G'day! Big Man Neil here bringing you September's stats. ah ha ha ha ha ha whoooooooooooo.
Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)
- Private messaging spam detection.
- AMP pages linking in from Twitter which seems to have helped with being dropped off Google/Google Now/Discover/Android recommended stories.
- When a store has no users in the referral system disable link and display message that states no referrals in system.
- Slowly change all Never expired referrals to 365 days to ensure freshness.
Members
Members of the Month
September 2019
doweyy for posting the top 2 deals in September — $49 off $99 Spend @ Coles eBay and $45.91 off $250, $91.83 off $500 AUD @ eBay UK. doweyy has also posted 25 deals last month with +288 average votes.
manoj Jayswal for posting the most clicked deal last month, and welcome back the latest Hungry Jack's vouchers! 60,000+ times has it been clicked since the deal was posted.
nocure for coming 1st in number of deals posted again last month. He has posted 98 deals with +55.8 average votes, where the most popular being Free Australian Organic Gardening Resource Guide @ Greenharvest.
gnv9 for posting the most competitions last month. 225 comps were posted with +21.6 average votes, including the most popular comp Win a VW Tiguan Allspace from Nine, and most entered Win a WD Black RTX 2080 Super Gaming PC from Scorptec.
Congratulations!
-Scotty
See more about members of the month
Moderation Stats:
- Reports from users: 3964 (avg: 1 report every ~11 minutes) || August 2019: 4322 || September 2018: 3913
- Deals Removed: 473 (3031 published) —- Forum Posts Removed: 129 (1109 published) — Competition Posts Removed: 10 (420 published)
- Reasons:
- Duplicate - 154
- Sockpuppeting - 44
- SPAM - 45
- Insufficient Quantity - 26
- No Bargains Listed - 34
- Requested by OP - 25
- Referral SPAM - 19
- Deal doesn't meet Amazon AU posting guidelines - 13
- Unobtainable Deal (Coupon doesn't work, misread promotion etc.) - 28
- Combine Posts - 9
- Not Available to Australia - 8
- Expired on Posting - 8
- Out of stock on posting - 5
- Deal doesn't meet eBay posting guidelines - 5
- Circumventing Ban - 5
- Classifieds requirements not met - 8
- Joke Post - 4
- Everything else - 172
- Reasons:
Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| nocure | 98 | 55.87 |
| dealbot | 82 | 124.24 |
| Being Askhole | 73 | 53.96 |
| save50 | 52 | 25.83 |
| adr8 | 48 | 38.71 |
| Lysander | 47 | 45.32 |
| RogueWolf | 34 | 33.71 |
| ameebaro | 27 | 9.19 |
| doweyy | 25 | 290.72 |
| beatthatflight | 24 | 12.17 |
Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| harrymantiem54 | 4 | 8.25 |
| cheapha | 3 | 36.00 |
| gheygan | 3 | 17.67 |
| Beside | 3 | 8.67 |
| sona82 | 3 | 5.33 |
| TheWeeBear | 3 | 4.67 |
| EC6000 | 3 | 4.00 |
| Linda Bukowski | 3 | 2.33 |
| Ozdeals123 | 3 | 2.00 |
| afashionaustralia | 3 | 2.00 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| dealbot | 68 | 145.84 |
| nocure | 49 | 92.65 |
| Being Askhole | 34 | 95.68 |
| doweyy | 25 | 290.72 |
| tightarse | 18 | 244.39 |
| adr8 | 13 | 102.15 |
| save50 | 12 | 71.92 |
| RogueWolf | 10 | 74.30 |
| Lysander | 9 | 175.67 |
| RichardL | 8 | 49.75 |
Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)
| User | Deals | Avg Vote | Comments | Comments (Not OP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| luketechfast | 6 | 75.50 | 93 | 10 |
| IWantThatFlight | 5 | 92.00 | 6 | 0 |
| tightarse | 2 | 272.00 | 99 | 23 |
| Clear | 2 | 143.00 | 144 | 78 |
| FFT01 | 2 | 92.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Calmago | 2 | 55.50 | 20 | 5 |
| gotyourback | 1 | 950.00 | 88 | 65 |
| CrazyBargains1 | 1 | 224.00 | 2 | 1 |
| cyclestation | 1 | 171.00 | 56 | 0 |
| oscinator1988 | 1 | 143.00 | 5 | 4 |
Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)
| User | Comps | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| gnv9 | 225 | 22.47 |
| Katie2014 | 66 | 8.94 |
| skyblue333 | 16 | 5.81 |
| sss333 | 16 | 3.94 |
| Gold Coast | 7 | 6.29 |
| Ticketwombat | 6 | 0.50 |
| Simptonym | 4 | 17.25 |
| ScaryZombie | 3 | 13.67 |
| Wreckin Ball | 3 | 6.67 |
| Travel Bug Official | 2 | 5.00 |
Most Edits by a Power User
| User | Edits | Uniques |
|---|---|---|
| alvian | 305 | 270 |
| Baysew | 94 | 90 |
| robinCTS | 90 | 73 |
| DuckKnight | 52 | 51 |
| gnv9 | 39 | 38 |
| Steptoe | 38 | 37 |
| tonester | 35 | 31 |
| O O | 34 | 23 |
| r0xz | 29 | 28 |
| doweyy | 22 | 17 |
Comments
Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)
| User | Comments | Avg Vote | +5's | +15's | -5's | -15's |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jv | 745 | 0.54 | 77 | 15 | 53 | 8 |
| FAST and Curious | 492 | 0.19 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Spackbace | 397 | 2.53 | 65 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| lostn | 375 | 0.64 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| BooYa | 355 | 0.36 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jar Jar binks | 352 | 0.62 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| ChiMot | 346 | 0.67 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| HighAndDry | 337 | 1.89 | 40 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| tshow | 324 | 1.30 | 29 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| profar | 307 | -0.03 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
Top 10 positively voted comments
Most Popular Comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| I'm pretty amazed somebody | 254 | Skramit | 2019-09-09 |
| Ultraboost is a replica of | 193 | highmargin | 2019-09-22 |
| You opened an account with | 182 | DASH8 | 2019-09-18 |
| Makes a GREAT change from | 157 | Hybroid | 2019-09-08 |
| Unlucky? The cops were right | 147 | EightImmortals | 2019-09-05 |
| If it goes below this price. | 128 | DonWilson | 2019-09-19 |
| Simple rule, if you have to | 125 | AdosHouse | 2019-09-30 |
| i had to join to stop the | 120 | LULUGIFTS | 2019-09-11 |
| Thanks. Got up at 4:30am | 118 | scotty | 2019-09-12 |
| About to be 2 model old | 117 | mattman | 2019-09-05 |
Top 10 negatively voted comments
Least Popular Comments
| Comment | Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science FTW! | -138 | spludgey | 2019-09-09 |
| r u ok? you seem mad. | -63 | HKS | 2019-09-12 |
| Depends if the seeds are GMO | -61 | jv | 2019-09-08 |
| Is there anyway to turn off | -61 | iamhurtin | 2019-09-12 |
| That's pretty funny they | -54 | Sage | 2019-09-08 |
| Do you only drive completely | -51 | spludgey | 2019-09-09 |
| Naturally, an Indian would | -48 | Numlock | 2019-09-04 |
| It sounds creepy when you | -45 | Quantumcat | 2019-09-20 |
| This is a reflection on | -45 | shungyiu | 2019-09-10 |
| Title is misleading, it's | -44 | jv | 2019-09-16 |
Top 10 controversial comments
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No meat, no deal haha XD | 19 | 18 | MaccDogg | 2019-09-03 |
| I actually agree with you | 16 | 14 | spludgey | 2019-09-09 |
| Was looking at a HP | 16 | 18 | WTF | 2019-09-22 |
| Agree with this & have | 14 | 16 | vikvance | 2019-09-20 |
| Rome is such a shit place to | 14 | 13 | Dowhatuwant | 2019-09-25 |
| Mods have revoked my neg | 13 | 13 | Dack Smith | 2019-09-02 |
| A lot of trucks are | 13 | 12 | pegaxs | 2019-09-03 |
| Far from it. Just offering | 13 | 15 | mr_me450 | 2019-09-12 |
| Targeted. | 12 | 13 | Robc | 2019-09-10 |
| To everyone else, TL;DR this | 11 | 10 | conza | 2019-09-06 |
Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.
