Welcome to another forum topic for announcing 2023's monthly awards. Every month I will be picking some contributors from the community, and each would be awarded with $150 prize in gift cards. Note that we used to be able to pay out prizes with PayPal, however due to our PayPal account issues it's no longer an option.
OzBargain 2023 Monthly Members' Awards
scotty on 11/02/2023 - 14:16
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AMA's are so much fun. Maybe in a few years I can talk about something else.
February 2023
Here are the winners:
YLD1 for the deal of the month, iPhone 12 Mini with 90-Day 250GB SIM Plan: 64GB $400, 128GB $424, 256GB $474 Delivered @ amaysim. It also happens to be the most clicked deal last month with over 30,000 click-throughs to amaysim's website.
Scrooge McDeal for having most deals voted onto the OzBargain front page. He has posted 83 deals in February, and 39 of them got enough votes to the front page, and the most popular being Free The Art of War Kindle Book @ Amazon.
Avarus999 for posting the "price error of the month", Crocs Unisex Classic Slide Navy or Black $0 + $7.99 Delivery @ Anaconda. It also happened to be the quickest non-rep deal to reach +100 votes (took 25 minutes & 22 seconds). Lots of free crocs got cancelled but many also managed to pick them up from the stores. Wear them to your next OzBargain meetups!
TruePursuit for posting the most number of competitions last month. 199 comps were posted with +7.83 vote average, and most popular being Win a $250 Sheet Society Gift Card from The Squiz.
Congratulations!
Congrats to the winners!
YLD1 winner 100%
March 2023
Winners from last month:
doweyy for posting the most voted deal in March, 15% off Apple eGift Cards @ GiftCards.com.au.It got +1172 votes and over 45k clicks, which makes it the most clicked deal last month as well. Apple products rarely get meaningful discounts butthat basically makes them 15% cheaper.
Scrooge McDeal for posting the most deals last month (111 deals with +51.5 vote average), and most popular being this public service announcement — VPN Access for All Google One Plans @ Google One. McDeal has also managed to post 5 competitions in March.
Chuanx for posting the most voted and most entered competition in March, Win an Easter Prize Pack Worth over $6000 from Aussie Broadband. There's no need to be an AussieBB customer to partake in the comp. Entry closes on 16 April so there's still time to enter.
Finally, TruePursuit for flooding the competition section of OzBargain with comps — 365 comps were posted in March with +6.2 vote average., and the most voted being Win an LG Objet Collection – Posé 55'' 4K OLED TV from Man of Many.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
@TruePursuit save some comps for the rest of us to post :)
365 comps posted!! That's insane!! @TruePursuit how can you manage? Is that an all time record?
It takes a lot of dedication, I can tell you that, Scrooge! I have to devote my entire morning to finding comps and posting them. Then again, as a student who mostly spends time online, I often spend the day browsing. Lucky that I hadn't reached my limit most of the time and they weren't all saved as drafts.
Congrats to you also for having the most deals :)
@TruePursuit: Appreciate your posts TP, well deserved :)
I had a comp-posting phase for a while a year or so ago, I think max I could do was maybe 70 or so in a month but I couldn't keep up. You posting hundreds per month is mind-blowingly good
@CrispyChrispy: Thank you CrispyChrispy! Glad I could bring something worthwhile to the Ozbargain community
@TruePursuit: Thanks,🙂 much appreciated. Btw I tried posting few comps last month. I managed to post 4. Everytime I went to post another one, it came up as duplicate. Now I know why. 😋
@TruePursuit: You know you've been posting too many comps when you hit the 24 hour limit of 30 comps.
Oh wow, thanks Phalaxis! This is a real honour coming from you. My top record thus far.
Though I am getting busier so maybe you'll have to take the reign again ;)We'll see. I've been laying off a bit lately. I'll pick up the slack if necessary tho ;)
Thank you so much!! Just found out now. I didn't get a message.
What a wonderful team.. Congrats to the well deserved winners.
