Thanks to the community's continued support, we were able to donate $24,000 to charity this EOFY. Good stuff but is our bargain hunting hurting the Australian economy?
Here are your stats for May.
Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)
- Master coupon prefill buttons for eBay deals. Instead of copying the coupon code, setting expiry, append link to deal etc you'll just need to click 1 button.
- Add sub-store parsing for weebly.com, spiffystores.com and spiffystores.com.au stores.
- When searching for a term that is a category, only return related products that have been tagged in deals in the past 2 years
- Add GoCashback support to cashback links.
- Remove all deal votes when moving deal to comp
- Exclude international comps from Highlighted Comps on Front Page.
- Adjustments for comp of the month, popular deal and popular competition badges.
- Adjusted front page votes to 30 from 25.
- Adjusted payment methods for classifieds.
- Updated classified guidelines.
- Chrome and Firefox Extension which shows you deals, coupons and cashback while browsing your favourite shopping sites.
Members
Members of the Month
May 2019
Naed for the deal of the month, WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive 10TB $129.84 from Amazon. It was also the most clicked deal last month with 25k+ click-throughs. Turns out to be a price error but many people have received their orders. Interestingly Naed's first ever deal on OzBargain was also a WD External Hard Drive from 10 years ago — 1/13th the size though.
dealbot for posting the most deals in May. He has posted 106 deals with vote average of +98.31, and 84 of them managed to get onto the OzBargain front page.
gnv9 for again posting the most competitions in May. She posted 231 comps with +18.55 vote average, and almost 21,000 entries to those competitions. She also posted the most entered competition last month, Win a $10,000 Online Shopping Spree from Australia Post with 325 OzBargainers entered. Good luck!
Lolno234 for posting the 2nd most popular freebies last month, Free The Sims 4 from Origin (1st being Free Maccas Quarter Pounder but was posted by an employee). The same offer also got posted to our New Zealand and Singapore site, and saw the productivity worldwide plummeted.
Congratulations!
-Scotty
See more about members of the month
Moderation Stats:
- Reports from users: 4963 (avg: 1 report every ~9 minutes) || April 2019: 3913 || May 2018: 4293
- Deals Removed: 559 (3545 published) —- Forum Posts Removed: 128 (1150 published) — Competition Posts Removed: 17 (514 published)
- Reasons:
- Duplicate - 202
- SPAM - 54
- Sockpuppeting - 54
- Insufficient Quantity - 48
- No Bargains Listed - 37
- Requested by OP - 30
- Referral SPAM - 30
- Deal doesn't meet Amazon AU posting guidelines - 21
- Unobtainable Deal (Coupon doesn't work, misread promotion etc.) - 16
- Circumventing Ban - 12
- Deal doesn't meet eBay posting guidelines - 11
- Combine Posts - 9
- Banned Item - 8
- Expired on Posting - 8
- Not Available to Australia - 6
- Classifieds requirements not met - 4
- Out of stock on posting - 4
- Joke Post - 2
- Everything else - 148
- Reasons:
Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| dealbot | 106 | 98.31 |
| nocure | 81 | 46.94 |
| save50 | 52 | 24.31 |
| Being Askhole | 46 | 62.46 |
| Lysander | 39 | 31.08 |
| altomic | 36 | 17.89 |
| beatthatflight | 34 | 19.88 |
| RogueWolf | 32 | 35.47 |
| onhunt | 29 | 26.34 |
| Optimus Prime | 28 | 20.43 |
Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Chris2019 | 5 | 6.20 |
| Batz | 4 | 39.25 |
| melbourne-estore | 4 | 21.75 |
| MTSOZ | 3 | 6.67 |
| Polyaire | 3 | 3.33 |
| YeemaiI | 3 | 2.33 |
| gigi23 | 3 | 2.00 |
