I’m becoming addicted to this site.
I’m sure I’m not alone.
Just wondering what everyone considers ‘essential’ to A+ OzBargaining - memberships, apps, paid subscriptions etc
Dazzle me because I have FOMO!
Quintessential OzBargain Toolkit
VegemiteKid on 15/11/2018 - 16:19
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To the people negging this, can anyone bother to explain why these are bad and also recommend alternative? duh
Hmm, not sure why the comment was voted down?
People are stupid and hate it when someone is right.
Enelööps
AMG A200 (don't forget to humble brag)
Diffuser from Amazon
Ebay Plus free 3 month membership, cancelled already.
A quad copter
800 Amazon ebooks you will never read.
A Xiaomi phone of some description.
More Lego than you can poke a stick at.
A life time supply of stupidity via the automotive sub forum.
You forgot all the Free UDEMY courses
Nobodies buying them diffusers, are they?
Not judging by the click through and upvotes. Sick of seeing the damn things! Lol
Cash Rewards seems to be popular; provides a % discount and covers Amazon, Woolworths, David Jones, Chemist Warehouse, ASOS, THE ICONIC, Groupon, Dan Murphy’s, eBay, The Good Guys, NET-A-PORTER and BCF (and others).
I notice a lot of people have subscribed to Amazon Prime: 30-Day Free Trial, then $4.99/month until 31 Jan 2019, then $6.99/month. You need to determine if you would make sufficient purchases from Amazon to make that a 'bargain' or not.
Shared Spotify Family subscription with other OzB members.
Here is my list that I am still using daily at least:
28 Degrees credit card for overseas online shopping
Citibank debit card for travelling, withdraw cash, etc.
Eneloops/Ikea for rechargeable batteries
Amex Essentials card, although any Amex card will do to take advantage of the Amex offers
Cashrewards membership
Shopback membership
5% off Woolworths egiftcard
Ebay and Paypal membership
FakeGPS + Modded 7 Eleven Android appThese are accumulated over time:
At least 10 xiaomi gadgets in your house, earphones, wifi amplifier, powerbank, robot vaccum cleaner, air purifier, light switches, sensors etc.
Blitwolf/Tronsmart 4/5 port QC 2.0/3.0 usb charger
3 months worth of toilet paper in the house at any given timeDid I miss anything?
Pretty much nailed it.
My only add is:
28 degrees card or BankWest Zero Platinum (I've seen either on here)
Citibank or ING accounts (I've seen either on here)
Some form of discounted account through using VPN to change regional pricing (most recently, Netflix or YouTube premium)
A shopping cart full of items waiting for the next eBay 10% offAlso accumulated over time:
Some highly discounted Dyson appliance; most likely one of their stick vacuums
-MS Paint skills
-Knowing a “friend” or “cousin” who doesn’t have insurance (various types)
- Inability to ask actual store/relevant contact/person before asking ozb forums
Not being able to Google simple questions
Discounted eGift Cards
Some sort of No Fee for Intl Purchases Card
Eneloops
Many sim cards from 99c first month deals (Kogan in particular)
Member of Shopback and Cashrewards
I'm not sure if OP is expecting Ozbargain related internet memes or actual advice on how to maximise bargains, but if I were to provide a few, that would be learning how to actually use the more advanced features of Ozbargain. They're not hidden or anything, but they require some applied creativity and a good amount of reading (cough LOTS of reading).
Leading from knowing how to perform better searches, you can create "Search Alerts" that can send you almost real time notifications on deals being posted for things that you want
Learn how to use the Reminder feature. This is good for deals that start in the future.
Subscribe to our newsletters. You can then get a daily digest of the best trending deals and you won't miss anything that is popular. You can also exclude certain categories.
We also have an Ozbargain bookmarklet that you should definitely install on your web browser that brings you to Ozbargain whenever you click on it and it'll show you deals for the site you're currently on. If there are no deals for it, it'll at least show you related Forum pages about the store.
The OzbargainPedia, or just the Wiki as most call it, is a wealth of information submitted and maintained by the community. It lists things like Birthday deals (there are over a hundred entries in there), where to get discounted gift cards, credit cards with no International transaction fee and student-specific deals (originally started by yours truly).
You can also hide certain deals from Ozbargain. If you don't an iPhone for example, you can click the "Hide" link on the bottom of iTunes deal post for example, to hide away all the deals for Apple store apps, and if you don't have an Android for example you can choose to hide Google Play store deals.
Learn how to tag deals properly too. Do note that a few months ago we disabled tagging in forums because people just plain suck at tagging things.
Bookmark our Coupons website, https://www.couponese.com/. It's a great site that is optimised for viewing on mobile phones, easily search for common coupons for sites like eBay, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Uber / eats and so on.
You can also play around with IFTTT (If this, Then That) and combining the Ozbargain rss or social media feed, you can easily create useful or wacky things like telling your smart home devices to give you updates about things you don't want to miss :)
If there is any interest at all in seeing a dedicated forun post for Ozbargain Lifehacks and tips, let me know and If there is enough interest I might do a more detailed write-up (If I have time). Or start your own thread. But to honest most of these tips I've already outlined.
You forgot one scrim.
- PM scrimshaw if you ever need help for anything IT related :P
I bet you get so sick of that if it still happens.
Links to similar overseas bargain websites like:
Access to a US mail forwarding company like shipito or myus
A good VPN
Multiple eBay accounts
Some random financial ones from me: