Here are February's stats.
- Just a reminder to anyone, especially Safari/Mac users who are experiencing spammy ads to check out this thread on possibly solutions (it's not us!).
- New stat this month as requested by Spackbace last month, most won competitions. This month's is Win a Share of Over $53,000 Worth of EFTPOS/JB Hi-Fi/Movie/iTunes Gift Cards from Mondelez [Purchase OREO] which had 35 winners.
Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)
- Allow users who have never set a password (e.g. facebook login) to update password without requiring old password input.
- Allow marketplace sellers to be grouped together. e.g. eBay blahstore, Amazon blahstore
- Two factor authentication (mods testing).
- Comment revision history.
- For TWAMs, automatically subscribe OP and commenting moderators with 'new comments'
- Add overlay with link to store rep guide when user checks rep checkbox and hasn't posted any rep deals before (Big popup!)
- Blocked users / stores now apply to forum listings. See here
- Fix filtering of classifieds on live page
- Added user newsletter pref to exclude targeted deals from newsletters. See here
- Moderator can rotate the deal thumbnail by 90/180/270 degrees.
- Add Product tags to indexed content so they will trigger search alerts.
- Remove display of reminders on front page. Delete reminders where notifications have been read.
- New shades for the classified tags see here.
Members
Members of the Month
February 2019
jassssone for posting the most popular deal last month, Boost Mobile 12-Month Prepaid 80GB $150, 240GB $300. It's actually the 2nd most voted prepaid/SIM-only mobile plan deal ever, just behind Free Kogan Mobile Extra Large code from 2017.
alexshel for posting the 2nd most popular freebie last month, 2 Months Trial for Amazon AU Prime (most popular free being Free PromoTix VIP Membership but it was posted by a rep). In February 2019, 6.5% of deals posted are marked as freebies that on average gets +49 votes.
gnv9 for posting the most popular competition last month, Win a Next-Gen Mazda3 from Mazda. gnv9 also posted 231 other competitions last month with +17.5 average votes.
alvian for fixing up deals and forum posts as a power user. In the first 2 months of 2019 he has edited over 500 deals to make sure title contains sufficient information, starting/expiry dates are correct, products are tagged properly and "freebies" is ticked appropriately. Thanks!
Congratulations!
-Scotty
See more about members of the month
Moderation Stats:
- Reports from users: 3322 (avg: 1 report every ~12 minutes) || January 2019: 4292 || February 2018: 3597
- Deals Removed: 386 (2887 published) —- Forum Posts Removed: 101 (1045 published) — Competition Posts Removed: 19 (488 published)
- Reasons:
- Duplicate - 151
- SPAM - 44
- No Bargains Listed - 36
- Sockpuppeting - 30
- Insufficient Quantity - 29
- Requested by OP - 22
- Referral SPAM - 16
- Unobtainable Deal (Coupon doesn't work, misread promotion etc.) - 12
- Combine Posts - 11
- Deal doesn't meet Amazon AU posting guidelines - 8
- Expired on Posting - 5
- Not Available to Australia - 5
- Joke Post - 5
- Out of stock on posting - 4
- Deal doesn't meet eBay posting guidelines - 4
- Circumventing Ban - 3
- Everything else - 121
- Reasons:
Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Being Askhole | 93 | 27.83 |
| dealbot | 82 | 63.94 |
| nocure | 68 | 56.71 |
| save50 | 51 | 16.71 |
| onhunt | 35 | 24.46 |
| Lysander | 33 | 30.39 |
| beatthatflight | 33 | 28.15 |
| altomic | 28 | 20.57 |
| RogueWolf | 25 | 33.24 |
| r0xz | 22 | 103.23 |
Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| bargainhunterrrr | 12 | 11.42 |
| Eneba | 4 | 3.50 |
| JamesSmart | 3 | 48.00 |
| ThePomadeShop | 3 | 3.33 |
| Jake Dawson | 3 | 2.33 |
| NuclearCrow | 2 | 39.00 |
| TOAF | 2 | 17.00 |
| radley | 2 | 11.50 |
| kajke | 2 | 11.50 |
| QunniB | 2 | 11.00 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| dealbot | 59 | 82.90 |
| nocure | 45 | 76.80 |
| Being Askhole | 28 | 60.11 |
| r0xz | 17 | 132.29 |
| doweyy | 14 | 155.29 |
| tightarse | 9 | 215.33 |
| Jase2801 | 8 | 96.50 |
| RogueWolf | 8 | 72.75 |
| beatthatflight | 7 | 88.71 |
