The last big sales period has arrived for Australia, as we dive in and hand-pick what’s worth checking out in the 2025 Boxing Day sales.
Another sales day is upon us, and just like Black Friday before it, Australians are being told there’s more they can save money on, as the year’s regular and traditional day of savings arrives.
Yes, Boxing Day is here, and with it, sales of gear from this calendar year, ahead of the arrival of next year in around a week’s time.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Australians are expected to spend big on the Boxing Day sales, with projections around the 1.6 billion dollar mark, a spend that tells you just how in demand products and gadgets and gear really are.
Retailers are responding the way you could expect them to, with plenty of sales being reported on sites such as OzBargain, and no doubt many others across the country, not to mention sites for each respective retailer.
At Pickr, we’ve done our own searches for Boxing Day sales, much as we had for our 2025 Black Friday sales guide, and here are some of our own picks, so to speak.
Phones
While a new world of mobile phones is only a month or three away, either from CES in January or Mobile World Congress in March (not to mention the random events in between), a new-ish phone could be a possibility at the end of year sales depending on what you’re looking for.
That won’t likely include an iPhone, as major discounts on Apple phones is typically unlikely during Boxing Day sales. However, if you’re after an Android, you can typically nab great deals.
Take one of our favourite 2024 phones, the Motorola Razr 50 Ultra foldable, a handset that goes half price during the 2025 Boxing Day sales. This premium 2024 foldable will drop from $1699 to $849, and is still great, with that price tag found at JB HiFi, among others.
The same retailer is also running discounts on Google Pixel models, with the 2024 Pixel 8a dropping $400 down to $547, and this year’s excellent Pixel 10 standard seeing almost $200 cut from its retail price, down to $899.
Harvey Norman also has a Pixel for less, with 2023’s Pixel 8 Pro down to $598 from well over $1500 when it launched. While Harvey Norman says you’re saving $1100, it’s worth noting the 8 Pro hasn’t been flagship for two generations — this year, the flagship models are the Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold — so you’re more saving on a perfectly great older phone, but an older phone all the same.
There’s simply no way a Pixel 8 Pro would have held its $1699 price tag over the past few years, and is more likely to max out at a thousand dollars new in the years since.
Meanwhile, if what you want is a newer mobile, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is also down in price at the same retailer, cutting nearly $500 from tag and starting from $1698, with the S26 Ultra expected to launch in late January.
Likewise, Xiaomi’s recent arrival in Australia also sees some price shifts, with the 15T and 15T Pro both down in price for Boxing Day.
Alternatively, if you have to have an iPhone, or if you’re buying for a teen who only wants an iPhone, you may want to turn to Officeworks, which is offering a few year old iPhone 13 standard with two cameras model for $697, or even this year’s iPhone 16e with one camera for $100 less at $897. Apple’s iPhone 16e is expected to be replaced in 2026 with the upcoming 17e.
Headphones
Next up is a series of devices you can connect to phones, or really anything else, with the personal audio world of headphones. Whether exploring truly wireless audio or even headphones with noise cancellation on-board, there are a bunch of options out there, and some of them even see price drops for the Boxing Day sales.
JB HiFi seems to be where most of it is happening, at least from our searches, though Big W and Bing Lee both picked up as decent possibilities in the Boxing Day sales.
That starts with the Beats Studio Pro, priced at nearly half price and offering what are essentially an Apple-made pair of noise cancelling cans for $299, while JB also touts the Sennheiser Momentum 4 for almost half-off, priced at $329 for this pair, too.
Both models were released in 2023, but headphones don’t typically see one year cycles, often seeing replacements at two or three years in. That tells you both the Beats and Sennheiser models will possibly get replaced in 2026, but are still solid options for the Boxing Day 2025 sales.
If $300 is too rich for noise cancellation, you may want to consider Skullcandy’s Method 360, priced at half off at JB, down to $95 for the normally near-$200 pair of ANC earbuds.
Alternatively, Apple’s noise cancelling equivalent in the excellent AirPods 4 with ANC are down $20 to $259 at Big W, or over in the Android world, Bing Lee is touting the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro for $249 down from $399 for Android owners.
Tablets and laptops
If you were thinking of buying a computer of some kind ahead of the next year — or had skipped it all year in the lead-up to the Boxing Day sales — there are definite option this year, and it may even be somewhat prescient.
We already know that AI is driving up the cost of memory and storage components in computing devices, which may have a run-on effect next year and cause computers to become more expensive in 2026. That could mean a computer or tablet purchase now is a better value proposition than one next year simply because you won’t be paying for the new cost of hardware driven up by AI data centre demands.
And aside for that, there are some good deals running on modern computers, such as with Snapdragon-based laptops made for proper portability.
This year’s HP Omnibook 5 is one of them, a model we reviewed in its 14 inch variation for $1599 at retail. On sale, the 14 inch model is below $1000 at Harvey Norman, which would improve the value of the laptop considerably.
Acer also has comparative deals, with its Snapdragon-based Aspire 14 priced at $798 at the same retailer, while Bing Lee offers the 14 inch version of the Acer Swift 16 we checked out earlier for nearly $300 less than its original price.
We’ve also seen a few more powerful laptops, such as the gaming-focused Lenovo Legion 5 15 inch machine with an Nvidia RTX 5060 inside for under $2K, while Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7 14 inch is down around $500 at the same retailer, Harvey Norman. Just be aware that this Yoga Slim 7 isn’t quite the same as the Slim 7i Aura model we reviewed from this year.
Over in tablets, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra is on sale, the 14 inch super-sized tablet basically dropping from $2K to just over $1K in the process. It’s worth noting this model is technically the 2024 tablet, not the 2025 Tab S11 variations, but other than that, fairly similar. We’ve seen this one at JB HiFi, and it will likely be found in other places, too.
Vacuums and home cleaning
Cleaning the home gets a little less expensive for the Boxing Day sales, as quite a few models are on sale, particularly in robotic vacuums.
The sales seem to apply to the big ones, such as the Roborock Qrevo Edge, which drops from $2799 to $1499, while the Mova Z50 is half price from $2999 to $1488.
More manual cleaning (but still semi-automated) sees a discount, with Tineco’s Floor One S7 Stretch Steam down $300 from $1199 to $899.
TVs and projectors
If the sales are sizeable on robotic vacuums, some of the savings are absolutely staggering on TVs and projectors, as one of the biggest ticket items gets big price drops for Boxing Day.
This is usually the last major sale ahead of the regular TV changeover season from February to April, which is just before the new batch of TV models of the year typically arrive in the following year.
A search around Australian technology retailers has shown they’re all largely offering similar gear, with much of the savings on big screens.
For instance, Samsung’s 85 inch QN70F Neo QLED 4K Mini-LED screen is down $777 to $2377 at JB, while the Hisense take on an 85 inch in the Q6QAU QLED is $1291 down from $2199 at The Good Guys. Retailers also have the 75 inch models for much less, priced from $819.
If you want to go bigger but can go without Mini-LED technologies, Samsung’s 4K DU range — basically a 4K LCD without Mini-LED backlighting or quantum dot colour honing crystals — is $2998 down nearly $2000. That’s basically a TV sized like some walls, measuring nearly 2.5 metres diagonally.
Projectors are also up there, with the Hisense PX3 4K laser projector down from nearly $4K to just under $3K, while retailers are pricing the Laser 720p gaming projector for under $100 for Boxing Day this year.
Not every sale is a “sale”
It’s worth being aware that just because a retailer advertises a product as a sale, that doesn’t men it is. Some sales are just ticketed as such, and marketed in the hopes that a bright colour will convince you to spend money.
In fact, some products marked as on sale with hefty discounts might actually be from two or three years ago, making their price drops seem massive on the surface, but in actuality being largely expected.
You wouldn’t pay top dollar for a phone from three years ago, so a Pixel 8 Pro (such as the one Harvey Norman has on offer in this list) and its original $1699 price isn’t quite as legitimate today. A lower price is therefore expected on some items due to age, rather than simply trusting that its original price would naturally hold over a period of two or three years, when it simply wouldn’t.
But that won’t necessarily stop retailers from telling you it’s a bargain by showcasing the heavy discount, and hoping you take it at face value.
Instead of blindly trusting, what you can do is search for the original cost by looking for the product and its “RRP” online, giving you a gauge of how much retailers were advised it should normally cost.
And while you’re doing that search, check a product’s reviews to find out whether it’s worth buying in the first place.
Simply finding something on sale isn’t a sign whether something is good or not, while reviews can paint a better picture of something’s worth.