April 2023
Winners are:
I Smell Pennies for posting the most voted deal in April, YouTube Premium: Individual TRY ₺29.99, Family TRY ₺59.99 @ YouTube Turkey. The month that we saw a mass migration of ozbargainers moving between India and Turkey. These deal has now been marked as a long running deal.
Guke for posting 2 of the fastest trending deals, $1.99 Mosquito Zapper and $3.31 USB Hub / Cables / Adapter from Amazon. Both got over the +30 votes threshold in 4½ minutes and expired/out of stock in 10 minutes. Good job ozbargainers for cleaning up the Amazon warehouse.
BargainsGrabber for posting the most entered and 2nd most voted competition in April, Win a DreamHack Melbourne Custom Gaming PC from DreamHack Melbourne & Aftershock PC. Most voted competition was actually posted by neil on winning a road bike or 12 cases of beer — weird combination but certainly got lots of clicks.
Twix for consistently helping out with editing deals as a power user, doing 500-700 edits each month. Other than moderators, OzBargain currently also has around 15 power users that fix the title & descriptions of the deals.
Congratulations!
Congrats to the winners!
Congrats everyone!
May 2023
Winners are:
BargainsGrabber for posting deal of the month, ½ Price Long Expiry Plans @ amaysim. I guess there will be quite a few amaysim users for the next 12 months. BargainGrabber also posted second most voted deal, 10% off $100 & $250 Coles MasterCard Digital Gift Cards @ Giftcards.com.au (much better deal than hunting for gift cards on classified). BargainGrabber has posted 27 deals in May with +187.7 vote average.
nicholasv for posting our trending deal of the month, Free Spiky Monster Plush and Squeaky Spiky Ball for Dog from Amazon. It got +30 votes in 3 minutes & 7 seconds, and got to +100 votes in 13 minutes & 36 seconds — even though it was reported to be expired after 5⅓ minutes. How many people got the freebie don't even have a dog?!
ChatGPT for posting the most deals in May — 98 deals with +29 vote average. Most popular deal posted was Gigabyte Radeon RX 6650 XT Video Card $342 @ MSY & Umart with +85 votes.
Iluvfreebies for posting the most voted competition, Win 2021 Modified Suzuki Jimny Toyzuki, and the most clicked competition, Win a Trip for Two to Antarctica from Qantas, in May. Iluvfreebies has posted 42 competitions in May with +10.8 average votes and 56.5 average entries from ozbargainers.
Congratulations!
congrats!!
Congrats winners!
Thank you! :)
June 2023
Winners are:
bob19 for posting the most voted deal in June, $29 off Any Membership @ Entertainment Book. It's also the most clicked deal last month.
I Smell Pennies for posting the fastest trending deal in June, Free Floor Cleaning Mop w/ 3 Washable Reusable Pads & Refillable Bottle @ Amazon. I Smell Pennies has also taken 3 other deals in the top 10 most voted last month with Netflix, Game Pass Ultimate and Spotify subscriptions (travelling to Turkey required, virtually).
Scrooge McDeal for posting the most deals in June. McDeal has posted 67 deals with +98.6 vote average, most popular being Adobe Creative Cloud subscription via Lebanon.
Phalaxis for posting the top 3 most entered competition in June, Win $500 Bunnings Gift Cards from Ryobi, Win a Samsung 65" Q60C QLED 4K Smart TV from Appliances Online and Win a Share of $24,000 Worth of Prizes from Retravision. Phalaxis has also posted the most competition last month with 214 comps posted at +16.3 vote average.
Congratulations! Prize of $150 gift cards will be sent out later week. We are also currently giving out OzBargain hoodies everyday to the top deal poster of the day.
Oh sweet, thanks! Congrats to the other winners also.
Congrats Phalaxis, well deserved!
Thanks!
Yayyy, congrats everyone and thank you Scotty as always 🥰
Congratulations mate - you deserve it
Thank you!
Congrats to everyone!
