2017’s biggest mover was Gearbest, moving up 54 places to the #1 spot in terms of both popular deals and the amount of deals. It’s not just OzBargain but around the world other bargain sites are also filled with Gearbest deals in a play to dominate the global small electronics/gadget market. Their competitors, Banggood,  Zapals and Lightinthebox moved up to the 12th, 14th and 21st spot respectively with the most amount of front page deals.

Overall, eBay deals were very popular including the most popular deal of 2017, 18% off sitewide. While Dominos fell 11 spots in popularity, the store page saw 1.7m pageviews; more than double that of the 2nd most viewed store, eBay.

Another big mover statswise, was the amount of competitions posted, going from 4800 in 2016 to 10435 while wins only increased marginally.

The most popular forum post for 2017 was the 7/11 Fuel Watch thread which continues to be a great resource to find the locations around the country with the cheapest fuel in order to get the 7/11 app to match the price. Still popular despite being 5 years old is the thread about how to get out of your first speeding ticket in Victoria (can confirm it works!).

Deals

Front Page deals (2017 vs 2016)

Store	Front Page Deals	Rank vs. 2016
Gearbest	391	54
Coles	234	5
Woolworths	231	2
JB Hi-Fi	199	4
The Good Guys	198	2
Amazon.com	160	4
eBay	158	11
IWantThatFlight	157	2
Myer	153	4
Harvey Norman	151	7
Big W	135	2
Banggood	109	13
Microsoft	105	4
Zapals	104	65
Target	104	10
Amazon eBooks	101	6
Officeworks	94	5
EB Games	90	5
ALDI	90	5
Super Cheap Auto	86	5
Lightinthebox	78	1040
Amex Statement Credits	77	19
Groupon	76	3
Bunnings	76	5
Dominos	73	11

Stores ranked by # of deals posted

Notes:  eBay is excluded due to many deals that were from retailer’s eBay stores (e.g. Officeworks, The Good Guys). Platforms like iTunes & Google Play Store were also excluded.

Where did the popular retailers come from?

Data consists of the top 250 stores ranked by # of front page deals.

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2017

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2016

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2015

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2014

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2013

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2012

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2011

Maps created using Gunmap.

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Most Popular Deals

Most Clicked Deals

Fastest Deals to the Front Page

Fastest Deals to 100 votes

Most popular deals by category

Most clicked deal that didn’t reach front page

Bcbgeneration down Jackets $8.48, Hawke & Co. Various Coats $6.48 @ OzSale [New Members Only] (7547 clicks)

Most neg’d deal

Save up to $225 on New Xiaomi Bundle Deals – Includes Free Shipping Australia-Wide @ Roboguy (-34 votes)

Most commented deal

Free 1yr NRL Digital Pass – First 2500 to Create and Fill a 16-Team NRL Fantasy League (2229 comments)

Store with the highest pageviews

Deal with the highest pageviews

Competitions

Most Popular Competitions

Most Clicked Competitions

Competition Pageviews: 4,578,455

Comps Posted: 10435 | 2016: 4800
Comps Won: 1415 | 2016: 1257

Biggest Competition Win:

South of France River Cruise for 2 Worth $22,180 from Scenic

Forums

Most Popular Forum Threads (pageviews)

Users & Comments

2017 vs. 2016: Published: 1,139,275  15% | Removed: 14,810 1.3%  (2016: 1.21%)

In our continuing mission to promote transparency and respectful discussion in comments, we try to provide some stats on moderation. Our comment removal rate remains roughly the same at around 1%.  Last year we made it a goal to make OzBargain more respectful while maintaining a friendly community.  We’ve been more responsive to inappropriate comments and trolling through better comment logging and moderation action guidelines . While we give numerous warnings to users for these comments, we’ve established new guidelines (as of January 2018) for inappropriate comments to now garner bans.

The uptick in referral link removals was partly skewed in terms of this Optus Friends & Family deal which required employees to post their referral links. Again, the biggest category of removals are requests by the commenter to remove their own comments (23.8%) and removing comments attached to the original deleted comment (34.7%).