| Comment | +Votes | -Votes | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I was interested until I saw | 64 | 70 | FSTB | 2019-09-03 |
| No meat, no deal haha XD | 19 | 18 | MaccDogg | 2019-09-03 |
| Was looking at a HP | 16 | 18 | WTF | 2019-09-22 |
| I actually agree with you | 16 | 14 | spludgey | 2019-09-09 |
| Rome is such a shit place to | 14 | 13 | Dowhatuwant | 2019-09-25 |
| Agree with this & have | 14 | 16 | vikvance | 2019-09-20 |
| A lot of trucks are | 13 | 12 | pegaxs | 2019-09-03 |
| Far from it. Just offering | 13 | 15 | mr_me450 | 2019-09-12 |
| Targeted. | 12 | 13 | Robc | 2019-09-10 |
| Could probably run a | 11 | 13 | jv | 2019-09-09 |
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)
- [eBay Plus] $20 Deals (Google Home Hub, Bose SoundSport Free, SodaStream) @ eBay - 218,579
- $45.91 off $250, $91.83 off $500 AUD @ eBay UK (e.g. Wish Card, eBay Gift Card & Others) - 143,686
- 50% off Google Pixel 3 (64GB $599.50, 128GB $674.50) or Pixel 3XL (64GB $674.50, 128GB $749.50) @ Google Store - 78,524
- 1000 Free Pizzas (Pick up) @ Domino's - 76,575
- Hungry Jack's Vouchers (Valid Until 25th November 2019) - 60,557
Most Popular Deals by Category
Competitions
Most Popular Competitions (by votes)
Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)
| Comp | Votes | Clicks | Entered | User | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win a Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace Worth $67,578 from Nine Network | 115 | 15042 | 316 | gnv9 | 2019-09-08 |
| Win $10,000 Cash from Domain | 99 | 5496 | 348 | gnv9 | 2019-09-02 |
| Win a WD Black RTX 2080 Super Gaming PC Worth $3,699 from Scorptec | 95 | 5622 | 413 | gnv9 | 2019-09-02 |
| Win an iPhone 11 Pro Max Worth $1,899 from Canstar Blue | 78 | 4844 | 319 | gnv9 | 2019-09-20 |
| Win a 20MY Mitsubishi Triton Worth $54,000 from Network Ten | 75 | 5477 | 249 | gnv9 | 2019-09-30 |
| Win 1 of 10 UE myBOOM 3 Personalised Speakers Worth $199.99 from Logitech | 67 | 2968 | 311 | gnv9 | 2019-09-16 |
| Win an HP Spectre x360 Laptop Worth $1,899 from Computer Alliance | 65 | 3277 | 315 | gnv9 | 2019-09-20 |
| Win 1 of 10 FitBit Ionic GPS Smartwatches Worth $399.95 from Colonial First State | 59 | 2965 | 275 | gnv9 | 2019-09-12 |
| Win a Pinarello Dogma F12 Road Bike Worth Over $16,000 from Science in Sport | 55 | 3016 | 269 | gnv9 | 2019-09-05 |
| Win a Smartphone of Choice & Belkin Accessories Worth Up to $3,408 from EFTM/Belkin | 54 | 1616 | 220 | gnv9 | 2019-09-23 |
Most Won Competitions
Comps Won: 69 | August: 79
Competition Pageviews: 615,872 | August: 552,241 (+11.52%)
- Comps Posted: 420 | August: 458
- Biggest Winner: Win 1 of 5 AFL or 1 of 5 NRL Grand Final Double Passes (Worth up to $5000) from Chemist Warehouse [Purchase Required]
Other stats
Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)
- PayPal Dispute with OzBargainer - Anything I Can Do? - 31,298
- What Do You Actually Do for Work?- 28,234
- [AMA] Tonight I'm Flying Emirates First Class to Europe Thanks to Ozb QFF Points, with Wi-Fi All The Way - 28,176