| neil | 7 | 82.00 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote | Comments | Comments (Not OP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xev | 7 | 68.43 | 96 | 5 |
| luketechfast | 4 | 84.00 | 99 | 11 |
| nxllson | 3 | 106.33 | 8 | 5 |
| flightscout | 3 | 88.33 | 15 | 0 |
| gotyourback | 2 | 220.00 | 76 | 27 |
| beatthatflight | 2 | 141.50 | 34 | 0 |
| IWantThatFlight | 2 | 65.50 | 3 | 0 |
| Clear | 2 | 43.50 | 312 | 235 |
| addictedtoaudio | 1 | 351.00 | 4 | 0 |
| Promotix | 1 | 345.00 | 19 | 0 |
Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)
| User | Comps | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| gnv9 | 232 | 16.82 |
| Katie2014 | 95 | 7.01 |
| skyblue333 | 20 | 5.35 |
| altomic | 11 | 4.82 |
| bluecoconut | 9 | 6.44 |
| sss333 | 8 | 3.25 |
| Phalaxis | 7 | 14.00 |
| dust | 7 | 4.14 |
| Wreckin Ball | 4 | 12.50 |
| Brandroid | 4 | 6.75 |
Most Edits by a Power User
| User | Edits | Uniques |
|---|---|---|
| alvian | 311 | 290 |
| gnv9 | 111 | 103 |
| Baysew | 107 | 103 |
| doweyy | 94 | 89 |
| tonester | 40 | 36 |
| DuckKnight | 38 | 38 |
| Steptoe | 29 | 29 |
| fchis | 14 | 14 |
| O O | 14 | 14 |
| Make it so | 13 | 11 |
Comments
Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)
| User | Comments | Avg Vote | +5's | +15's | -5's | -15's |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HighAndDry | 1075 | 1.43 | 98 | 20 | 15 | 3 |
| tshow | 595 | 2.34 | 82 | 17 | 6 | 0 |
| jv | 552 | -0.03 | 44 | 6 | 44 | 9 |
| Chewybacca | 356 | 0.71 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| AlienC | 332 | 0.20 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Diji1 | 331 | 0.98 | 37 | 4 | 12 | 0 |
| Clear | 311 | 1.27 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| lostn | 275 | 0.43 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| pegaxs | 268 | 3.10 | 49 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| ChiMot | 265 | 1.17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
Top 10 positively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aren't you supposed to turn | 263 | kerfuffle | 2019-02-24 |
| Nah I’m married, she’s | 172 | The Haggler | 2019-02-13 |
| Apparently right by our | 163 | josetann | 2019-02-07 |
| Complimentary bags. | 155 | JIMB0 | 2019-02-13 |
| Where's the rock that you've | 133 | 2jzzzz | 2019-02-21 |
| Supreme leader says it is | 128 | shtgnjns | 2019-02-26 |
| Tools suffer wear and tear, | 122 | garetz | 2019-02-19 |
| "return"… | 121 | supasaiyan | 2019-02-26 |
| What criteria did you use to | 110 | Quantumcat | 2019-02-10 |
| Imagine having to pay | 110 | Bellpop | 2019-02-21 |
Top 10 negatively voted comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool story bro | -90 | D6C1 | 2019-02-02 |
| Scrap Medicare at the same | -83 | NotSureAboutThatMate | 2019-02-05 |
| I don't appreciate your | -79 | killer7475 | 2019-02-04 |
| Good price for the base | -55 | mateoka | 2019-02-23 |
| They were down to $180 | -43 | maheroz | 2019-02-01 |
| it's Chinese new year not | -43 | optusprime | 2019-02-01 |
| adidas Australia - 30% | -43 | jv | 2019-02-04 |
| I mean, if you haven't slept | -43 | KLoNe | 2019-02-13 |
| Better value last week… | -37 | jv | 2019-02-04 |
| Human eye is tuned for 60hz. | -37 | bchliu | 2019-02-12 |
Top 10 controversial comments
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can't compete with foreign | 34 | 36 | conservative | 2019-02-21 |
| The way the ranger acted | 17 | 19 | Diji1 | 2019-02-06 |
| User 00 bringing the real | 17 | 15 | 00 | 2019-02-22 |
| Heh I've always known the | 16 | 16 | SlavOz | 2019-02-21 |
| Shouldn’t travel here: | 15 | 13 | Martijn | 2019-02-26 |
| When I didn't like a job, I | 13 | 11 | Frugal Rock | 2019-02-27 |
| If it's not a Hoselink, | 12 | 11 | Heybargain | 2019-02-10 |
| This isn’t free. When you | 12 | 13 | cnut | 2019-02-15 |
| Sydney to Bali | 12 | 12 | jv | 2019-02-25 |
| I see the usual right wing | 11 | 12 | Diji1 | 2019-02-04 |
Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can't compete with foreign | 34 | 36 | conservative | 2019-02-21 |
| User 00 bringing the real | 17 | 15 | 00 | 2019-02-22 |
| The way the ranger acted | 17 | 19 | Diji1 | 2019-02-06 |
| Hope not. | 17 | 21 | jelko | 2019-02-11 |
| Shouldn’t travel here: | 15 | 13 | Martijn | 2019-02-26 |
