See also: NewZealand, WellingtonNewZealand, DunedinNewZealand
Because amazon.com won't ship electronics outside of the UnitedStates local resources are required. In general I support buying from local businesses however many NewZealand business charge outrageously ridiculous
Non Profits
- Computer Access NZ Trust
A sort of FreeGeek for NewZealand.
Online Resources
Restaurant Guides
- Dine Out
- Pretty good ...
- Menus
- Actuallly has the menu's but very limited selection of restaurants and no reviews.
- Menus & Reviews
- This is a new restaurant guide that is very good.
Other Guides
New Zealand Vendors
- Ascent (online)
- Good one stop online store with consistently good service and decent prices.
- Turners Car Auctions
- Cheap decent cars at auction, mostly Japanese imports.
- Bruce Colquhoun (Auckland)
- Sound and Video services. He can migrate most forms of media from one type to another (eg. Super8 to DVD).
- CanvArt
- Photographic prints onto canvas (cheaper then Frogprints).
- Fish Pond
- Online book seller with decent catalog.
- Fatso
For NZ$39.95 a month you get three DVD's at a time mailed to you which you can return at your convenience (by prepaid envelope) for another three movies. Basically like NetFlix.
- Frog Prints (online)
- Post them digital pictures and they will return printed photos. Kinda like Shutterfly but not so fly ...
- Hard To Find
- Catalog of hard to find books.
- Marbecks (online)
- A good New Zealand source of hard-to-find CDs. Great servcice and very friendly people. Great for New Zealand music.
- Maxbyte (Wellington)
Had a better price on the iCurve then Ascent, no website but <ian@maxbyte.co.nz> answered my questions.
- On 2 Canvas
- Photographic prints onto canvas (cheaper then Frogprints).
- Pico Sys (online)
- Cheap DVD, CD-ROM related media
- Price Spy
- An amazing tool which search many of the New Zealand hardware/electronics vendors for the best prices. Really really good.
- Real Photos
- Online photo developement (recommended by consumer.co.nz)
- The Dub Shop (Wellington)
- Supposed to be able to convert NTSC tapes to PAL (8 Ebor St).
- Tickle Photo
- New photo printing service, does calendars, photos, mugs etc. New users get 10 free 6 X 4 photos. Tickle also offers Free and Unlimited digital photo storage.
Travel
Airlines
- Air New Zealand
- Freedom Air
- Origin Pacific
- Quantas
Ferrys
- Blue Bridge
- InterIslandLine
Trains
- TranzMetro
- TranzScenic
Foreign Vendors
Vendors that aren't in NewZealand but will ship there and are convenient or useful to know about.
- Amazon
- Even though they won't ship electronics they are still often cheaper for DVD's and books.
- Redbook
Australian site similar to the American Kelly Blue Book. Valuations are similar to NewZealand if you take exchange rate into consideratioin.
- Wellington City Library Music Guide
- Lots of links to local music and MP3 downloads.