I posted this new competition at OzBargain yesterday. Basically this is what happened. Monday evening I received an email from Chang at Yogee, a Sydney based online toys & games store and a regular at OzBargain. OzBargain has been bringing many new business to him so he wants to thank OzBargain by offering additional prizes […]

No one asked for it but I have just implemented a small feature on OzBargain that I think would be very useful for store owners — full RSS feed on deals and comments posted on OzBargain, against the domain name of your store. I think it will be very valuable for store owners/representatives to keep […]

Every now and then someone would want sell something on OzBargain. I have been hesitated to create a market place on OzBargain, because Work work work! To have a “proper” market place for people to trade and swap, I need to do more coding. But I am still struggling to squeeze time to implement features […]

Just saw that both OzBargain and MoneyBackCo have been featured on Sydney Morning Herald, under the Money Section — A click away from bargain bliss. Coupons OzBargain (www.ozbargain.com.au) started as the personal blog of Scott Yang in 2005 and has grown into a community of people who post discount coupons found online and in print. […]

Back in May this year ozpete raised an issue in the forums regarding to on-going deals, as some deals/coupons don’t really expire and are still very useful after a year or two. However due to the design of OzBargain where new items push the older ones away from the front page, those older deals somehow […]

It has been more than a month since my previous post — yes I know that I have been slack blogging here. Well, there are quite a few reasons — I have been sick (seriously ill with virus infection), and busy, and generally unmotivated. Anyway. It has been a hiatus but I am back now! […]

Thanks to shosho who pointed out in this thread, OzBargain has just been named as Website Of The Week by Anthill, an magazine for the small business and start ups. The average bargain is usually only valid for a few days, but there are enough posted on OzBargain every day to keep you coming back. […]

I am on holidays on the Gold Coast this week so you probably won’t see me much on OzBargain. I am still trying to check out the site every now and then just in case there’s a riot happening :) This evening I actually managed to create a Facebook Business Page for OzBargain. So now […]

OzBargain has just received its very first legal threat! This is what happened. Yesterday (23 April) at around mid-day I received an email from a “Senior Project Administrator” of a construction company (that shall remain nameless for now). The subject says “Your posters on our <construction site>” (somewhere in Sydney CBD). To paraphrase the email […]

A new feature that has been added to OzBargain over the last couple of days — Store Representatives. Basically there are two types of people posting on OzBargain — Consumers/bargain hunters/cheapos who have found a bargain. Merchants/shop owners/service providers who want to promote their own products or services. In order for us to correctly identify […]

TechCrunch reports Alexa has overhauled its ranking system to use more sources than just its toolbars. There has been big shifts in the Blogosphere where many webmaster-centric blogs suffer a dip. On the other hand, many sites that are not Internet/web design-related actually get a boost in Alexa ranking. For example yesterday OzBargain was around […]

AdToll is a relatively new ad brokering/ad serving company, where website publishers can rent out advertising spaces, and advertisers can rent them for a fixed weekly price. I was interested in them because (1) I run websites with advertisement space that I would like to rent out (2) they are Australian based start up, based […]

Okay. Enough is enough. I have spent 15-30 minutes today fixing up issues that shouldn’t had been there in the first place. Why do people keep on registering an user account on OzBargain, thinking that they are actually registering an account on the merchant’s site?! Ain’t that big OzBargain at the top-left corner obvious enough?! […]

I have just saw the new Feedburner stats on the number of subscribers at OzBargain — 1,000!!! The means for every single day, there are 1,000 individuals checking out the latest deals posted at OzBargain via either an online RSS reader (Google Reader, Bloglines, etc), an offline RSS reader (FeedDemon or Firefox’s own RSS bookmarks), […]

OzBargain has long been able to list deals from a specific domain — just add the domain name after http://www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/! For example: Deals Direct deals www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/dealsdirect.com.au OO.com.au deals www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/oo.com.au ShoppingSquare deals www.ozbargain.com.au/deals/shoppingsquare.com.au Moreover, you can append /feed at the end of URL to get the RSS feed for all the deals from that particular domain! […]