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Yearly Subscription to The Sizzle Tech Newsletter $42.50 (Was $50) @ The Sizzle
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Store Repdecryption on 23/11/2022 - 13:30 thesizzle.com.au (984 clicks)
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BFCM

I ran this offer mid-year and managed to get over 100 OzBargainers to pay, so it's back again for Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

Use the code BFCM to skip the 30-day free trial and get 15% off a full year of The Sizzle - visit https://thesizzle.com.au/payme to plonk down the cash. That's a full year for only $42.50. You've got until 11:59PM on the 28th of November to take up this offer!

For those unaware, The Sizzle is:

  • A brief email newsletter sent every weekday.
  • Three no bullshit summaries of the last 24 hours in tech news.
  • The freshest Australian computer & electronics bargains.
  • No ads, no tracking, no affiliate links.
  • Over 1700 issues since October 2015, sent to more than 1,200 paid subscribers.
  • Active discussion forum exclusive to paid subscribers.
  • Archive of old issues available for free, updated quarterly.

There's probably at least 300 subscribers that have signed up via an OzBargain promo. If you cheapskates are shelling out for it, you know it's good!

If you prefer to try before you buy, there's a 30-day free trial of The Sizzle available at https://thesizzle.com.au - no credit card/payment required, so you won't get automatically billed if you forget to cancel the trial.

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  • internet-stranger on 23/11/2022 - 13:37
    +15

    I signed up for the last promo. Good content, well written. Enjoyed every news letter.
    I didn’t subscribe, and that’s because most the content in the newsletter (around 4pm ish) I had already read on my lunch break on OzBargin/Whirlpool or Reddit subs.

    If you are not the person sitting on forums / reddit all day but want to keep up with the tech news then this is the newsletter for you!

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 14:02
      +18

      Spot on mate - if you're already in the habit of checking whatever news sources every day, you probably aren't going to get full value out of a Sizzle subscription.

      But if you want to reduce your distractions, limit your social media/news reading, or don't find time to check tech news regularly, The Sizzle is a great way to stay on top of things.

      • Jazza2400 on 23/11/2022 - 19:42
        +2

        What else am I gonna do with my day? Work? Pffft!

        • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 20:21
          +1

          Unbelievably there are people that actually put in effort at work. Poor bastards.

  • Tomhaigh1 on 23/11/2022 - 14:05

    Please run the same promo in June, that's when I will subscribe again :D

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 14:08
      +5

      Depends how good this promo goes. I'm afraid I might have tapped out all the Ozbargainers that give a shit about an email newsletter

  • HamBoi69 on 23/11/2022 - 14:11
    +1

    It is a good newsletter, definitely worthwhile your time!

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 14:20
      +3

      I agree, it's a good newsletter.

  • askbargain on 23/11/2022 - 14:18

    spammers using my list to launder email addresses

    Lmao what

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 14:20
      +2

      I don't know what they're doing exactly, but if I don't do the double opt-in, I get hundreds of just bullshit emails signing up. Mostly American ISP addresses (att.net, verizon.com, aol.com, etc) and Chinese qq.com addresses.

      My hunch is that it's a bot trying to check if these addresses are legit, or something? I have no idea.

  • The Captain on 23/11/2022 - 14:23
    +1

    I’m a subscriber. I really appreciate The Sizzle’s unique take on tech topics. I look forward to each issue.
    Will subscribe again.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 14:32
      +1

      Welcome back Captain :)

  • kcirvam on 23/11/2022 - 14:41
    +1

    I grabbed this on the last deal.

    Great reading and doesnt take long.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 15:44

      Yep, I try to keep it brief and entertaining.

  • Emphasise on 23/11/2022 - 15:01

    Love the newsletter, will be renewing my sub once it expires. Hopefully a promo will be around then!

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 15:43

      Thanks for subscribing!

  • Bdawg on 23/11/2022 - 15:01

    I thought this was going to be about sausages. I am very disappointed.

    • cainen on 23/11/2022 - 15:03
      +4

      99% of subscribers would have sausages in their pants, if that helps.

      • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 15:43

        I don't collect stats on subscribers (I don't even know their names), but 99% sounds about right unfortunately. Comes with the territory I guess :(

  • Fybre on 23/11/2022 - 15:45
    +3

    I subscribed with one of the last promos, and it's the only email I actually look forward to each day.

