Here are January's stats. Fairly quiet month compared to the hectic holiday season of November & December.
Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)
- New mini 'Mark as seen' and 'Mark as entered' buttons on competition list pages.
- Removed references to Google+ on store pages and node pages (Share on G+). Upgraded Google API library. RIP Google+
- Updated Aliexpress store page validation (read store ratings)
- Updated Catch store parsing (some retailers sell on the Catch platform)
- Users must now be a member for longer than a year to post classifieds listings. The previous allowance for those who have posted a deal 6 weeks ago no longer applies. See here
- Changed store performance ban to include stores that have had 2 rep posts in the past 60 days (was 30 days), where both deals were posted after the last temp ban (if any). See here
- New comp filter for International comps.
- Move classifieds types to title area. No longer do posters need to write 'Free', 'WTS', 'WTB' in titles. See here
- Show both Camelx3 and Keepa for Amazon deals. Camelx3 went down and we added Keepa. Now you can choose either for Amazon price tracking.
- Blocked some dodgy Uniqlo ads but monitoring complaints for other dodgy ads.
Members
Members of the Month
Janurary 2019
tightarse for posting the deal of the month, $5 off eBay AU with No Minimum Spend. Lots of related low price deals flowed out from that. It got to +100 votes in 27 minutes and received over 1,300 votes, at the end.
gnv9 for posting top 2 competitions of the month, Trial & Keep a Dyson Product from Dyson and Win a Dyson Prize Pack TerryWhite Chemmart. gnv9 has also posted 230 competitions in January with +21.3 vote average.
chibot and Being Askhole for fighting out for the Most Front-Page users. chibot won out by having 1 deal more than BA getting on the OzBargain front page (76 vs 75) however BA has an edge on the total deals posted (139 deals with +40.6 vote average). Thanks for the contributions!
Congratulations!
-Scotty
See more about members of the month
Moderation Stats:
- Reports from users: 4292 (avg: 1 report every ~10 minutes) || December 2018: 4988 || January 2018: 4028
- Deals Removed: 426 (3189 published) —- Forum Posts Removed: 106 (1304 published) — Competition Posts Removed: 19 (549 published)
- Reasons:
- Duplicate - 183
- SPAM - 32
- No Bargains Listed - 28
- Requested by OP - 25
- Expired on Posting - 23
- Referral SPAM - 21
- Insufficient Quantity - 21
- Sockpuppeting - 19
- Combine Posts - 19
- Unobtainable Deal (Coupon doesn't work, misread promotion etc.) - 13
- Not Available to Australia - 12
- Deal doesn't meet Amazon AU posting guidelines - 12
- Out of stock on posting - 6
- Circumventing Ban - 5
- Deal doesn't meet eBay posting guidelines - 1
- Joke Post - 3
- Everything else - 128
- Reasons:
Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Being Askhole | 139 | 40.59 |
| chibot | 87 | 97.39 |
| nocure | 68 | 65.91 |
| save50 | 64 | 19.55 |
| beatthatflight | 36 | 35.19 |
| altomic | 27 | 37.81 |
| ben1980 | 23 | 20.43 |
| Lysander | 21 | 16.81 |
| Clear | 18 | 36.22 |
| RogueWolf | 18 | 32.28 |
Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| bargainhoonter | 12 | 14.00 |
| Undiscoveredworld | 4 | 19.75 |
| bargains4u | 4 | 14.50 |
| OzRolla | 4 | 12.50 |
| Optimus Prime | 3 | 9.67 |
| silvaniasarah0 | 3 | 9.67 |
| minionme | 3 | 7.33 |
| House of Knives | 3 | 6.67 |
| DUH | 3 | 5.00 |
| SsJayden | 3 | 2.67 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| chibot | 76 | 109.28 |
| Being Askhole | 75 | 61.81 |
| nocure | 59 | 73.03 |
| tightarse | 14 | 332.29 |
| beatthatflight | 11 | 84.00 |
| doweyy | 9 | 158.33 |
| altomic | 9 | 92.33 |
