[April Fools] 澳八根将全面中文化 (Announcement: OzBargain Is Changing to Chinese)

For those too sensitive to see it, yes it is an April Fools Day joke, something that we have been doing every year for the last couple of years. See our April Fools post in 2017 #1, 2017 #2, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013. See response.


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澳大利亚在改变,澳八根也需要改变

澳大利亚 2016 年人口调查指出:

  • 有超过五十万中国出生的华人住在澳大利亚
  • 十分之一的悉尼人口是华裔血统
  • 十万个中国留学生在澳大利亚的大学读书

因为地理上靠近远东邻邦,许多海外学生留下了成为居民以及越来越多的移民,澳大利亚的亚洲话是避免不了的。你只要看看去年澳八根网聚的照片和直播就知道-你将不难发现在在澳八根上占强势的人群是哪些!

但这不仅仅只关乎在澳大利亚的华人人口。还有就是中国的购买能力。最近十年来中国扫空了澳大利亚的奶粉鱼油,买了我们的房子,买了我们的农地,买了我们的煤矿,甚至还买了我们的政府官员。很明显地他们对便宜货也是很有兴趣的。几个星期前我与一个澳八根客聊天,他现在在另一家折扣网站工作,市场是在澳大利亚的中国人。他的网站突然挤爆从中国的访客来买澳洲这的奢侈品(iPhone X, 名牌包等等)假想澳八根也可借此打开有十四亿潜力的市场?喀亲!

所以为了更好地照顾不断改变的澳八根客以及让这网站打开更大的市场,澳八根决定改变它的方向。我们的主题色调将采用中国伟大的红色,而语言也将慢慢地转变为中文。在论坛里每当有人问应该学哪种语言,被推荐的绝对是中文。电视剧萤火虫与冲出宁静号早在十五年前就已经知道未来的人一方面用英文沟通,另一方面用中文粗话彼此诅咒,而我们都知道哪种表达方式更重要!

已完成的改变

  • 网站名从 OzBargain 改成澳八根,并以红色为主题色
  • 最上头选单改为中文
  • 公告都将用中文,但有介于一些土澳语言能力有限,将附上一小段英文概要
  • 主页上小米专用链接。这是澳八根最爱的一个中国品牌,但可惜的是他们还是没有赞助我们复活节的寻宝项目

其他改变计划

  • 要是访客从中国来,自动把价钱转换到人民币
  • Udemy 将提供学习普通话课程的优惠码
  • 房地产优惠讯息,特别是精英中学附近的
  • 链接到代购网站帮助你把所购买的运回中国

最后,谁然我们尚未与党的数据仓库订好协议,但敏感话题还是不要提,比如说西藏与台湾的独立等等。它们会在不通知情况下被和谐掉。

最最后。这边谁有马云叔叔的联络方式?想问问他有没有兴趣收购一个澳大利亚折扣分享网站…


Australia is changing, and so should OzBargain

According to 2016 census and various stats that I cannot be bothered linking to, there are now

  • More than 1/2 million China-born Chinese living in Australia.
  • More than 10% of Sydneysiders claim to have Chinese ancestry.
  • More than 100,000 Chinese overseas students studying in universities around Australia.

China & Australia Flags

With geographic proximity to our East-Asian neighbours, overseas students becoming permanent residents after graduation and increasing influx of immigration — Australia becoming more Asianised is inevitable. Taking a look at photos and livestream from previous year's OzBargain meetups, and it is not hard to figure out OzBargain's dominating demographic.

However it's more than just the Chinese population in Australia. It is also about China's purchasing power. Over the last decade China has cleared out our milk powder & fish oil, bought out our flats & houses, our farmlands, our coal mines and even our politicians — and they are obviously also looking for bargains. A few weeks ago I had a chat with an OzBargainer who now works at a competitor deal site targeting Chinese in Australia. Instead of local traffic, his site is flooded with visitors from China shopping for luxury products in Australia (iPhone X, designer bags, etc). Imagine opening up OzBargain to 1.4 billion potential shoppers?! Ka-ching!!

2018 OzBargain Meetup in Chatswood

So, to serve the ever-changing OzBargain demographic better AND to open this site to a huge potential market, OzBargain has also decided to change its course. OzBargain will now embrace the glorious Chinese-red (our new theme colour) and gradually change the language to Chinese. After all whenever "what language should I learn" got asked in the forums, the answer has always been Mandarin. Firefly/Serenity got it right 15 years ago — in the future most people will speak English and swear in Mandarin, and we all know which form of expression is more important.

