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I'm surprised you missed Twangoo. Facebook, Megavideo and my friends all blasted it at me. It's a popular site in SA.

I doubt Twangoo will be around in SA for more than 2 years.Group buying will never catch in SA until there is one online payment system that EVERYBODY uses as well confidence in eCommerce.

PS I read an article on mybroadband about false pricing by businesses on Twangoo.I feel that things like this will hinder the growth of the group buying model in SA.

I agree with regard to the payment gateway, but its been a very long time since I met someone who said they wouldn't use eCommerce. Most people I know do a lot of online shopping, and I am not talking about my tech friends.

Im fresh out of Varsity(UJ) and i have done surveys (informal) at varsity ,all the people i have surveyed (black,coloured and indian) have never bought a single thing online.I ask them why and they tell me ''We dont have credit cards'',i then tell them ''but you can use bank deposits '' they still wont budge.Now if these groups of people who make up majority of the population and aslo the group with the largest buying power(Gen Y) are not buying online;this means that eCommerce in SA has a long way to go.

I personal don't even regard our eCommerce Market as having begun yet.But i do shop online now and then. Im also working on a couple of projects and startups to address the confidence issues that the majority and youth have about the internet.

PS Iam a black Attorney lol

All true... But how many of them even have access to the internet, let alone credit cards?

One word OperaMini. That would be +- 11million. As for credit cards forget that people dont need those to buy online.Bank Deposits work. Just like New Zealand and China. I dont own a credit card but i buy alot from the Prophecy and Sybaritic I also got Paypal linked with my FNB. Moral of the story lets stop with the Telkom and Creditcard excuses and start building shit relevant to the Whole of SA.

I don't spend any time on Facebook, so I thought that may be a reason why as well, but I asked my wife (Who most certainly DOES use Facebook), and she had also never heard of it.

Are you refering to Twangoo?

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