Reasons:

• Replying to Deleted Comment – 5148  (2016: 4290)
• Requested by Commenter – 3533 (2016: 2635)
• Personal attack 534 (2015: 515)
• Inappropriate use of negative vote 494 (2016: 496)
• Duplicate – 491 (2016: 469)
• Referral Links/Codes/Solicitation- 861 (2016: 640)
• Inappropriate – 527 (2016: 397)
• SPAM – 370 (2016: 371)
• Sockpuppeting/Astroturfing – 120 (2016: 107)
• Ghost Account 403 (2016: 96)
• Selling in Comments 379 (2016: 322)
• Trolling 327 (2016: 131)
• Resolved 500 [Comments asking for title/description to be fixed/move to forum etc.] (2016: 676)
• Everything else – 1123

Most Comments by a User

Top 10 Positively voted comments

Top 10 Negatively voted comments

Top 10 controversial comments

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

Top 10 VERY controversial comments

Comments with a net vote of + or – 20% with positive vote count of 10 or more.

Most Deals Posted by Users

Most Deals Posted by New Users

Most Competitions Posted by Users

Most Front-Page Deals posted by a User

Most Front-Page Deals posted by a rep

Most Edits by Power Users

Moderation Stats

Reports from users: 29,701  (2016: 24,414). Average 1 report every 17 minutes. 

Deals Removed/Published: 5006 (15.52%) /32,246  | (2016: 4,743 (13.33%)/30,911) — Forum Posts Removed:  1093 (7.76%)/ 14,068 | (2016: 797 (5.85%)/12,818 published)

• Reasons:
  • Duplicate – 2537 (2016: 2153)
  • SPAM – 419 (2016: 306)
  • Sockpuppeting – 362 (2016: 361)
  • Referral SPAM – 358 (2016: 245)
  • Requested by OP – 326 (2016: 389)
  • No Bargains Listed – 339 (2016: 259)
  • Insufficient Quantity – 269 (2016: 231)
  • Not Available to Australia – 134 (2016: 122)
  • Combine Posts – 93 (2016: 103)
  • Expired on Posting – 87 (2016: 68)
  • Unobtainable deal 73 (2016: 52)
  • Joke Post 57 (2016: 24)
  • Out of stock on posting  52 (2016: 44)
  • Circumventing Ban – 49 (2016: 32)
  • Banned Item – 45 (2016: 31)
  • Ghost account 37 (2016: 33)
  • Amazon eBook posts are not allowed for associated users 30 (2016: 32)
  • Deal doesn’t meet eBay posting guidelines 29 (2016: 44)
  • Price matches are not bargains 29 (2016: 38)
  • Competitions are not bargains 25 (2016: 17)
  • Incomparable Service 18 (2016: 22)
  • Deal isn’t a valid bargain 11 (2016: 29)
  • Everything else – 720

Other Stats

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

1. List of Birthday Deals/Freebies – 149,884
2. List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites – 56,604
3. Optus Friends & Family Wiki – 28,751
4. Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees – 24,338
5. Price Comparison Websites 19,152

Top 10 most subscribed to stores

Top 10 Search Alerts

Pageviews: 395,887,782 ( 17.08% )

Sessions: 128,299,975 ( 18.63%)

Browsers: Chrome: 59.26% ( 0.6%) , Safari 25.90% ( 1.14%), Firefox 6.26% ( 2.09%), Internet Explorer 2.47% ( 1.17%), Safari In-App 1.90 ( .06%),  Edge 1.53% ( .08%), Samsung Internet 1.12%, Android Webview 0.65% ( 0.61%), Opera 0.5% ( 0.04%), Android Browser 0.23% (.41%)

Top Referral Traffic (Sessions): Facebook 1,334810 Whirlpool  1,275,656 Oursteps 568,929  Twitter 436,814   MSN 426,588

Freebies posted: 2467  (2016: 2616)

New Users: 31,979  (2016: 24,922) Total: 211,672 (as of publish)

For more stats, see the wiki.