Thank you very much!!!
congrats and well deserved
Thanks Scotty for clarifying
July 2023
Winners are:
tightarse for posting the most popular non-rep post in July, $10 Promotional Credit on $150 Amazon Gift Cards @ Amazon AU. In fact it was only the fourth most voted deal in July, and TA has posted the other top 3 as a rep of Cashrewards ($5 Bonus Cashback during Amazon Prime Day, $5 Bonus Cashback on $30 Spend and $3 Bonus Cashback on $30 Amazon Gift Card).
cheapm8 for posting the most clicked deal, Free Large Pizza on FIFA Women's World Cup Goals @ Pizza Hut. With Matilda getting into semi-final, more free pizzas are expected to come.
nicholasv for posting the quickest trending deal, Free 3x Disney Junior Pip & Freddy Plush with Amazon Prime. It got 100+ votes in under 8 and half minutes before being marked as expired 26 minutes after posting — lucky for those who stayed up late past mid night to score a nice freebie.
Phalaxis for posting the most entered competition, Win a $10,000 Harvey Norman Gift Card from SBS. Phalaxis has also posted 238 competitions in July with +15.81 vote average.
Congratulations!
Congrats everyone!
Congrats to the other winners. Thanks again scotty.
Congratulations everyone! Thanks Scotty :)
Awesome thanks again Scotty
August 2023
Winners from last month:
The Milk Man for posting the most voted deal last month, 6 Months Free Trial of Uber One Membership with PayPal, which gets you free delivery & exclusive perks. Great for those who have not had Uber One previously.
BargainsGrabber for posting the most clicked deal in August, Google Pixel 7 $499.50 from Telstra — a deal that I have personally taken advantage of, twice. Even with Pixel 8 announcing soon, I doubt the price of existing model will drop this low.
TruePursuit for posting the most number of competitions in August. He has posted 303 competitions (amost 10 comps a day) with vote average of +6.42, most popular being Win a MG-1 Gaming PC from Maingear.
chickentaste for this most voted comment in August. Maybe we'll see this engraved on a spacecraft one day.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the winners!
Good to be back on track
Congratulations everyone :))
Congrats!
Thank you so much, Scotty!
Proud to be part of this community, thank you for the consideration and opportunity!
Congratulations guys! Well done to all of you (:
The look my wife gave me when I tried to explain this…
September 2023
Winners from last month:
Pharos for posting the deal of the month (or the year? or until 2090?) — 30TB Storage for Free until 2090 @ Google One. The same hack got propagated all over the Internet and how many of you are now sitting on multi-terabyte cloud storage that can be inherited by your grandkids? Fortunately we have not received any letter of demand from Google's lawyers, yet.
BargainsGrabber for posting the most clicked deal in September, 15% off Ultimate eGift Cards, and it also happens to be the 2nd most popular deal last month. That makes pretty much everything 15% cheaper everywhere.
shxhshzhz for posting the most deals in September. 65 deals were posted with vote average of +36.8, and the most popular is actually a deal about a TCL fridge.
Phalaxis for posting the competition of the month, Win a Hyundai KONA Hybrid N Line, which was the most voted, most clicked and most entered competition on OzBargain in September. Phalaxis has also posted 240 comps averaging +13.9 votes.
Congratulations!
congrats everyone! banger posts!
Congratulations everyone!
Congratulations to all the winners! Thanks Scotty
October 2023
Winners from last month:
Scrooge McDeal for posting the most popular & second most popular deal in October, Free Lifetime Rezi and Free Lifetime Plant ID & Disease Identifier. He has posted 37 deals in October with vote average of +134.5.
den_yong for posting the most clicked & probably one of more controversial deal last month, BYD Seal: Dynamic $49,888, Premium $58,798, Performance $68,748 — 20k+ click throughs but I am guessing only a tiny fraction converted into sales. 392 positive votes + 59 negative votes, mostly because it's an RRP post. Still, looking forward to catching one on the road soon.
shxhshzhz for posting the most deals in a month, 2 months in a row. He has posted 75 deals with vote average of +42.8, most popular being 60% off Selected Nivea Products + Extra 10% off Sub & Save @ Amazon AU.
shaneb for posting the most popular competition last month, Win 75" LG TV & Soundbar Bundle from Gadget Guy. shaneb has also posted 25 competitions in October with vote average of +16.3.