| save50 | 9 | 83.11 |
| Clear | 9 | 57.78 |
| lyl | 8 | 73.75 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote | Comments | Comments (Not OP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lyl | 8 | 73.75 | 43 | 4 |
| tightarse | 4 | 334.25 | 162 | 45 |
| flightscout | 4 | 70.50 | 4 | 0 |
| xev | 4 | 57.50 | 87 | 13 |
| IWantThatFlight | 3 | 119.67 | 7 | 0 |
| Clear | 3 | 50.67 | 484 | 350 |
| Bradd87 | 2 | 212.00 | 49 | 0 |
| gotyourback | 2 | 198.50 | 90 | 55 |
| erroorfree | 2 | 80.00 | 53 | 4 |
| SimsDirect | 2 | 37.00 | 66 | 0 |
Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)
| User | Comps | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| gnv9 | 230 | 20.62 |
| Katie2014 | 140 | 8.74 |
| skyblue333 | 33 | 6.09 |
| altomic | 21 | 11.62 |
| Cludo | 9 | 4.33 |
| K3hcpN | 8 | 16.00 |
| headphonejack | 7 | 20.86 |
| hm | 7 | 5.86 |
| MrtheMoonbear | 6 | 10.17 |
| Phalaxis | 5 | 8.40 |
Most Edits by a Power User
| User | Edits | Uniques |
|---|---|---|
| alvian | 263 | 242 |
| Baysew | 124 | 122 |
| gnv9 | 85 | 81 |
| doweyy | 84 | 82 |
| DuckKnight | 66 | 63 |
| Steptoe | 44 | 43 |
| tonester | 35 | 34 |
| O O | 33 | 30 |
| IceCreamBandit | 23 | 23 |
| Make it so | 10 | 10 |
Comments
Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)
| User | Comments | Avg Vote | +5's | +15's | -5's | -15's |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HighAndDry | 1230 | 1.14 | 108 | 20 | 19 | 3 |
| jv | 551 | 0.35 | 51 | 8 | 50 | 9 |
| Clear | 482 | 1.05 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| tshow | 403 | 1.29 | 39 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| lostn | 396 | 0.60 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| serpserpserp | 380 | 1.07 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| try2bhelpful | 365 | 0.85 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Diji1 | 317 | 1.68 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| whooah1979 | 316 | 1.63 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| ChiMot | 306 | 0.66 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
Top 10 positively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashier is an arse | 274 | oscargamer | 2019-01-18 |
| Cough up 1000$ | 265 | holdenmg | 2019-01-02 |
| grabs popcorn | 248 | John Kimble | 2019-01-07 |
| You can use this search link | 208 | r0xz | 2019-01-15 |
| I don't know what the legal | 146 | wizzy | 2019-01-02 |
| Never ever gamble again | 116 | Meho2026 | 2019-01-19 |
| OP, just in case you take | 114 | peterpeterpumpkin | 2019-01-09 |
| Update! Call received from | 110 | Hoju | 2019-01-23 |
| Cool | 109 | BensonP | 2019-01-17 |
| Are you serious? You break | 107 | AdosHouse | 2019-01-02 |
Top 10 negatively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer is an arse. The | -226 | orangetrain | 2019-01-18 |
| So let me get this right, | -105 | EightImmortals | 2019-01-02 |
| Taste better than free | -89 | CoreJava | 2019-01-18 |
| Even a toddler can clearly | -84 | HardlyCharly | 2019-01-02 |
| Ask the store to write to | -72 | oscargamer | 2019-01-02 |
| Boo hoo. Get a roll of gift | -72 | Drew22 | 2019-01-29 |
| I'm not the one doing | -70 | HighAndDry | 2019-01-08 |
| Yep thanks to Labor's NBN | -63 | mathew42 | 2019-01-31 |
| Wtf is this?! | -62 | inasero | 2019-01-16 |
| Both of yous are wrong, if | -61 | Zachary | 2019-01-09 |
Top 10 controversial comments
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eric (@ericmangun) sums it | 19 | 19 | bluesky | 2019-01-24 |
| For the more robust | 18 | 17 | MaMan | 2019-01-02 |
| "One nappy per sample." | 18 | 16 | justtoreply | 2019-01-22 |
| Nope, I see hypocrisy in | 18 | 16 | Entropy Sky | 2019-01-18 |
