Are the posted deals discovered organically or is it a sport where people are going out of their ways to find bargains not even relevant to their own purchase?
Poll time -
I post deals when…
Are posted deals organically discovered?
[Deactivated] on 22/11/2019 - 16:12
Poll Options
- 26I find a bargain for an item I am looking for.
- 2I go out of my way to find bargains for everything and anything.
- 1I see a popular item and I look for the cheapest price.
- 0I see a popular item and I get my company/business to make a bargain happen.
- 1I get insider information about upcoming bargains.
Comments
I am always watching out for Hue bargains and power tools.
3/3 Hue bargains were late by minutes (posted while I was still formating).
It's a hard life being a OzBargainer.
It varies. But why does it matter?
I post the odd bargain but it is only when I find one on something I am looking for.
Feel free to contribute when you see one.. :-)It doesn't matter. Just curious.
Curious as to why I hardly come across any bargains.
Curious as to why some people have the weirdest spread of bargains posted.
I'm just curious both ways. Maybe I'm bi-curious.
Email newsletter spam = occasional good deal
But the prolific deal posters these days are using bots to seek out price changes and website changes. This fact is openly admitted
No poll option for: not looking for a deal, but if i come across one I will share
I don't purchase 99% of the things I post. Infact I don't purchase much from any OzBargain deals in general.
I buy things that are posted and 99% of the time, I don't use it.
The Lodge Sportsman grill however… I bought it as an impulse purchase thinking I'll use it once and give it away. I think of anyone on OzBargain, I've used it the most. I think I'm at like 50+ uses now.
The fishing and hunting boys are all getting one each for Chrissy.
Is still on special?
No idea. Bought 6.
I only seem to care about value when I buy self indulgences.
Pretty sure dealbot has some crawlers / scripting going so it automatically finds them deals.
I think the name gave it away.
The better deals are mostly following a formula, I find.
As for the poll, my instinct is to post a bargain if I find a good deal that I would have wanted someone else to tell me about.
For example a restaurant is offering free food. It's not necessarily something I was looking for but something I discover organically.
Most of us are lurkers anyway.