One of the goals of 2017 was to reduce the amount of duplicate deals being posted. Duplicate deals use up moderation time and frustrate users not only posting the deals but those who continue to see the new deals before actioned. We've sent out more than a dozen PMs to users who have posted duplicates to find out the reason why and the number one issue is our duplicate detector not picking up the original deal. So that's the first thing we are fixing. Longer term we will be revamping the deal submission form to make it more user friendly and less walls of text. We'll track these in the stats once the changes have been implimented.
Also part of the goals was calling out disrespectful comments and quashing conspiracy theories by having 1 on 1 conversations explaining how OzBargain works. I'm actually a bit surprised in how receptive people were so there ya go, life lesson, sometimes it just takes a short conversation make things better. Like R U OK? promotes, meaningful conversations can go a long way.
P.S. 2016 Zeitgeist coming soon.
Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)
- Putting all wiki based referral pages into the automated referral system (Work in progress).
- Change all old grocery deals to the dining category where appropriate
- Add "Upcoming Deals" to the store page. (e.g. American Express Statement Offers)
- Improve multiple coupon duplicate matching in limited cases.
Members
Members of the Month
January 2017
Winners from last month:
forumninja for posting the most popular deal last month, AmEx Statement Credit for Dan Murphy's Online. It's the 2nd deal-of-the-month in a row for ninja (and it was an Amex deal as well last month).
nocure for posting the most deals in January. 55 deals were posted averaging +57.8 votes, and 37 of them got onto the home page.
gnv9 for sharing all the competition posts. She posted 404 competitions last month with +6.8 votes average, including the most popular comp, Win a $100 JB Hi-Fi Voucher from STACK (answers included!) Anyone won?
Baysew as moderators' nomination for his dedication as power user. Baysew has made many edits to deals and forum posts over the years to correct spelling mistakes, clarifying the title, fixing bad Markdown syntax, etc. Thanks for the hard work.
-Scotty
See more about members of the month
Moderation Stats:
- Reports: 2395 (avg: 1 report every ~18 minutes)
- Deals Removed: 321 (2348 published) —- Forum Posts Removed: 56 (1139 published)
- Reasons:
- Duplicate - 158
- Requested by OP - 23
- Sockpuppeting - 18
- No Bargains Listed - 22
- SPAM - 26
- Not Available to Australia - 11
- Referral SPAM - 15
- Insufficient Quantity - 26
- Combine Posts - 13
- Out of stock on posting - 5
- Price matches are not bargains - 4
- Expired on Posting - 2
- Everything else - 54
- Reasons:
Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| nocure | 55 | 57.96 |
| Spackbace | 35 | 54.77 |
| rawm | 35 | 29.46 |
| tightarse | 32 | 146.47 |
| Jimmy007 | 29 | 37.21 |
| hamza23 | 29 | 41.83 |
| altomic | 28 | 22.57 |
| easternculture | 28 | 28.18 |
| Clear | 22 | 29.27 |
| AbhiC | 22 | 7.68 |
Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Chazzozz | 8 | 4.50 |
| friednoodles | 3 | 28.33 |
| Fahn | 3 | 6.00 |
| Onlinebargainbee | 3 | 6.67 |
| SimplySheds | 3 | 3.67 |
| VCO | 3 | 3.67 |
| powerbombcomedy | 3 | 3.00 |
| hawardwear | 2 | 0.00 |
| edgyjouvra | 2 | -2.00 |
| LifeasStyle | 2 | 1.50 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| nocure | 37 | 78.22 |
| tightarse | 32 | 146.47 |
| hamza23 | 15 | 65.53 |
| Spackbace | 14 | 116.14 |
| Jimmy007 | 12 | 73.08 |
| rawm | 10 | 71.30 |
| lyl | 10 | 105.70 |
| grababargain | 9 | 82.89 |
| TRENT86 | 9 | 51.11 |
| easternculture | 8 | 65.38 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote | Comments | Comments (Not OP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IWantThatFlight | 6 | 75.17 | 8 | 0 |
| lyl | 3 | 67.67 | 29 | 19 |
| rawm | 3 | 79.33 | 251 | 133 |
| nurries | 2 | 100.50 | 106 | 80 |
| MyGroceries.com.au | 2 | 115.50 | 3 | 0 |
| DingDing | 2 | 159.50 | 0 | 0 |
| oscinator1988 | 2 | 223.00 | 33 | 1 |
| cxdeals | 1 | 52.00 | 0 | 0 |
| KellyK | 1 | 26.00 | 0 | 0 |
| scotty | 1 | 244.00 | 98 | 67 |
Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)
