Hello

I purchased earings for my wife for Christmas following a “bargain” on your website for Cudo.com.au

The fact is after 1 month, the item is still not received. Apparently I am not the only customer to whom that happened, a few other people are in the same situation.

So I strongly suggest that you take care with the ads on your website as your responsibility could be involved too.

Emphasis mine. Probably referred to this offer here and this forum discussion. With most inquiries I usually just reply saying that OzBargain is just an online community for shoppers to discuss bargains, and they should really contact the merchants directly (in this case, Cudo.com.au).

However, as deal postings can sometimes be seen as “ads on your website” (although that was just one community member sharing a deal he/she found interesting), thus the visitor concluded that “OzBargain is in some way responsible”. IANAL but can that really be the case? “Common sense” says no, especially over a deal that wasn’t well received in the first place. However we live in a land that often defies common sense…

• It lists out all the deals, and usually only the last 10 deals posted (where we get ~50 deals posted a day).
• Only deals, and OzBargain is more than just a list of deals.
• Not much you can do with turning the look and feel.

So for the last couple of months we have been developing our own in-house email newsletter solution, which moocher announced in August. If you do not have an account on OzBargain (what?!!!), you can still sign up to the new OzBargain newsletter from the front page — the sign up box is on the right hand side under Subscribe to Our Daily Newsletter. However if you are a logged in user, you can go to Settings – newsletter for more fine tuning.

You get:

• Top deals posted over the last 24 hours.
• New forum posts
• New comments in your commented posts (registered users only)
• Deal reminders (registered user only)

Delivery started at 7AM Sydney time every morning so you can check out some of the best deals before work :)

It is still not as flexible and useful as our Facebook page yet. Moreover Google+ has been pretty vacuum currently — great place to post something guaranteeing no one is going to see it. But anyway, I am a Google fanboi so here we have it, and we’ll figure out what to do with it… Later.

Here is SmartCompany’s list of Australia’s best independent online-only retailers in alphabetical order. Our list includes market leaders, established players and some rising stars. But all are setting the pace in a dynamic sector.

Some are well-known names on OzBargain — CatchOfTheDay, DealsDirect, Kogan, etc. Some have never been listed — OKme.com.au?

I LOVE Redroom DVD, especially for their free Tuesday deals (where you usually can get their coupon codes on OzBargain). One of their kiosk machine is within 10 minutes of walking distance from my place, and 1 DVD is probably the maximum I can watch these days due to general busyness.

It did make me wonder sometimes, that how Redroom DVD can be sustainable with some many cheapskates like me. Maybe I have overestimate the percentage of cheapskates in Australia (which means a lot of work to do here at OzBargain to convert them :) Or maybe they do make money from those at OzBargain, sometimes…

You see. I have been using Redroom DVD for quite a few times now and have never paid them a cent (they do have my credit card details)… Except yesterday. Being a cheapskate does not mean you are immune from forgetfulness. Borrowed The Social Network on Tuesday (great movie by the way), intended to return it on the next day, but only remembered at 7:15PM on Wednesday!

So there you go — $2.99 to Redroom DVD for being forgetful. Well worth it though for how much I have enjoyed their deals so far.

I won’t call it a completely new themes though — anything between the header and the footer pretty much stayed the same. Hopefully that will give OzBargain a fresh image in preparation of up-coming Christmas shopping season.

I have probably only spent my own money on Apple hardware once — it was 2003 and I rode on the hype of MacOS X and bought an iBook G3. However I still remembered playing all the computer games and doing BASIC programming on an Apple ][ back in the 80′s. What this guy did has influenced you and me and whoever is using a computing device today, regardless whether it’s an Apple or not.

Rest in Peace, Mr. SPJ