Firefly Cursing in Chinese

What's Changing

  • Our name will be changed to ào bā gēn and theme colour to red.
  • Top navigation menu will all be changed to Chinese.
  • Announcement will be done in Chinese, and for those who are linguistic challenged, a brief English translation will also be included.
  • Dedicated Xiaomi link on the home page. That's the Chinese brand we all love. Unfortunately they still won't sponsor our Easter treasure hunt.

Planned Improvements

To realign with our future goal, these changes are planned for the rest of the year:

  • Automatically show prices in ¥ Renminbi if you are visiting from China. We just need a bit adjustment to our implementation last year.
  • Exclusive coupon code for free Mandarin lessons at Udemy.
  • Real Estate Bargains section, especially houses around Selective high schools.
  • Quick links to mail forwarding service to send Australian products back to China.

Finally, while we have not yet finalised a deal with CCP on their "data warehousing" project, it would be impolite to mention taboo subjects such as Tibet or Taiwan independence. These will be removed without notification.

PS: Anyone has Uncle Ma Yun's contact detail handy? I would like to ask him whether he is interested in acquiring a little Australian deal sharing website…

Comments

      • +1

        not born here…not chinese….AND I LIKE THIS!

      • +3

        How much you betting? I can 100% say my loyalty is to Australia … but that doesn't mean I should ignore my heritage! I can guarantee everyone here.. and many friends and colleagues all say first and foremost I'm 100% 'Aussie'. Walking down the street, trust me, most people will pre-judge and think 'Chinese person'… as soon as I talk, there's a certain level of surprise that I notice every now and then.

  • +2

    More deals on squat toilets !

  • Last year's april fools with the Eneloops was better :)

    Now how do I turn this chinese shit back to English??

    • You forgot the Cap on Chinese shit.

    • Turn it….back?
      What does he mean by this

  • good one

  • +2

    Kinda distasteful prank to be honest .. oh well. Be a man.. do the right thing !

    • +1

      Scotty is Chinese. He has every right to joke about China.

      • +3

        And i have every right to be upset bout it as well. Staying here i do feel some asians treating asians horribily just to show that “they belong”.

        • -1

          Are you a feminist social justice warrior? Easily offended over something so tiny. This kind of stress is going to give you a short life.

        • @Clear: while i don’t mind the occasional banter i do feel this is a bit too much. if u can’t read and judge the amount of dislike on this message board itself perhaps u should be the one having a reflection.

        • @Ragnarok1982: A small minority are offended at an April Fools joke. I bet if this was about Trump/Malcolm you wouldn't be having a sook.

  • +2

    建立一个繁荣,文明,和谐的OzBargain。

  • +1

    Hopefully the chinese boycott this website so the rest of us can get some of these deals instead of them brodening it all

    • +2

      Have read a few of your posts and you seem to dislike Asian/ Chinese a lot in your comments.

  • +3

    Wishes OzBargain Fools April 2018 completely success.

  • +1

    Ozbargain is under attack

  • come on, this is annoying to have chinese characters and links.. such a put off

    • +1

      Get used to it

  • Thx, now I know what day it is I can set my clock back! My Xiaomi Mi5 dual sim was the second best phone I ever bought on ChinaBargins (and I’m heading to PRC soon and don’t want to be detained for hours😕)
    Bu Yao

  • +3

    看懂这条评论的请给个赞 谢谢

  • +5

    I’ve reported this to Po Lin Han Seng’s Wan Na Xion.

    EDIT: Spelling (spellcheck).

    • +1

      Hahahaha. I had to read it twice. Good one.

      • +1

        I was like wtf but then read your reply and realised it was a play on pronunciation. Good one op. Lol!

    • +1

      Good one. Don't get Wan Na Xion at the first place lol

  • I just realised that it was April 1st.

    I originally thought that the Ozbargain site got hacked.

  • +1

    Ass so

    • Crossed the line_____

  • ochibahgenna.com.au

  • +1

    Lol. Could not work out how to login. Resorted to trial and error.

    Great joke. Thanks Ozbargain.

    Shame though that some ppl have used it as a vehicle for their own hate. Oh well.

  • Gold.

  • Love it. Happy Aprils Fool Ozbargain

  • +1

    +1 for Firefly reference

    • +1

      One of my favourite shows in the 2000's.

  • common man at least make the whole site chinese so can just get google to translate the whole page

  • got me there, until I read the comment.. phew!

  • -4

    Ching chang chong

  • +2

    I think ozbargain is now bombarded with racists related bargains, not good and divisive

  • Idk this is joke or what but it isn't funny at all

  • +2

    2018: happy April fools!!
    2118: reality

  • +1

    Taiwan number 1

    • surprised the new china mods didnt censor this.

      • they realise it's true

  • -1

    Drive around Sydney……

    what do mean Oz Bargain to 'change' to Chinese…. we have already been invaded.