| User | Comps | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| gnv9 | 404 | 7.12 |
| Katie2014 | 110 | 4.12 |
| JSQUARED | 30 | 5.77 |
| Phalaxis | 21 | 9.05 |
| MrtheMoonbear | 9 | 11.22 |
| hamza23 | 8 | 9.75 |
| muttman | 7 | 4.00 |
| neil | 7 | 3.29 |
| Spackbace | 5 | 5.60 |
| Rodeoclown | 5 | 3.80 |
Most Edits by a Power User
| User | Edits | Uniques |
|---|---|---|
| Spackbace | 187 | 180 |
| Baysew | 100 | 99 |
| Steptoe | 48 | 42 |
| O O | 38 | 33 |
| tonester | 37 | 35 |
| shapers | 19 | 15 |
| matt_will_fix_it | 16 | 14 |
| fchis | 10 | 7 |
| chadiwrx | 10 | 8 |
| Lukian | 10 | 10 |
Comments
Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)
| User | Comments | Avg Vote | +5's | +15's | -5's | -15's |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StewBalls | 493 | 2.55 | 71 | 21 | 3 | 1 |
| jv | 482 | 1.15 | 49 | 12 | 32 | 4 |
| PJC | 467 | 1.35 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| Spackbace | 438 | 2.08 | 47 | 15 | 4 | 0 |
| John Kimble | 432 | 1.47 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| malouphix | 392 | 1.77 | 43 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| stormii | 337 | 0.55 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Diji1 | 312 | 1.33 | 26 | 7 | 15 | 3 |
| altomic | 307 | 1.90 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| lostn | 304 | 0.40 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Top 10 positively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just say the laxatives were | 287 | nic672 | 2017-01-18 |
| Not sure if serious, but if | 228 | airal3rt | 2017-01-09 |
| Holy shit I would fire you. | 205 | cmdwedge | 2017-01-09 |
| Pay insurance company | 201 | Baysew | 2017-01-07 |
| This has got to be a | 157 | onetwothree | 2017-01-17 |
| The question then becomes, | 156 | Leviathan13 | 2017-01-01 |
| Okay, I need to get off | 149 | Savas | 2017-01-05 |
| were you ment to change | 146 | turk182 | 2017-01-23 |
| Probably, if he thought he | 138 | ChillBro | 2017-01-09 |
| yup they parked there while | 137 | dimmak84 | 2017-01-16 |
Top 10 negatively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| So you are saying they park | -196 | DisabledUser68451 | 2017-01-16 |
| Fine, but that needs to in | -145 | DisabledUser68451 | 2017-01-16 |
| And something that's | -115 | DisabledUser68451 | 2017-01-16 |
| @bobbified: So do you piss | -111 | DisabledUser68451 | 2017-01-16 |
| I know it sounds bad, but | -76 | DisabledUser206827 | 2017-01-09 |
| Wonder whats the catch… | -66 | ProjectZero | 2017-01-13 |
| Wrong website to post this | -57 | DisabledUser194557 | 2017-01-03 |
| spend 1600 dollard to cheap | -55 | JamesPark | 2017-01-12 |
| I work in accounting and | -52 | sinishta | 2017-01-12 |
| Better leave a will behind | -52 | Bargaingeek | 2017-01-17 |
Top 10 controversial comments
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actually I would argue that | 19 | 21 | 2ndeffort | 2017-01-30 |
| Welcome to the world the | 15 | 17 | Diji1 | 2017-01-27 |
| Instead of funding key | 14 | 12 | The Land of Smeg | 2017-01-15 |
| rat poison | 14 | 12 | kolorijo | 2017-01-18 |
| Trump said throughout his | 14 | 13 | The Wololo Wombat | 2017-01-31 |
| How can you tell someone | 13 | 14 | thevofa | 2017-01-24 |
| Best most random obscure | 12 | 14 | chyawala | 2017-01-18 |
| Original person who | 11 | 11 | Turd | 2017-01-25 |
| "Can use offer in | 10 | 10 | dragonindespair | 2017-01-17 |
| like how 666 means devil | 10 | 8 | jv | 2017-01-25 |
Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The deal is not the cheapest | 19 | 23 | kurisu | 2017-01-02 |
| Actually I would argue that | 19 | 21 | 2ndeffort | 2017-01-30 |
| IPL Hair Removal | 17 | 14 | jv | 2017-01-03 |
| Welcome to the world the | 15 | 17 | Diji1 | 2017-01-27 |
| Better off paying three | 15 | 12 | 50cent | 2017-01-23 |
| rat poison | 14 | 12 | kolorijo | 2017-01-18 |
| Instead of funding key | 14 | 12 | The Land of Smeg | 2017-01-15 |
| Trump said throughout his | 14 | 13 | The Wololo Wombat | 2017-01-31 |
| How can you tell someone | 13 | 14 | thevofa | 2017-01-24 |
| Best most random obscure | 12 | 14 | chyawala | 2017-01-18 |
Comments with a net vote of + or - 20% with pos vote count of 10 or more.
