November is a great time to be a shopper: with Black Friday coming up at the end of the month and Click Frenzy just a day away, there's plenty of opportunities to save a packet (or two) on consumer electronics – be it on that OLED TV you've been eyeing or that smart home setup you've been planning.
However, there's another, relatively new, sale in town that offers some significant discounts on major investments like laptops.
Kicking off in China in the early '90s, Singles' Day has now well and truly evolved and spread into a major online shopping event in the Asia Pacific region. Yep, that means Aussies will be able to save big on tech too.
As the name suggests, the holiday is to celebrate being single, and so the date 11/11 was picked (because of all the ones, you see).
Retailers and brands such as Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Dell and plenty more are all involved in the Aussie version of the sale, offering laptops, gaming consoles, headphones and other tech at bargain prices.
Here at TechRadar, we're keeping an eye on all these online stores to see what the best Singles' Day offers on gadgets and gizmos are, with some offers having jumped the gun and gone live last week. We've added fresh ones as well, all of them handpicked so you get to see only the juiciest morsels with the best price tags.
Best Singles' Day offers in Australia
What to expect from Singles' Day sales
While we've seen a few killer deals go live already (if you're into laptops and computing kit, in particular), the real cream of the crop will land much closer to November 11 itself (11/11). With that said, these discounts could go live at different points throughout the day, and some retailers will almost certainly start their sales on Saturday November 9.
We haven't got any further specifics from other retailers, but we'll keep this page updated with any worthwhile deals we come across.
- Looking for something else? Here's the best tech deals in Australia in the meantime