As of 9th April 2025 Green Elephant has now closed for new orders. Any orders placed before this date will be completed in the usual way, so please do not worry. 🙂
Whilst the Marketplace will no longer exist all of our Vendors will still be offering their products through their own websites. Please do a quick google search for your favourite brand and continue to support these amazing small New Zealand businesses.
In case anyone is wondering why we have decided to close Green Elephant – here is the very short version of the story! Our website was custom built by a local team nearly 10 years ago and at the time it was a great solution. For various reasons we have since had a number of different developers who have been unable to maintain and update the site to keep up with the ever changing landscape. Our site is now slow, unloved by Google and starting to fall apart at the seams and as a consequence traffic and sales have fallen dramatically over the last few years. After much deliberation we have decided not to risk more time and money rebuilding the site in an attempt to grow a viable business. With deep sadness, whilst knowing it is the right decision, it is time to draw a line under this chapter of our lives.
Thanks for all the support from Customers and Vendors over the years. We have met some wonderful people and wish you all the best for the future.
Kind regards
Kevin and Gillian