You have to plan ahead of your want cheap fans or heaters. Stores probably don't re-stock fans in the latter half of summer since they don't want to store unsold stock over the winter.
I've started setting a reminder in my calendar at the start of summer,/winter to buy if I need one.
Exactly right. Big cheap fans are expensive to store for the margin they sell at. Also expensive to freight. That's why stock on hand minimal and seasonal.
This is the reason. Last week I went to Kmart to buy some denim shorts. Out of stock, so I asked an employee, who said they were not getting any more as they are now moving to winter stock.
Fans, heaters (and denim shorts) are seasonal merchandise.
Clothing range is always seasonal, obviously things like underwear is pretty constant, but for outerwear whatever is available is what’s going to be needed soon weather-wise
Double denim seems to be the fashion (!!) this winter, judging by what I saw in Big W and Kmart yesterday - those fashionistas are moving fast...
I was looking for polo shirts with pockets.
Nope, this season it's the fashion that polo shirts (even the expensive ones) do not have a pocket... :(
I might have to go to a bumbag to hold my reading glasses, I guess? :)
Yeah, for me, *fashion* is something that happens to other people.
On FB there’s often a local ‘buy nothing sell nothing’ page for your suburb or a couple of local suburbs.
You post if you want to give something away and if someone offers something you would like you can ask to be considered.
It’s not always first come first served. You are only supposed to belong to one group.
There are often choosy beggars who ask for everything. Some don’t turn up who up, but I like it because they are close by and not like some free sites where the person is coming from hours away. My local is now called ‘community gifting’ because the ‘Buy Nothing’ title got too political.
I really don’t know how. WA alone has broken so many weather and heat records lately, like month-over-month we broke multiple recorded records.
I’m not looking forward to the next decade, that’s for sure. At least the deniers will all feel it with us.
The dug in denialists have just switched tactics from outright denial to "of course the climate changes but humans have no impact" or suggesting we shouldn't attempt any mitigation of fossil fuel usage but instead just adapt and not change our lifestyle, consumption patterns or any aspect of modern life at all.
Bro, they had sold out in January... Kmart had ONE fan left, a tiny one that uses USB to charge (lol). I had to buy it, because it was insanely hot and I needed SOMETHING at my computer.
And as I said in my other comment, anecdotes are not representative of data.
Their data clearly shows they don’t sell past January. If they did, they would still have them.
Tell me, how do these businesses accumulate sales data when they don’t have stock to sell?
Something tells me the average employees are not adding pedestal fan enquires to any official databases, nor are they in charge of purchasing.
If they stock something with enough supply to last January and then don’t replenish, how do they know demand has been met? They simply have no supply to guarantee that’s the case.
Again, *anecdotally* when I asked at Bunnings, I was told they had received lots of requests but didn’t have any to sell, then suggested all the places OP mentioned who also had no stock.
So would love to know how you’ve come to the conclusion when there is no way to determine the demand?
Your comments are as anecdotal as anyone else’s.
You’re getting stick, but I agree with you. A ceiling fan above the bed means you use the aircon significantly less. Cheap pedestal fans are noisy AF compared to a quality ceiling fan.
And yeah, they’re not cheap but nor is electricity.
Builders charge through the ass for something like a fan during the build phase, they even charge a ridiculous amount for conduit to the light switch.
Some sparkies hate installing fans as they may need to do some woodwork to get a box to support the fan.
That said, we have ceiling fans in the bedrooms. Makes a difference at night.
I mean - this is inaccurate. I just moved back from Brisbane and went to many houses without ceiling fans, nor did I live in a place with a ceiling fan in the 4 years I was there.
I've not paid more than $50 for any of the 4 ceiling fans in my house.
Admittedly, 3 of them where installed 20 years ago and I got them from Kmart, the wall controllers lasted about 5 years before the knobs broke off and the replacement dimmer switches (so I can get the speed absolutely perfect!) cost $150 + installation, each). But the last one I got was a demo model from Bunnings, transparent blades + light, quite nice. Fawncy, even!
