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Best Online Deals at A Current Affair

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:16:33 -0400

Thanks to rhys for notifying me about this evening’s A Current Affair, where some of the best online deal websites are featured. Especially Catch of the Day and Deals Direct. Note that Deals Direct has already been on ACA before, but the growt
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Anthill Website Of The Week — OzBargain!

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:18:00 -0400

Thanks to shosho who pointed out in this thread, OzBargain has just been named as Website Of The Week by Anthill, an magazine for the small business and start ups. The average bargain is usually only valid for a few days, but there are enough posted
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Bargains in Web Hosting (Part 2)

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:08:19 -0400

This is a continuation from web hosting bargains part 1, where I looked at some issues with choosing a web hosting provider. Finding the right host at the right price for your website has always been the case of caveat emptor. You need to understand
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Find OzBargain on Facebook

Sat, 17 May 2008 10:27:26 -0400

I am on holidays on the Gold Coast this week so you probably won’t see me much on OzBargain. I am still trying to check out the site every now and then just in case there’s a riot happening :) This evening I actually managed to create a F
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Price USA Review - Totally Awesome

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:12:17 -0400

Hasn’t it often occurred to you that why things are so expensive in Australia? Even when you factor in the 10% GST, the shipping cost, the distribution cost, etc it is still far more expensive buying gadgets in Australia than from Hong Kong, Si
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OzBargain Received First Legal Threat

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:14:09 -0400

OzBargain has just received its very first legal threat! This is what happened. Yesterday (23 April) at around mid-day I received an email from a “Senior Project Administrator” of a construction company (that shall remain nameless for no
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TopBuy and OO.com.au Free Delivery

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:30:35 -0400

With the Mother’s Day coming up next week, shops everywhere have started offering special promotions, and PayPal too has recently released their latest merchant offers. Top picks? TopBuy and OO.com.au free delivery. TopBuy is currently running
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Getting Store Representative Status on OzBargain

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:52:55 -0400

A new feature that has been added to OzBargain over the last couple of days — Store Representatives. Basically there are two types of people posting on OzBargain – Consumers/bargain hunters/cheapos who have found a bargain. Merchants/sho
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Alexa Updating Ranking System - Bargain Sites Affected?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:49:22 -0400

TechCrunch reports Alexa has overhauled its ranking system to use more sources than just its toolbars. There has been big shifts in the Blogosphere where many webmaster-centric blogs suffer a dip. On the other hand, many sites that are not Internet/
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eBay: Thou Shalt Have No Other Payment Methods Before PayPal

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:43:54 -0400

Sydney Morning Herald: eBay to accept cash and PayPal only, and this story has generated quite a lot of discussions everywhere. While it does not really impact me as I don’t really live on eBay, may I borrow the words from the infamous Jedi Kni
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New Australian Deal Site - Bargain Sniper

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:06:22 -0400

I spotted this site the other day, and it is yet another bargain/deal website for the Australians — Bargain Sniper. Yet another one?! But the truth is, bargain/deal sites are far from saturated in Australia (when you compare the same niche wit
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ASUS Eee PC 701 4GB $399 from ShoppingSquare

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:15:05 -0400

Yes I have been obsessed with the ASUS Eee PC. It has nothing to do with my 3 1/2 year old — it was me who wanted to play with the small ultra-portable notebook. In fact I have bought one in early February — almost $450 delivered from eB
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TopBuy 10% Off Site-Wide Coupon

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:11:50 -0400

TopBuy.com.au got a face-lift earlier this month. To celebrate their new website (which do look pretty good), they are offering a coupon code that gives you 10% off discount for items site-wide. Thanks to MiCCAS for posting this deal. Coupon code is
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Factory Fast’s Daily Auction - Unique Bid for Free

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:02:52 -0400

For those who have been reading this blog would know my dislike of unique bid sites, i.e. the so-called “auction sites” where you need to pay a few dollars of admin fee to place a bid, and the person who has the highest/lowest unique bid
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RetailMeNot.com Launched Shopping Community

