Update, 15th December: We had our 1000th order for the year yesterday. As a nice surprise for Vivienne, we gave her a full refund.

Looking back at the start of this year we were at order #2713, the latest as of this morning is #3681. Doing some simple maths gives us 968 orders so far this year. That's around 2.65 orders per day which, if it continues, should get us to 1000 by Christmas! If your order is #3713 we've got a surprise for you.

Over the year we've added a massive range of hobby electronics gear in addition to our staple of VoIP equipment. We've brought in many new products which weren't available in New Zealand anywhere else, and had some great specials.

None of this would be possible without you, our fantastic customers. With your help we've grown even more and also managed to raise money for a couple of great causes - the Red Cross Canterbury Earthquake Appeal and Movember Mens Health.

We've managed to locate some precious time to spend adding enhancements to the website, with more feeds of new comments and products, a clearance section where you can get some great deals, more high quality product images, and a few tweaks to the layout here and there. We've also added more automation to our back-end systems, so even with the increased demand your orders still go out as smoothly and quickly as possible.

We've been sporadically updating this blog as usual in fits and starts, again as usual I'll try and do my best to keep the blog posts coming, with updates, specials and more howto guides. We've been working on a couple of interesting projects with embedded electronics which some of you might like too.

We'll be taking some time off over the holiday period to spend with family and friends. The website will still be accepting orders of course, but there will be some delays in getting them sent out. If you have any worries just send us an email and we'll be able to help out.

So. A big thanks to all of you for your support over the year. Happy Holidays!