Congratulations!
Congrats Scrooge and everyone else
Thank you mate. And thanks @scotty much appreciate it 🙂
Congrats shaneb! Well deserved.
Thanks Phalaxis & Scotty
November 2023
These are the winners from last month.
I Smell Pennies for posting the most voted deal in November 2023, eBay Plus $9.99 for 1 Year. ISP has posted 12 deals with vote average of +265.
BargainsGrabber for posting the most voted deals during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday shopping season. 50% off Pirelli Tyres @ mycar Tyre & Auto surprisingly became the most popular deal during BFCM, and even during the meetup I've heard people buying tyres on Black Friday. It has also been OzBargain's busiest Black Friday so far with 3.34m recorded page views that rendered the site almost unusable.
cooni for posting the quickest trending deal Free $5 Woolworths eGift Card @ SnackBack App, which took 6 minutes and 28 seconds to get +30 votes, and the deal was marked as expired after less than 10 minutes.
shaneb for posting the most voted competition, Win Ryobi Tool Packs from Ryobi, posted on the last day of November. He has posted 31 competitions in November with vote average of +13.2.
Congratulations!
Thanks Scotty. Congrats all.
For anyone that may be interested in entering competitions, I think it's also of note that probably one of the greatest* prizes ever won on ozb was won this month:
toodiefroodie won $13K : https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/806889
(Runner-up is probably mgleds who won a 65" LG OLED TV : https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/809135 )
*not the highest value! But straight cash is a better prize than custom tiles!
<3 I love OzBargain. Didn't know quickest trending was a thing!
Congrats to everyone!! Well deserved!!
December 2023
Here's the winners for the last month of 2023. Last December has been a slow month
shxhshzhz for posting the most popular deal in December, Join eBay Plus for $9.99 for 1 Year @ eBay Australia. +687 votes, and judging from the number of eBay deals posted on OzBargain each year, I am sure it would save many people much in 2024. shxhshzhz has posted 51 deals in December 2023 with vote average +60.8.
deal junkie for posting the most clicked deal in December, Country Road Merino V-Neck/Crew/Zip Jumpers $29.95 @ Country Road Outlet. At over +32,000 clicks to the Country Road Outlet, I am expecting to see some V-necks at the next OzBargain meetup.
Etheral Point for posting the most voted competition in December, Win 1 Prize a Day for 22 Days from Tefal. +59 votes, 264 entries from ozbargainers, and one reported winner.
Last one is a recommendation from our moderation team. djk, who is the newest power user on OzBargain, for helping out with competition edits, closing time fixes, etc.
Congratulations! There will be a new post in February for the monthly awards in 2024.
Notable competition wins this month:
- Nadaella and boxpizza29 won $500 KMart GC: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/820975
- easknights won a Galaxy Z Flip5, buds and airtags: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/817513
- quixotic won a coffee machine and Nickman661 won a $1000 GC: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/802784
oh wow!
Thanks.
Congrats all
January 2023
Winners for last month:
kriddy for posting the most voted deal in January 2023, Free Lifetime Pixelcut Pro Subscription that saves $97.99/year. Congrats to the lucky few who got it and still managed to keep the Pro days later.
Clear for posting the most deals in January. He has 91 deals averaging +51 votes, most voted being 20%/22% off Eligible Items at eBay Australia.
MiCCAS for posting the most voted/clicked/enter competition in January, Win a Samsung 65” The Frame TV from Telstra by signing up to Samsung Galaxy news. Winner announcing on Monday — best of luck!
Phalaxis for posting the most competitions in January, with 226 comps posted (that's 7.3 posts per day) with vote average of +15.6. His most voted competition was Win Fiat 500, $30K Cash or Holiday Package + Other Prizes from BWS by downloading the BWS app & swiping the cooler daily.
Congratulations!