Ziggy’s Warehouse

Happy 2007

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Welcome to 2007. Last year I was rather quiet here. But that is changing as we ready and exciting new line for 2007.
Unfortunately with the worldwide increase in spam over the last 6 months, our customer service email address changed. Unfortunately we discovered many automatic emails were still going out with the old email address.
If you’ve send us an email and have not heard from us, please try again. We’ve just deleted 6,000 spam messages to our old customer service address and a few of them may have been legitimate.

Some days it feels like all I do is fix problems and they have nothing to do with providing cool products and hot service. And today it feels like the only time I update our fans is when we have problems.

My 2007 New Year’s Resolution is to update this blog twice a month so you know what we’re up to.

Ziggy’s Warehouse never sends unsolicited email, I hate spam too.

Regards

Paul

Upgrading Ziggy’s online store

Over the last few months an increasing percentage of orders at our online store have not been processed by our software. We have tracked down the source of this problem and are fixing it as we speak. Unfortunately it means we cannot process any orders for a week.

The good news is when the store comes back online, we’ll be launching a new range for the home and garden.

See you next week.

Blue Mountain Discovery (2 Nights) For Two - NSW $490

Great gift for Mother’s Day.

Overview

Two nights accommodation at Echo Point Motor Inn, Katoomba. Travel around the Blue Mountains on the Blue Mountains Explorer Bus; enjoy an easy guided eco wilderness walk; discover the wonders at Jenolan Caves; and see the Blue Mountains on the giant screen at The Edge cinema.

Description

Echo Point Motor Inn is located only metres from the famous Three Sisters at Katoomba. Enjoy a two night stay, bed & breakfast, in these comfortable en-suited rooms.

Over the three days, make full use of your Kookaburra Pass. This includes travelling on the Blue Mountains Explorer Bus – an original English Double Decker Bus. Visit attractions of the Katoomba/Leura area, including bushwalks, waterfalls, lookouts as well as shops, galleries, gardens and museums. An optional extra is to travel on the Scenic Skyway, or ride the Railway into the valley and return via the new Sceniscender. The Explorer Bus can be used for the duration of your stay in the Blue Mountains.

A guided eco wilderness walk is an 8.30am start from your hotel. It will take you out of the main tourist area and into a peaceful, tranquil environment where you can learn the history of the Blue Mountains.

Enjoy a full day tour from Katoomba down to Jenolan Caves on a luxury air-conditioned coach. Sightseeing on your journey includes a short stop at Govett’s Leap to see the mountains largest single waterfall – Bridal Veil Falls. On arrival at Jenolan Caves, you will pass through the Grand Arch – a most spectacular entry into the cave system. At Jenolan, enjoy some walks to see Carlotta’s Arch, The Blue Lake and the Devil’s Coachhouse. The highlight of course, is a fully guided tour into the limestone caves..

During your stay in the mountains, you will also have an entry into the Edge Cinema to see the magnificent Blue Mountains on a giant screen. Sit back and relax as the movie unfolds the beauty, history and wonders of the Blue Mountains from the valleys to the peaks to the subterranean rivers.

Price:

$490

Venue:

Wentworth Falls to Jenolan Caves, Blue Mountains – 2 hours west of Sydney

Length:

This package is valid for any 2 nights/3 days

Valid For:

2 people

Guidelines:

This package is valid for two adults, twin or double share.

Numbers:

Accommodation is private. Small group sizes on the Wilderness Walk and Jenolan Caves Tour. Cave Inspection tour is up to 80 people. The Explorer Bus is a tour where people hop on and hop off, so you can be as independent as you wish.

Extra Info:

Package is available throughout the year. Some public holidays and long weekends may attract a surcharge on accommodation, this will be paid direct to the supplier at time of booking.

This experience voucher is valid for six months from date of purchase.

Ordering and more information

Sydney in The Top 15 Skylines in the World v3.0

Congratulations to Sydney for making Luigi Di Serio’s 15 Best Skylines in the World.

Australia’s showcase city, Sydney has one of the most recognizable skylines due to its world-famous harbour, often referred to as the most beautiful natural harbour in the world. The Sydney Harbour has many bays, inlets and secondary harbours. It is spanned by the monumental Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House decorates the shoreline like a white flower. The Sydney skyline is world-class with hundreds of skyscrapers in the central business district and many more high-rise buildings in the outlying neighbourhoods. Sydney has 8 buildings over 200 metres tall.

Take a moment, a day or a weekend to enjoy the Sydney skyline with one of our unique experiences.

