[Announcement] OzBargain Newsletter Will Exclude Expired/Out of Stock Deals by Default from Thurs 12 Nov Onwards

Ever since the daily newsletter was made available via email, the 10 most popular deals in the past 24 hours were included, and the default was to include deals that are out of stock or expired to facilitate discussion.

Due to feedback and the inability of subscribers without OzBargain accounts to change this setting, we will be changing the default behaviour to exclude expired deals. This will not affect users have previously saved their newsletter settings. The changeover of the default behaviour is planned for Thurs 12 Nov, before the morning newsletter.

If you still wish to keep the current default behaviour of including expired/out of stock deals, make sure you go to

account settings > subscriptions > newsletter

, make sure the 'Exclude expired deals' option is unchecked, then click on the Save Preferences button to save your settings. Important: Unless you save, the system hasn't really saved what is displayed on the page, it is simply displaying the current default values.

Newsletter Preference

Comments

  • Soooo…

    Surely it's about time subscribers are given the option to not see competitions in their daily email.

    It's pretty annoying that this is forced upon everyone.

    • +2

      Have you checked your newsletter subscription preferences?

      • Click on My Account -> subscriptions tab -> newsletter tab
      • Uncheck "Include Competitions"
      • Save Preference
      • Thank you.

        I thought I'd looked for that in the past.

  • Thank you so much for this change. Saves time.

  • HOw many email addresses are subscribed to daily newsletters now?

    • Around 125k.

  • This morning I started to get emails prefixed with "Deal Promoted:" Is this new or related to the above change?
    From memory, I have settings to send an email on any deal that hits the front page.

    • +1

      You'll be receiving emails about "Trending Deal" instead.

      We are removing the "Front Page" subscription as the new front page is a lot more dynamic. Instead, you can sign up to notifications for deals that

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