2017 Stats: Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – June – July – August & September – October – November – Dec

2016 Stats: Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – Dec

Last year, we reported our amazement on Dick Smith, our most popular store, going into administration. Kogan bought Dick Smith’s website in early 2016 which resulted in 63 front page deals for the year, down 19 places from the #1 spot last year. Unfortunately, Masters suffered the same fate but still managed to place 11th with 129 front page deals.

We welcomed six stores into the top 25: EverBuying , EB Games, eBay , ALDI, Banggood & Amazon UK.  We noted for the past couple years that there is a distinct relation between the number of deals and the currency rate. While the US dollar didn’t move too much, the British Pound dropped making purchases from Amazon UK much cheaper. In the graph below you can see when the GPB was most expensive (1st line) that deals were close to 0. Compare that to the low (2nd line), which resulted in a high amount of Amazon UK deals.

Amazon UK Deals

Front Page deals (2016 vs 2015)

Store	Front Page Deals	Rank vs. 2015
Woolworths	255	1
Amazon.com	232	5
The Good Guys	216	8
Harvey Norman	193	1
Target	184	2
IWantThatFlight	177	6
Coles	175	3
JB Hi-Fi	158	–
Big W	145	3
Amazon eBooks	135	7
Masters	129	3
Officeworks	98	3
Myer	91	5
Dominos	84	2
Super Cheap Auto	74	12
Dan Murphy’s	74	3
eBay	69	24
Bunnings	69	8
EverBuying	65	154
Dick Smith	63	19
Amazon UK	60	99
EB Games	59	33
ALDI	58	8
Banggood	58	6
Groupon	58	3

Note: Front Page threshold moved from 20 to 25 in April 2016.

Deals

Stores ranked by # of deals posted

Notes:  eBay is excluded due to many deals that were from retailer’s eBay stores (e.g. Officeworks, The Good Guys). Platforms like iTunes & Google Play Store were also excluded.

Where did the popular retailers come from?

Australian stores increased by over 3% while China including Hong Kong increased to their highest level in history.

Data consists of the top 250 stores ranked by # of front page deals.

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2016

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2015

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2014

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2013

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2012

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2011

Maps created using Gunmap.

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Most Popular Deals

Most Clicked Deals

Fastest Deals to the Front Page

Fastest Deals to 100 votes

Most popular deals by category

Most clicked deal that didn’t reach front page

20% off TVs, Laptops, Smartphones, Samsung Phones/Tablets, 5% off Apple and 10% off Bose @ Dick Smith (10764 clicks)

Most neg’d deal

Samsung Galaxy J1 (Unlocked) for $199 Shipped @ Mega Tech Warehouse (-15 votes)

Most commented deal

Free Annual NRL Digital Pass Subscription- NRL Fantasy League Creation (3371 comments)

Store with the highest pageviews

Deal with the highest pageviews

Competitions

Most Popular Competitions

Most Clicked Competitions

Competition Pageviews: 2,911,006
Comps Posted: 4800 | 2015: 3406
Comps Won: 1257

Biggest Competition Win:

A Trip to Rio to see Olympics Worth $25,000

Forums

Most Popular Forum Threads (pageviews)

Users & Comments

2016 vs. 2015: Published: 966,436 11% | Removed: 11,857 1.21% (2015: 1.11%)

Transparency and the ability for people to express their opinions on a variety of topics is something we take as a priority. Our comment removal rate has always been around the 1% mark and to break it down even further 36% of comments removed were by request of the person making the comment and a further 22% are replies to those comments.  Personal attacks and resolved comments are part of our goals of 2017 to making OzBargain a more respectful community while reminding users to contact moderators about any issues.

