If you wouldn't mind sharing, what is the best cheapest, lowest bargain, or freebie have you achieved on ozbargain from the day you joined?
I believe the $10 iTunes gift cards from scoopon are the best I have got, not to great compared to those that I missed, whatever they were, care to share?
Mine is now sitting under my desk waiting to be thrown in the bin. After I saw the cost for replacement ink I went out and bought a Brother Laser printer for under $50. SO much better.
With that said, I'd buy another $9 printer in a heartbeat.
I'm just using mine as a scanner now. The second printer went to a friend.
you can buy 2 black cartridges from Hong Kong on ebay for under $10 delivered.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2x-Black-ink-cartridge-compatible…
Which model Brother? and how much is ink/ink refills?
i'm considering getting a new one.
HL-2130 is pretty solid HL-2132 is officeworks model that is just different number to avoid pricematch. It has a ridiculous amount of starter toner, maybe it's just a laser printer thing.
Yep I have this one. It isn't a wifi model although I just connected it to my router's USB port and it works without any drive installations! Give it a try if you get one.
I buy the toner from eBay for about $16 delivered, although I have only changed it once in the time I have had it.
Oh yeah! I'm not sure what was better now…
Also Windows 8 for $15 using workaround
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/82947
So glad I took that offer, now Windows 8 costs like $100. Mega saving for me since I bought three.
I bought one - wish I had bought 2 or 3 as well
Windows 8 for free using 'arrrgggghhhhhh' certain 'meeee' internet 'maaaateys' sites,
then free copies of 13 different anti-virus programs to ensure the free copy of windows 8 wasn't going to cost me.
you actually received this?
yea in 3 days
Free money from Paypal?
there was 2 of those from memory a couple days apart or something. i managed both. pretty sure thats hard to top specially seein i had stuff i needed and was putting off getting anyway :)
Also Windows 8 for $15 using workaround
people still pay for micro$oft crud? ;)
Free 5 x 200g Cadbury Dairy Blocks, 10 black teabags, 10 green teabags and 100g jar instant coffee. All in one deal back in 2010. Haven't seen any to top this many freebies in a deal yet.
ozsale $20 vouchers with free ship and no min spend.
There were quite a few of these as well! If I recall correctly you could purchase a cheap item that came with free shipping, then it would give you free shipping on your next order - thus being able to purchase any item for free + with free shipping!
good days.
and the grays online $40(?) coupon code. ended up scoring a couple of boxes of pretty decent wine for $15 delivered
i second this. i scored 20+ pairs of socks out of them
oh that reminds me of the $20 Staples vouchers! That was great.
6 bottles of wine for about $1 from Grays Online. Bought several boxes for between $1 and $5 which served me well during mother-in-law visits and later swapped the rest for free Fifth Leg.
I've got more to add as well…
…eventually.
Free $25 from G2U and loads of freebies including a 1c Scoopon Event cinemas ticket. Jordan's cereal (500g box).
$10s of dollars of KFC from their game app last year.
Expensive Schick razors. Nescafe, Bundaberg cards, etc.
D-Link DIR-865L AC wireless router for $85 with $100 cashback https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/102502
Not forgetting all the STAPLES Free $20 Vouchers.
Haha yeah that was an awesome deal. My D-link is sitting in the garage, in the original box, with the plastic still on.
I used to love driving to all the different Stocklands to collect my free money.
The dominoes deal was amazing. $5. Never to be repeated!
This deal - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/62432 for a Le Creuset 28cm Cast Iron Round Oven $120 delivered.
Amazon UK cancelled all the orders due to the item no longer being available, two days later it was back at double the price.
Whilst most Ozbargainers gave up, I persisted and let them know how disenchanted I was with their obvious bait and switch. They kept coming back with excuses but I persisted until they gave in after a month of emails and filled my order refunding the shipping fee as an apology.
End result $100 delivered for something that is $400-600 in stores here.
7-Eleven sandwich deal from almost 6 years ago? I think I ended up eating sandwiches for quite some time…probably got ~$1k worth of sandwiches and Coke Zero from them. Gmail, ease of clearing cookies in Firefox and the variation of .'s in the e-mail address assisted the process.
Their barcodes are unique albeit pre-defined/pre-populated. Perhaps Myer could learn something from them? LOL.