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:02:02 -0400

TechCrunch: RetailMeNot Adds Social Network, where Duncan Riley interviewed Guy King from RetailMeNot.com, talked about turning ReviewMeNot.com into a social network of Shopping Community, and how a 3-employees Melbourne-based start up with no VC fun
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Target Store Wide 15% Off Sale 19-23 March

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:16:37 -0400

Target is having a 15% Off Store Wide Sale starting from tomorrow (Wednesday 19 March) until Easter Sunday (23 March), where Easter Friday (21 March) all shops will be closed. It has been quite a while since Target’s last store-wide sale so be
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ToyBuy.com.au Steal of The Day On the Sidebar

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:13:08 -0400

Yesterday I bought my first item from TopBuy.com.au — a 2GB USB key for merely $8.95, delivered for free, plus a 10% off voucher, thanks to this PayPal deal. This happens to be TopBuy’s “Steal of the Day” deal, where items ge
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Dell Happy Hour Sale 10% Off - Today at 1-2PM AEST

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:56:33 -0500

Thanks to 18Googol2 for posting this Dell deal, Dell Australia is having a 10% Off Selected Products Happy Hour Sale today at between 1PM and 2PM AEST. It says “selected products” so I am not really sure what exactly is covered. However
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Interest Rate Hikes, Savers Rejoice!

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:11:58 -0500

AFP: Australian central bank hikes interest rate — Australia’s central bank raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points Tuesday to a fresh 12-year high of 7.25 percent in a bid to curb inflation amid robust economic growth.. Seriously
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Congratulations to Deals Direct, and Thanks for 6% Off

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:15:43 -0500

Congratulations to Deals Direct for winning Hitwise’s Number One Online Department Store for the 6th time! That is quite an achievement — consider there have been numerous opening of online shops sourcing bargains around the world over th
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Advertise on OzBargain Blog from 20 Cents a Week

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:42:24 -0500

AdToll is a relatively new ad brokering/ad serving company, where website publishers can rent out advertising spaces, and advertisers can rent them for a fixed weekly price. I was interested in them because (1) I run websites with advertisement space
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Daily Deals Catch A Thon 26-27 Feb 2008

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:10:19 -0500

It has been a while since this blog last reported the Daily Deals Catch A Thon, where all the past deals from its sister site Catch of the Day are on sale again, all at once, for one day only (well, usually got extended to 2 days). Heaps of interest
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I Had It Enough

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:51 -0500

Okay. Enough is enough. I have spent 15-30 minutes today fixing up issues that shouldn’t had been there in the first place. Why do people keep on registering an user account on OzBargain, thinking that they are actually registering an account o
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RIP HD-DVD, But Are They Bargains?

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:03:37 -0500

Throughout the year 2007, it was a war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and the consumers had been put off from buying high definition DVD players because one just do not want to buy the Betamax of the twenty-first century, whatever that is. Then came 20
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OO.com.au Free Delivery Until 22 Feb 2008

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:14:25 -0500

Thanks to rhys for posting this deal at OzBargaion, OO.com.au is currently running a free delivery promotion with PayPal until 22nd of February! There is a bit of change to the “free delivery” policy — the delivery is only free if
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1,000 Subscribers at OzBargain!

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:56:24 -0500

I have just saw the new Feedburner stats on the number of subscribers at OzBargain — 1,000!!! The means for every single day, there are 1,000 individuals checking out the latest deals posted at OzBargain via either an online RSS reader (Google
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Dell’s 24 Inch LCD Monitor - Now Only $499!