Reasons:

• Replying to Deleted Comment – 4290 (2015: 3080)
• Requested by Commenter – 2635 (2015: 1688)
• Personal attack 515 (2015: 476)
• Inappropriate use of negative vote 496 (2015: 474)
• Duplicate – 469 (2015: 507)
• Referral Links/Codes/Solicitation- 442 (2015: 448)
• Inappropriate – 397 (2015: 362)
• SPAM – 371 (2015: 427)
• Sockpuppeting/Astroturfing – 107 (2015: 124)
• Ghost Account 96 (2015: 288)
• Selling in Comments 322 (2015: 379)
• Trolling 131 (2015: 154)
• Resolved 676 [Comments asking for title/description to be fixed/move to forum etc.] (2015: 687)
• Everything else – 920

Most Comments by a User

Top 10 Positively voted comments

Top 10 Negatively voted comments

Top 10 controversial comments

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

Top 10 VERY controversial comments

Comments with a net vote of + or – 20% with positive vote count of 10 or more.

Most Deals Posted by Users

Most Deals Posted by New Users

Most Competitions Posted by Users

Most Front-Page Deals posted by a User

Most Front-Page Deals posted by a rep

Most Edits by Power Users

Moderation Stats

Reports from users: 29,701  (2014: 24,414). Average 1 report every 17 minutes.

Deals Removed/Published: 4,743 (13.33%) /30,911  | (2015: 4,514 (13.63%)/28,583) — Forum Posts Removed:  797 (5.85%)/ 12,818 | (2015: 615 (5%)/11673 published)

• Reasons:
  • Duplicate – 2153 (2015: 1937)
  • Sockpuppeting – 361 (2015: 293)
  • Requested by OP – 389 (2015: 378)
  • SPAM – 306 (2015: 368)
  • Insufficient Quantity – 231 (2015: 192)
  • No Bargains Listed – 259 (2015: 157)
  • Referral SPAM – 245 (2015: 170)
  • Combine Posts – 103 (2015: 90)
  • Expired on Posting – 68 (2015: 53)
  • Not Available to Australia – 122 (2015: 83)
  • Unobtainable deal 52 (2015: 16)
  • Deal doesn’t meet eBay posting guidelines 44 (2015: 29)
  • Out of stock on posting  44 (2015: 32)
  • Price matches are not bargains 38 (2015: 29)
  • Ghost account 33 (2015: 23)
  • Amazon eBook posts are not allowed for associated users 32
  • Circumventing Ban – 32 (2015: 38)
  • Banned Item – 31 (2015: 48)
  • Deal isn’t a valid bargain 29 (2015: 50)
  • Incomparable Service 22
  • Competitions are not bargains 17 (2015: 11)
  • Everything else – 984

Other Stats

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

1. List of Birthday Deals/Freebies – 113,590
2. List of Cheap Chinese Online Buying sites – 43,127
3. American Express Referrals – 39,662
4. Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees – 19,195
5. American Express Shop Small Guide– 18,273

Top 10 most subscribed to stores

Top 10 Search Alerts

Pageviews: 339,018,660 ( 12.61% )

Sessions: 108,432,172 ( 12.53%)

Browsers: Chrome: 58.65% ( 4.3%) , Safari 24.78% ( 0.14%), Firefox 8.35% ( 2.62%), Internet Explorer 3.63% ( 5.05%), Safari In-App 1.84,  Edge 1.44%, Opera 0.46%, Android Browser 0.44%.

Top Referral Traffic (Sessions): Whirlpool  1,425,530 Facebook 1,415,441 Twitter 432,607 Oursteps 412,583,   Lifehacker 260,153

Freebies posted: 2616  (2015: 2641)

New Users: 24,922  (2015: 25,673) Total: 167,275

For more stats, see the wiki.

2016 Stats: Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – Dec

After getting bombarded by referral SPAM not only on OzBargain but in my own letterbox, a good deal was finally posted for HelloFresh.  The company describes their service as nutritionally balanced recipes based on seasonal farm fresh ingredients delivered every week to your front door. Once a week, the company delivers you a box full of fresh food as well as recipes saving you from having to go to the supermarket or think of dinner ideas. Five days worth of Classic Box meals for 2 people costs $109.95 ($11 per meal) and $189.95 ($9.50 per meal) for 4 people.