  • CHINA #1

  • Love it, got more on your April fools, I'm impressed though!, i got it in less than 5 minutes! Well done!

    • Seriously though,STOP IT. I need to see my bargains properly right now!!!

      • Yeah because we need hard working Australians like you injecting money back into our community :) ;)

  • +3

    Previous years April fool prank:
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/300109

    Even if this is this years April fools prank, I think they have gone a bit too far this time. Doing this will only ignite division and racists comments and posts in a public domain. I am sure they could have come up with a better prank!

  • +1

    Most of the users here on ozbargain are probably asians anyways. Would be good to have a chinese version of the website like you have cheapcheaplah in singapore. The real value is the website platform software running in the background which can be scaled to any country and language + the locals contributing to the bargain spotting. Recommended items by locals to shop for is now fast becoming a new trend in internet retailing, that should extend to bargains as well.

    • +7

      owner is asian. most users are asian. don't know why we all can't have a laugh

      • hope he makes it permanent though, it would encourage some locals who arent fluent in English to post some deals as well. Would be really surprising if the website does get a surge in visitor numbers over next few days.

    • +2

      There’s one already: http://www.ozdazhe.com/show.php

      • that site seems to be cloning all the bargains here?

  • Happy Easter Sunday!

    Any good deals on Huawei, Lenovo, Motorola, ZTE or Xiaomi? When does the Moto G6 get released?

  • -2

    Sum Ting Wong

    • Po kai

      • You too ally rat

  • Nice try OzB…Fools…

    • "stingy-oz" - not related!

      • Hah! Stingy vs Stingy

  • 这不科学! 一定是愚人节笑话!

    WTF!

  • -1

    Chao ni ma china no 10 like in pubg

  • -1

    Kan Tong is sooo 1983.

    Jimmy's Sate FTW.

  • May I be the first to say I look forward to our new Chinese overlords :)

  • Non readable chars are only up to 12pm only :))

  • Nice try April 1.

  • Hahahaha love it!!!

  • +2

    Long time daily user but rarely log in preferring to give Scotty some affiliate cash on the links I click.

    I wanted to log in to share my opinion that this is NOT funny. Either as an Aussie or Chinese.

  • Diu nee si fut

  • 这个 是 大

  • LOL… man, you got me this year!! I didn't even realise it's 1st April today.

  • +7

    echo the same sentiments to some users - quite racist AF.

    Quite surprised to see OZB has come to this, and allowing racist innuendos in the comments, and bargains. Poor form.

    • Your surprise is a form of entitlement and privilege.

  • would've been funnier if you wrote a script to convert all prices mentioned in post titles from AUD to CNY.

  • +6

    feel deeply offended by today's Fools Day joke. It's over the boundary. OB is a discount website, now it's political.

  • We will all look back at this day and laugh at ourselves that we predicted it. Soon.

    PS: Is this why there are no more deals on google home being posted????

    • if we're lucky and survive the interrogation, we'll remember this day from inside the re-education camp.

  • TAIWAN NUMBA WAN

  • lol

  • +3

    Ha, i immediately knew it was an April's fool prank. But wow some of these comments…

  • -1

    What a fool who keeps making these kind of jokes over and over again. Could you try something new next year please? So sick of it now.

  • +1

    I no longer know how to pronounce ozbargain :-(

  • -1

    This is the best… China #1

  • So is this Mandarin or … Cantonese? Which is assumed when one says "Chinese"?
    Can sum won please post a bargain for Chinese language course? I can't do without OzB!!!

  • Where's AngryChicken? I'm sure he or she has a few things to say about this.

    I find it hilarious that I'm being served Chinese ads about home loans now. Jokes on them, I can't afford a house.

  • +3

    I come to Ozbargain for bargains, not wannnabe comedians trying desperately for attention or jokes that aren't even funny.

  • no not funny, not in the slightest

  • We need to find bargains on these items: https://i.redditmedia.com/juj9FYWaQUxFQQBEqgzead8rsG-Ho89u6z…

  • RIP Ozbargains

  • Up up up

  • +2

    worse joke ever, site looks ridiculous.

  • Good one

  • +4

    Paint your face with yellow paint and pull slitty eyes, hey it's April fools Day and you can be as racist as you want….. It seems :/ Good one ozbargain.

    • Out of interest, is Kimi Raikkonen dour?

  • I pity the April Fool who pranks after 12 midday!

  • OzCommieBargain?

    For a sec I thought I'm in alternate universe.

  • +1

    所有用户名必须在中午前转换为中文

    (All usernames must be converted into Chinese by midday)

  • I find it no fun. Are you trying to convince people that because there are a lot of Chinese living in Aus, so in the future people should be familiar with this language?

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