Popular (Not Expired) Deals of the Week

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Fable 3 (360) FREE Digital Copy (Requires Xbox Live Gold) Posted June 10  Gaming

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Free Four Season Sample Pack (Condoms) Posted June 12  Health & Beauty

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[Origin/360/PS3] Battlefield 3: Close Quarters DLC – Free Posted June 11  Gaming Expires June 16

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FREE [Kindle] eBook Box Sets & Others @ Amazon – Updated Posted June 9 Books & Magazines

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$75 Rebate on Electricity Bill for People Who Receive FTB A or B & Resident in NSW Posted June 11 Other Expires June 14

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Hot Topics

Vote for your favourite charity

After many suggestions on charities for OzBargain to donate to, we have culled the number down to 12. Vote for your favourite charity before June 16. We will be donating $13,430 to the top 3 charities.

The real cost of cheap clothes

Last Sunday, 60 minutes aired a segment about cheap clothing manufacturing in Bangladesh. In the aftermath of the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, there is now more focus on where cheap clothes are manufactured. As more cheap clothing deals are being posted on OzBargain, should users be asking more questions?

Free Food and Drinks

• Free coffee is still available at Michel’s.
• 7/11 has jumped on the hot drink bandwagon and is now offering free hot chocolate. As usual, staff at 7/11 are unaware of how to process these promotions properly.
• For Melbourne, QV offers a free lunch to 100 people daily until the end of June.
• For Sydney, you’ll have to wait until the end of July for your free lunch.
• Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane can grab a free brunch from HSBC over the next couple of weeks.
• Perth gets a free burger on Tuesdays from the rest of this month.
• More food deals…

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Inside OzBargain

OzBargain is broken at the moment, and the backend will be restarted very very soon.

We have been experiencing a lot of issues with our database server. The database which is on a shared VPS is too busy to take requests from the web server. We are liaising with the hosting company to solve the issue.

Quick Stats

In the month of May, we had 1,527 reports from users. In May of 2012, we had 1,104. This represents a 28% increase in reports. It’s good that users are utilizing the report link. On the other hand, it seems there is still further automation that can be accomplished.

UI changes , Google +, Front Page Deal email

There were some tweaks to the UI this week. Forum (in forum posts) and Category (in deal posts) are now in secondary level menu in “active” state, and related product category tags are also added to the secondary level (for example “Game Console” in PS4 posts).

We are posting hot deals to Google+ through an automated process. Unfortunately, as there is no direct API, we have been using a 3rd party tool which hasn’t been picking up proper formatting or images.

Lastly, we will shortly be rolling out a feature which will notify users by email when a deal reaches the front page.

Picture of the Week

We had 2 new car deals hit the front page this week for a first in OzBargain history. First, the Fiat 500 for $14,000 and then a Mitsubishi Mirage for $12K.  Seems like new cars are becoming more affordable.

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