August 2024 Transparency Report: Updates, Top Deals, Comments, Forum Posts, Members of The Month + Other Stats

We had a question the other day about what the best time to post is. Generally in the afternoon/night and on weekdays is the best bet to have the most eyes on the deal. However, it got me wondering to what time most people post deals:

timeofday.

Seems 9am-5pm is the sweet spot. Guess we're all OzBargaining when we're at work

Here is votes vs. posting time:

votevstime


Members

Members of the Month

  • vr4indian for posting the most voted non-rep deal last month, MG ZS EV Excite MY23 - from $34,990 Driveaway. It's also the second most clicked deal last month at over 18,000 click-throughs to MG's website. I wonder how many actually made the purchase and whether I am expecting to see more ZS EV on the road in the coming months. The most voted deal last month was Amino Z WPI 4kg $159.99 Delivered posted by Jay @ AminoZ.

  • Hiphopopotamus is again awarded for posting the most deals last month — 122 deals with vote average of +46.2, most popular being this $5 Bonus Cashback on $50 Spend @ Cashrewards.

  • shaneb for posting the most voted, most clicked and most entered competition last month, Win a Vokswagen T-Roc X. Car comps did historically get more votes/entries. shaneb has also posted the most competitions last month — 228 comps posted with vote average of +12.3.

  • Moderators have recommended WookieMonster to win an award this month for being an outstanding Power User, who has edited 400 posts and contributed in the power user discussions. Thanks!

Congratulations!

See more about members of the month

Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)

  • When merging nodes (e.g. a deal into say a insufficient quantity thread), set OP of node to be merged's subscription type to replies only in the final thread.
  • Remove comment vote country flag visibility.
  • Allow Event tags to be subscribed to.

Moderation Stats:

  • Reports from users: 3598 (avg: 1 report every ~8 minutes) || July 2024: 4358 || August 2023: 5015
Category Published Removed
Deals 2472 254
Forum 763 81
Classified 483 15
Competition 621 19
Reason COUNT
Duplicate 76
Sockpuppeting 40
Requested by OP 30
Spam 26
Read Title Guidelines 19
Merged with Insufficient Quantity Thread 18
Unobtainable deal 15
Insufficient quantity 12
Post in classifieds 12
Referral spam 12
No bargain listed 10
Duplicate (Merged with Existing Thread) 8
Merged with Existing Thread 8
Lack of business details 7
Account Issue 7
Not available to Australia 4
Permanent updates to referral offers are not allowed 4
Private sales are not deals 4
Competitions are not bargains 4
Deal doesn't meet AliExpress posting guidelines 3
Combined Posts 3
Banned item 3
Classified does not meet posting guidelines 3
Use referral system 3

Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
Hiphopopotamus 122 46.40
trixieb 46 40.78
Clear 38 57.42
nocure 35 30.51
RichardL 22 47.91
HamBoi69 20 61.80
AkuroPlays 19 46.47
TopBargains 17 13.06
Takumi Fujiwara 16 30.94
BargainsGrabber 15 113.73

Top Deal Posters

  • nocure (5547 deals) +24
  • Lysander (5430 deals)
  • Taegukgi (4964 deals) +11
  • save50 (4393 deals) +8
  • tightarse (4008 deals) +5

Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
jedagiol 12 11.50
KennySolar 4 20.50
CATHY325 4 0.00
AUSJS 3 25.67
bf2043 3 2.67
HotAuDeals 2 156.00
Jerryson 2 57.00
BugASalt Aus 2 5.50
octopus1102 2 5.50
Bargaincorner10 2 4.50

Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
Hiphopopotamus 48 94.77
Clear 20 96.05
trixieb 19 73.79
BargainsGrabber 15 113.73
Taegukgi 14 265.14
HamBoi69 14 80.50
AkuroPlays 12 64.25
RichardL 10 85.10
nocure 10 80.50
WatchNerd 10 63.20

Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote Comments Comments (Not OP)
IWantThatFlight 6 82.83 7 0
beatthatflight 6 74.67 8 1
LimeBlueCoffee 5 71.20 85 0
Nebula PC 4 58.75 113 0
luketechfast 3 56.67 19 0
jason101 3 46.33 16 6
tightarse 2 222.50 63 21
Prong 2 83.50 57 30
MetroCom 2 77.00 2 0
CheapFlightHunter 2 63.50 14 1

Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)

User Comps Avg Vote
shaneb 228 12.65
TruePursuit 146 5.95
Phalaxis 100 15.92
neil 30 8.80
UglyBob 10 14.60
Average gamer 10 8.20
djk 8 8.75
Katie2014 6 23.00
Impala67 5 13.60
BeatMagazine 5 10.80

Most Edits by a Power User

User Edits Uniques
WookieMonster 417 400
Twix 213 199
Baysew 209 203
rompastompa 63 63
tonester 57 49
TakaHas 21 21
O O 9 9
djk 6 6
DuckKnight 6 5
brandogs 5 4
Comments

Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)

User Comments Avg Vote +5's +15's -5's -15's
jv 1027 0.72 88 22 70 12
Jimothy Wongingtons 603 2.80 90 19 0 0
Clear 450 1.31 31 4 1 0
CyberMurning 415 0.65 14 5 4 2
trixieb 368 1.08 19 3 0 0
BargainsGrabber 345 1.71 32 7 0 0
ihfree 310 1.51 25 3 3 0
neoleo 306 0.30 9 0 2 0
Poor Ass 306 0.15 5 1 5 2
G-rig 297 0.39 2 0 0 0

Top 10 positively voted comments

Most Popular Comments
Comment Votes User Posted
They will always stop to buy 239 Agarwal 2024-08-03
28 187 jv 2024-08-28
Limited Ads in YouTube 176 hopper 2024-08-10
maybe because her skill 173 Brakus 2024-08-12
If you see something in 145 Geoff-bargain 2024-08-01
don't know how you wouldn't 143 Jake17 2024-08-07
Pay Telstra $ for outdated 128 SBOB 2024-08-11
None. It's your duty to 127 Hybroid 2024-08-02
I'd rather be upfront about 113 Gomo 2024-08-01
The irony is that Coles 113 Gervais fanboy 2024-08-31

Top 10 negatively voted comments

Least Popular Comments

Top 10 controversial comments

Comment +Votes -Votes User Posted
Please don't support 33 32 bizzish 2024-08-17
Dictator Dan? Don't you mean 28 27 MeatyOne 2024-08-17
Bikies is your best option. 22 20 JIMB0 2024-08-08
Good on her for going out 22 21 MrHyde 2024-08-12
OOS. FREE PALESTINE. 20 21 z00m 2024-08-17
8gb of non-upgradeable 19 21 Gorby 2024-08-23
I liked Anastacia I think 16 15 Boioioioi 2024-08-17
Yeezys came out in 2013, 10 14 12 astrotrain 2024-08-12
A sidebar: If what is 14 12 Roman Sandstorm 2024-08-23
Damn $29 for water, this is 14 16 dm02 2024-08-31

Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.

Comment +Votes -Votes User Posted
Israelí dude waiting to 40 47 freedomofspeech 2024-08-17
Please don't support 33 32 bizzish 2024-08-17
Dictator Dan? Don't you mean 28 27 MeatyOne 2024-08-17
Bikies is your best option. 22 20 JIMB0 2024-08-08
Good on her for going out 22 21 MrHyde 2024-08-12
People who preorder digital 21 25 Hawk Tuah 2024-08-18
OOS. FREE PALESTINE. 20 21 z00m 2024-08-17
8gb of non-upgradeable 19 21 Gorby 2024-08-23
Thanks for betting me know. 17 14 entropysbane 2024-08-18
I liked Anastacia I think 16 15 Boioioioi 2024-08-17

Comments with a net vote of + or - 20% with pos vote count of 10 or more.

["K:D"] highest vote average with minimum 100 comments and also 50 comments.

