Some of the best deals that have been posted on OzBargain this week:
It seems Jetstar is making news every week now! Thanks to Pyro who posted this Jetstar deal, where you can fly to Osaka Japan for $299 between 15 July and 14 August. A sensational sale fare indeed. Japan is also a good transit point if you want to visit other north part of Asia (South Korea, North-East China for example). I am sure we’ll see more Jetstar deals in the coming weeks.
(Just a personal gripe — don’t fly Jetstar to Melbourne unless you prefer the smaller Avalon airport instead of Tullamarine.)
Also thanks to John for posting this deal from ShoppingSquare — Western Digital Elements 500GB external for $194.95. Large hard drives are useless to me personally as I am still “struggling” to fill up my 2x 80GB RAID1 drive at home (no, no need to send me “tips” on how to accomplish that). However I am pretty sure that for some of you guys, you can zap through a 500GB drive in no time. I don’t think 500GB is the “sweet spot” yet (it’s around 300-400GB at the moment I think), but at the rate people archiving their photos, videos and TV recordings, the price better comes down soon.
Toy sale seems to be the highlights of last week. We have both Big W and Kmart bringing out massive toy sales last week. I can see that Target’s preliminary toy sale catalogue is already online (for 19-29 July). I went to Toys “R” Us yesterday and it has a pretty good range of on-sale items as well. Anyone knows why everyone is selling toys in July?
On the topic of toys, Yogee is having an 15% off all toys exclusive deals for the OzBargain members! Thanks Yogee for offering this! I was just browsing their toys category and it has a pretty good range for younger children, i.e. not my kind of toys as they’ll be under “Computers” category :) I know they are in Sydney but not sure whether they offer pick up as deliverying those bulky toys can be expensive.
Want some cheap movie tickets? Daily Deals have got them! $39.95 gets you 5 adult tickets and $77 gets you 10 adult tickets, plus $2.95 for delivery. These tickets can be used on Monday to Thursday. At $8/ticket delivered it is really a bargain. Again a little bit useless to me as (1) with 2 small children we rarely have chance to go to cinema to watch movies (2) Tuesday at Ritz is only 7 bucks :)
More at OzBargain.
Why everyone is selling toy in July?
Maybe more birthdays are happening in June/July. Well, it does happen in my family :)
Err. Didn’t think of that, but both my wife and my older daughter was born in July. I thought it has something to do with school holidays but could not work out the logic. Hmm.
Its due to this time of year being quiet normally. It boosts sales as people purchase goods for xmas. Into August its not as important to have ‘massive’ sales as tax returns start to flow in. At least that is my understanding for experience in retail.
Hey Scott
Ian is 90% correct. Another reason the stores do it – Kmart especially as I have a friend inside – in July is Layby. Taxtime means the earliest they can do it is July 1.
I’m informed that the Toy Sale is the second biggest sales period in the year for Kmart after Christmas.
Ian & Jonk — thank you very much! It is great to have someone who are in retail to come in and show us what is really going on.
One of the reason i posted the toys discount is because we have to free up some of our warehouse space as we have more products coming soon. Trying hard to bring more variety of toys into the store.
I’ll post more great deals exclusive to ozbargain community.
Chang