Sydney Harbour Aquatic Triple Treat & Seafood Sensation

Here’s an ideal present or holiday experience. For a memory that will last forever you can’t go past Sydney Harbour Aquatic Triple Treat & Seafood Sensation for just $250 until Christmas. Check out this fantastic series of adventures.

Overview
See the harbour from all sorts of aquatic angles with this awesome Triple Treat. Take an eco-adrenalin boat adventure, paddle out on a kayak and gasp at the views from high up in your parasail harness. All complemented by a sensational seafood lunch.

Experience Description
This exciting combination allows you to spend the day partaking in this triad of awesome experiences OR try one have lunch and do the others at your leisure (within 6 months) - what a deal!
Your aquatic triple treat and seafood sensation includes:

• One single parasailing flight, spend 10 minutes floating gently with the seagulls. You may spend up to one hour on the boat depending on the number of passengers booked in.
• One Eco-Adrenalin Ocean Adventure, Ride the swell off the rugged headlands of Sydney’s Northern Beaches and enjoy the only boating ride which has exclusive permission to run tours out beyond the Harbour Heads. The 6.4m Gemini Waverider rigid-inflatable boat rips at speeds up to 80Kph - a true experience of a life time!!
• One hour leisure boat hire or 30 minutes kayak hire, spend 1 hour navigating the North Habour at your own pace before grabbling a paddle and heading out by kayak for some more. *Choice of two delectable entrees, two mouth watering mains and a glass of beer/wine at the award winning Manly Bay Seafood restaurant. (30 second walk from the Jetty on Manly Wharf).

Due to high demand in Summer (Dec - Feb) we recommend booking seven days in advance, especially for weekends. Suggested use would be eco-adrenalin power boating in the morning followed by a parasail followed by lunch. You can then relax with a mellow kayak/leisure boat activity in the afternoon. The meal vouchers can be used anytime from lunchtime onwards, pre-booking essential at weekends.

Experience Details

State: NSW

Venue details: Sydney

Session length:
Eco adrenalin adventure - 45 minutes.
Leisure boating 1 Hour + Kayaking 30 minutes.
Parasailing 8-10 minutes in flight up to 1 hour in total.
Plus time for lunch.
Do all in one day or do one and do the other components at your leisure.

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Google giveth and Google taketh away

I occassionally check the Google pagerank of this site. If you don’t know what that is then the rest of this entry is not very interesting. It’s been as high as 4 but regularly drops to 0. The first time it happened my heart sank. “What have we done wrong?” I thought.

I think the various changes to the layout and catalog have not helped. As an online retailer we have to tinker and get things working optimally.

After a few times I stopped worrying about it. Either we have good pagerank or we don’t. As long as we provide good service our customers will keep coming back.

Spring update

We’ve moved our warehouse and our offices over August.

I’m sorry to say it broke lots of our systems. We’ve really made a mess of things. Our web forms stopped sending emails to us. Many of our email addresses just stopped working.

The warehouse order processing system also broke. That means accounts processed some orders that were not dispatched in our normal timely manner.

I was even locked out of the system that lets me make these updates.

The end result is if you have placed an order but not received an email every 48 hours until delivery, it probably means your order was affected by our moving chaos.

I really apologise for this. If you want to cancel your order just email or comment here with your order number.

Let me know by either commenting here or sending an email - all our email addresses should be working again.

Live 8 List

I forgot to mention, please add your name to the Live 8 List to petition the G8 and other world leaders.

Actually here’s the text of the petition.

TO:

The 8 most powerful leaders in the world

50,000 people are dying, needlessly, every day of extreme poverty.

At this year’s G8 summit meeting, it is within your power to put an end to this tragedy. It is an extraordinary opportunity which it would be shameful to ignore. We urge you to take these 3 steps to make extreme poverty history…

1. double the aid sent to the world’s poorest countries,
2. fully cancel their debts,
3. change the trade laws so that they can build their own future.

Watch Live 8 now

30,000 children die every day in Africe because of poverty. We’re hoping you’ve seen something about the global awareness concert Bob Geldolf, Bono and some friends have put together. If you were wondering it’s called Live 8.

It’s on Fox 8 right now. You can also watch Live 8 Live on the internet.

While this has nothing to do with Ziggy’s Warehouse, we are part of the community and so believe in using resources to give back.

Surely forgiving the debt of the poorest countries in the world would make the world a better place. Please comment below if you agree or disagree. I guess I’m asking should small businesses make global social and political stands? Remember you can ask for your to not be published.

To Do - About Us

We need to update the About Us page and integrate it from the front page as well as in the catalog.

• Us - the company
• Our history and timelines
• Our team
• Contact us
• e-commerce customer service
• Our social responsibility
• Accolades we’ve received
• Our media coverage