100 comments

User Comments Vote Average
SBOB 154 5.10
Lizard Spock 103 4.91
pegaxs 123 4.87
JIMB0 177 3.13
DashCam AKA Rolts 112 3.13
coffeeinmyveins 134 2.84
Jimothy Wongingtons 602 2.82
freefall101 247 2.73
linkindan 111 2.68
Lucille Bluth 257 2.61

50 comments

User Comments Vote Average
Hybroid 55 8.13
theHMASfriendship 60 6.08
SBOB 154 5.10
mskeggs 86 5.06
Lizard Spock 103 4.91
pegaxs 123 4.87
Brakus 88 4.70
brendanm 72 4.51
Ozbar Gain 90 4.01
Dollar General 82 3.95

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

Most Clicked Deals

Top 10 most popular deals by traffic (in pageviews)

Store Views
Domino's 66972
eBay Australia 18594
DoorDash 16537
KFC Australia 15951
Amazon AU 14520
Uber Eats 14415
Menulog 12775
Pizza Hut 9913
JB Hi-Fi 7140
AliExpress 6982

Most Popular Deals by Category

Category Deal Votes Clicks User Posted
Alcohol [NSW, ACT, VIC, SA] Glenfiddich 12-Year Old Single Malt Scotch 700mL $52.45 (Member's Price) + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ Dan Murphy's 213 7468 bazz737 2024-08-26
Automotive MG ZS EV Excite MY23 - from $34,990 Driveaway (Was $43,693) @ MG Motor Dealers 537 19001 vr4indian 2024-08-01
Books & Magazines [eBook] Sevenfold Sword: Omnibus One by Jonathan Moeller Free @ Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Amazon 98 1278 Robydc 2024-08-12
Computing Raspberry Pi Zero W $12 (More than 50% off) + Shipping from $6 @ Core Electronics (Local AU Stock) 228 6070 CoreElectronics 2024-08-05
Dining & Takeaway $5 Burrito or Bowl (+ Delivery / Service Fees or $0 Pick up) @ Guzman Y Gomez via DoorDash 262 2697 Geoff8 2024-08-20
Education Marbig Ruler 30cm Clear Plastic $0.60 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ Amazon AU 101 3133 Usernamealredytaken 2024-08-14
Electrical & Electronics Google Pixel Stand (2nd Gen) Wireless Charger $59.50 (50% off) Shipped @ Google Store 291 9079 Yogi555 2024-08-26
Entertainment [SUBS, Prime] The Grand Tour - One for The Road @ Prime Video 201 1475 spackbace 2024-08-22
Fashion & Apparel Macpac Down Jackets $48.30-$90.30 + $8.99 Delivery ($0 with $99 Order/ C&C) @ BCF 317 17756 WaterMark 2024-08-31
Financial Virgin Money Velocity Flyer Card: 60,000 Points with $1,500 Spend Each Month for 2 Months, $129 Flight Voucher, $74 1st Year Fee 148 3343 Mike Nolan 2024-08-15
Gaming [PC, Epic] Free - Football Manager 2024 + Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts @ Epic Games 473 6928 Taegukgi 2024-08-30
Groceries Amino Z Whey Protein Isolate 4kg $159.99 Del+$55 Credit ($65 CZ/$50 NewCust)/5kg $189.99 (CZ +$7/+$5 Cred), 30% off AZ @ Amino Z 621 9478 aminozcomau 2024-08-19
Health & Beauty Johnson's Body Care Moisturising Body Wash 1L $5.22 ($4.70 S&S) + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ Amazon AU 138 3026 Snacky 2024-08-13
Home & Garden Quilton 3-Ply Toilet Tissue 48 Pack $24 ($21.60 S&S) + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ Amazon AU 215 6428 Hiphopopotamus 2024-08-10
Internet nbn 100/20 $74.95/Month, 250/25 $89/Month, 1000/50 $99/Month for 12 Months (New Customers) @ Leaptel 282 4632 Cocochicken 2024-08-25
Mobile [PreOrder] Google Pixel 9 Pro XL 128GB $147 on 24-Month 300GB/M $99/M JB Plan (Port-in/New Customers, In-Store Only) @ JB Hi-Fi 240 8409 BargainsGrabber 2024-08-14
Other [NSW, Prime] $20 off with $79 Spend on Eligible Items (Sydney Only, Limit 1000 Claims Per Day) @ Amazon AU 453 9810 tightarse 2024-08-21
Pets [NSW] Free Dog Adoptions (Was $500) @ RSPCA NSW 172 5189 gamma032 2024-08-30
Sports & Outdoors Wilson NBA Jam Basketball (Includes Needle and Pump) $19.99 + Delivery (Free Click & Collect) @ rebel 150 6037 hyperfuzz 2024-08-29
Toys & Kids Red Bull Racing RB18 #1 1:43 Model $18 (Was $136) + $13.95 Delivery & $0.99 Fee @ F1 Store 180 17000 iWan 2024-08-02
Travel First Class to Los Angeles from SYD/MEL $4,299 Return @ Qantas (Includes Xmas Holidays) 268 5744 flightfinderau 2024-08-23

