Is There an OzBargain Sponsorship by Coles and Woolworths?

Lrappy68 on 27/02/2024 - 09:19
Last edited 28/02/2024 - 09:16 by 1 other user

I keep on seeing constant Upvoted bargains from Coles and Woolworths on the OzBargain site.

I do agree that these are deals but I cannot understand why they are regularly UPVOTED so much and they seem more like an advertising strategy by said supermarkets?

Does anyone else agree with me on this?

Edit

All - my point is this - aren't the deals posted from coles/woolies readily available for viewing online? Don't we generally see these deals whilst in those supermarkets anyway? So what is the point of posting them on OzB? And why are they upvoted so much when almost anyone can easily see these deals. I thought the usefulness of OzB was to post deals (Yes) but also to post deals that are not often seen - although there are certainly deals on coles/woolies worth posting why post (and upvote) deals commonly seen - from my perspective this is a waste of a great site??

Poll Options expired

  • 1
    They seem a bit suspicious at times
  • 12
    Yes they have moles on OzB and it's a strategy
  • 106
    You Idiot - They are worth Upvoting - Find something else to complain about
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  • Fredfloresjr on 27/02/2024 - 09:22
    +5

    Then find us a better deal. Otherwise, You Idiot (As per poll option).

    • jv on 27/02/2024 - 09:25
      +2

      OP is from Adelaide…

  • jv on 27/02/2024 - 09:25
    +8

    I do agree that these are deals

    and

    why they are regularly UPVOTED

    Thread closed

    • JimB on 27/02/2024 - 10:00
      +14

      You know an OP is in the wrong when JV is correct.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 27/02/2024 - 09:25
    +3

    We're through the looking glass, people

  • djones145 on 27/02/2024 - 09:32
    +2

    parliamentary inquiry required.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 27/02/2024 - 09:43
      +1

      Take it all the way to me member of parliament

    • star-ggg on 27/02/2024 - 10:12
      +3

      I want to see Scotty grilled by a Senate committee on cornering the bargain notification market.

  • 7ekn00 on 27/02/2024 - 09:34
    +15

    The upvotes are for the people finding the deals, presenting them and formatting them …

    Try it yourself, it's not an easy thing to do, and the least I can do to show my appreciation of the effort is to upvote the deal ;)

    • ihfree on 27/02/2024 - 09:50

      With ChatGPT, the formatting part should be easier.

      You can copy and paste from the website and ask ChatGPT to give you the data back in a markdown table.

      • DingoBilly on 27/02/2024 - 10:01

        Thanks for the offer of setting it up! Looking forward to your AI-generated and well-formatted deals.

        • ihfree on 27/02/2024 - 10:11
          +4

          There's no setup required and it is largely self-explanatory.

          Something like this should work:

          Prompt 1:

          Format this data in a markdown table that I can copy and paste:
          <copy and paste of website data>

          Fine-tuning prompts - eg: remove validity, conditions, split discount column, member pricing etc. eg:

          Remove <name> columns

          Lazy example:

          Output -

          | Product | Price | Discount | Price per Unit |
          | - | - | - | - |
          | Australian Red Seedless Grapes | $4.00 kg* | N/A | N/A |
          | Arnott’s Shapes 160-190g or Arnott’s Shapes Fully Loaded 130g | $2.00 each | 1/2 Price, Save $2.00 | N/A |
          | Sanitarium Up & Go 3 x 250ml | $3.25 each | 1/2 Price, Save $3.25 | $4.33 per litre |
          | Birds Eye Flathead or Barramundi 270g or Whiting or Dory Fish 425g – From the Freezer | $6.25 each | 1/2 Price, Save $6.25 | N/A |

          Pasted into a Ozbargain text field:

          Product Price Discount Price per Unit
          Australian Red Seedless Grapes $4.00 kg* N/A N/A
          Arnott’s Shapes 160-190g or Arnott’s Shapes Fully Loaded 130g $2.00 each 1/2 Price, Save $2.00 N/A
          Sanitarium Up & Go 3 x 250ml $3.25 each 1/2 Price, Save $3.25 $4.33 per litre
          Birds Eye Flathead or Barramundi 270g or Whiting or Dory Fish 425g – From the Freezer $6.25 each 1/2 Price, Save $6.25 N/A
          • Jimothy Wongingtons on 27/02/2024 - 11:09
            +2

            @ihfree: i feel i really should get up to speed with chatgpt + ai - maybe a sign of my middle age now that i am on wrong side of 35…

            • mattmel96 on 28/02/2024 - 12:52
              +1

              @Jimothy Wongingtons: @ihfree Any deals on intro courses to ChatGPT + ai for us luddites? 😂

              • Jimothy Wongingtons on 28/02/2024 - 12:53
                +1

                @mattmel96: yeah i could be beating it to an information harvesting, ai-nude-generating malware fem-AI bot instead of paying for onlyfans!

              • ihfree on 28/02/2024 - 13:25

                @mattmel96: Sorry, no ideas for courses!

                ChatGPT is great as you communicate with natural language, so there's a very low barrier to entry. I haven't seen any courses - I follow a few Facebook groups which have been interesting for learning and ideas of what to do. As an example, in one post, people were using ChatGPT 4 to process a photo of their fridge, identify ingredients and suggest recipes.

                Just this morning I used it to help develop a script to automate a small task I'd been meaning to get around to for a few months.

                I've also had a bit of a play with Stable Diffusion and just googled a required. As long as you have the hardware, getting things up and running is pretty easy. I used Automatic1111's project.

    • lainey13 on 29/02/2024 - 00:04

      That's a lot of people who think those posts are hand crafted manually…

  • CodeXD on 27/02/2024 - 09:35

    I do agree that these are deals

    Other people agree too and upvote to show it

  • Look Up on 27/02/2024 - 09:38
    +2

    This thread is proof why Banducci and Weckert deserve their big pay packets

    When the lowest common denominator keeps dropping, it's time for danger money

    @rappy68 OzBargain is already sponsored by Cloudflare and their innovative range of DDoS mitigation services. To find out more about their world class network security offerings, click here

  • ihfree on 27/02/2024 - 09:43
    +1

    It's time to gather some more evidence. Find a deal and have a look for patterns in the voting history of all the users. It may even be worth heading into Colesworth and picking up a corkboard, pins, red string, and post-it notes.

    I've been suspicious ever since supermarkets stopped selling tin foil. Aluminium just doesn't have the same blocking power.

  • randomusername2017 on 27/02/2024 - 09:46
    +3

    Did they just raise the price of home brand tinfoil again ….

    • Dollar General on 27/02/2024 - 09:47
      +2

      If they just shrink the amount of foil, less hats can be made

  • AustriaBargain on 27/02/2024 - 10:14

    Coles and Woolworths are everywhere, there's probably five near you, so of course people will upvote them.

  • Clear on 27/02/2024 - 10:48
    +2

    You should be focusing on Aldi deals. People are quick to neg and sook about OzRRP and yet nearly every Aldi deal is OzRRP. Of course the argument is always "Aldi deals are limited". So are most other RRP deals too.

  • dust on 27/02/2024 - 10:53
    +1

    Do you really think Coleworth are paying moles to upvote deals on OzBargain?

    • deme on 27/02/2024 - 16:13

      You are missing out

  • iridiumstem on 27/02/2024 - 12:19
    +1

    I have coles and woolies near me and a dollar saved that I may have spent is a dollar saved.

  • avoidfullprice on 27/02/2024 - 18:27

    why they are regularly UPVOTED

    Maybe click on the votes tab on deal, copy the user names who upvoted to a spreadsheet, and see if you can identify any Coles or Woolies bots?

  • payless69 on 27/02/2024 - 19:40

    OP would like Gerry to have a monopoly on dog food?

  • morse on 28/02/2024 - 04:24

    They have common appeal as most people buy groceries, whereas other categories or product might only be of interest to some users.

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