| When I didn't like a job, I | 13 | 11 | Frugal Rock | 2019-02-27 |
| If it's not a Hoselink, | 12 | 11 | Heybargain | 2019-02-10 |
| This isn’t free. When you | 12 | 13 | cnut | 2019-02-15 |
| I see the usual right wing | 11 | 12 | Diji1 | 2019-02-04 |
| "A government should | 10 | 11 | Thaal Sinestro | 2019-02-23 |
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 All Items at Selected Sellers ($300 Max Discount) @ eBay - 54,074
- Boost Mobile 12-Month Prepaid: 80GB $150, 240GB $300 - Both with Unlimited Calls & Text, Including to 25 Countries - 51,203
- 20% off All Items at Selected Sellers @ eBay - 42,980
- 50% off Everything @ adidas Outlet Online (Prices from $7.50, Free Shipping Over $100, Free Returns) - 38,405
- VEJA $19.99 (Was $160), Reebok $29.99 (Was $130), adidas Gazelle $29.99 (Was $150) /Ultraboost $99.99 (Was $300) & More @ Hype D - 33,356
Most Popular Deals by Category
Competitions
Most Popular Competitions (by votes)
Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)
Most Won Competitions (New Stat)
- Competition Pageviews: 476,338 | January: 524,865 (-9.25%)
- Comps Posted: 488 | January: 549
- Comps Won: 102 | January: 95
- Biggest Winner: Prize Package for You and Your Best Friend Worth over $1,100 from Müssen
Other stats
Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)
- 7/11 Fuel App Watch - Nationwide - 33,080
- How to Recover $22,000 after Mistaken Internet Payments - 18,290
- Subaru won't service my Toyota 86 - 17,821
- WTF - is buying an apartment a total rip-off? - 17,466
- Planning on Buying My First Luxury Car - 16,938
Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)
- List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 16,194
- List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites - 2,328
- Price Comparison Sites - 2,277
- Discounted eGift Cards - 2,221
- Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees - 2,164
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 | 143 | 40.62 |
| Woolworths | 76 | 34.87 |
| Coles | 58 | 38.78 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 58 | 23.81 |
| BIG W | 52 | 32.37 |
| Bunnings Warehouse | 51 | 23.39 |
| Harvey Norman | 34 | 22.26 |
| Amazon US | 32 | 30.88 |
| eBay Australia | 29 | 118.45 |
| Groupon Australia | 29 | 35.76 |
Top 10 most subscribed to stores
| Store | # of subscribers |
|---|---|
| American Express Cashback Offers | 742 |
| I Want That Flight | 605 |
| eBay | 523 |
| Specsavers | 355 |
| American Express | 333 |
| Amazon AU | 324 |
| Youfoodz | 308 |
| Uniqlo | 242 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 218 |
| CT Shirts | 204 |
Top 10 Search Alerts
| Query | Count |
|---|---|
| nintendo switch | 773 |
| lego | 358 |
| dyson | 297 |
| sonos | 239 |
| xiaomi | 238 |
| ps4 | 228 |
| airpods | 214 |
| japan | 208 |
| rm williams | 206 |
| ebay | 187 |
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
- googleapis.com (Google/Google Now/Discover/Android recommended stories) - 758,199
- Facebook - 99,576
- Whirlpool Forums - 86,540
- Oursteps - 45,627
- Twitter - 34,128
Top Browsers (by Sessions)
- Chrome 62.94%
- Safari 24.65%
- Firefox 4.07%
- Samsung Internet 3.63%
- Edge 1.17%
Everything else
- Deals posted: 2885 || January 2019: 3189 || February 2018: 2738
- Number of Freebies posted: 276
- Comments posted: 92,490 || January 2019: 115,493 || February 2018: 97,032
- % of removed comments: 1.29% || January 1.17% || February 2018 1.19%
- Overall traffic: 12,358,873 sessions, 34,033,004 pageviews || January: 13,037,675 sessions, 36,965,503 pageviews || February 2018: 10,394,759 sessions, 29,490,995 pageviews
New users: 2774
Most commented deal: Boost Mobile 12-Month Prepaid: 80GB $150, 240GB $300 - Both with Unlimited Calls & Text, Including to 25 Countries (677 comments)
Most clicked deal that didn't reach front page: Calvin Klein Men's Fit Shirt $9-$25 C&C (Was $89.95- $99.95) @ David Jones (6001 clicks)
Most neg'd deal: 3% off Everything (Min Spend $50, Max Discount $100) @ eBay (-17 votes)
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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
Ooh that'll be good for personal attacks etc, I know you guys had no idea if someone edited out an attack.