They've smarten things up since then but even so, the Kit Kat promo was great - used to take the longer way home so I can score half a dozen of them everyday. Kinda difficult to get the barcodes, I think it took them a couple of days before they cotton onto the fact someone didn't chmod properly and left 4x zip files containing 25k barcodes in there EACH……….They've since hardened their servers and also well and truly killed any possibilities with the use of SMS instead :(
Staples was mad? I had so many orders the delivery man just dumped them outside my house from the 3rd day onwards.
EDIT: the heavily discounted crap from Amex about 2 years ago? Heck, I was working for a telco back in the day, had a fleet of PC's at my disposal so getting the deals weren't difficult. I think my plebs thought I went nuts everyday at 12.
Recent Myer 'deal'?
Scoopon's v.me free movie tix? Service announcement - they're about to expire soon peeps so use them.
Free $10 iTunes voucher from AEC?
Stacked Groupon's $10 for those $20 Caltex Woolies voucher?
$60 free spend at Costco from AMEX.
The Coke Unleashed golden days. Free Ticketek.
The Coles free biscuits and lollies.
How can I forget the free $60 from Costco…
Free ticketek
Yes free money from PayPal was awesome
The 1/2 price 5s eBay sale was great
The Microsoft office for $15 for Hotmail accounts
Also the Windows 8 deal for $15.00
$200 bucks from Commsec for opening a trading account.
All u needed to do was make 1 trade over $500 - brokerage of ~$20 for $180 profit.
NIIICCCCEEEEE!
The Coleman gazebo last year from BigW. Also the walls which went on sale a few months later.
I think the best for me was/is the 5% ING rebate. The savings from that I think exceed all the other gains.
Another great deal for me was the $11 D-Link 632 router with lousy mfr firmware that became a champ after reflashing with DDWRT.
Sundry free money via gift cards around X'mas time.
ING rebate saves quite a bit, but not as much as I'd thought. I went through my statement thinking I saved hundreds, but I've only saved $80-90 thus far.
Meaning I've spent 1.8k to save that much.
Yep, ING the best for me so far.
Think am up to about $300 or so, possibly over $400. Managed to get it extended by getting my sister to sign up (they sent an email offer close to my rebate expiry).
Awesome deal for no actual output required by me - I'd be spending the money anyway.
I just wish more places had pay wave - I love getting 5% off everything!
Best deal I got was probabably the G27 that was sold by DSE for $20. Although it was a price error, managed to get one and even now its still the best deal i've ever gotten.
~$1200 from finding out about the Expedia Brazil trick here for Qantas flights to Asia.
~$380 free interest earned on Citibank Signature BT offer
$150 free cashback on Norton Mobile Cashback offer (Pay $15, get $30 cashback x 10)
$20 free masters voucher.. used at Woolies for free groceries.
$10 x2 free itunes vouchers
$65 off a 10.1 2014 Samsung Note Tablet I was going to buy anyway.
~$80 off Coles Shopping @ Southland on 10% voucher which is near my home anyway, and $10 vouchers.
Probably about $30 of 3M Picture Hanging hooks, saving me cash at Bunnings.
Thats all physical cash savings which = cash in my pocket, rather than less cash going out of my pocket.
Then theres all the cheap goods that I've bought and saved money on, and free apps.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/32316
scored over 40 bars of chocolate
from just spending $10
identifying a winning wrapper was easy. looking for an indent of the barcode on the wrapper.
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100% cash back from logitech. That day was epic.
There have been heaps including the epic 3am sales air asia used to have. My best was probably the Sony 7.1 surround speaker package for $249 at Bing Lee. Other stores like Harveys were selling for the list price of $1199. I argued at Bing Lee I should pay less for cash so I paid $242.
I love OzB :)
Best deals in 2013:
-Deals Direct further 50% off already reduced sale + free shipping
-VODAFONE Huawei Ascend G526 4G Prepaid $99 (Save $100) Delivered @ DSE
-Slazenger Click Frenzy Sales with $5 items
-Urban Outfitters further 50% off all sale items
Best deals so far in 2014:
-The $10 and $20 myer vouchers (thanks Moots!)
-Norton 360 Multi Device + 32GB Micro SD Card $0 after $20 Cashback @ HN
-30% off The Good Guys Items on eBay (Max $100 Discount)
$155 of free Big Mac chants and $80 of KFC Snack In The Face!
I've done that for a while too..and then drop by Hungry Jack to shake the app and see if I will get free fries or drink along with the free Big Mac.