The deal

First Food Box Delivered Free – EG 4x People 5x Meals Classic Box Worth $189.95 @ HelloFresh (New Customers)(Excludes WA/NT/TAS). 

The codes provided in that deal allowed the first box free for any of their three plans.

• Classic Box is a selection of meat, fish, chicken and pork dishes.
• Veggie box is a selection of vegetarian dishes.
• Family Box is like the Classic Box but more kid friendly.

For my purposes, I ordered the Classic Box. For some reason, you can order the boxes as a subscription or as a trial box however the trial boxes are more expensive. All of the subscription boxes can be cancelled after one order so it seems a bit strange to pay more for the same thing.

Ordering

Ordering is very straight forward. Just pick the box and then a delivery time. They have some strange delivery times including 2AM-8AM for the nightowls. I suppose you can tell them to leave the package out front but for mine, they hit the buzzer to inform me of delivery.

When paying you can choose to use Paypal. This is good as you can very easily cancel reoccurring payments in Paypal at a click of a button whereas you’re at the mercy of a store’s website to cancel a credit card auto-payment.

Cancelling

1.  Log into your account and click  Deactivate my subscription.

2.  Click Deactivate right away

3. Optional. If you’ve paid via Paypal, log into Paypal and select the transaction listed under Grocery Delivery E-Services and click Manage Grocery Delivery E-Services payments.

4. Optional. Click Cancel in the status section.

5.  Optional. Click Yes to confirm cancellation.  This will ensure no further payments will come from your Paypal account.

The Box

The box is split into two compartments; one for refrigerated products (meat, fish, etc.) and the other for items not needing cooling. The refrigerated section comes with 2 reusable ice packs and is insulated with a recyclable hessian material similar to what you would use in a worm farm. The entire box remained cool despite any heat from the outside and the ice packs stayed frozen for several hours. For those not available to be at home for delivery, you don’t need to worry about having the box sit outside.

The Contents

• Vegetables: 2 Red Onions, 4 Potatoes, 2 Garlic, 2 Bags of Rocket, 2 Bags of Spinach, 2 Corn, 6 Sweet Potatoes, 2 Zucchini, 2 Cucumber, 2 Bags of Green Beans
• Fruit: 2 Apples, 1 Lime, 2 Tomatoes
• Herbs: 1 Bag of Coriander, 1 Bag of Mint
• Meat & Fish: 2 Valencia Free Range Pork Schnitzels, 2 Salmon, 2 Rump Steaks, 2 Lilydale Thigh Fillet Packs, 2 Lilydale Chicken Breast Packs
• Other: 2 Cajun Spice Blend Packets, 2 Panko Bread Crumbs Bags, 2 Bags of Jasmine Rice, 2 Small Tubs of Moo Greek Style Yoghurt, 2 Pots of Pesto, 2 Parmesan, 2 Pita Bread Pockets Packs

Recipe vs. Reality

Here’s the recipes that were included vs how they came out in reality.

Crunchy Pork Schnitzel with Red Apple & Parmesan Salad

Recipe

Reality

Jerk Beef & Charred Corn Salad with Lime & Sweet Potato

Reality

Chicken Souvlaki with Minted Yoghurt Sauce

Recipe

Reality

Garlic Chicken with Green Beans and Jasmine Rice

Recipe

Reality

Baked Salmon with Pesto Potato Salad

Recipe

Reality

They all look pretty close to their pictures and cooking was dead simple especially when you have all of the ingredients measured and ready.

Value

So just walking (or shopping online) into the supermarket and grabbing these ingredients would have cost you $121.18. That’s not factoring in specials or shopping at cheaper places such as Aldi or a market. That is an extra $68.32 you are paying on a weekly basis ($189.50) just to use HelloFresh. That’s a hefty premium to pay for convenience.

