three new bits of information 1: T’s and C’s for NZShop les through Ferrit states that DVD’s ‘usualy ship 5-10 days’ after order, which implies that NZShop does not hold inventory. Good move. 2: a quick search of the companies.govt.nz website shows that NZShop has been around since 1995, which is pretty cool, and that …
Category Archives: NZ Business
NZHerald Safari woes
My woes with NZHerald and Safari continue. It seems that if the wrong ads are served then the page just will not load. Good ads: Fly Buy’s perfect present generator – Flash, but static Bad ads: Everything else, including “Emirates” flash horror, Rialto Channel, “Big Wednesday”, Ferrit… Even “Velux” – seems to be a static …
Getting the basics right…
In the US the universities led the Internet charge. The same in NZ, afaik. I recall at Massey in the late 80’s, a friend introducing me to the mysteriously cool “internet” and “email”. Sadly, on the surface at least, things have changed for the worse here. One of the most basic tests to assess the …
NZShop economics
Here’s a tilt at NZShop’s financial’s, based on essentially no information. My last order confirmation number from NZShop was over 62000. If this is the total number of orders ever, and the average sales price is $50 (they seem to be all about DVDs), then that’s a total of $3.1m in sales (Say a reasonable …
AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker – in NZ
Rather amazingly NZShop.com has the Aeropress Coffee Maker for sale. This is an awesome bit of kit for those who want great coffee every time (including crema), and don’t feel the need to drop $2000 on an Italian machina. Perfect for work if you have lousy coffee there, and of course for home, where I …
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Improving print readership measurement
APN and Fairfax are joining forces to commission a review on the way Print Readership Research is done in New Zealand. They are looking their own requirements, and that of their advertisers, rather than at changing vendors. Good on them. It would be doubly interesting if the review could somehow relate online readership to print …
DCMA and late december bills
It is never a good sign when a proposed NZ law makes Slashdot. At least three bills that are anti-the-individual (banning party pills, controlling resale of event tickets, DCMA NZ style) have been introduced for comments as we all break for the holidays. They all smell of heavy interest group involvement, and it will be …
Retail sales in NZ
Retail sales in NZ have been quoted a few times as $60bn NZD. Let’s dig into that a little. The latest stats from Govt.stats.nz show $60.5 bn for the year to the September quarter, 2006. The big spends are $13bn in supermarket, groceries and produce, $5.8bn in fuel and $7.8bn in motor vehicle retailing. If …
NZ Online retail – the market
Some interesting comments on the previous posts – worth a look at. I’ll redo some numbers in a while, but in the meantime here are some charts… This is daily unique domestic browsers to the big online shopping sites. (except Gameplanet sorry, which I inadvertently left off). The point of the chart is to show …
why “ecommerce has flopped in NZ”
That article again – right at the bottom, from out of nowhere, come “five reasons ecommerce has flopped in New Zealand”. “1. Mall mania. Trips to the shopping centre are a top Kiwi recreation. 2. Security fears. Kiwis are paranoid about giving credit card numbers online. 3. Bargain hunting. If it’s not cheaper online, why …
Ferrit. Incompetent. #3
Ferrit boss Ralph Brayham says that Ferrit is “aiming for around 300,000 unique users this month, with 2 per cent of visitors buying something.” That’s just 6,000 buyers. Let’s assume they each buy goods worth $150 (I am being generous), and that Ferrit takes 5% of that (generous again). That’s $900,000 worth of sales, and …
Ferrit. Incompetent #2
The Herald’s coverage of eCommerce leaves something to be desired – imagine surveying NZ’s eCommerce space and forgetting the biggest site is Trade Me, not, umm, Ferrit. Perhaps Peter Griffin is a columnist shilling for Ferrit… regardless – we should blame him, as well as the NZHerald editors, and give kudos for whoever did the …
Ferrit. Incompetent
Incompetent – check the spelling….. [update] Fixed now.
new news sites
Stuff and NZHerald upgraded late last week. I should really, and much before now, have commented on the new design of both. Frankly neither of them really do it for me and I have simply stopped looking at them. The sunny days probably have something to do with it… Friday page impressions were up against …
Rod Drury sees the Yahoo!Xtra (what an unwieldy name) tie-up as creating opportunities for other players. He asks: What does Microsoft do? The choices are go it alone or tie up with a media company – pick one from TVNZ, TV3, APN or Fairfax. My pick is TVNZ, followed by APN. What is the homepage …
Lance Wiggs 