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		<title>Whitcoulls has a new web site?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whitcoulls has recently released a new web site&#8230; I must confess that I&#8217;m not 100% sure just how new the site is, as I haven&#8217;t been following them closely at all.
Ignoring the usability issues, the offer to customers seems to be:

Free delivery
24 hour shipping
7-10 day delivery

So what&#8217;s with the 7-10 day delivery times? One can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=313</link>
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		<title>The Ape wins big at the Netguide Awards&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Mighty Ape won the Best Online Shopping Site and Best New Site / Relaunch awards at the 2009 Netguide Awards. Or brothers in arms, Gameplanet, also won Best Gaming Related site.
Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t be there, but it sounds like it was a great evening with Oliver Driver being one of the best MC&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=309</link>
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		<title>EA vs. Atari &#8211; Who&#8217;s Right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relating to my last blog post on game prices, here&#8217;s an example of two game companies with different pricing strategies:
Electronic Arts New Release pricing:
Xbox 360: $99.95 &#8211; $119.95
PlayStation 3: $99.95 &#8211; $119.95
Nintendo Wii: $69.95
PC: $99.95
PS2: $49.95 &#8211; $79.95
EA Promotions: You can buy EA&#8217;s Christmas releases at &#8220;shot to bits&#8221; prices.
Atari New Release pricing:
Xbox 360: $109.95 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Hey, gamers are not crack addicts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve all heard times are pretty tough out there, but some local game companies have come up with a new strategy to get through the recession &#8212; they&#8217;re raising their prices.
Want some cool PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games for the bargain price of say&#8230; $140? Probably not. When was the last time games [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Educate parents over access to violent video games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NZ Herald has published an article in which Bill Hastings, the chief censor, wants to prosecute some parents over access to restricted video games.
Now, as a parent and a retailer of video games, I whole-heartedly agree with what Mr Hastings is hoping to achieve. But I believe his approach is possibly wrong. Prosecuting some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=251</link>
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		<title>So how good is the rain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After yesterdays ramblings, I did some very quick analysis of yesterdays rain-affected sales on Mighty Ape. The sales from yesterdays poor weather:

blitzed all the Saturdays in February 2008
were 39% higher than the average Saturday in January 2009
were easily the highest for a Saturday in 2009 so far

The quick conclusion one can draw is that&#8230; rain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Summer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its official. Today is the last day of summer and the weather is pretty bleak out there. But judging from our web traffic today, it seems that rain is better than sun &#8212; our web traffic  is tracking 30-40% higher than a typical sunny Saturday!
We find that Saturdays are our typically the quietest day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=228</link>
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		<title>I caved&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I finally caved and bought myself my first ever Apple Mac. I was originally going to buy myself a decent PC laptop to get myself a little more mobile around the house, but I ended up going for a MacBook Pro on a hunch.
My initial impressions are all good. The packaging was first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=220</link>
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		<title>BTW, Video games thrash movies and DVDs&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something that has been bugging me for a while. Each week the NZ Herald publishes their weekly Timeout Guide which covers new releases and news for Film, Music, Books and Television.
I&#8217;ve often wondered why don&#8217;t they include video games in this section?
While its nice that The Herald files gaming under their Technology section on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=206</link>
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		<title>My Sky HDi &gt; Freeview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that I have a pretty good home theatre set up for video gaming and for watching the odd movie.
The whole set up is powered by a Sony amp and everything (literally) runs through the amp including all the video and sound. Unfortunately one of the down sides with using an amp for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.barty.co.nz/?p=194</link>
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