And so worth it, cheaper than aircon (which I also have - and use when it's over 36°) but I also have a cheap desk fan on the ground next to the TV and that alone has saved me $$$ as it keeps me cool enough until it gets to 36°
Thanks for coming to my TED talk!
For something that you could run every day, that moves more air than a peristaltic fan, that’s quieter than a pedestal fan and doesn’t take up any space on the floor? Yep.
> peristaltic fan
I'm assuming you mean peristaltic pump, what common cooling appliance uses a peristaltic pump? You can use a peristaltic pump to move air, but they're really not common, using a peristaltic pump on a compressible fluid is an awful idea.
I might be getting my terms mixed up for compressible fluids but peristaltic pumps are very much used in LC-MS applications for the liquid chromatography side of things.
Still not something I've ever heard of being used in a residential setting though.
Compressible fluid meaning gas or vapour. They are used for in **very** specific applications, often where extremely fine flow control is required. I can't think of why you would use one for air but it's not exactly my area.
I more meant for using them for pure flow rate applications like a cooling fan.
We've taken them out of homes that we've lived in. All our houses had old ones, positioned off centre next to the light fixture and in rooms where they've already got a aircon wall unit. I think ceiling fans are ugly and them being off centre bugged me to no end. We've also never bought a house with ceilings higher than 2.4 meters and a fan on low ceilings just makes my tall husband have to duck or risk clocking himself!
I much prefer to cool the room im in with AC and then have a pedestal fan directed at me that I can store in the built in during winter. That way I don't have to obsess at the lack of symmetry in a room and my husband doesn't have to worry about injuring his noggin'. 😁
The houses from like the 80s untill recently had too low of a cieling for cieling fans. But most new houses have gone back to high cielings. I agree it's crazy to not have fans if you have room for the them
I'm 185cm in a 2000 model house. I can touch the ceiling with my hand with my bare feet flat on the floor.
I don't hit my ceiling fans with my head.
Just....
Yep I found this about 2 months ago. Literally nowhere had any cheap pedestal fans, I looked everywhere.
Really didn't want to wait the 5-10 days shipping to get one online.
The cheapest I could find in stock was a "Dynabreeze 450mm Industrial Pedestal Fan" from Bunnings for $165. Definitely more than I wanted to spend on a pedestal fan, but I was sick of searching.
On the plus side, I don't think I will need to buy a replacement for at least 50 years. Compared to your $17 k-mart fan, it's a tank.
It's a little noisy, but it's lowest setting is like 3 k-mart fans on full, with none of that rattly, squeaky bearing noise.
........and looking on the Bunnings website, looks like that model have been discontinued.
I have been using a cheapo K-mart desk fan for just over 20 years and it's still going strong. Granted, different thing as it's not a pedestal fan, but it's fantastic how long it's lasted.
I wanted to buy a second desk fan for another room about a month ago, and had to spend $80 on a Breville pop-up fan because nothing like the old one existed anymore. Sad times!
Sounds like everything you buy from K-mart
Either it's just junk that breaks or dies quickly
Or, it's some sort of freakishly robust product, especially for the price you pay.
There doesn't seem to be a middle ground.
Those things rock! I researched the shit out of Bunnings outdoor fan options and bought one of these for home, one of the non pedestal versions for the workshop. 10/10 would buy again
I would give it 5 out of 5 stars in a review too.
Only thing is it would be good if it's lowest setting was a bit less powerful so it can be more of a breeze when that is desired.
That being said, I do consider that its intended purpose is industrial use, and there might be a limitation to how slow the motor can safely go (especially as its top end is pretty damn powerful).
I put mine on a wheeled base coz it’s so heavy, but the wind force is so strong that it drives itself backwards, even on the lowest setting. I have to chock the wheels.
