Australia's best deals, in a 10-minute briefing 👋
OzBargain is Australia's best deal community — but hundreds of posts a day, jargon and fine print make it hard to keep up. We read them for you, work out the real numbers and score every deal, so twice a day you know which deals are worth doing, how long they take and what the catches are.
- Scanned twice a dayAt 10:00 and 20:00 Sydney time we go through hundreds of OzBargain posts, so you only see the ones worth it.
- Savings, done properlyReal cash savings are counted separately from points, trade-ins and other conditional value. No inflated numbers.
- Catches up frontCredit checks, auto-renewals, targeted offers, state limits — you know before you start.
- Only what you can doTell us your state and memberships and we'll filter out what you can't use.
Where the data comes from and how it's checked
DealRadar AU isn't a merchant and doesn't sell anything — every deal links back to its original post.
- Source
- All deals come from public posts on OzBargain (ozbargain.com.au), Australia's bargain-hunting community. Every deal page links to the original post; votes and comment counts come from there too.
- AI summaries
- AI reads each post and writes the titles, steps and conditions in Chinese and English, and pulls out prices and cashback amounts. Numbers that aren't in the post are left blank, and automated checks catch common mistakes in dates, amounts and codes.
- Batch review
- Before each batch goes live, a separate AI reviewer checks the whole batch against the original posts. Every problem it finds is corrected, removed or re-analysed, and the batch only goes live once it passes. A person can overrule it at any time.
- Your reports
- When enough people report a deal has ended, we check it before taking it down. Deals with suspect amounts are kept out of rankings and savings totals.
- Updates
- A new batch every day at 10:00 and 20:00 Sydney time, with new posts collected every hour in between.
- Contact
- Wrong amounts, expired deals, partnerships or anything else — reach us through the Feedback page (you can leave your contact details). We read every message.
How the Deal Score works
Every deal is scored on 6 parts that add up, with a separate penalty for risks. The rules are public — we don't take money from merchants and there's no paid ranking.
- Value30 pts
How much you save: estimated saving (for purchases, weighted by how likely you really need it) + 60% of non-cash value, on a log scale capped at $500.
- Efficiency20 pts
Saving per hour, capped at $300/hour. Earning $10 in 5 minutes beats $20 in 2 hours.
- Discount15 pts
Discount rate; 50% off or free scores full marks. Measured against the usual market price, not an inflated RRP.
- Community15 pts
OzBargain net votes × approval. Community votes are the best signal for spotting fake deals.
- Timing10 pts
Lowest price confirmed by our price records +5 (just claimed in the post +3), ending within 48h +3, posted in the last 12h +2.
- Reach10 pts
Open to everyone 10, most people 8, specific groups 4, targeted offers 3; residents / PR only lose extra points.
Risk penalty (up to −15): high risk −6 (e.g. credit check), medium −2.5 (annual fee, auto-renewal, high minimum spend), low −0.5.
Effort (1–5)
Adds up steps, conditions and time, then rounds: very easy / easy / moderate / hard / expert
- Base
- 1
- 4+ steps
- +0.5
- New account / ID check
- +0.5 each
- Credit check
- +1.5
- Spend ≥ $500 / other spend
- +1 / +0.25
- In store
- +0.5
- Referral / targeted / auto-renew
- +0.25 each
- Takes ≥ 60 / ≥ 30 min
- +1 / +0.5
Today's deal index (0–100)
Answers “is today worth my time?”. Three parts added together:
- Deal quality, 50 pts: average Deal Score of the top 10; 55 scores 0 and 85 scores full marks
- Good deals, 25 pts: number of deals scoring 70+; 20 deals scores full marks
- Total savings, 25 pts: estimated value of today's top 10; $3,000 scores full marks (deals with suspect amounts excluded)
85+ bumper · 70+ great · 55+ good · 40+ average · below that, quiet
The 7 steps every deal goes through
Runs daily at 10:00 and 20:00 Sydney time, with new posts collected every hour in between.
- 1Collect
OzBargain front page, new deals and key categories; new posts every hour
- 2Clean up
Merchant, prices and codes parsed; expired and duplicate posts removed
- 3Summarise
AI writes the title, steps and conditions and drops irrelevant posts
- 4Categorise
Rules decide the category: groceries, banking, mobile…
- 5Score
Break down the amounts, check price history, calculate the Deal Score
- 6Flag catches
Credit checks, auto-renewals and targeted offers flagged up front
- 7Rank
Today's top 10, the deal index, ending soon
- This batch
- 2026-10-05 10:00
- Next update
- 10-06 10:00
- Collected / kept
- 150 / 486
- New analyses / reused
- 49 / 67
Already live
- Real savings, with cash savings and conditional value kept separate
- Checks whether you can take part by state, visa status, memberships and banks
- Personal profile and “For you” recommendations
- Save, share and report back on deals
- Weekly summary
- Lowest-price checks from our own price records
Coming next
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