Almost every deal site works the same way. A retailer publishes a discount, the site republishes it, and the number in the strikethrough goes unchecked.
That number is where the whole thing falls apart. A television listed at $899, down from $1,299, sounds like a $400 saving. It usually is not. In a lot of cases that $1,299 was a launch price nobody paid, held just long enough for the sale price to have something to sit against. Without a record of what the product traded at week to week, you have no way of telling the difference. Neither does the site telling you to buy it.
So we keep the record ourselves. Every product on OzSavers has a price history we build one row at a time, and we only write a row when the number actually moves. If a price sat at $649 for six weeks, that is six weeks of nothing in our history rather than six weeks of noise. When it drops to $529, that is a real event, and we can tell you exactly where it sits against the last twelve months.
A discount is a claim. A price history is evidence. Only one of those survives being checked.
Three things come out of that record: what an item truly costs you today, what it has cost before, and whether right now is a moment worth acting on. Everything else on this site is in service of those three answers.
Who runs OzSavers
I spent about a decade on the network side of affiliate marketing. That means I sat between retailers and the sites that promote them, and I watched promotions get built long before any shopper ever saw one.
The part that stays with you is the order of operations. A brand decides what margin it can live with, sets the sale price, then works backwards to a reference price that makes the discount read well. The percentage on the banner is a marketing output, not a measurement. Once you have watched that happen a few hundred times you stop trusting anything with a line through it.
I am Australian. I hold no loyalty to any US retailer, no relationship to protect, and nothing to lose by telling you that a heavily promoted sale is not worth your money. That distance is most of the reason this site exists. The rest of it is that I wanted a price history I could trust before spending $2,000 on a television, could not find one covering the brands I cared about, and decided to build it.
How we work out the true price
The advertised price is rarely the price. True Price is our name for the number you actually part with, and it is built from four inputs rather than one.
Two of those four are live today and two are still being built. We would rather say that than imply a finished calculator. When a layer is not ready, the site does not pretend otherwise.
How the Deal Score is calculated
Deal Score runs from 0 to 100 and answers one question: relative to this product's own history, is now a good moment. It is a formula rather than an opinion, and these are the exact weights.
Commission rate is not on that list and never will be. What a retailer pays us has no path into the score.
A score is only as good as the history behind it, so we gate it. Under fourteen days of history no score appears at all, only a line telling you how long we have been watching. Between fourteen and ninety days it is marked provisional. Past ninety days it stands on its own. Publishing a confident number on one day of data would be the easiest thing in the world, and it would be worth nothing.
How often prices are checked
Stale prices are worse than no prices. A comparison site showing yesterday's number is not saving you anything, it is setting you up for a surprise at checkout.
That third rule costs us listings. Products we cannot reach on a schedule quietly demote themselves, which is exactly the pressure we want pointed at ourselves rather than at you.
What we cover
The remit is consumer tech and the things bought alongside it. A category goes live when we have enough tracked products to say something useful about it, not when the page is finished.
As of September 2026 we track 216 products, 145 of them in stock right now. Hisense covers televisions, laser projectors, soundbars and appliances through Best Buy. Belkin covers charging and accessories. AOSU covers security cameras and video doorbells. New brands go on roughly every week, and the honest number is always on the homepage rather than rounded up into a headline.
How OzSavers makes money
Affiliate commission. When you click through to a retailer from here and buy something, that retailer or brand pays us a percentage of the sale.
It never changes what you pay. The price at checkout is identical whether you arrived through us, through a search result, or by typing the address in yourself. Commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your total.
The honest version of this matters more than a disclaimer at the bottom of a page, so here is the whole picture. We are paid on outcomes, which means we make more money when you buy more things. That is a real conflict of interest and pretending otherwise would be insulting. We handle it structurally rather than with promises: commission rate is not an input to the Deal Score, we do not sell placement, and no brand has ever paid to appear on a page or to move up one. If you read a recommendation here, the price history is the reason it exists.