dealsbycategory

Top 10 most popular freebie deals by votes


Competitions

Most Popular Competitions (by votes)

Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)

Most Won Competitions


Social Media

Instagram:

  • 15,158 +267 followers
  • Male 40.3%, Female 59.6% (vs. Male: 72.2% Female: 27.8% for OzBargain)
  • 25-34 36.8% (vs. 31.48% for OzBargain)
  • Link Clicks 5,084 -35.8%

Other stats

Top 10 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)

Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews, excluding help pages)

Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)

Store Views
Domino's 66,972
eBay Australia 18,594
DoorDash 16,537
KFC Australia 15,951
Amazon AU 14,520
Uber Eats 14,415
Menulog 12,775
Pizza Hut 9,913
JB Hi-Fi 7,140
AliExpress 6,982

Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)

Store Count Avg Vote
Amazon AU 253 36.30
ShopBack AU 56 44.11
JB Hi-Fi 50 44.34
Coles 39 44.23
Dan Murphy's 37 35.46
Cashrewards 36 48.19
Bunnings Warehouse 36 50.86
Woolworths 34 44.97
Steam 32 73.66
Amazon Global Store 31 32.03

Top 10 most subscribed to stores

Top 10 Search Alerts

searchalert

Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)

  1. Whirlpool - 51,521
  2. Facebook - 46,492
  3. Reddit 43,521
  4. Oursteps - 17,386
  5. Twitter/X - 12,884
  6. Instagram - 9,894

Top Browsers (by Sessions)

Browser % Sessions
Chrome 59.76%
Safari 22.25%
Edge 5.15%
Samsung Internet 3.45%
Firefox 2.95%
Ozbargain Android App 2.16%
Opera 0.72%
Android Webview 0.29%
Safari (in-app) 0.27%
YaBrowser 0.01%

Top 10 stores with referrals (# of referrers)

Store Count
Cashrewards 4064
ShopBack AU 3981
TopCashback AU 3557
Uber Eats 1717
American Express 1593
Catch.com.au 1490
Wise 1474
Up Bank 1324
ubank 1126
Stake 1076

Google Search Console:

Top Growing Content

Royal Melbourne Show
Top Search queries: royal melbourne show discount tickets, melbourne show discount tickets, royal melbourne show discount code, discount melbourne show tickets
+29,044%

Apple Gift Card
Top Search queries: apple gift card discount, apple gift card ozbargain, ozbargain apple gift cards, apple gift card sale
+110%

Gift Card
+47%

Trending queries

apple gift card discount
+898 clicks

iphone 16 ozbargain
+441 clicks

apple gift card 15% off
+373 clicks

royal melbourne show discount tickets
+315 clicks

ozbargain iphone 16
+293 clicks

Everything else

  • Deals posted: 2472 || July 2024: 3094 || August 2023: 3048
  • Total number of deals: 487,703 || Total number of forum topics: 132,125 || Total number of competitions: 64,333
  • Number of Freebies posted: 110 (Lowest since June 2012)
  • Comments posted: 98,565 || July 2024: 106,758 || August 2023: 131,817
  • Total comments posted: 15,760,601 comments
  • % of removed comments: 2.20% || July 2.17% || August 2023 2.21%
  • Overall traffic: 12,521,162 sessions, 36,346,006 pageviews || July 2024: 13,293,512 sessions, 40,747,539 pageviews || August 2023: 14,741,371 sessions, 44,547,571 pageviews
  • New users: 4054 Total number of users: 439,584
  • % of rep posts: 15.14% || July: 12.57% || August 2023: 14.23%

