@Theus just a question, so why would they claim to be moving millions of products a month... of course i knew that was no right.... but makes you wonder...

Steve Obbayi

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I once talked to a guy who used to deal with kalahari.co.ke. First they took the failure who is Cobus Heyl to head it. Cobus did run down EAM and he has that arrogance and know it all attitude of people from down south. The sell now an average of only 30 products in a month. They arent moving even thousands.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:

kalahari gets about 5,724 pageviews a day. thats like 150k pageviews a month. I doubt they can move a million cause that would imply selling about five items on each pageview.

It is an impressive figure though.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Willie Ong'uti <williexm@gmail.com> wrote:
@Albert,

I have tried mzoori.com and actually u need to register to access. The upside is that the registration doesn't require much details (about 3 things). Plus there is no delay with confirmation of stuff like emails.

I accessed the registration through this link http://www.mzoori.com/iam
Or better still i have sent you a 'mzoori Invite' :-)

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:

As @Willie has put it, @Joyce where do you think you fare with your competition and how do you compare with other global e-commerce websites in terms of volume of product and NOT pricing of products?

Steve Obbayi

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Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:15:03 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Hi Joyce,
Thats commendable, i just wanted to know how you are fairing on with the competition from ecommerce portals like www.mzoori.com. I got this link from facebook www.mzoori.com/iam

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Joyce Lukwiya <lukwiyajoyce@gmail.com> wrote:
@steve yes we actually move these products, books are the biggest movers on Kalahari at the moment. As I said you check out our prices.

Joyce

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:

@Joyce, You've said all this about kalahari.co.ke including offering millions of books, music DVD's etc.... really???? In short you havent answered the question on whether you have the critical mass from Kenya or East Africa for that matter.... Just want clarification. So! Do you actually move these "millions of products a Quarter, let alone a month"?

Steve Obbayi

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From: "Joyce Lukwiya" <lukwiyajoyce@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:48:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Hi John,

I believe you have not heard of Kalahari.co.ke.

Kalahari.co.ke is a leading online retailer, offering millions of books, music, DVDs, games and more at the click of a mouse.

With top-selling products, local payment options which include M-PESA , door-to-door delivery, wish list facilities, vouchers, and free gift-wrapping, kalahari.co.ke offers convenient shopping!

We are giving irresistable discount on all our shop categories.

Log on to www.kalahari.co.ke and check it out for yourself.

Joyce Lukwiya

Online Shop Manager

Kalahari

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, John Maina <mwasjunior@gmail.com> wrote:

I used to hypothesis that the reason we don't have a vibrant e-commerce infrastructure in Kenya was the lack of payment solutions and lack of "critical mass" of people online..These two problems have been solved yet we still have nothing on the ground. So my question to y'all experts is what is hindering e-commerce in Kenya?

John

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