chinatown or perhaps the KFC popcorn bucket?
    • I'll be going to Woolworths to grab the drinks. Again, let me know if you have any requests. Or if anyone has an idea of how to transport drinks from Woolworths QV to Poked. Wonder if I can use a trolley or if it's locked into QV…
    • See Google Maps photo of the front of the store. Likely there will be a lot of people inside but there is loads of room to spill outside. I'll endeavour to get the food, drinks and stuff distributed inside & out.
    • PM'd Re: Drinks

    • Pretty sure they are locked to QV. I remember running into that problem once and we had to carry multiple boxes of cans back to the office.

      • +1

        I gave them a call. Apparently their new trolleys (ones without a black wheel & ask for $1) can be taken outside of the building. Manager gave the OK.

    • popcorn bucket would be awsummmmmmmmmmm

      • Expired. Oh well.

  • Catch all the great and helpful OzBargain community that are appearing tomorrow

  • Could be a good opportunity to trade/gift random unwanted items. I'll be giving away a Lynx clicker that needs some love

    • +1

      Thats actually not a bad idea for one day. I have so much random crap i bought here lol

  • Putting my hand up for Perth

  • damn missed out on the tshirt :(

    • Maybe you can show up with cheap white tshirt that has sharpie on it written "ozbargained"

  • Oh dang

    How do I obtain a T-shirt? I’m in Sydney! Would have attended the sydney one!

    • Guess Nov 2019 or wait until someone lists one on eBay.

  • Dam I was always looking at the forum thread not the deal that got posted. See you all this evening

  • Live streaming pls.

    • Wow good turnout

      • Was more there earlier before this photo was taken, most left after pizza was gone :/

        My estimate is 100-120 in total attended

  • +1

    Noooo! I missed my shirt.

  • +4

    Thanks Neil for your hard work tonight!
    Happy 12th Birthday Ozbargain!

    • Username checks out…. not a bot!

      • +1

        Ha ha. Good meeting you.

        • You as well…. same time next year :)

  • +2

    Awesome meet up, nice to meet the Melbourne Ozbargain crowd!

  • +6

    Thanks Justin you're a legend for being so hospitable. Neil great work mate, lots of happy vegemites……

  • +2

    Thanks you to the organisers and Mostly Melbourne, good job!

    Nice to meet and talk to some of you, spewing I didn't walk out with a JV singature on my shirt though

  • +2

    Great job Neil!
    Limited edition shirt….. Heard they are going for $11k 😂🤔😎

    • They should get like serial number on them so when they go up in value one day we can authenticate the real ones lol

    • Nice to meet you plantone!! Many happy bargains in the future :)

  • +6

    Had a great time, met and chatted with some cool OB members,

    Thanks Justin for venue, and thanks to Neil for all your efforts and hosting a great evening :)

  • +2

    Great work Neil - proved we are not bots!

  • +1

    Thanks Neil for organizing and Justin for putting up with us raiding his store!

    Great chatting to ya'll and for the good games. No bots seen~

    Wooo yeah go the lucky table!

  • +3

    Thanks for hosting. Pretty happy with the shirt given by Neil, will be a proud ambassador!

    No 🍕 left by the time I got there so ended up ordering Domino's with a 50% off coupon

  • +1

    Thanks for organizing Neil, it was good to meet a bunch of people.

  • +1

    Great to see so many Ozbargainers meet-up. Was my first this year. Missed out on a t this year maybe next year! Thanks Neil for organising.

  • +1

    Quite surprised with the turn out today — thanks Neil for organising it!

    Next time, can we get more 🍕? I walked in looking at empty boxes :(

    • Ha, yeah. Dominos will send a whole army of scooters next time.

  • +18

    Thanks for attending everyone. Hope everyone had a great time and there was enough food, drinks and prizes (but not t-shirts) for everyone.

    Extra Thanks to:

    Stats:

    • 69 people signed in for a "Not a Bot" badge but I think over 100 over the 3 or so hours would probably be more accurate. I'll add these over the next few days.
    • 50 pizzas, 10 packets of Tim Tams, 1 cake, 24 mini cupcakes, 10 bags of Doritos, 108 cans of soft drink were consumed within 2 hours.

    Other stuff:

    • 1 signup sheet had everyone writing their email addresses due to the 1st person writing their email address. We definitely didn't want the email address so that was not intended. Next year I'll make sure to add a statement of excluding any identifying details other than usernames.
    • We don't have an app. We'll probably never have an app. There apparently is some issue with PMing using one of the apps.

    This was v4 of OzBargain meetup. Hopefully in v5, we'll get more food, drinks, t-shirts and put some of the tables outside so we don't get squashed.

    • +1

      Was great to finally meet you Neil, can now put a face to the name….
      And i guess your username really does check out haha :)

      • That last comment made me laugh out loud! Good one. 😁

    • Thanks Neil, you ran this meetup very well. There was enough food and drink for everyone, and was great to talk to a few (new and established) members of this great site.
      Looking forward to future events!

  • Oh, this is the reference to Kogan mentioning the $30,000 he lost due to the coffee cup price error. The deal itself.

    • Ohh this is what you were talking about. It was nice meeting you neil. See you next year.
      Good work!

  • +6

    Thanks that was great!
    Same time next week?

    • +1

      I think i recognise that username :)
      Was nice to meet you and thanks for a chat,
      See you next year!

    • +1

      Nice meeting you!! 😁

    • +1

      And you guys.

  • +1

    Thanks Neil and all involved. Enjoyed the event and meeting fellow Ozbargainers. Look forward to next one.

  • Thanks for organizing this Neil!

    Happy that I got my T shirt even though it was just minutes before the 6:30 pm cut off… Lol… 😊

    • Same here. Thank you Neil. I was a little disappointed to miss out on Pizza but I appreciate the t-shirt and the great event you organised. 👍

  • Sydney had a shopback sponsored meetup, maybe we should get cash rewards? Lol

  • Ended up missing out but going by the comments it looks like it was an awesome turn out 👍

  • +4

    Not a Bot badges have now been processed. If you haven't received one, then let me know.

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