The full affiliate disclosure covers the specifics, including which networks and programs we work through.
Five things we will never do
Built into the site rather than written on it.
- NeverInvent a reference price. If we did not record the higher price ourselves, we do not show a saving against it.
- NeverShow a price we have not verified in 36 hours. A listing we cannot check loses its emphasis rather than going stale in public.
- NeverConvert currency for you. Prices appear in the currency of the store selling the item, because a converted number is a number you cannot actually pay.
- NeverPublish a Deal Score we cannot back. Under fourteen days of history there is no score, only the date we started watching.
- NeverTake payment for position. No sponsored slots, no paid rankings, no brand with editorial input.
What comes next
The catalogue is the foundation. What sits on top of it is the reason to come back.
Price drop alerts
Set a target on any tracked product and get an email when it lands. No app, no account beyond an address.
A release calendar worth reading
When a new console, television lineup or flagship phone is announced, the interesting question is not what it does. It is what happens to the price of the model it replaces, and how long you should wait. That is a pattern with real history behind it, and we intend to publish it.
Buying guides built on our own data
Not roundups of whatever pays best. Guides that state what a class of product has actually sold for over the past year, what a fair price looks like today, and which retailer has held up on returns and delivery.
A browser extension
Price history and True Price where you already are, on the retailer's own product page, at the moment you are deciding.
Common questions
What is OzSavers?
OzSavers is a price tracking and deal verification site for tech and electronics sold in the United States. It records the price history of individual products, calculates the real cost after shipping and stacked discounts, and scores whether a current price is genuinely low against that product's own record.
Who runs OzSavers?
OzSavers is run by Ryan, an Australian who spent roughly ten years working on the network side of affiliate marketing, sitting between retailers and publishers. The site is independent and is not owned by a retailer, a brand or a media group.
How does OzSavers make money?
Through affiliate commission. Retailers and brands pay OzSavers a percentage when a visitor clicks an outbound link and buys. Commission is paid out of the retailer's margin and does not change the price at checkout. OzSavers does not sell placement and does not use commission rate as an input to its Deal Score.
Does buying through OzSavers cost more?
No. The checkout price is identical whether you arrive through OzSavers, a search engine, or by going to the retailer directly.
How often does OzSavers update prices?
Every six hours for every product that can be checked automatically. A price history row is only written when the price or stock status actually changes. Any listing that misses three consecutive checks, roughly 36 hours, loses its price emphasis and drops out of the savings row until it refreshes.
What is a True Price?
True Price is the total you actually pay, built from the listed price plus shipping, minus any coupon that applies and any credit card category bonus you can stack. Listed price and shipping are live today. Coupon stacking and card multipliers are still being built.
How is the OzSavers Deal Score calculated?
Deal Score runs from 0 to 100 and weighs five signals: distance from the 12 month low at 40 percent, distance from the 30 day median at 25 percent, retailer trust at 15 percent, stack availability at 10 percent, and recency of the price drop at 10 percent. No score is shown until a product has fourteen days of tracked history.
Which brands and retailers does OzSavers cover?
As of September 2026 OzSavers tracks 216 products, 145 in stock. Hisense televisions, laser projectors, soundbars and appliances are covered through Best Buy. AOSU covers security cameras and video doorbells. Belkin covers charging and accessories. New brands are added roughly weekly, with computing, gaming and audio next.
Are OzSavers prices in US dollars?
Prices appear in the currency of the store selling the item and are never converted. Most of the catalogue is US dollars. The Belkin range is priced in Australian dollars because it is sold by Belkin Australia, and the site labels it that way rather than showing a converted figure you cannot pay.
Is OzSavers a cashback site?
No. Cashback sites pay you a share of their commission after a purchase and make their money on volume. OzSavers does not pay cashback. It tracks prices and reports whether the current one is worth acting on, which is a different job.