Good timeAugust
BBQs & outdoor
Pre-season: last winter stock moves before spring price resets.
See the timing →Australian retail runs on a calendar. GetMart tracks all of it — 14 categories, 9 sale events — so you buy in the right window at a price you know is fair.
Every category, every month, colour-coded by how likely you are to find a genuine discount. Hover any cell for the reason; tap a row for the full timing page.
Verdicts computed from the retail calendar for August, updated daily.
Pre-season: last winter stock moves before spring price resets.
See the timing →Afterpay Day (late Aug) usually includes major audio brands.
Father’s Day lead-in promos start late August.
See the timing →Typical pricing this month — buy if you need it, no premium to avoid.
Typical pricing this month — buy if you need it, no premium to avoid.
Typical pricing this month — buy if you need it, no premium to avoid.
Researched price bands in AUD. We don’t quote live prices we can’t verify — we show you what a good price looks like, then send you to check today’s.
Countdowns computed from each event’s own date rule. Confirmed dates are marked; predictions say so plainly.
20 Aug 2026 – 23 Aug 2026 · A retailer-wide promo weekend pushed by Afterpay twice a year. Electronics, small appliances and fashion see genuine mid-range dis…
22DAYS AWAY6 Sept 2026 · The fortnight before Father’s Day is one of the two reliable windows for tools, coffee gear and “dad tech” promos outside the Nove…
87DAYS AWAY10 Nov 2026 – 12 Nov 2026 · Australia’s home-grown online sale, usually a 53-hour run in mid-November. Increasingly a warm-up act for Black Friday — good for …
104DAYS AWAY27 Nov 2026 – 30 Nov 2026 · The deepest, widest discounting event on the Australian calendar — it has overtaken Boxing Day for most categories. If you only pl…
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Where does the calendar data come from? Documented retail cycles: fixed-date events computed by rule (Black Friday is always the day after the fourth Thursday of November), plus seasonal patterns like end-of-winter heater clearance. Predicted dates are labelled Predicted until officially announced. Full methodology →