| Catchadeal1990 | 2 | 62.00 |
| CanDealOnline | 2 | 34.00 |
| Lilmamba24 | 2 | 31.50 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| dealbot | 84 | 120.18 |
| nocure | 40 | 79.35 |
| Being Askhole | 25 | 101.04 |
| tightarse | 21 | 244.90 |
| doweyy | 17 | 155.88 |
| Clear | 13 | 104.00 |
| Lysander | 13 | 74.54 |
| RogueWolf | 12 | 72.67 |
| 134679 | 11 | 91.91 |
| save50 | 10 | 90.40 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote | Comments | Comments (Not OP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| luketechfast | 8 | 70.12 | 116 | 17 |
| tightarse | 5 | 195.60 | 187 | 32 |
| gotyourback | 5 | 173.80 | 230 | 155 |
| Clear | 5 | 114.60 | 382 | 206 |
| lyl | 5 | 84.60 | 50 | 10 |
| xev | 4 | 49.25 | 63 | 6 |
| nxllson | 2 | 579.00 | 13 | 1 |
| zoombie | 2 | 78.50 | 34 | 3 |
| Calmago | 2 | 74.50 | 23 | 9 |
| Gearbite | 2 | 71.00 | 20 | 16 |
Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)
| User | Comps | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| gnv9 | 231 | 18.55 |
| Katie2014 | 73 | 5.73 |
| skyblue333 | 29 | 7.14 |
| altomic | 25 | 6.92 |
| sss333 | 18 | 6.72 |
| Phalaxis | 11 | 25.00 |
| Wreckin Ball | 5 | 8.40 |
| Gold Coast | 5 | 5.60 |
| chemy | 4 | 13.25 |
| Surfers PAradise | 3 | 3.33 |
Most Edits by a Power User
| User | Edits | Uniques |
|---|---|---|
| alvian | 446 | 405 |
| Baysew | 110 | 103 |
| gnv9 | 94 | 92 |
| O O | 92 | 76 |
| tonester | 82 | 70 |
| doweyy | 82 | 75 |
| r0xz | 40 | 39 |
| DuckKnight | 26 | 25 |
| BarginHunter | 24 | 24 |
| IceCreamBandit | 17 | 17 |
Comments
Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)
| User | Comments | Avg Vote | +5's | +15's | -5's | -15's |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jv | 961 | 0.61 | 75 | 13 | 39 | 11 |
| tshow | 616 | 2.42 | 79 | 23 | 8 | 2 |
| brendanm | 580 | 1.31 | 42 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Spackbace | 517 | 1.97 | 60 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| Clear | 377 | 1.30 | 31 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| tempura | 369 | -1.31 | 6 | 0 | 36 | 10 |
| altomic | 325 | 1.87 | 40 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| tuzii | 316 | 1.48 | 35 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| Diji1 | 309 | 0.82 | 23 | 9 | 14 | 2 |
| Frugal Rock | 300 | 0.63 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Top 10 positively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| The overweight luggage was | 221 | Baysew | 2019-05-29 |
| You're right - as a | 196 | Draupnir | 2019-05-25 |
| Coal releases high amounts | 193 | jesseboy89 | 2019-05-25 |
| Kinda thought this would be | 188 | Merlict | 2019-05-07 |
| Thanks, ordered 100 packs | 173 | Bappy | 2019-05-25 |
| Yes advise him to defer to | 167 | iforgotmysocks | 2019-05-13 |
| Great - Its just under my | 154 | b0nd | 2019-05-02 |
| Bloody Muslims, they come to | 122 | Buyingcrap | 2019-05-06 |
| +1 for the paint drawing! | 116 | dust | 2019-05-24 |
| Keep in mind they only go up | 114 | gamemaster | 2019-05-18 |
Top 10 negatively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| We need gun rights! But we | -91 | pal | 2019-05-17 |
| Thank you very much OP for | -81 | pal | 2019-05-06 |
| For every coal station we | -64 | sli | 2019-05-25 |
| I think this kind of risk | -64 | IVI | 2019-05-03 |
| Freeware belongs in the | -60 | jv | 2019-05-08 |
| Some Hitler/Nazi hunting | -60 | pal | 2019-05-06 |
| Get a haircut then? Srsly, | -54 | EightImmortals | 2019-05-09 |
| Wow delusional. | -51 | Skramit | 2019-05-19 |
| SBS - crap channel with long | -51 | RSmith | 2019-05-06 |
| I often drive 20km under the | -46 | Jackson | 2019-05-08 |