Pretty much my daily driver for a solid month iirc… but not without consequences. Haven't had a Big Mac since :/
Ah yes I'm glad I was a part of this one, still remember the triumphant moment I snatched up the last one from my local store
Must have been this one here back in 2010
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/26838
Never used foursquare before that (still dont!) but I got there and lined up got my free copy of office and sold it on ebay for about $350. A week later did a blog review and asked for the professional copy and sold that too for about $400.
So in total a very nice profit of about $750! All that for waiting in line for half an hour and writing a blog review for half an hour.
Free Bonds undies I wish I had got more.I think some worked out to be a few bucks but overall it was a winner.It was when they relaunched through their Asian operation.
Free Nespresso machine by AMEX deal. The deal no longer exist as it was removed due to the request. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/79549
Best I ever got was:
Logitech G27 @ Dick Smith's for $20 IN STORE (Pricing Error)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/67702
Got 2 of them…. Dicksmith honored the offer.
Pioneer VSX-521 $99 @ Dick Smith (Instore Only)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/81301
This year would probably be:
Norton 360 Multi Device + 32GB Micro SD Card $0 after $20 Cashback @ HN
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/138374
2x FREE Village Movie Tickets - Australia Post
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/139098
30% off The Good Guys Items on eBay (Max $100 Discount)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/137912
I dont know why people havent said this yet, but the BEST DEAL EVER ON OZBARGAIN for ME was the : "Bonus Mystery Flight & Overnight Stay When You Buy 6 Bottles of Jacobs Creek Cool Harvest"
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/85335
The wife and 2 mates from work also got the deal, everybody loved it, and the best part was that the wine was fantastic and cheap!
+1
HP Touchpad
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/51351
Excellent battery life on it and its been modded to run on Android, plus the punch story is true!
128gb wifi + 3g ipad with retina display for $350
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/105917
copious amounts of entertainment book voucher swaps
aarggghhh…. to many to mention.. all right one more…
- Mcchicken pattie nugget substitute
$50 for opening account at mebank
second would be fee movie tickets from Australia post (best thing is the lady knew I was there for free tickets as she didn't even say it comes free and she said 'here are your movie tickets. Another good thing is you can just ignore the automated email from auspost and hence you're not even subscribed
close second is free movie tickets from groupon
Tiger Air voucher! Hardly any effort for $100.
D-LINK 865L, spent AUD 85, get 100 cash back.
BMW AMEX card with $200 DJ voucher plus a few more amex statement credits since.
Citibank signature visa card "friends and family" link giving no annual fee, was paying $200 per year for a card with similar rewards before that.
$10 Bonds cashback on undies which Target or Kmart were selling for $7.50
$50 flight centre coupon for signing up to their mailist.
Several pairs of free glasses from Clearly Contacts.
Dick Smith Sale
Free Slurpies
+ a bunch of other freebies
iphone 3gs from virgin - cheapest iphone contract at that time.
galaxy tab 7" - used for few weeks then sold at profit
pentax Q - cheapest in the world at that time, bought 2, sold one at profit, keep one since it is cheap
anti virus with cash back from SS i think - get the original software plus cash.
free hand job from myself after I missed every single freebie listed above [and most probably below]
You can check out all those Lingerie bargains for some suitable material too.
$180 (after $20 brokerage) for joining CommSec and making a trade over $500. Turns out the shares I bought ($950 at the time) are now worth $1200! Bonus!
The $10 free PayPal x2 on eBay
Many others I can't think of :P
Those $2 Whopper and fries at HJs vouchers…
and the $2 2nd anniversary tiger flights
ADL - BNE return for $4, now those were the days :)
7 eleven free coke zero - coke rewards points - double points during a period - peter alexendar gift cards for 50 odd points
$40 rebel sports voucher for $1 thanks to Rupert Murdoch
half price iPhone 5S out of the reasonably recent deals for me
Anyone remember the Colorado going out of business $10 sale…..
Still got the shoes that I've never worn as they're hideous.
definitely the Volkswagen Driving Experience. hoon around in new VW's, free food and bag of freebies at the end. most amaze. wow.
Ah there's so many!
Some favourites for me,
I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
The $9 Dell Printer.
The deal was oversold so I and many others were sent a 525w wireless printer. As an added bonus I also received a second printer about a week later when I had only ordered 1!