Third-Party
Some of you may be aware that Press Start Australia likes to post a lot of bargain guides where they seemingly have insider info on bargains that the public doesn't have access to. I've found a lot of what they post is stolen from Ozbargain and, in one case, they stole my mates photos from a private Facebook group regarding the last batch of Target Switch clearance games.
I understand that technically we do not own these bargains, but when we physically go into a store and scan every item checking for discounts to share with the Ozbargain community, just to have the content stolen and posted without credit on the Press Start site where they must be making some sort of revenue from the clicks, it seems quite dodgy.
Anyone else had their bargains posted by Press Start without credit?
(And before people start pointing this out as a minor issue and to "move on", then why should anything be posted here? Post it on your own websites and generate revenue from clicks to fund your bargain hunting!)
This is utterly ridiculous. "Stealing content from OzBargain" is not something we ever do.
When you say we never credit OzBargain, that's simply not true. I can give you 100s of examples where we have done exactly that. I just quickly looked through our analytics and we actually provided over 14,000 clicks from our articles back to OzBargain in 2018.
For most of the major gaming bargains, we literally get sent catalogues and specific discounts from Target, Big W, JB Hi-Fi and EB Games weeks before they even happen. We talk to all of these retailer's head offices on a daily basis. Every time Target/Big W has a clearance, they literally send us the entire list of discounted products. These lists have been replicated on OzBargain without credit to us numerous times (but that's the internet and there's nothing you can do).
I've been a massive fan (and regular member of OzBargain) for as long as I remember. To not use OzBargain as a source would be a massive mistake, as it's a great source of bargains. To say that all of our bargains are "ripped from OzBargain" is simply not the case, as most we have either sourced ourselves, been sent by readers or directly from these retailers.
In regards to these specific images, I don't recall getting them from a Facebook group as I always reach out to people if I see the images from an individual. I think they were actually sent to me on Twitter or posted in our FB Group, and I just assumed that they were taken from this person. Massive apologies to your friend as this wasn't my intention.
Cool. Thanks for the transparency. Post can be deleted now I guess.
Nice, always cool to see a direct reply. I guess I should apologise for taking OP's post at face value, thanks for clearing things up.