OzBargain Staff / Moderators Do Not Request Products for Review

scotty on 11/07/2018 - 18:39
Last edited 13/07/2018 - 17:35 by 1 other user

I have been contacted today by a merchant who is also a user / store representative here on OzBargain. The merchant stated that they have been approached by someone purporting to be a moderator on OzBargain, and forwarded me an email they have received to seek clarification. Basically,

  • Someone claimed to be a "marketing moderator" for OzBargain and another popular website.
  • She is writing a paper, and asking the merchant for a free review unit, as OzBargain can potentially attract web traffic + sales.

That's a scam. Do not fall for it. Just to make it clear here, OzBargain staff / moderators do not approach vendors to request review products. We do not post product reviews in exchange for free units either — that's simply not something an OzBargain staff would do.

I am posting up this thinking it might not be an isolated case. If you have received emails / phone calls with similar claim (someone pretending to be from OzBargain requesting free products), these are most certainly scams. Please also forward the emails you have received to [email protected].

Thanks.
Scott

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  • Savas on 11/07/2018 - 18:42
    +28

    Wow people are always coming up with new scams!!

    • sss333 on 11/07/2018 - 19:04
      +26

      Probably an OzBargainer trying to get even more freebies.

    • CMH on 11/07/2018 - 20:28
      +21

      I amz m0dz.

      Can I haz fr33 stuffz?

      • kahn on 11/07/2018 - 20:45
        +14

        Seems legit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Forfiet on 12/07/2018 - 17:07
          +2

          Give him a gift basket and send him on his way!!!!

      • anonymous01 on 13/07/2018 - 14:53

        @CMH LOL made me laugh!

    • ronnknee on 12/07/2018 - 09:31

      Possibly based off this.

      • ozbjunkie on 12/07/2018 - 14:13
        +1

        No not about my post - they approach me, I made no representation of being a mod, I disclosed the fact product was received for free.

        This was after they got slammed for months in every deal until they hired a PR rep and reviewed their drying process. Credit where it's due. The new product is better.

        I mention other competitors in that same review.

        I really can't see how I could be less of a shill.

        • Clear on 12/07/2018 - 14:17
          +2

          Yep that's what they did with me. Sent a PM, explained what went wrong, how they'll approve etc. and offered a sample. No rules have been broken here !!

        • ronnknee on 12/07/2018 - 14:19
          +1

          I meant, someone may have gotten the idea from your post. They also may not.

        • ozbjunkie on 12/07/2018 - 14:24

          @ronnknee:

          Oh, yeah could be, but I don't imagine I'm that influential or that the jerky community would contain such scumbags.

          I question whether it was even a member… If they were, would be banned by now anyway.

      • potm on 13/07/2018 - 09:46

        I’m still waiting for my free sample from their first post on ozbargain all those years ago.

    • anonymous01 on 13/07/2018 - 14:57
      +2

      I know right! I know a guy who does reviews on YouTube and has a very popular channel. Millions of people watch it and he is legit. If any one needs their product reviewed, please PM me and I will send you mine.. ehrm.. his address. It's all legit. Do not fall for other scams. wink wink ;)

  • rompastompa on 11/07/2018 - 19:02

    Am I in the clear?

    Jokes, have you worked out who that person is?

    • Moderatorhamza23 on 12/07/2018 - 18:29

      Yes user was identified and banned. This is just to raise awareness in case any other business was affected by it but didn't report it to us.

  • knobbs on 11/07/2018 - 19:32

    Man I want free stuff too

    • ozbjunkie on 12/07/2018 - 14:25
      +1

      I have some old jeans I'm too fat to wear, what's your size?

      • knobbs on 12/07/2018 - 14:29
        +1

        34/36 too many squats

        • ozbjunkie on 12/07/2018 - 14:36
          +7

          Oh nice, I'm 34/36 not enough squats, too much sitting eating chocolate.

  • SlappersOnly on 11/07/2018 - 19:33
    +11

    What a scum bag. How dare they not share the scheme in the freebie section on ozbargains for everyone to do.
    .
    .
    Joking

  • Godric on 11/07/2018 - 19:40
    +3

    Was it Scab?

    • pegaxs on 11/07/2018 - 20:52
      +2

      tuzii or BrodenIt…

      • IMadeYouReadThis on 13/07/2018 - 13:46
        +3

        must be JV, he never saw bargain in any deal so he invented his own…

  • kahn on 11/07/2018 - 19:59
    +1

    Find out who they are by backtracing the messages and reporting it to cyberpolice.

  • Clear on 11/07/2018 - 20:47

    I've had a couple offering to work under the table over the years but nothing that extreme. It's incredible that someone would stoop that low. Then again people are greedy and do anything for extra coin.

  • pegaxs on 11/07/2018 - 20:48
    +8

    I didn't say that at all… All I said was, "I'm not parking for my coffee, I'll wait right here…. Don't you know who I am…"

    Albeit I was in an AMG A200 with a few biker friends and we had a boot load of eneloops and some cheap PlayStations to resell… So, guess they just put 2 and 2 together…

  • PR0r on 11/07/2018 - 21:05
    +2

    Ah well, it was good while it lasted

  • chumlee on 11/07/2018 - 21:09

    I heard it was condoms they wanted for free to review

    • Ughhh on 11/07/2018 - 21:30

      I thought it was incontinence nappies 😯

    • [Deactivated] on 11/07/2018 - 23:28
      +1

      I have some in "refurbed" condition free to a good home.

      • try2bhelpful on 12/07/2018 - 10:13
        +1

        The condoms or the incontinence pads. You would need viagra if you wanted a set.

  • Empharand on 11/07/2018 - 21:24

    Or maybe you have traitor in your midst

    Only joking…

  • jelko on 11/07/2018 - 22:14
    +1

    The plural of staff is "staff", not "staffs". </grammar nazi>

    • tranter on 11/07/2018 - 23:03

      Yes, staff is a collective noun. 'Staffs' stands out like a sore thumb and sounds really weird when used like this. I seem to see this peculiar usage on OzBargain more often then elsewhere. 'Staffs' can be used when talking about two or more collections, for example the staff of two different companies.

    • CMH on 11/07/2018 - 23:19
      +5

      Hate to nitpick but the plural of staff can also be staffs or staves.

      </different staff>

      • [Deactivated] on 11/07/2018 - 23:29
        +2

        It's an understandable grammatical error.

        Talk about a staff up the orifice.

        • tranter on 12/07/2018 - 08:01

          Understandable but really weird. I suggest you starting using it in this form and then see what kind of looks and feedback you get from your peers.

          While you're at it starting using sheeps as plural form of sheep. It's also an understandable grammatical error.

    • SlappersOnly on 12/07/2018 - 00:52

      Isn’t it starves ;)

  • rambao9 on 11/07/2018 - 22:30

    It's unfortunate that people cannot live without trying to do things like this..

    • Scrooge McDuck on 12/07/2018 - 01:33
      +3

      This is why we can't have nice things.

  • garetz on 12/07/2018 - 02:15

    Of course its a scam, ozbargain staff have morals.

  • Oz8argain on 12/07/2018 - 09:48
    +4

    wow, that's ozbargained to the max! with no respect to our community!
    100 fake accounts for nandos voucher or free coffee credits - whatever, it's their fault for not doing the promotion right but pretending to be an ozbargain mod and asking for free shit is a new low…. like ripping a shopping bag for a refund?

    • tranter on 12/07/2018 - 12:49

      Ha, love it!

  • try2bhelpful on 12/07/2018 - 10:17

    Despicable but, given the online freebie entitlement of some internet “influencers”, not that surprising.

    • Calmago on 13/07/2018 - 12:24

      We get it all the time, people request free equipment for their youtube channel.

  • spychiatrist on 12/07/2018 - 23:43

    I'll just put it out here before creating a proper forum post:

    Should Ozbargain compensate members who contribute to site traffic by their posts, especially deal posts, and/or comments?

    How much is a site click worth?

    Parallel: NCAA student-athletes

    • spackbace on 13/07/2018 - 02:04

      They do, monthly, to those who deserve it

      Otherwise no

  • pembajak_sejati on 13/07/2018 - 11:55

    damnt the scammer may applied for escort service review

  • IMadeYouReadThis on 13/07/2018 - 13:44
    +1

    Why JV hasn't commented as yet? Ah I see, the user has been banned from the site….Hmmmmmm

    • Baysew on 13/07/2018 - 14:29
      +1

      JV rarely slums it in the forums.

    • tightarse on 13/07/2018 - 17:38
      +9

      Tightarse whom is also a decent influencer here also have affiliation with Lenovo and special promo codes such as "TA XXX XXX" which is being used to get around OzBargains rule introduced in 2017… Both of whom do not mark their deals as affiliated marketing, going against their own rules?

      What the hell are you on about? I have no affiliation to anyone except Cashrewards. Your comment makes no sense whatsoever. Go back through my Lenovo posts. You'll see that on most occasions they're tagged as 3rd party or associated. And that's because I add a Cashrewards link to the bottom of those deals (contrary to what you suggest). I don't think you should be making false accusations without first getting your facts right. I find your comments totally out of order and extremely demeaning.

    • Clear on 13/07/2018 - 18:10
      +8

      Someone always has to bring TA into this. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. If I was him I would have given this site the flick long ago and left you all to find your own quality deals. Without him and the dozens of other top posters this community would be like TopBargains and Buckscoop - leeching off everyone else because they can't find anything good themselves.

      Having customised coupons is nothing new here. For the 4 years I've been a member here I've seen hundreds of customised coupons posted from members. Just look at Gearbest/Everbuying in their early days. There were custom coupons being posted nearly every single day!

      TA has made it clear countless times his position and is only associated with Cashrewards. Have you not noticed that most of these Lenovo deals have him declared as associated/third party because he has posted Cashrewards links? There is nothing wrong with that whatsoever and those 2 tags contribute to the store's (CR) ability to post.

      Scotty has previously posted customised coupons for various stores. Are we to assume he's getting paid off by them to post and should declare association? One example being an Uber post with OzBargain in the coupon name.

      This is absolutely ludicrous and I really feel for him here with the garbage accusations constantly been thrown around. Have a problem? TWAM the mods? They've never let me down and I'm both declared as associated (4 stores) and a regular member.

      • donga100 on 05/09/2018 - 20:22

        People just can't believe that TA is able to post so many good deals without having a team of staff working full time to find them.

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