Top 10 controversial comments
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is the hatred because tony | 22 | 22 | heal | 2019-05-06 |
| I'm happy for border control | 21 | 21 | DisabledUser26950 | 2019-05-06 |
| Negged for blatant political | 21 | 20 | Draupnir | 2019-05-25 |
| don't get in the way of | 19 | 19 | payton | 2019-05-19 |
| I don't really want to neg | 19 | 21 | TheDukeOfNukem | 2019-05-15 |
| This is the month when we | 19 | 17 | Scrooge McDuck | 2019-05-07 |
| Negged for dissing free | 17 | 15 | Yapapi | 2019-05-25 |
| Oh my The Sky is Falling! | 17 | 17 | ONSALE | 2019-05-16 |
| I wish our government would | 16 | 18 | Thaal Sinestro | 2019-05-20 |
| Labor campaign spend more | 15 | 14 | tshow | 2019-05-19 |
Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Please be mindful that | 38 | 41 | User302892 | 2019-05-16 |
| Trump needs to fking go | 38 | 42 | waterbottled | 2019-05-20 |
| Ideally it would be put down | 36 | 30 | Diji1 | 2019-05-14 |
| Regardless of what happens | 26 | 31 | klownvandamn | 2019-05-24 |
| No Wei Huawei | 26 | 21 | klownvandamn | 2019-05-31 |
| It's getting | 22 | 27 | bob19 | 2019-05-15 |
| Negged for blatant political | 21 | 20 | Draupnir | 2019-05-25 |
| I don't really want to neg | 19 | 21 | TheDukeOfNukem | 2019-05-15 |
| Fkn Trump :( | 19 | 22 | Wystri Warrick | 2019-05-20 |
| This is the month when we | 19 | 17 | Scrooge McDuck | 2019-05-07 |
Comments with a net vote of + or - 20% with pos vote count of 10 or more.
Deals
Top 10 fastest deals to the front page
Top 10 fastest deals to 100 votes
Top 10 most popular deals by votes
Top 10 most popular deals by clicks
Top 5 most popular deals by traffic (in pageviews)
- WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive 10TB $129.84 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU - 109,397
- 90K Qantas Points, $49 First Year @ Citibank VISA Signature Qantas Credit Card (Save $395) - 65,810
- 35% off Samsung Galaxy S10e 128GB $779.35, S10 128GB $876.85, S10+ 128GB $974.35 Shipped @ Samsung Enhanced Partnership Program - 65,339
- Bonus $14 Virtual Visa Gift Card with Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Pint ($9) @ Woolworths - 56,318
- Buy a $100 eBay Gift Card, Get 2000 Bonus Rewards Points (Worth $10) @ Woolworths - 53,236
Most Popular Deals by Category
Competitions
Most Popular Competitions (by votes)
| Comp | Votes | Clicks | Entered | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win a Share of $5 Woolworths eGift Cards from Mondelez [Purchase Cadbury Dairy Milk Block] | 320 | 8245 | 41 | gnv9 | 2019-05-30 |
| Win a Ready to Run Crystal RTX 2080 Gaming PC Worth $3,999 from Scorptec | 87 | 3649 | 314 | Phalaxis | 2019-05-02 |
| Win 1 of 2 Mwave ASUS Gaming PCs (A35i $3,499/A30i $3,199) from Mwave | 78 | 3308 | 274 | gnv9 | 2019-05-03 |
| Win a $10,000 Online Shopping Spree from Australia Post | 77 | 3651 | 325 | gnv9 | 2019-05-01 |
| Win a Hawaiian Escape for 2 & Samsonite Luggage Worth $12,033 from Samsonite | 61 | 4185 | 315 | gnv9 | 2019-05-16 |
| Win a Trip to London for 2 Worth $11,650 from Kia | 59 | 3013 | 265 | gnv9 | 2019-05-01 |
| Win a Pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT Wireless Studio Headphones Worth $379 from Beat Magazine | 58 | 2612 | 239 | gnv9 | 2019-05-15 |
| Win a 2019 Suzuki Vitara Worth $26,240 from Seven Network | 56 | 4408 | 292 | gnv9 | 2019-05-08 |
| Win 1 of 5 Chocolate Bar Hampers Worth $100 from Haigh's | 55 | 2697 | 197 | gnv9 | 2019-05-27 |
| Win a $5,000 Flight Centre Voucher from Sunsuper | 54 | 3225 | 260 | gnv9 | 2019-05-10 |
Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)
Most Won Competitions
Comps Won: 70 | April: 58