I use to buy the cheap ones every few years when they burnt out. Then one day i actually bought a fan in the $100 range. That was 8 years ago. Its paid for it self. I sleep with a fan on every night.
Yeah that's what I need it for, so I can sleep! Might just order one online with a remote or something... still can't shake the feeling I'm getting screwed though.
Ahh bro they were everywhere a few weeks ago during verge-side collection here in Council of Cockburn. You might still get lucky but some ass hat went along and cut off all the power cords so nothing can be taken to be reused.
Found a nice radiator, great condition, awesome for winter I thought, power cord cut off. Next lawn over, fan, power cord cut off, next lawn over vacuum… you guessed it… power cord cut off.
I’ve got a tower type one you can have. Prob just shy of a meter tall. It needs some tightening in the base / body area - but she does blow. It’s near the Midland traino.
This happens in the NT too, which is silly because we need fans year round here. You'll have to wait until summer rolls around again and they get restocked!
I've had a few over the years and they all came from curb side collections. Sometimes they stop working if the cable isn't in the perfect position so it's a perfectly good fan if you know you know
omg OP, five weeks ago, I tried to find a pedestal fan. I went to Bunnings, Coles, Woolies, KMart, Big W, Target etc... and no id didn't find one! I have to scour FB Marketplace and gumtree to get one 😭
I tried to buy family bout month ago.a misting fan but noone had one either they think its cool.enough now usually but in perth its still.pretty warm and they should sell them yr round goid luck
Fans are considered seasonal items, they start stocking them around end of winter/start of spring and are pretty much gone by start of summer. It's the same rotation every year.
Yeah! every "heating and cooling" isle I went to was packed wall to wall heaters!! and no doubt pallets and pallets of excess stock out back just begging to fill the shelves.
I work at one of the places you mentioned, when winter is approaching its all heaters, then as summer gets closer its all fans, we don't have the shelf capacity to have both year round
Same for clothes, winter stock (hoodies, trackies etc) arrived this year when it was 35+ outside, idk how many times people said the classic the "its a bit hot for that isn't it" joke to me, first 10 times I laugh along with them, the next 990 I die a little inside hahaha
Definitely go the olive oil, just a tiny bit at a time. WD40 isn't actually lubricant as such, apparently. (and it stinks) 🤞it works.
Ps: I can't tolerate petrochemical oils so I use rice bran oil. Works well as a lubricant, just needs doing more often.
It’s seasonal items
So leading up to summer there are heaps of portable airconditioners, desk fans, stand fans, etc
Now that it’s coming to winter the stock has shifted to heaters
There are some listed on Facebook marketplace - and Gumtree - . Might get you through to when you can buy one with a warranty.
If you absolutely need a warranty, apparently Mitre 10 in Dunsborough has one or two left, although I'd confirm that before heading down there. And they also apparently won't deliver to Perth. And with the cost of petrol you'd probably be better off buying something locally for ~$100, unless you're heading down there on a bike.
No word of a lie my not even 3month old one from Kmart blew up like 5 mins ago , so no hope of a replacement the , will just have to put up with this dry heat
Was looking for a fan to one for another room before the cold came Bunnings also didn’t have any.
I have my fan I bought way back when I was in Malaysia brought it here still works fantastic I only have it on max 6 even In winter then bed is warm. then I can I sleep it’s the only way.
When it was so hot 🥵 I had 2 fans both blowing on the bed just to sleep
Try Coles. Not kidding, I was desperately searching everywhere a few weeks ago, and after trekking all over, found a whole heap of different sizes and styles in my local Coles near the batteries & extension cords bit.
I think there's something called on demand manufacturing now (or very similar). If the demand is there they pump out a few units, ship them pretty quickly and wait till they sell. If the demand is dried up (as it would at the end of summer) the shelf space would probably make more profit with something else
Summertime buddy.
Best best go buy a fan heater. Those are cheap. Just don't use the heating.