| I have never seen so much | 18 | 20 | Savitar | 2019-01-29 |
| Indeed, this is a terrible | 16 | 17 | Jakal | 2019-01-27 |
| Thank you, that's an error | 14 | 15 | luketechfast | 2019-01-11 |
| Pixel wins camera and | 13 | 14 | jassssone | 2019-01-25 |
| it is ridiculous when | 12 | 12 | ntt | 2019-01-09 |
| The writer is a terrible | 12 | 14 | ladybug1 | 2019-01-27 |
Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well you don't say dollar | 26 | 22 | Zachary | 2019-01-04 |
| You do realise that farming | 25 | 21 | thevofa | 2019-01-17 |
| Not a bargain, its a "work | 20 | 17 | beigehornet | 2019-01-31 |
| These are the most hideous | 20 | 16 | iamhurtin | 2019-01-12 |
| The catch is you have to go | 18 | 22 | Putnum | 2019-01-04 |
| I have never seen so much | 18 | 20 | Savitar | 2019-01-29 |
| "One nappy per sample." | 18 | 16 | justtoreply | 2019-01-22 |
| Nope, I see hypocrisy in | 18 | 16 | Entropy Sky | 2019-01-18 |
| For the more robust | 18 | 17 | MaMan | 2019-01-02 |
| How is a shit show? As far | 16 | 20 | Mistymoo | 2019-01-18 |
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 118 Stores @ eBay (Dell, Grays, Sony, Sydneytec, Videopro, KG Electronics + More)) - 84,206
- $5 off Everything @ eBay (No Minimum Spend, Works on $5 eBay Gift Card) - 64,776
- Optus Mobile Prepaid Epic Value 365 Days, 60GB Data, Unlimited Calls & Texts: $120 (Save $60) @ Optus [In-Store Only] - 59,420
- LG V30+ (LGH930DS) 128GB Black $479 (Was $799) @ JB Hi-Fi (In Store Only) - 55,887
- 20% off Selected Sellers @ eBay Australia - 51,138
Most Popular Deals by Category
Competitions
Most Popular Competitions (by votes)
| Comp | Votes | Clicks | Entered | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial & Keep a Dyson Product from Dyson | 183 | 12317 | 345 | gnv9 | 2019-01-02 |
| Win a Dyson Prize Pack Worth $2,448 from TerryWhite Chemmart | 120 | 6968 | 383 | gnv9 | 2019-01-03 |
| Win a Share of 803 Prizes Worth $6,848.20 from Pilot Pens | 87 | 2975 | 200 | headphonejack | 2019-01-29 |
| Win a Custom Aquaman Xbox One X Worth $649 from Roadshow | 76 | 3134 | 229 | gnv9 | 2019-01-17 |
| Win $20,000 Cash from Network Ten | 69 | 2561 | 165 | gnv9 | 2019-01-13 |
| Win a $10,000 Travel Voucher & $5,000 VISA Gift Card or 1 of 3 $1,000 Travel Vouchers from Toro Australia | 61 | 3134 | 241 | gnv9 | 2019-01-07 |
| Win a $5200 Woolworths Gift Card from Budget Direct | 60 | 2133 | 195 | legham | 2019-01-03 |
| Win a Kia Sorento Worth $60,000 from Nine Network | 59 | 5010 | 170 | gnv9 | 2019-01-21 |
| Win a Weber BBQ from Lenards Chicken | 59 | 2695 | 189 | kosh52 | 2019-01-21 |
| Win a 2019 Samsung 75” QLED 8K TV Worth $12,999 from Samsung | 58 | 7971 | 162 | gnv9 | 2019-01-30 |
Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)
| Comp | Votes | Clicks | Entered | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial & Keep a Dyson Product from Dyson | 183 | 12317 | 345 | gnv9 | 2019-01-02 |
| Win a 2019 Samsung 75” QLED 8K TV Worth $12,999 from Samsung | 58 | 7971 | 162 | gnv9 | 2019-01-30 |
| Win a Dyson Prize Pack Worth $2,448 from TerryWhite Chemmart | 120 | 6968 | 383 | gnv9 | 2019-01-03 |
| Win a Kia Sorento Worth $60,000 from Nine Network | 59 | 5010 | 170 | gnv9 | 2019-01-21 |
| Win a $10,000 Travel Voucher & $5,000 VISA Gift Card or 1 of 3 $1,000 Travel Vouchers from Toro Australia | 61 | 3134 | 241 | gnv9 | 2019-01-07 |
| Win a Custom Aquaman Xbox One X Worth $649 from Roadshow | 76 | 3134 | 229 | gnv9 | 2019-01-17 |
| Win a Share of 803 Prizes Worth $6,848.20 from Pilot Pens | 87 | 2975 | 200 | headphonejack | 2019-01-29 |
| Win a Trip to the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show for 2 Worth $19,050 from Bauer Media | 54 | 2869 | 182 | gnv9 | 2019-01-13 |
