Afternoon at 5:38pm: Received an email from OO.com.au, titled LCD TV 66cm Crazy $999. Gee. When was the LCD TV becoming so cheap? A few years ago it won’t even buy you a 26″ flatscreen CRT at this price. Although not strictly high definition (only at 1280×768 so it will not do 1080i), the [...]

Got the phone bill for my land line today, and unsurprisingly, mobile calls tops the chart and occupied 82% of the bill. Currently for someone in Australia, it is expensive making phone calls to other mobile phones on either Australian’s GSM or CDMA network — even more expensive than STD and international calls! In fact [...]

Fancy the latest Intel Core Duo powered MacBook Pro (which I mentioned on my blog)? The cheapest I can find in Australia (except maybe eBay) is from Getmac (formally AppleCart which I reviewed here). They sell the base model (1.67Ghz Intel Core Duo 15.4″ 512Mb/80Gb) for AUD$3007.06, plus standard delivery of $7.50. Quite a bit of [...]

Just noted from WhatsInAName.com.au, that IntaServe is now the cheapest .au domain reseller — even cheaper than the Canadian-operated NameScout. Here are their prices: com.au $34.95 2 years net.au $34.95 2 years org.au $9.95 2 years id.au $25.00 2 years asn.au $33.00 2 years Update: Even though IntaServe is currently the cheapest .au domain registrar, but their software is quite lacking. Check out my review on transferring one of my [...]

Still using your old Telstra fixed phone that ties you to the line? DealsDirect is selling Doro 530 cordless phone for AUD$29 (plus $9 delivery), which sells elsewhere for around $100 (just do a search on Google Australia. It is even cheaper than the one you rent from Telstra, when you decide to purchase one [...]

Saw the Harvey Norman ads on Southern Courier yesterday, selling Compaq Presario V2417AU for merely AUD$796, after $200 cash back from Compaq/HP. Apparently this cash back lasts until 31st January by checking different resellers. That’s quite a cheap notebook after the cash back, especially from a shop usually known as “Hardly Normal”. It is quite a [...]

This sale has been going on for a while actually, since before Christmas last year but it seems that there are still many bargains that can be had. Visit Desktop Power’s website to download the sale list (Note: in PDF format). I had a transaction with them and was satisfied with the service.

Received this email from my current web host, DreamHost, a few days ago: … First off, we’ve just QUADRUPLED disk space on all our shared hosting plans! The disk space growth rate on all shared plans has also QUADRUPLED! … We’ve also OCTUPLED (eight times) bandwidth on all plans (including dedicated servers)! The bandwidth growth rate has [...]

Aldi Australia has got a special buy on their website — Student Chair and Workcentre Package for AUD$99. That’s normally the price you pay just for the desk. Sales start on Thursday 12 Jan 2006, and it’s limited to 2 desks/chairs per customer. Sturdy desk with 18mm/15mm timber and steel construction. Gas lift student chair included. Workcentre features [...]

Normally I won’t associate Dick Smith Electronics with “bargains”, but I saw this posted to a forum yesterday that DSE is selling Canon Powershot A610 for AUD$347 (RRP $499, cheapest at staticICE $383). Apparently the same camera is selling for $350 at Harvey Norman, which is another place where I don’t consider to find bargains. [...]

Kmart is having its Monster 15% off store-wide sale again. Hurry into Kmart for the Monster 15% off Storewide Sale between Wednesday January 4 and Friday January 6. Get Monster savings storewide for 3 days only. Excludes iTunes, iPods, Console Hardware, Cigarettes, Gift cards, Pixifoto and Kmart Tyre & Auto Service. No rainchecks. Just noted that [...]

Just visited the Yahoo! Small Business, and it appears that their USD$2.99 per year domain deal (for .com/.net/.org/.biz/.info/.us) has been extended to 26 January 2006 8 March 2006. Yup — that’s less than $3 per domain per year, and you can register up to 5 years. Moreover, you can also transfer your existing domains to Yahoo [...]