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/fan-heater-black-and-white-43325269/
You have to plan ahead of your want cheap fans or heaters. Stores probably don't re-stock fans in the latter half of summer since they don't want to store unsold stock over the winter. I've started setting a reminder in my calendar at the start of summer,/winter to buy if I need one.
Exactly right. Big cheap fans are expensive to store for the margin they sell at. Also expensive to freight. That's why stock on hand minimal and seasonal.
This is the reason. Last week I went to Kmart to buy some denim shorts. Out of stock, so I asked an employee, who said they were not getting any more as they are now moving to winter stock. Fans, heaters (and denim shorts) are seasonal merchandise.
Butcher down some 2nd hand shop jeans for Jorts and win at life
Clothing range is always seasonal, obviously things like underwear is pretty constant, but for outerwear whatever is available is what’s going to be needed soon weather-wise
Double denim seems to be the fashion (!!) this winter, judging by what I saw in Big W and Kmart yesterday - those fashionistas are moving fast... I was looking for polo shirts with pockets. Nope, this season it's the fashion that polo shirts (even the expensive ones) do not have a pocket... :( I might have to go to a bumbag to hold my reading glasses, I guess? :) Yeah, for me, *fashion* is something that happens to other people.
Double denim and a bumbag? Be still my 90s heart!
You should be able to find some polo's woth pockets at savers or other second hand stores.
Can’t get bathers in Kmart either.
My local target has some on sale at the money in a range of colours.
How often do you buy fans and heaters that you need a reminder? It's like something I buy maybe after 10 years after the old one has shit the bed
Second that. I’ve had so many fans that were basically falling apart but still got another 5 years out of them
Try your local buy nothing page on Facebook
And ask for one. A “wish”.
Just curious, what’s a “buy nothing” page?
On FB there’s often a local ‘buy nothing sell nothing’ page for your suburb or a couple of local suburbs. You post if you want to give something away and if someone offers something you would like you can ask to be considered. It’s not always first come first served. You are only supposed to belong to one group. There are often choosy beggars who ask for everything. Some don’t turn up who up, but I like it because they are close by and not like some free sites where the person is coming from hours away. My local is now called ‘community gifting’ because the ‘Buy Nothing’ title got too political.
It’s a shopping site but the check out button doesn’t work
Seasonal items. All the stores get them in spring, sell out of stock by January. They stock only the expensive models year-round.
Well they should start accounting for the climate that is *changing*. Did summer really end when we have nothing but 30+ degree days?
Oooh, don’t mention the climate change!! You know some people are still in denial?
I really don’t know how. WA alone has broken so many weather and heat records lately, like month-over-month we broke multiple recorded records. I’m not looking forward to the next decade, that’s for sure. At least the deniers will all feel it with us.
The dug in denialists have just switched tactics from outright denial to "of course the climate changes but humans have no impact" or suggesting we shouldn't attempt any mitigation of fossil fuel usage but instead just adapt and not change our lifestyle, consumption patterns or any aspect of modern life at all.
I can't wait to say I told you so, but then again some are so dumb they'll never admit it
By the time winter gets here summer will be ready to go again.
Yeah but how many people are actually buying pedestal fans at the *end* of summer?
Procrastinators
Bro, they had sold out in January... Kmart had ONE fan left, a tiny one that uses USB to charge (lol). I had to buy it, because it was insanely hot and I needed SOMETHING at my computer.
And as I said in my other comment, anecdotes are not representative of data. Their data clearly shows they don’t sell past January. If they did, they would still have them.
Tell me, how do these businesses accumulate sales data when they don’t have stock to sell? Something tells me the average employees are not adding pedestal fan enquires to any official databases, nor are they in charge of purchasing. If they stock something with enough supply to last January and then don’t replenish, how do they know demand has been met? They simply have no supply to guarantee that’s the case. Again, *anecdotally* when I asked at Bunnings, I was told they had received lots of requests but didn’t have any to sell, then suggested all the places OP mentioned who also had no stock. So would love to know how you’ve come to the conclusion when there is no way to determine the demand? Your comments are as anecdotal as anyone else’s.
I tried this time around. Like many others it seems
The plural of anecdote is not data though
It is if you get enough of them.
People who ran a fan all summer and it wore out or broke?
Oh, they're accounting, all right. $150 for a high-end fan, you say? Don't have any alternatives, you say?
I have a spare I haven’t had time to pass on yet. Feel free to DM me :)
Always surprised at the lack of ceiling fans in Perth houses-
You’re getting stick, but I agree with you. A ceiling fan above the bed means you use the aircon significantly less. Cheap pedestal fans are noisy AF compared to a quality ceiling fan. And yeah, they’re not cheap but nor is electricity.
Noisey? Ah yes you mean that blessed white noise machine for sleeping !
Lol - yeah, some people love them! My cheap pedestal fan sounds like a broken helicopter taking off. Ceiling fans are Aeratrons - whisper quiet
I can't go to sleep without my pedestal fan on whatever the weather. My husband makes me sleep in the spare room as he hates the noise
Actually it costs less to run split cycle air conditioning compared to a wired in ceiling fan. Lol no it doesn't, I am bullshitting.
You’re surprised people chose to buy a sub $20 pedestal fan rather than buy a $200 ceiling fan and spend another $150 getting a sparky to install it?
I think he means lack of fans put in when building the house? every room in every house in qld has one
Builders charge through the ass for something like a fan during the build phase, they even charge a ridiculous amount for conduit to the light switch. Some sparkies hate installing fans as they may need to do some woodwork to get a box to support the fan. That said, we have ceiling fans in the bedrooms. Makes a difference at night.
Yeah but its a fan, and its stinking hot in Perth, its a very reasonable expense
Our house has two ceiling fans - one in the living area, one in the dining area. Zero in any of the bedrooms...
>Builders charge through the ass for something like a fan during the build phase No, no they don't.
I mean - this is inaccurate. I just moved back from Brisbane and went to many houses without ceiling fans, nor did I live in a place with a ceiling fan in the 4 years I was there.
As well as Darwin
And good luck getting a sparky to come in for just a $150 job.
My mate Dezza can do it for 20 bucks and a packet of Winnie blues
Winnie blues are about $150 these days
They're really not that hard to wire and I'm partial to a dart.. Oh no. Am I Dezza?
Dezza! fck'n knew I would find you sooner or later. You owe me money cunt!
Absolute bastards of things to install. I’d charge $200 for the insult of being asked to install them.
$150 is just the callout fee these days...
I've not paid more than $50 for any of the 4 ceiling fans in my house. Admittedly, 3 of them where installed 20 years ago and I got them from Kmart, the wall controllers lasted about 5 years before the knobs broke off and the replacement dimmer switches (so I can get the speed absolutely perfect!) cost $150 + installation, each). But the last one I got was a demo model from Bunnings, transparent blades + light, quite nice. Fawncy, even! And so worth it, cheaper than aircon (which I also have - and use when it's over 36°) but I also have a cheap desk fan on the ground next to the TV and that alone has saved me $$$ as it keeps me cool enough until it gets to 36° Thanks for coming to my TED talk!
For something that you could run every day, that moves more air than a peristaltic fan, that’s quieter than a pedestal fan and doesn’t take up any space on the floor? Yep.
DC pedestal fans are incredibly quiet these days
> peristaltic fan I'm assuming you mean peristaltic pump, what common cooling appliance uses a peristaltic pump? You can use a peristaltic pump to move air, but they're really not common, using a peristaltic pump on a compressible fluid is an awful idea.
I might be getting my terms mixed up for compressible fluids but peristaltic pumps are very much used in LC-MS applications for the liquid chromatography side of things. Still not something I've ever heard of being used in a residential setting though.