- 7-Eleven Fuel App Watch - Nationwide - 27,885
- Random Breath Testing: Did My Cop Stuff up? - 16,126
Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)
- List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 19,560
- Discounted eGift Cards - 5,896
- Price Comparison Sites - 2,924
- Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees - 2,408
- List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites - 2,057
Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)
- eBay - 130,944
- Dominos - 113,091
- Uber Eats - 67,864
- Hungry Jacks - 17,719
- Pizza Hut - 15,405
Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)
| Store | Count | Avg Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AU | 185 | 30.27 |
| Woolworths | 79 | 53.10 |
| Coles | 71 | 57.32 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 63 | 34.56 |
| Shopping Express | 51 | 29.92 |
| Computer Alliance | 42 | 44.50 |
| Amazon Global Store | 37 | 31.92 |
| Myer | 35 | 31.74 |
| Target Australia | 34 | 44.21 |
| Harvey Norman | 32 | 37.94 |
Top 10 most subscribed to stores
| Store | # of subscribers |
|---|---|
| American Express Cashback Offers | 738 |
| I Want That Flight | 547 |
| eBay | 507 |
| Amazon AU | 388 |
| Youfoodz | 340 |
| American Express | 337 |
| Specsavers | 333 |
| Uniqlo | 298 |
| CT Shirts | 252 |
| JB Hi-Fi | 252 |
Top 10 Search Alerts
| Query | Count |
|---|---|
| nintendo switch | 852 |
| lego | 453 |
| dyson | 345 |
| sonos | 287 |
| rm williams | 277 |
| philips hue | 253 |
| sony wh-1000xm3 | 244 |
| japan | 216 |
| ps4 | 210 |
| nvidia shield | 203 |
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
- googleapis.com (Google/Google Now/Discover/Android recommended stories) - 125,161
- Facebook - 98,545
- Whirlpool Forums - 95,795
- Oursteps - 50,688
- Twitter - 34,785
Top Browsers (by Sessions)
- Chrome 61.99%
- Safari 25.64%
- Firefox 4.09%
- Samsung Internet 3.92%
- Edge 1.13%
Everything else
- Deals posted: 3031 || August 2019: 3333 || September 2018: 2924
- Number of Freebies posted: 219
- Comments posted: 111,019 || August 2019: 109,878 || September 2018: 98,019
- % of removed comments: 1.25% || August 1.42% || September 2018 1.29%
- Overall traffic: 13,374,291 sessions, 39,235,174 pageviews || August 2019: 13,844,507 sessions, 40,286,467 pageviews || September 2018: 11,975,791 sessions, 33,647,819 pageviews
- New users: 3729
% of rep posts 21.41% || August 2019: 20.64% || September 2018: 23.12%
Most commented deal: [eBay Plus] $20 Deals (Google Home Hub, Bose SoundSport Free, SodaStream) @ eBay (2244 comments)
- Most clicked deal that didn't reach front page: 100% Cotton Nike Core 2 T-Shirt $10 @ JD Sports + $6 Postage Shipped (4830 clicks)
- Most neg'd deal: IGUGIG Power Board w/ 3 Outlets 3 USB Ports $12.10 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ WQQ Direct Amazon AU (-7 votes)
2019: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - August
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
Disappointed to find that wasn't a real Big Man Tyrone video.
How did I miss that? Stats really show some interesting drama!