Hi,
I am just curious to see so many Amazon deals these days. When I clicked on few of the users all I see they post is mostly Amazon related post which made me think they might be influencers or paid people.
Is it only me or anyone else feeling the same thing ?
I have been an active inactive member over 8 years now and not a hater of amazon or anyone else but when I see something in particular going in background I have to clarify..
Please share your thoughts..
The more annoying thing for me is most of the deals are expired or out of stock within an hour.
Couldn't that mean that it's a good deal?
Used to be the case, now its just very low stock —which isn't what this site was intended for.
Amazon are taking over more and more and will become ubiquitous like in other countries to the point where 50-80% of our online purchases will be through them. They're still relatively new here Prime growing and with new warehouses under construction (like a mega one at Moorebank).
They'll eventually start their own in-house logistics network and offer next day/same day/1-2 hour deliveries in CBDs with consistent best pricing and customer support.
They're also pretty aggressively price-matching brick and mortar stores on sales and discount deals. So you could go to a shop, hope the item is in stock and correct price and buy it, or 2 clicks order it to home/parcel locker via Amazon with good customer service returns etc peace of mind. This attracts a lot of people.
I have no affiliation with them whatsoever (apart from a customer for well over a decade in UK) and welcome it.
I love Amazon but I feel we really need to support brick and mortar and local online businesses. Australia is a small market and Amazon taking over will not be good for us in terms of competition and pricing.
People have been saying that forever and that Amazon taking over and controlling markets will mean they’ll jack prices with no competition etc… It hasn’t happened in any of the other markets. They’re still consistently the cheapest in the UK even with their huge market share. I’m not worried about that at all.
They're also pretty aggressively price-matching brick and mortar stores on sales and discount deals.
I only see this with video games.
They're also surprisingly competitive with their Wine, Beer and Spirits. Uncle Dan's is having trouble keeping up with their price match policy.
Didn't realise techfast were on Amazon now…
I'm plus one for Prime. I follow Amazon deal. So, I see deals posted for Amazon instead of ppl promoting. That being said, it's about supporting a local economy too. Free freight is my vice.
I'm currently paying around $18/mth for Prime so I don't mind the Amazon deals TBH.
I figured I'd have to make at least 2 purchases a mth to justify paying for prime… ?
$18 a month? Isn't it $60 a year?
His username checks out ;) It’s $6.99 an month or $59.99 a year. He perhaps has prime music or one of the others also active?
lol indeed
Might be Amazon US Prime
USD 12.99 @@
OMG I just checked and jamestownfx is right…
I have BOTH AU and US Prime. Haven't used US prime since 2018 but have apparently been paying for the last 19 mths 😨 Time to get in touch… 😓
That is AMAZING!
If you ask on their live chat they might refund some of your unused US prime months since you had AU
Yes I've done that and thank goodness got my money back. I feel like I almost lost my ozb badge today 😅
I'm not sure to be honest, as I do see Amazon is pretty quick to change prices to match other deals out there when a deal appears here. So I have to imagine there are users out there doing Amazon work. Still though, for the most part they're typically all still bargains, so I feel either way it encourages better sale pricing, so I can't really complain.
Amazon often have the cheapest price and it's very easy to track price drops with third party websites like camelcamelcamel.
Which is owned by Amazon now!
Are they Amazon influences or Amazon groupies?
Why are we picking on Amazon? 90% of the "deals" posted are by people getting kickbacks.
I say post it and let the community decide.
I just feel like when anything goes on sale at Amazon there is only like 5 or 10 inventory available so the deal evaporates before it gets to the front page.
I just don't like when people only post the Amazon deal and not the store they're matching.
I agree. Honor the source.
Amazon have some of the best prices at the moment on PC parts. The only downside is the warranty.
I live in a really remote community so for me Amazon Prime is a godsend. More dealz pls.
EBay still has the marketshare apparently.
It seems like most Amazon deals are just price matches instead of its own special deal - should we include these with the original store (reward the local brick and store bringing the lower price, than if no more stock go with Amazon, etc) than to post a separate deal?
Most of the Amazon deals are a price match of other store sales. Maybe the original deal should be posted and the Amazon a mentioned in that deal, rather than a dedicated Amazon deal. I think the business which first announced the deal should be the one rewarded and not those that jump on the bandwagon.
My second issue with Amazon is the number of items per deal is not proportional to the business size. For example 20 items on Amazon Australia can be considered a bargain. Clearly ridiculously low stock to supply the demand of the whole of Australia, especially for lost cost items. The threshold of items available should be higher for Amazon deals versus say a brick and mortar store.
I think in the long run Amazon is going to wipe out competition using its size, money, and price matching to pull customers. The scary thought is after the competition is reduced we might not see bargains as we know it.
Hi !
This topic is to get the majority view with the deals I have been seeing everyday. I love ozbargain from last 10 years but nowadays its flooded with 1 retailer amazon.
I don't mind amazon but its annoying with half of the page with only amazon deals. And it's not like they are selling way cheaper most of the times like the ones we used to get from asian website deals eg: light in the box, bangood,Tinymart, etc
So I might get really negged but I would love to get your opinion and hopefully get some change in action before it totally takes over a beautiful bargain site and make it marketing platform.
This Asian websites normally only sell cheap shit, and have terrible returns/warranty/etc. Amazon sell proper things and have good customer service.
The deals will come from wherever they come from.
Oh look its another "too many amazon posts" forum discussion.
Maybe you should just hide Amazon Deals
I think some people receive notifications when certain goods from Amazon (particularly groceries) are discounted. They then post the information here and the deal gets expired after a few minutes. I reckon it sucks, but some people obviously find those posts useful.