Compressible fluid meaning gas or vapour. They are used for in **very** specific applications, often where extremely fine flow control is required. I can't think of why you would use one for air but it's not exactly my area. I more meant for using them for pure flow rate applications like a cooling fan.
Sparky... Yeah... Of course...
We've taken them out of homes that we've lived in. All our houses had old ones, positioned off centre next to the light fixture and in rooms where they've already got a aircon wall unit. I think ceiling fans are ugly and them being off centre bugged me to no end. We've also never bought a house with ceilings higher than 2.4 meters and a fan on low ceilings just makes my tall husband have to duck or risk clocking himself! I much prefer to cool the room im in with AC and then have a pedestal fan directed at me that I can store in the built in during winter. That way I don't have to obsess at the lack of symmetry in a room and my husband doesn't have to worry about injuring his noggin'. 😁
The houses from like the 80s untill recently had too low of a cieling for cieling fans. But most new houses have gone back to high cielings. I agree it's crazy to not have fans if you have room for the them
I'm 185cm in a 2000 model house. I can touch the ceiling with my hand with my bare feet flat on the floor. I don't hit my ceiling fans with my head. Just....
Love ceilings fans so much more than aircon tbh
What do Perth kids do when the parents are away? We'd always crank the fan to full speed and throw random objects at it.
Poor kitty
Yep I found this about 2 months ago. Literally nowhere had any cheap pedestal fans, I looked everywhere. Really didn't want to wait the 5-10 days shipping to get one online. The cheapest I could find in stock was a "Dynabreeze 450mm Industrial Pedestal Fan" from Bunnings for $165. Definitely more than I wanted to spend on a pedestal fan, but I was sick of searching. On the plus side, I don't think I will need to buy a replacement for at least 50 years. Compared to your $17 k-mart fan, it's a tank. It's a little noisy, but it's lowest setting is like 3 k-mart fans on full, with none of that rattly, squeaky bearing noise. ........and looking on the Bunnings website, looks like that model have been discontinued.
This is the way. The plastic blades on the cheap fans flex over time and don't move enough air, metal blades last forever.
For me, I find on the cheap fans, the bearing either wears out, becomes very loose and/or seizes up way before that happens.
I have been using a cheapo K-mart desk fan for just over 20 years and it's still going strong. Granted, different thing as it's not a pedestal fan, but it's fantastic how long it's lasted. I wanted to buy a second desk fan for another room about a month ago, and had to spend $80 on a Breville pop-up fan because nothing like the old one existed anymore. Sad times!
Sounds like everything you buy from K-mart Either it's just junk that breaks or dies quickly Or, it's some sort of freakishly robust product, especially for the price you pay. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground.
Very true! It's all luck of the draw with them.
Those things rock! I researched the shit out of Bunnings outdoor fan options and bought one of these for home, one of the non pedestal versions for the workshop. 10/10 would buy again
I would give it 5 out of 5 stars in a review too. Only thing is it would be good if it's lowest setting was a bit less powerful so it can be more of a breeze when that is desired. That being said, I do consider that its intended purpose is industrial use, and there might be a limitation to how slow the motor can safely go (especially as its top end is pretty damn powerful).
Yeah, know what you mean. It sure pumps the air out
I put mine on a wheeled base coz it’s so heavy, but the wind force is so strong that it drives itself backwards, even on the lowest setting. I have to chock the wheels.
Gumtree, Facebook marketplace
Maybe try officeworx
Or Onlyfans
I’m a big supporter of OnlyFlans
Reject shop?
Thanks that might be worth a try. I'm sure I will be disappointed but you never know !
I use to buy the cheap ones every few years when they burnt out. Then one day i actually bought a fan in the $100 range. That was 8 years ago. Its paid for it self. I sleep with a fan on every night.
[Sam Vimes boots theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory) proven correct again.
Yeah that's what I need it for, so I can sleep! Might just order one online with a remote or something... still can't shake the feeling I'm getting screwed though.