Deals
Top 10 fastest deals to the front page
Top 10 fastest deals to 100 votes
Top 10 most popular deals by votes
Top 10 most popular deals by clicks
Top 5 most popular deals by traffic (in pageviews)
- 20% off 35 Selected Stores @ eBay (Harvey Norman, COTD, Dell, Sony, P.C. Byte, Kitchen Warehouse, Futu, Mighty Ape + More) - 93,540
- 20% off at The Bing Lee eBay Store - 54,860
- eBay $20 off on Minimum Spend of $100 - 52,728
- 20% off at 10 Selected Stores on eBay (Supercheap Auto, Outbax Camping, Grays Online, Edisons, Sparesbox, Knives Online + More) - 48,390
- 20% off 34 Selected Stores @ eBay (Dell, Futu, Big W, Kathmandu, Toys "R" Us, Betta Home & Living, COTD, Sony + More) - 48,132
All 5 are eBay deals.
Most Popular Deals by Category
Competitions
Most Popular Competitions (by votes)
| Comp | Votes | Clicks | Entered | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win a $100 JB Hi-Fi Voucher from STACK | 52 | 894 | 89 | gnv9 | 2017-01-11 |
| Project One Trek Bike - Win a $10k Bike | 35 | 860 | 102 | kenteguy | 2017-01-10 |
| Win a $1,000 Visa Card from Wheels Magazine | 34 | 953 | 108 | Katie2014 | 2017-01-05 |
| Win the Ultimate Hawaiian Holiday for 2 Worth $10,000 from SurfStitch | 31 | 1781 | 123 | gnv9 | 2017-01-02 |
| Win a Baume & Mercier Classima Watch Worth $3,150 from WorldTempus Switzerland | 30 | 894 | 87 | gnv9 | 2017-01-05 |
| Win a $10, $20 or $50 eBay Voucher or 10 Items to Sell for Free from eBay (New and Inactive Users) | 30 | 807 | 43 | JSQUARED | 2017-01-16 |
| Win 1 of 2 Radeon™ Vega Graphics Cards from AMD | 29 | 648 | 72 | gnv9 | 2017-01-06 |
| Win a Holden SS V Redline Ute or Sedan from Bauer Media | 28 | 1026 | 102 | JSQUARED | 2017-01-08 |
| Win a Pair of Bose® SoundSport Wireless Headphones Worth $249 from Sound Guys | 28 | 915 | 89 | gnv9 | 2017-01-02 |
| Win 1 of 13 Prizes (Gear 3 Frontier Watch $598.99 / T3 1TB SSD $649 / UD970 27-inch Curved Monitor $496) from Samsung | 27 | 708 | 40 | gnv9 | 2017-01-18 |
Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)
| Comp | Votes | Clicks | Entered | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win the Ultimate Hawaiian Holiday for 2 Worth $10,000 from SurfStitch | 31 | 1781 | 123 | gnv9 | 2017-01-02 |
| Win a 5N Action-Packed Trip to Japan for 2 Worth $7,880 from Foxtel | 24 | 1134 | 88 | gnv9 | 2017-01-17 |
| Win a Holden SS V Redline Ute or Sedan from Bauer Media | 28 | 1026 | 102 | JSQUARED | 2017-01-08 |
| Win a Dell 13" XPS Laptop Worth $1,999 & JanSport Hatchet SE Backpack Worth $119.95 from Rushfaster [Except ACT] | 22 | 995 | 106 | gnv9 | 2017-01-15 |
| Win a $5,000 Travel Voucher from Intrepid | 19 | 971 | 86 | gnv9 | 2017-01-16 |
| Win a $1,000 Visa Card from Wheels Magazine | 34 | 953 | 108 | Katie2014 | 2017-01-05 |
| Win a Pair of Bose® SoundSport Wireless Headphones Worth $249 from Sound Guys | 28 | 915 | 89 | gnv9 | 2017-01-02 |
| Win 1 of 9 $500 Flight Centre Gift Cards from SBS Radio | 17 | 897 | 72 | gnv9 | 2017-01-27 |
| Win a $100 JB Hi-Fi Voucher from STACK | 52 | 894 | 89 | gnv9 | 2017-01-11 |
| Win a Baume & Mercier Classima Watch Worth $3,150 from WorldTempus Switzerland | 30 | 894 | 87 | gnv9 | 2017-01-05 |
- Competition Pageviews: 307,110 | December: 359,897 (-14.67%)
- Comps Posted: 669 | December: 898
- Comps Won: 88 | December: 188