  • User Age:

Age Group Percentage
18-24 17.38%
25-34 30.49%
35-44 29.28%
45-54 14.52%
55-64 5.43%
65+ 2.89%
  • Male: 72.2% Female: 27.8% || July: Male: 69.4% Female: 30.6% || August 2023: Male: 67.2% Female: 32.8%
  • # of stores in referral system: 755 -3 (Audit under way)
  • # of banned websites: 8191 +39
  • Newsletter subscribers: 134647 +1370 (64% with accounts)

Most clicked deal that didn't reach front page
nbn Plans: $10 off Per Month for 12 Months if You Are Moving Home @ Aussie Broadband (5853 clicks)

Most neg'd deal
Spend $1000 in a Month with 28 Degrees Mastercard & Receive a $10 E-Gift Card ($8 Monthly Card Fee) @ Latitude Finance (-24 votes)

Most commented deal
PreOrder Google Pixel 9 Pro XL 128GB $147 on 24-Month 300GB/M $99/M JB Plan (Port-in/New Customers, In-Store Only) @ JB Hi-Fi (1595 comments)

Comments

  • -4

    Yay !!!

    First comment…

    • +1

      @HeWhoKnows

    • +2

      If you had to summarise your 1000+ comments a month into a single post, accurately capturing all their nuance…..
      You nailed it.

    • +4

      You forgot to include the new posting requirements.

      Level 6 - Trolling ✅

      • +2

        Here let me fix yours for you:

        Level 10 - Trolling ✅

        • +2

          This is the problem. I see it your reply as:

          Level 3 - personal opinion ✅

          • +3

            @MS Paint: I reckon we’ll just start including them in our comments for fun

    • Surpassed your approximately 20 comments-a-day average, well done.

  • -3

    These absolute junk -55 Wiadro 2024-08-07
    Go find previous posts, mate -43 Wiadro 2024-08-07

    how good am i

    • how good am i

      Care to elaborate! Bold statement without any evidence!

      • -2

        Being good is a good time

  • Great post like usual!

  • +2

    Here is the corrected markdown table with the updated links:

    ChatGPT reference…

    • Ha, well spotted. Much easier to format some of the tables in ChatGPT EXCEPT sometimes I copy instead of hit ChatGPT's copy button.

      • All good. It makes markdown tables much easier to create, and more accessible.

  • Wow… so many sockpuppet reports… literally the second highest reason for reports… Any idea of those reports, how many were valid sockpuppets and how many were just regular users?

    • +1

      Those aren't reports. Those are competitions, deals or forum posts removed. So 40 were removed. The report breakdown is as follows:

      Reason COUNT(*)
      Expired/Sold Out 917
      Title/Description/Category 480
      Other 243
      Spam 205
      Duplicate 133
      In Stock/Available Again 113
      Targeted Offer 103
      Sockpuppeting 88
      Insufficient Quantity (<10 Items) 55
      Referral/Affiliate 31
      Inaccessible to Australians 8
      Illegal/Banned Item 8
      • -1

        Oh, I get it now. I thought it was reported, but still, second highest in removals seems to show it’s a pretty prevalent problem.

        And 88 reports vs 40 removals I’m guessing is multiple people reporting the same sockpuppet attempts? Still, more than 1 a day sounds like quite a few, but not really a lot if compared to how many posts get put up per day…

        • +1

          seems to show it’s a pretty prevalent problem.

          Yes, it's a consistent problem and despite heaps of time investigating, there are probably some that go undetected.

          And 88 reports vs 40 removals I’m guessing is multiple people reporting the same sockpuppet attempts?

          Yes but also people reporting sockpuppeting that isn't. Just because someone is a new member and they post something doesn't automatically mean they are being dodgy. We all have to start somewhere which is we ask people to not accuse members but instead report to us as we have tools to investigate.

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