| Win a Sidchrome 382-Piece Metric AF Tool Kit & 8-Drawer Widebody Top Chest Worth $4,718 from Summernats | 51 | 2729 | 162 | gnv9 | 2019-01-06 |
| Win a Weber BBQ from Lenards Chicken | 59 | 2695 | 189 | kosh52 | 2019-01-21 |
- Competition Pageviews: 588,201 | December: 711,974 (-17.38%)
- Comps Posted: 549 | December: 816
- Comps Won: 95 | December: 274
- Biggest Winner: Trip for 2 to Melbourne for The AO Mens Semi-Final (Worth $4200)
Other stats
Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)
- My Toddler Broke LED Screen While at Harvey Norman, Who Says They Don't Have Accidental Cover? - 52,806
- 7/11 Fuel App Watch - Nationwide - 49,474
- Kogan Massive Price Error - 29,953
- Evicting Housemate That is Renting Out Vacant Room For Prostitution - 23,671
- Financial Planning as a Single Woman - 18,728
Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)
- List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 21,308
- Discounted eGift Cards - 3,430
- List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites - 3,199
- Price Comparison Sites - 2,667
- Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees - 2,452
Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)
Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)
| Store | Count | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AU | 116 | 35.22 |
| Woolworths | 109 | 46.29 |
| Coles | 76 | 37.01 |
| Bunnings Warehouse | 60 | 30.38 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 56 | 41.27 |
| BIG W | 53 | 36.36 |
| Harvey Norman | 52 | 26.85 |
| Supercheap Auto | 46 | 42.72 |
| Target Australia | 43 | 48.47 |
| Myer | 38 | 27.47 |
Top 10 most subscribed to stores
| Store | # of subscribers |
|---|---|
| American Express Cashback Offers | 741 |
| I Want That Flight | 619 |
| eBay | 502 |
| Specsavers | 343 |
| American Express | 328 |
| Youfoodz | 307 |
| Amazon AU | 295 |
| Uniqlo | 226 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 220 |
| Jetstar | 197 |
Top 10 Search Alerts
| Query | Count |
|---|---|
| nintendo switch | 752 |
| lego | 347 |
| dyson | 292 |
| sonos | 239 |
| xiaomi | 238 |
| ps4 | 236 |
| airpods | 209 |
| japan | 208 |
| rm williams | 204 |
| ebay | 183 |
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
- googleapis.com (Google/Google Now/Discover/Android recommended stories) - 810,098
- Facebook - 113,739
- Whirlpool Forums - 107,115
- Oursteps - 59,617
- Twitter - 40,910
Top Browsers (by Sessions)
- Chrome 61.98%
- Safari 25.47%
- Firefox 4.12%
- Samsung Internet 3.73%
- Edge 1.19%
Everything else
- Deals posted: 3189 || December 2018: 4032 || January 2018: 2738
- Number of Freebies posted: 276
- Comments posted: 115,493 || December 2018: 122,975 || January 2018: 114,784
- % of removed comments: 1.17% || December 1.35% || January 2018 1.26%
- Overall traffic: 14,491,457 sessions, 41,147,302 pageviews || December 2018: 14,745,223 sessions, 44,281,846 pageviews || January 2018: 12,092,368 sessions, 37,535,892 pageviews
New users: 3824
Most commented deal: Xbox One X 1TB $341.10 + Delivery @ The Good Guys eBay (911 comments)
Most clicked deal that didn't reach front page: 20% off (Max Discount $1000) @ Tech Mall eBay Australia (6645 clicks)
Most neg'd deal: [PS4] Resident Evil 2 $79 @ JB Hi-Fi (-10 votes)
Real time stats from our wiki
2018: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2017: Zeitgeist - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug & Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2016: Zeitgeist 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
So much stats O.O It's always interesting to see.
HighAndDry with the comments, wow.