    If you're on the fence about whether to pay (it's only a cup of coffee every month!) then I'd definitely recommend doing it. I like being able to keep my finger on the pulse of what's happening in tech, by having someone else do it for me.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 16:02
      +1

      That's great to hear. Appreciate you trying it out and then subscribing. Thank you!

  • naru6705 on 23/11/2022 - 16:13

    So do you offer trial?

  • niknewys on 23/11/2022 - 16:37

    noice! Signed up!!

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 17:32

      Excellent, welcome to The Sizzle!

  • reloxation on 23/11/2022 - 17:03

    Though I didn't end up subscribing, I really enjoyed this for the duration of the last promo. Props OP

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 17:31

      Glad ya liked it! Hopefully you subscribe one day :)

  • tobia on 23/11/2022 - 17:12

    worth your time, everyone.
    i signed up last time and then had to subscribe cos i got fomo at missing out on news.
    anthony writes well and concisely, and regularly calls Elon Musk a plethora of names, which is always entertaining.
    i never go looking for tech news so it's great having them all in one place.
    just do it.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 17:32

      As much as I loathe Elon, he has been excellent for content of late. Dude is always up to something.

      • tobia on 23/11/2022 - 17:39

        it's the constant fock ups that keep me hooked

  • internet-stranger on 23/11/2022 - 17:33
    +3

    @decryption if we live in Turkey and pay with a itunes account is it any cheaper ;)

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 17:36

      Apparently "Sizzle" in Turkish is "Cızırtı".

      • internet-stranger on 23/11/2022 - 17:38

        Just googled and no such newsletter. I see a market waiting to be expanded into!

        • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 17:40

          I genuinely wrote up a business plan and had a spreadsheet to try and do a Sizzle UK and a Sizzle Canada. Bigger markets than Australia but still have their own unique tech news scene like Australia. I wanted to find someone local to write it, give them my template, my workflows, etc and split the revenue 85% for them, 15% for me. Only sore point was coming up with a marketing plan to grow it in those areas so the person writing actually makes money. I don't even have a marketing plan for Australia that works (honestly, OzBargain has been the only marketing I've done that gets results).

          • Kiz on 23/11/2022 - 19:17

            @decryption: Hotdealksuk might be the go then?

            • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 20:20
              +2

              @Kiz: Hotdealksuk sounds suspicious but it appears to be the UK equivalent of Ozbargain.

  • noyesmaybeok on 23/11/2022 - 18:00

    Archive site times out for me?

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 20:19

      Ooh, it looks like it died, haha. I’m stuck on the couch now, will fix it tomorrow morning.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 24/11/2022 - 08:21

      Fixed it! Had to move it to a new server (the VPS I was paying for expired, lol) - the archive is now located at https://archive.thesizzle.au

  • robothat on 23/11/2022 - 18:46

    I paid full price last week and it was already a bargain!

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 20:17

      Thanks for resubscribing!

  • kev88au on 23/11/2022 - 19:32
    +2

    Much like the other comments here, the last OzBargain promo had very similar positive comments, so I went out on a limb and subscribed without trialing or anything,

    I will happily allow this to renew, only for that little feeling of happiness I get when I see the email pop up to procrastinate those few moments.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 20:16

      You aren’t alone in waiting for The Sizzle as an excuse for a little break. Very common :)

  • LZCS on 23/11/2022 - 19:57

    I am a subscriber and love it. Ozbargainers also love trashing Elon Musk (and Tesla) - as do you - so this is the perfect audience.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 20:15
      +1

      They are a bit iffy about cryptocurrency though. I get complaints that I’m too negative about it!

  • pbear on 23/11/2022 - 20:43
    -1

    Can you share some sample content e.g todays issue to see if it is worth it

    • fratzhaus on 23/11/2022 - 21:26

      30 day free trial :)

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 22:13
      +1

      Visit https://archive.thesizzle.au (yes the .com is missing) and view all the back issues.

      There's also as @fratzhaus mentioned, a 30-day free trial. You can sign up for the trial, get tomorrow's and Friday's issue then sign up for a paid subscription on Monday with this coupon code before it expires :)

  • daft009 on 23/11/2022 - 20:45

    Love my sizzle.

    Will it top up if I subscribe as a current subscriber? Or only for newbies

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 23/11/2022 - 22:13

      This deal is only for new/returning subscribers.

