Where to buy an ice maker in Australia

We could source 58 countertop listings across 9 Australian retailers. Most of them sell the same handful of machines, so the interesting difference is not the range: it is whether you can walk in and look at one, and who you are actually buying from.

Listings checked 9 September 2026

Every retailer, by how much they list

"With a confirmed price" is lower than the listing count at several retailers because some sites block automated access. Where we could not read a price from a citable source we left it blank rather than estimating, so a low number here reflects our access, not the retailer's transparency.

The distinction that actually matters

Australian ice maker retail splits three ways, and the split predicts your experience far better than the brand on the box does.

• House brand, in store. Kmart and Target, both selling the same Anko unit. You can look at it, carry it home, and take it back over a counter. See Kmart ice makers.
• Appliance retailers. Harvey Norman, The Good Guys, House, Appliances Online and Kitchen Warehouse. Deeper and more expensive ranges, real specification sheets, and where the genuinely premium machines live. See Harvey Norman and The Good Guys.
• Marketplace platforms. Big W, Kogan, Bunnings and Amazon AU list stock from third-party sellers who ship direct. Often the cheapest, and the seller rather than the platform is who you deal with afterwards. See Big W and Kogan.

That third group is larger than it looks. A number of listings at retailers you would think of as ordinary shops are marketplace stock, and the listing does not always make it obvious. Checking who the seller is before ordering takes a moment and decides who is responsible if the compressor dies.

Buying on price

The same machine genuinely does sell for different amounts at different shops, and the gaps are not trivial: the widest we found on an identical unit was on a fridge rather than a bench machine, at several hundred dollars between two retailers on the same day. That comparison is on the fridges page. Identical-unit tracking is in the price register, which is the only place a retailer comparison tells you anything, because comparing a shop's cheapest machine against another shop's dearest tells you nothing at all.

One caution on delivery. Marketplace listings frequently charge a postcode-based delivery fee that is not in the headline price, and on a machine costing under a hundred dollars that fee can be a meaningful share of the total. Compare landed cost, not sticker price.

Retailer by retailer

Common questions

Where can I see an ice maker in person before buying?

Kmart and Target, and that is close to the whole list. Both sell the same Anko house-brand unit in store. Most other retailers in this category either list marketplace stock that ships direct from a seller, or are appliance chains where an ice maker is a special order rather than a shelf item. If handling one before buying matters to you, the choice is narrower than the number of shops suggests.

Which retailer is cheapest?

None consistently, and that is the useful answer. The same machine routinely sells at several retailers for materially different prices, so the cheapest shop depends entirely on which unit you want. The price register tracks identical units across retailers, which is the only comparison that means anything here.

Is it safe to buy from a marketplace seller?

Your Australian Consumer Law rights apply either way, and a claim is normally made against the seller. The practical difference is who that seller is. A chain with a returns counter is a much easier party to deal with than an overseas trader you found through a marketplace, and in a category where the common failure is a dead compressor inside a couple of years, that is worth more than a small price difference.

Why does Catch still show up when I search?

Because its listings are still indexed even though the business stopped selling in April 2025. Catch carried exactly the Devanti benchtop range that other retailers still sell, so those pages continue to rank and continue to show prices. Nothing on them is purchasable, and any Catch price appearing in a comparison today is a leftover rather than an offer.