New Zealand Telecom is set to go head-to-head with auction website TradeMe

[amy]

The country's biggest telco will launch an extensive new online trading and shopping website this month, the National Business Review reported today.

The telco is understood to have been developing the auction website – code named "Project Sparkys" – for the past few months, inviting various online retailers and resellers to list their products on the planned site.

Industry speculation suggests the launch, expected on October 17, will be accompanied by and extensive publicity campaign

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3436277a28,00.html

[mandy]

Update: New Zealand Telecom's new shopping site Ferrit went live today: http://www.ferrit.co.nz/home.asp

New Zealand's newest on-line shopping site goes on-line today - and offers more than a million products.

Fifty six retailers - including Hill and Stewart, Marbecks, Noel Leeming and Dick Smith - appear on Telecom's new "Ferrit" site, with dozens more signed up.

Ferrit hit the headlines when it was thought that it would be in competition with the record breaking on-line auction site TradeMe.

full article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10357410

related topic: http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...934.0.html

[jezebel]

I wonder how many millions that cost to build?

[bargainbloodhound]

Not a TradeMe clone but a comparison shopping site...and you must go to the seller's web site to purchase the item.  I think the comparison features could use some work