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:07:23 -0500

Here is one great offer posted by Jeffreylin today at OzBargain — Dell 24″ LCD monitor $499 delivered. The specific model is Entry E248WFP, which is Dell’s entry level monitor using TN panel. The much-praised UltraSharp 2407WFP is
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Deals Direct Site Wide Free Delivery 17 Feb 2008

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:24:15 -0500

Deals Direct is moving. Not sure where they are moving to, but that’s always a good excuse to bring up a good bargain! From their latest newsletter: To continue offering you unbeatable value and to expand our range of new, exciting stock we are
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Jetstar 1 Cent Airfares - 19 February

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:57:17 -0500

Date — Tuesday 19 February 2008. Time — 7:30pm. Logging on Jetstar’s website. Well, not really “logging on” as while the text appears 30 seconds after clicking on the bookmark, images do not appear to load. Bugger. Stil
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Buy Cheap Web Hosting, When Someone Else Is Down

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:16:57 -0500

Do you have a website? Do you shop for web hosting companies for the best deal? Now let me tell you when you can find the best web hosting deals — when another popular web hosting company is having extended outage! MD WebHosting was having hard
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OzBargain Bookmarklet - Quick Access to Bargains

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:09:03 -0500

OzBargain has long been able to list deals from a specific domain — just add the domain name after http://www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/! For example: www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/dealsdirect.com.au Deals Direct deals www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/
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New Feature - Top Users

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:18:30 -0500

Just in case you have not noticed a little new feature on the front page of OzBargain, I have created a little sidebar-item Top Users, showing the top contributors on this collaborative bargain hunting website. OzBargain has been getting many great
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OzBargain Gets a New Theme

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:32:54 -0500

Last night, Neill @ Melbourne Metblogs asked on OzBargain about opening deals in a new window. He also asked: Also, surely OZbargain has grown enough to be out of beta? OzBargain has been sitting on beta release for as long as it has been alive. It
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ShoppingSquare $1 Postage Sitewide (Exclude Computer IT)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:03:00 -0500

Woke up to a great bargain this morning. ShoppingSquare has won HitWise’s Australia Top 10 Online Store, so they are offering $1 Postage Site-wide until Monday 21st January, excluding the Computer IT category! I think the tricky thing is to fi
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Weekly Bargains - Back to School

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:10:07 -0500

It is the week where all the major retailers start their “Back to School” campaign. Having someone at home who is going to school for the first time in 2 weeks, it has certainly been very exciting! There are heaps of things you ne
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HP Colour LaserJet for Under $150

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:02:31 -0500

I like to talk about my ever-so-reliable laser printer, a Brother monochrome that has lasted me almost 8 years now and is still going strong. Paid around $600 back in 2000 and thought it was a bargain. Colour laser printer? You probably need a budget
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Don’t Overlook eBay for Discount Clothing Basics

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:55:53 -0500

Oddly enough I’ve always had a tough time finding good basic clothing (t-shirts, track pants, work shirts, fleece shorts, socks, underwear) at discount department stores like Winners (in Canada) and TJ Maxx. eBay is a great place to get basics
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Top 6 Tips on Getting Freebies, from FreeSampleDirect

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:20:06 -0500

Alissa from Free Samples Direct has given out a few great tips on getting freebies online: Keep your Personal Information Private Read Everything Before Requesting a Sample Make Sure You Are Ordering Direct or from a Quality Source If You Like The
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Weekly Bargains - Free AVG Pro, Free Movies, 8% Off Big W Entertainment

Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:34:07 -0500

Some of the most voted bargains this week. Free Antivirus Software Do you find your Windoze-powered computer infested by virus most of the time? Your 30-day free trial antivirus package that came with your computer has already expired? Maybe it is t
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Cheap Lappy around $500 — Asus EEE PC or Compaq C710TU?

Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:22:27 -0500

I have got a problem to solve here. I want a cheap low-end notebook — not something I need, but just something that is nice to have. I want it for my 3 1/2 year old daughter who spent around 1-1.5 hour a day in front of computers playing with s
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2007 Out, 2008 In

Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:08:08 -0500

Happy New Year everyone! How is your Christmas/New Year holidays? For me it is a matter of staying at home, playing with kids, enjoying the family time and not doing anything (including blogging and updating my websites). Life will hopefully get back
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