Just Not Worth It

The big pros of HelloFresh are having meals delivered automatically. The meals are healthy and portioned out which is something ordering cheap Dominos or supermarket freezer meals can’t do well. The cons are you still have to cook the meals and you can’t select what you are eating for the week. Don’t like pork? You don’t have an option unless you pick the vegetarian pack which means you’ll lose out on chicken, meat or fish dishes for the week.

If you want a similar service at a fraction of the price, both major supermarkets allow you to shop online based on recipes. Woolworths has loads of recipes on their site which when selected can add all the ingredients to your cart. As an example, Pork Schnitzel & Crispy Slaw is fairly close to HelloFresh’s pork recipe. Pick out 5 recipes for delivery and you have a cheaper and more customisable version of HelloFresh with a similar amount of effort. Save the $68/week and skip HelloFresh.

There have been many OzBargain memes over the past ten years so we thought we’d run a meme comp. Got a favourite?

The following are member submitted memes (linked back to the member’s comment):

PRESS RELEASE

OzBargain, Australia’s largest bargain website, is celebrating their 10th birthday from November
21 to November 23. To celebrate this significant milestone, they will be hosting a once in a decade shopping event.

“We decided that we should have a 48-hour sale event as a “thank you” for both our community members and valued retailers over the years”, says founder Scott Yang.

The event is offering bargains on a range of categories including flights, hotels, laptops, electronics, beauty product, wine and number of other areas. Retailers such as Cathay Pacific, Amcal, Catch of the Day, Lenovo, Wotif and QBD are just a few of the retailers offering deals for the event.

OzBargain was recently cited by Roy Morgan Research as the fastest growing site in the online shopping
category and in October notched up 28m pageviews and 9m sessions.

“The big success over the last few years has been OzBargain, a community message board for like-minded
bargain-hunters. The site doesn’t sell anything directly and instead acts as a hub for visitors (and
merchants) to share information about sales and offers, whether online or in bricks-and-mortar stores.”

“Nearly half of Australians agree they sometimes research products online but then go buy them offline,
and the success of OzBargain’s platform proves that many consumers are deeply engaged in omni-channel
shopping”, said Michele Levine, CEO of Roy Morgan Research.

It’s not just consumers who benefit. Deepak Khurana, who runs Star Jewellery Group (Starbuy.com.au) says “prior to posting an offer on or having a member post an offer on OzBargain, creates in our office a sense of ‘Manic Magic’. Manic because we have to ensure the item or items in the offer have to be priced on par with the lowest, if not the lowest anywhere, and coping with the subsequent inflow of orders. Magic, when the orders start coming in. OzBargain is one of the very few referral sites that has taken our entire website down with the traffic generated.”

“The main thing we realised was that posting a sub-par offer will lead to no results as these guys have the sharpest buyers and they will catch you out very quickly if the offer does not stand up to be the best but the overall impact of being on OzBargain for a small company like ours is amazing. ”

OzBargain’s 10th birthday event starts at 12PM on the 21st of November.

Logos

Contact: Scott Yang ([email protected])

Twitter: OzBargainBuzz

While there are numerous ways to invest your money in the stockmarket, perhaps you can try the OzBargain method.  We took the top 10 most popular OzBargain stores and measured how well you would do with a 1 year investment.

The two standouts are Dick Smith for completely collapsing which resulted in an 83% negative return (well probably 100% is more accurate). On the other end, Dominos has absolutely killed it with a 130% gain in value. Overall, a 20% return on investment is a fairly good effort however this is a good lesson in diversifying your portfolio to hedge your losses.

Notes:

• Share prices were the opening price on January 2, 2015 and January 4, 2016 (first trading days of the year).
• Top 10 is derived from publicly traded companies. The Good Guys, Shopping Express and I Want That Flight are not publicly traded companies.
• Stores that were owned by the same parent company like Woolworths were only counted as one entity.
• Since you can only buy full shares and not a fraction of a share, the closest amount of shares to make up $1,000 was selected.
• For simplicity, there was no currency conversion for US traded stocks: Apple, Google and Amazon.