Competition Pageviews: 576,799 | April: 550,283 (+4.82%)
- Comps Posted: 514 | April: 523
- Biggest Winner: $10,000 Cash & American Tourister Luggage Set from Southern Cross Austereo
Other stats
Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)
- Click Frenzy Mayhem 2019: Tuesday May 21 2019 - 99,024
- 7/11 Fuel App Watch - Nationwide - 51,818
- Bunnings Not Honouring Warranty as I Made The Purchase with Power Pass Card - 37,075
- [AMA] I'm a Mechanic. Ask Me Anything - 28,335
- Pixel 3 64GB $599 @ JB Hi-Fi. Price Match Harvey Norman + Trade in Old Phone (Normally $1199) - 24,133
Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)
- List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 17,473
- Discounted eGift Cards - 3,686
- List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites - 3,159
- Price Comparison Sites - 3,036
- Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees - 2,579
Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)
- eBay - 156,636
- Dominos - 115,732
- Uber Eats - 52,698
- Youfoodz - 24,107
- Hungry Jacks - 15,591
Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)
| Store | Count | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AU | 169 | 30.28 |
| Woolworths | 69 | 62.22 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 65 | 44.89 |
| Kogan | 58 | 38.40 |
| BIG W | 55 | 26.47 |
| Harvey Norman | 47 | 25.21 |
| Coles | 44 | 30.57 |
| Computer Alliance | 43 | 31.95 |
| EB Games Australia | 39 | 34.97 |
| David Jones | 37 | 19.27 |
Top 10 most subscribed to stores
| Store | # of subscribers |
|---|---|
| American Express Cashback Offers | 753 |
| I Want That Flight | 579 |
| eBay | 500 |
| Youfoodz | 348 |
| Specsavers | 345 |
| Amazon AU | 344 |
| American Express | 339 |
| Uniqlo | 271 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 230 |
| CT Shirts | 218 |
Top 10 Search Alerts
| Query | Count |
|---|---|
| nintendo switch | 777 |
| lego | 401 |
| dyson | 333 |
| sonos | 262 |
| rm williams | 228 |
| nvidia shield | 224 |
| xiaomi | 223 |
| ps4 | 216 |
| japan | 205 |
| sony wh-1000xm3 | 204 |
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
- googleapis.com (Google/Google Now/Discover/Android recommended stories) - 696,778
- Facebook - 112,956
- Whirlpool Forums - 97,727
- Oursteps - 51,276
- Twitter - 37,879
Top Browsers (by Sessions)
- Chrome 62.83%
- Safari 24.91%
- Firefox 3.99%
- Samsung Internet 3.76%
- Edge 1.17%
Everything else
- Deals posted: 3543 || April 2019: 3041 || May 2018: 3045
- Number of Freebies posted: 239
- Comments posted: 116,433 || April 2019: 97,960 || May 2018: 99,635
- % of removed comments: 1.42% || April 1.34% || May 2018 1.31%
- Overall traffic: 14,290,313 sessions, 40,839,411 pageviews || March 2019: 13,323,432 sessions, 37,364,824 pageviews || May 2018: 11,907,884 sessions, 34,200,736 pageviews
New users: 3764
Most commented deal: [PC, Steam] Throne of Keys - One Free Game Every Hour @ Kinguin (1628 comments)
Most clicked deal that didn't reach front page: IKEA Click Frenzy - up to 50% Discount on Selected Products (5205 clicks)
Most neg'd deal: Ozone Water Generator ION10 $19 Delivered @ Livingstore.com.au (-8 votes)
2019: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr
2018: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2017: Zeitgeist - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug & Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2016: Zeitgeist Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - August - September - October November - Dec
2015: Zeitgeist Dec - Nov - Oct - Sept - Aug - Jul - Jun -May - Apr - Mar - Jan
2014: Zeitgeist - Nov - Oct - Sept
tuzii finally returns and goes straight back into the Penalty Box