Hi, just a sincere request but I think you, the moderators should hand out more OzB shirts
Wear that thing with pride cause thats the point
Lets vote :P
We Need OzBargain Shirts!
avgbowlofpho on 20/05/2016 - 22:24
Poll Options
- 39Hell Yeah
- 22Not really (how are you an OzBargainer if you vote for this?)
- 16Already have one lol
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$1 T-Shirt
I think there was some before. I know they were a prize in the treasure hunt game.
Totally agree
wanna show my office mate I am an Oz Bargainer!!
I was desperately hoping to win one last time the prizes were on but no luck.
I'd definitely buy one if it was a bargain.To be truly in the spirit of OzB, the T-shirts should be a limited release, only available in a few (out of hundreds) of stores and be no more than a four cents cheaper than a plain version of the same shirt.
To get one you should have to purchase it online and then complete a registration process to arrange pickup or shipping. This will require registration via an emailed code (which will only work for the first 50 buyers- and of those only to the ones that look in their spam message folder). After opening their email, we should have to intelligently piece together broken parameters on the broken link in the message body and follow it to a page where we then enter three codes in a particular way, one from the email, one from the registration page, and one from the email confirmation pop-up.
Of course once we enter these correctly, the process will fail if you are running an ad-blocker, Fx, Safari, Opera, Blue Moon, Chrome or IE- and any one of a zillion combinations of location, OS, and hell, even Internet address, or if you are an existing OzB account holder. Also, it should be made clear at the end of this process that the offer is only available to New Accounts only (as mentioned in the middle of an extensive Ts&Cs of offer available via an obscure link in one of the email messages)
But then someone will buy them all and list them on ebay for a profit.
but them all and list the, on eBay for a profit.
I've never heard this phrase before, but googling it, is this the same thing as a broden?
There's something familiar about that name. I think I saw it on the back of one of my consoles - the ps3 perhaps?
I agree with this as long as it s only available as part of registering a new credit card that you then must cancel within 30 days to avoid the annual fee.
30 days later the T-shirt doesn't arrive, so you go to the Ozbargain helpdesk where the support guy seems to be offshored in Chennai and has to use Google Translate to communicate with you. After multiple failed attempts to get the goods shipped / refunded, you give up and go on the Ozbargain forums to rage about your poor shopping experience with other users. the T-shirt deal has 900 positive votes but quickly turns into 635 negative votes as everyone realizes that the T-shirt is on back-order.
5 months later an unmarked package shows up in your mailbox, you open it up to realize it's the T-shirt you ordered! Wow! you had completely forgotten about it.
Then you excitedly put it on and it's the wrong size…
And then go back to the forums where half the people will scream ACL from the rooftops
OP, sell you mine for $50 lol.
I propose the admin provide free tshirts to everyone, once they have made there first 117 comments.
the moderators should hand out more free stuff
Hell Yeah!!!
What's the point of the poll? It's like having a poll asking "the government should give everyone basic income of $50k tax free, cheap public housing and box full of Eneloops". Hell yeah!
We usually give T-shirts away as part of competitions. In the past if people ask nicely I'll send them on free of charge. Despite all the $1 Tee bargains here, it's actually costly to produce and post those T-shirts at our quantity. The latest batch from last year (OzBargain.com.au at front, "The Bargain Power - it's over 9000" at the back) costs us ~$8.50 per tee to manufacture in China and post them here in a batch. Good quality shirt though (much better than our first edition). Then another $3.25 to have it posted to you (cheap C4 envelope + stamps).
So yeah, unfortunately we are not able to give them out freely as we wish. Nor are we able to sell them at a price that OzBargainers would consider a bargain.
We can give out designs & logos though so you can make your own OzBargain T-shirts with those ArtsCow / Vistaprint / Snapfish deals.
So, I know this person who just won a trip to the Rio Olympics. I heard that she wants to wear her OzBargain T-shirt to the Olympic Games over there. Alas, she has no such shirt. Sad times.
Some may say she doesn't deserve one anyway, she is already lucky enough to have won a $25,000 trip but you can have all he money and nice things in the world, but can you ever truly be happy without an OzBargain T-shirt???Hehe nice pitch trying to score a T-shirt :) PM me.
Then another $3.25 to have it posted to you (cheap C4 envelope + stamps)
Not if you have a Aus Post Concession card! :D ($1.80 for up to 250g, or $3 for up to 500g)
How much would it cost to buy one?
Source a deal through artscow/cowcow?
Vistaprint Deal + the PNG logo here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/help:api
@Scotty I assume the SVG needs a font?
Hello. It's Oz bargain not Papua New Guinea bargain.
Maybe OzBargain iron on transfers then. That way the most enthusiastic will score a free t-shirt from other means and iron on the OzBargain logo in which hopefully is "free"
Totally agree with you there, especially with the amount of ads run on the site OzBargain staff of three must be billionaires. A good post will get 10,000 views (not exactly sure, possibly more) so how can OzBargain not afford to give you a $10 shirt per post at least!!! Valuing each page view at 5 cents that is $500 revenue for one post.
Same problem with wikiHow. I have edited for hundreds of hours on wikiHow too and never got a t-shirt which pisses me off even more. I raked in millions of views, if I was a paid writer would be rich! Not like they are non-profit like Wikipedia, I have seen Asian dating site ads in my articles :(
5 cents for each page view? I think it's a lot less than that. Half the users use an ad blocker.
as above, your estimate of 5 cents per view is way way too high, it would be closer to 0.2 cents… and again as above you'd need to account for adblockers, which on a site like ozbargain the percentage would be higher than average… a more realistic estimate would be $10 per 10,000 views, but it could still easily be lower than that…
I have seen Asian dating site ads in my articles
Now I wonder what your wikihow article is about.
i thought you were happily married. :P
TWELVE PEOPLE HAVE SHIRTS!!!!!
Not for bearosaurus hopefully.
But I will only buy said shirt if it's a bargain.