Kogan running 'clone' website selling same products at higher prices (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 hours ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[-] budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They do this for at least half a dozen different domains, including some brand names that they have bought off others including Dick Smith, Matt Blatt, etc. They're all the same website with different logos and styling on the elements, the exact same layout and code. They have most of the same stuff with pricing sometimes the same and sometimes different for marketing reasons.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 hour ago

I'd really like to see that practice banned. It gives the illusion of competition where there is none. Slapping a logo on a whitelabelled product doesn't magically make it competition.

[-] eremophila@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

Very old news, and definitely not restricted to just kogan.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

I have a experienced 2 kogan TVs. One had an extremely splotchy backlight. The other one crashes if you leave wake-on-wifi enabled, which prevents the TV turning on at all. Just really good quality shit /s.

[-] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Somehow I lucked out with mine (bought 2021), dumb TV, no wifi, just a TV. Works fine

Not to say Kogan is good, though

this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026

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