Archive for November, 2008

Slashdotted and SMH’ed on the Dell Discount Fiasco

Scott on 2008-11-19 in Computer | 2

Record traffic for OzBargain over the last few days. It all started when dansor posted the mistake by Dell on their Vostro 220ST desktop system. A lot of people clicked through and “purchased” the desktop before the deal was taken down (although according to Dell, they have never received payment). Well. The pricing was a [...]

OzBargain Birthday Comp - Win a Nintendo Wii!

Scott on 2008-11-11 in OzBargain | 0

OzBargain was launched back in November 2006, which means we are almost 2 years old! For the last 2 years, our community members have posted: 6,200+ deals 600+ forum discussion threads 26,000+ comments Thank you all who have participated! Last week I have also posted in the OzBargain forums — OzBargain Birthday Competition, where I am giving away [...]

OzBargain Ranked on Australian Startup Index

Scott on 2008-11-10 in Internet | 2

On the latest Australian Startup Index for November 2008, I saw: Wow! Although it dropped one place from last month’s ranking, but every exposure counts. From the main Aussie Startup Index page: The Aussie Startup Index is a traffic ranking of Australian startups. It will typically be posted around the 10th of every month. At the moment, sites are [...]

Kmart Weekend Offers - Triax and Schwinn Bikes for $99

Scott on 2008-11-07 in Health & Beauty | 1

Kmart has been running some online specials recently, where you get good discount coupons but online available online to their email subscribers. The top deal today — thanks to cacbm who submitted it — is for this weekend. You need to print out the PDF file, and bring it to your local Kmart for further [...]