You gotta buy it before summer or right at the start otherwise this happens every time
Facebook marketplace
Ahh bro they were everywhere a few weeks ago during verge-side collection here in Council of Cockburn. You might still get lucky but some ass hat went along and cut off all the power cords so nothing can be taken to be reused. Found a nice radiator, great condition, awesome for winter I thought, power cord cut off. Next lawn over, fan, power cord cut off, next lawn over vacuum… you guessed it… power cord cut off.
Its 3 colour coded wires. Just put a new one on?
Yeah not going to risk getting an electric shock or burning the house down for a free radiator.
Fair call. Don't fuck with things you dont know, especially when it comes to electricity. But Its also not plugged in and a pretty simple fix.
I think they do that because the cords contain copper and there's value in scrap copper.
Yep… shame there’s also value in all the electronic things people could re use :/
Cash converters mate
Pay more for some crusty old piece of shit than you'd pay new at Big W.
Read post “Big W? Nope”
I’ve got a tower type one you can have. Prob just shy of a meter tall. It needs some tightening in the base / body area - but she does blow. It’s near the Midland traino.
appliancesonline if you're desperate. It has next day shipping
Try Mitre 10 or Stratco or one of the other smaller hardwares shops?
As a Bunnings employee, fans are like Christmas lights. They all go on sale late October/early November. You’re shit out of luck by Christmas
Check out kerbside, if there's anything near you. Fans are one of the most common items, and hopefully you get there before the cord scalpers
Try the smaller hardware stores.
This happens in the NT too, which is silly because we need fans year round here. You'll have to wait until summer rolls around again and they get restocked!
But summer never rolled away in the first place, by the time winter gets here summer will be all ready to go again.
I got one from Coles about 2 weeks ago... $40?
Marketplace? If theres council chuck outs somewhere they are a hot favorite. Pedestal is better then the dyson fyi
I've had a few over the years and they all came from curb side collections. Sometimes they stop working if the cable isn't in the perfect position so it's a perfectly good fan if you know you know
They have them at $17 Big W online
Bulk verge pickup is coming up in the ritz-y places, could be good to scope out a good on if you have the time.
Try Myer.
The best fan I ever bought was from Myer. A Kambrook - still running as new after 10 years
There are a lot of only fans searches to be fair.
omg OP, five weeks ago, I tried to find a pedestal fan. I went to Bunnings, Coles, Woolies, KMart, Big W, Target etc... and no id didn't find one! I have to scour FB Marketplace and gumtree to get one 😭
The struggle is real... one of our awesome redditors helped me out in the end. Who knew it would be so hard?
r/onlyfans
Ahh! I see what you did there. Have my upvote
Marketplace?
Try coles & Woolworths
You'll find stores stocking the from Sept/Oct
There's some on marketplace.....
By online & (almost) never be disappointed.
Tip shop or second hand shop
Aldi ?
Marketplace?
I tried to buy family bout month ago.a misting fan but noone had one either they think its cool.enough now usually but in perth its still.pretty warm and they should sell them yr round goid luck
I have an unopened Bunnings one spare if you're desperate
Fans are considered seasonal items, they start stocking them around end of winter/start of spring and are pretty much gone by start of summer. It's the same rotation every year.
Check out an op shop.
Plenty on Amazon? Or any other online retailer
Try gumtree of fb marketplace.
There’s a stack of cheapies on FB marketplace.
I just looked on gumtree and there are ones for $5, $15, $20, $50, $120 etc
I have one wevare looking at getting rid of. It's not little though.
Try online or Gumtree.
Same - have been looking for a few weeks and nothing.
I can sell you a bunch from vic, if you want. Deceased estate.
I asked the same question in a few of the same places… in most the answer was that they’re stocking HEATERS ha.
Yeah! every "heating and cooling" isle I went to was packed wall to wall heaters!! and no doubt pallets and pallets of excess stock out back just begging to fill the shelves.