- Biggest Competition Win:
Kitchen Essentials Mega Pack worth over $900
Other stats
Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)
- Someone at work is eating my lunch on a regular basis - how can I get back at them without getting in trouble - 41,014
- Neighbour Wants Us to Change Laundry Detergent - 34,214
- Employee Has Used Their Exact Sick Leave Allowance for The Last 6 Years. Your Thoughts? - 31,872
- What to do when someone illegally parks in your parking spot? - 30,956
- Should I go to court over speeding fine? NSW - 30,628
Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)
- List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 9,069
- Macquarie Referrals - 5,644
- American Express Referral Wiki 5,091
- List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites - 4,106
- eBay Sales Guide- 2,650
Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)
- Dominos - 137,848
- eBay - 20,455
- Uber - 18,635
- Hungry Jacks - 15,879
- Woolworths - 13,962
Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)
| Store | Count | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Woolworths | 62 | 50.50 |
| Coles | 48 | 43.25 |
| Harvey Norman | 41 | 28.07 |
| The Good Guys | 40 | 38.05 |
| BIG W | 40 | 34.27 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 39 | 27.33 |
| Amazon | 37 | 13.19 |
| Bing Lee | 35 | 42.06 |
| Myer | 35 | 34.94 |
| Target Australia | 30 | 32.43 |
Top 10 most subscribed to stores
| Store | # of subscribers |
|---|---|
| I Want That Flight | 582 |
| American Express Cashback Offers | 279 |
| DeliveryHero | 232 |
| American Express | 227 |
| Specsavers | 176 |
| eBay | 119 |
| Menulog | 116 |
| Pinchme | 116 |
| Masters | 114 |
| Woolworths | 111 |
Top 10 Search Alerts
| Query | Count |
|---|---|
| lego | 169 |
| eneloop | 155 |
| sonos | 139 |
| ps4 | 126 |
| dyson | 126 |
| amex | 124 |
| specsavers | 113 |
| japan | 86 |
| qc35 | 86 |
| bose | 81 |
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
- Whirlpool Forums - 109,070
- Facebook - 107,539
- Oursteps - 42,449
- Twitter - 36,033
- MSN - 32,357
Top Browsers (by Sessions)
- Chrome 58.60%
- Safari 26.36%
- Firefox 6.99%
- Internet Explorer 2.85%
- Safari (in-app) 1.93%
Everything else
- Reports from users: 2395 || December 2016: 2792 || January 2016: 2583
- Deals posted: 2348 || December 2016: 3057 || January 2016: 2309
- Number of Freebies posted: 172
- Comments posted: 82,930 || December 2016: 91,739 || January 2016: 84,836
- Overall traffic: 9,944,444 sessions, 30,238,713 pageviews. || December 2016: 10,270,632 sessions, 33,263,205 pageviews. || January 2016: 9,065,583 sessions, 28,189,648 pageviews.
- New users: 2137
- Most commented deal: LG IPS 34" 34UM58-P 2560x1080 (21:9) 5ms Monitor - $299 + Free Delivery (Normally $595) @ MSY Online (574 comments)
- Most clicked deal that didn't reach front page: Selected Watches $100 (Online Only) @ Myer (3623 clicks)
- Most neg'd deal: [PS4] No Mans Sky (Used, Game Disc Only) - $19.99 Delivered @ Repoguys eBay (-4 votes)
Real time stats from our wiki
2016: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - August - September - October November - Dec
2015: Zeitgeist Dec - Nov - Oct - Sept - Aug - Jul - Jun -May - Apr - Mar - Jan
2014: Zeitgeist - Nov - Oct - Sept
Quiet month for deal posting!
Cheers neil