  • auMouth on 23/11/2022 - 23:18
    +1

    "sent to more than 1,200 paid subscribers."

    In May this year there was ~880 paid subscribers. A ~40% increase in paid subscribers since then is a terrific achievement, congrats!

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 24/11/2022 - 08:01
      +1

      They're pretty much all from Ozbargain too :)

  • auMouth on 23/11/2022 - 23:28

    OP, for feedback, I want to be be a paid subscriber, but the reason I haven't, either at the end of last OzB trial or now, is that I won't give or let any service hold my card details (for automatic recurring charges). I'm not against the recurring aspect, but the holding my card details. The risk of hacks/exploits and card details being released/sold is just too high. As a tech savvy newsletter, I'm surprised you and your subscribers at happy with this payment functionality. If you had a payment service that didn't hold my card details, I would have subscribed the last time (or this time).

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 24/11/2022 - 07:57
      +4

      It's pretty hard to offer a subscription service without holding credit card numbers. I wish there was another way actually as it would be cheaper. I paid Stripe $2,456.32 for card processing in the last 12 months! If anyone has any ideas on how I can offer recurring billing without having to store people's credit card numbers, please let me know.

      That said, email me ([email protected]) and I'll send you my bank details. 3 other people pay me this way and while it's a pain in the arse to remind people every year to pay me again, I'm not in a position to go around refusing people's money.

      • auMouth on 24/11/2022 - 10:04

        "I paid Stripe $2,456.32 for card processing in the last 12 months!"
        FYI, PayPal does recurring subscriptions, and for your userbase it would have been just shy of $1,500 in fees.
        Subscribers don't need to provide credit card details to PayPal either.

        • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 24/11/2022 - 10:39
          +1

          PayPal are abhorrent (profanity). In a previous business (MacTalk, for those familiar), they locked my account for fraud during a bulk buy I was running, which cost me thousands of dollars in lost business while I sorted that out with them. Even if it was free (last time I checked PayPal's fees are higher than Stripe's) I will never use them ever again just on principle. They still have awful customer service, continue to lock up people's money, change policies at random and are generally horrible to deal with.

          However - I just saw that Chargebee (my subscription service) supports GoCardless as one of their payment gateways. Apparently you can link it to your bank account and have the money come out that way. It's also cheaper than Stripe at 1% + 40c per transaction. I will investigate this.

    • bonezAU on 24/11/2022 - 09:31

      You could always use something like a Revolut virtual card, and either deactivate it once you've signed up, or just don't keep a balance in your account. I'm not sure if Stripe's system would allow you to sign up with a disposable virtual, but Revolut lets you create more than 1 normal virtual card at a time.

      • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 24/11/2022 - 10:40

        This is a great idea. I don't see why you couldn't use a prepaid card from Aus Post/Supermarket as well.

  • Keefy on 24/11/2022 - 20:23

    Worth every cent - get around him - not sure how he can do it so cheap.
    Disclaimer: I am a gardener by trade but can build compoutters or whatever you call them.
    I only understand half of what he posts. Hence the value for money.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 25/11/2022 - 07:41

      Brilliant, thanks for subscribing Keefy.

  • Topdog on 25/11/2022 - 08:06

    Have tried signing up to the trial, never got a email, not in spam/junk either

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 25/11/2022 - 10:43

      That is not good - I can't PM you to investigate further ("User Topdog does not accept new conversations"), so I can't do much without your email address to look into what happened. I've had ~200 people sign up for the free trial in the last 48 hours, so it certainly works, but I want to know why your specific email address didn't go through.

      Try to sign up again https://thesizzle.com.au and if you don't get an email within 10min or so asking you to verify your email address, please message me on Ozbargain (or email me [email protected]) so I can look into it for you.

  • Goosey on 27/11/2022 - 16:33

    The only newsletter I actually like reading and don't instantly delete.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 27/11/2022 - 17:45

      That's what I love to hear, thanks for subscribing!!

  • theoneandonlylml on 28/11/2022 - 14:26

    Just subbed, exactly I was looking for and keen to support your work. All the best and looking forward to a year of great content.

    • Store Repdecryption @ The Sizzle on 28/11/2022 - 14:37

      Beauuuutiful. Enjoy! Today's issue is still in progress :)

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