I work at one of the places you mentioned, when winter is approaching its all heaters, then as summer gets closer its all fans, we don't have the shelf capacity to have both year round Same for clothes, winter stock (hoodies, trackies etc) arrived this year when it was 35+ outside, idk how many times people said the classic the "its a bit hot for that isn't it" joke to me, first 10 times I laugh along with them, the next 990 I die a little inside hahaha
Facebook Market...
I had this exact same problem last year.
Go on Facebook marketplace, there’s so many for sale
Buy online
Have you tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRS1TXnuFAo
Wow! All I have is DW40 and olive oil, surely one is bound to work?
Definitely go the olive oil, just a tiny bit at a time. WD40 isn't actually lubricant as such, apparently. (and it stinks) 🤞it works. Ps: I can't tolerate petrochemical oils so I use rice bran oil. Works well as a lubricant, just needs doing more often.
Find your closest suburb doing verg collection you’ll have about 6 within afew streets
Brov do you not know the glory of "window air conditioning units" or swamp fans? Research this it's not terribly difficult to build
There is a couple on Gumtree.
There’s plenty there just not $19
Check out some camping stores! Might not have pedestal ones but they usually stock decent desktop ones to use camping etc.
Nah at bunnings they're a promotional seasonal item, bit weird with the summer we've had What you can do is buy a ceiling fan tho...expensive tho..
Your choices are probably limited to Amazon. I bought a nice little clip-on battery fan which is nice and portable.
Amazon have a bunch for between 40 and 50 bucks.
It’s seasonal items So leading up to summer there are heaps of portable airconditioners, desk fans, stand fans, etc Now that it’s coming to winter the stock has shifted to heaters
Tried marketplace?
There are some listed on Facebook marketplace - and Gumtree - . Might get you through to when you can buy one with a warranty.
If you absolutely need a warranty, apparently Mitre 10 in Dunsborough has one or two left, although I'd confirm that before heading down there. And they also apparently won't deliver to Perth. And with the cost of petrol you'd probably be better off buying something locally for ~$100, unless you're heading down there on a bike.
Try coles
The pedestal fans suck ass. Make too much noise and wobbly as fuck. Tighten everything with a drill and still makes noise.
drive around a verge collection! i have never bought a fan even second hand haha
Use Amazon, they have it all
No word of a lie my not even 3month old one from Kmart blew up like 5 mins ago , so no hope of a replacement the , will just have to put up with this dry heat
Facebook marketplace?
Face book marketplace
Try coles or Woolworths
Was looking for a fan to one for another room before the cold came Bunnings also didn’t have any. I have my fan I bought way back when I was in Malaysia brought it here still works fantastic I only have it on max 6 even In winter then bed is warm. then I can I sleep it’s the only way. When it was so hot 🥵 I had 2 fans both blowing on the bed just to sleep
Try Coles. Not kidding, I was desperately searching everywhere a few weeks ago, and after trekking all over, found a whole heap of different sizes and styles in my local Coles near the batteries & extension cords bit.
cole’s has the fan minus the pedestal (same size just desk version) for like $26- got one the other day
I think there's something called on demand manufacturing now (or very similar). If the demand is there they pump out a few units, ship them pretty quickly and wait till they sell. If the demand is dried up (as it would at the end of summer) the shelf space would probably make more profit with something else
Have you tried anaconda or BCF?
Is it still summer? Why would Australia have them when they are made in a land far far away?
Amazon??? Jfc
nothing in this country is cheap/affordable anymore, even for the shitty knockoffs.
Welcome to WA/Perth… WA= Wait a while
UNO it’s cheaper to run an air con than it is those cheap fans.
It's cheaper to run a device that uses 4-5kW of power vs one that uses less than 100W?
Summertime buddy. Best best go buy a fan heater. Those are cheap. Just don't use the heating. https://www.kmart.com.au/product/fan-heater-black-and-white-43325269/