It’s a remarkable feat to have a retailer that is #1 in both front page deals and overall deals posted to suddenly go into voluntary administration but that’s just what happened to Dick Smith. Since we started collecting stats, Dick Smith has  either been #1 or #2 in the number of deals posted. As of January 25, only 21 deals have been posted putting the retailer on track for 417 deals for 2016, a drop of around 70%. Watch this space.

We have 4 newcomers to the top 25 with IWantThatFlight, Groupon, Telstra and DeliveryHero making the list. Most flight deals seem to do well on OzBargain so no surprise to see the cheap flight finding website IWTF on the list.

DeliveryHero has been offering high value coupons allowing OzBargainers to get cheap delivered meals.  The above chart shows the DH deals between March and May where the discount offered somewhat correlates to the votes received.

Groupon offered a number of discounted gift card deals for stores such as Big W and Masters. Fortunately, they didn’t offer any Dick Smith gift cards.

Last year we noted the falling currency knocked Amazon UK off the list. With the falling US dollar, Amazon US deals have now dropped 6 places. With no improvement in currency forecasted, the number of Amazon deals will likely continue to drop.

Front Page deals (2016 vs 2015)

Store	Front Page Deals	Rank vs. 2014
Dick Smith	372	—
Woolworths	254	2
iTunes/iOS app deals	206	2
Target	190	4
Coles	169	1
Harvey Norman	165	4
Big W	162	5
Amazon.com	157	6
JB Hi-Fi	154	—
Officeworks	154	9
Google Play Store	144	4
Shopping Express	114	5
The Good Guys	109	2
I Want That Flight	95	141
Dan Murphy’s	87	1
Masters	83	8
Dominos	77	3
Kindle Books	76	15
Myer	69	1
DeliveryHero	68-20	118
Kmart	68	4
Catch of the Day	64	9
Udemy	61	16
Groupon	55	28
Telstra	53	19

Deals

Stores ranked by # of deals posted

Notes: Amazon.com was split into Kindle book deals and Amazon.com deals in 2013. eBay is excluded due to many deals that were from retailer’s eBay stores (e.g. Dick Smith, The Good Guys).

Where did the popular retailers come from?

Australian stores slightly rebounded with a 2% increase. China including Hong Kong increased yet again while the US & UK dropped. The UAE made its debut on the list with Emirates & Etihad both offering flight deals.

Data consists of the top 250 stores ranked by # of front page deals.

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2015

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2014

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2013

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2012

Deals by Country: Retailers that made the front page (Top 250) in 2011

Maps created using Gunmap.

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Most Popular Deals

Most Clicked Deals

Fastest Deals to the Front Page

Fastest Deals to 100 votes

Most popular deals by category

Most clicked deal that didn’t reach front page

Costco Catalogue 3 July – 18 July 2015 (Membership Required) (7946 clicks)

Most neg’d deal

China $649 for a Deposit of 17-Day Tour, Return Airfares, Accommodation & River Cruise @ Travel Asia via Groupon (-16 votes)

Most commented deal

Free AFL Live Pass Subscription – First 10,000 Complete Classic League Commissioners (7571 comments)

Store with the highest pageviews

Deal with the highest pageviews

Competitions

Most Popular Competitions

Most Clicked Competitions

Competition Pageviews: 2,552,877
Comps Posted: 3406 | 2014: 2100
Comps Won: 1768

Biggest Competition Win:

Samsung Series 9 65 inch JS9000 4K SUHD TV (worth $6,999.00)

Forums

Most Popular Forum Threads (pageviews)

Users & Comments

2015 vs. 2014: Published: 860,545 19.8% | Removed: 9,590 1.11% (2014: 1.11%)

Most Comments by a User

Top 10 Positively voted comments

Top 10 Negatively voted comments

Top 10 controversial comments

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