Spreading the Love Update
Hey all! A while back I talked about wanting to spread my good fortune from having this business, while balancing my need to, you know, eat and such. Complicating factors…
The Joy of Website Design
You know what's surprisingly tricky? Website design, set-up and maintenance. You know what makes it harder?
We’re back!
Heyo! Sorry about the long, long delay – it’s been A Time. Short version: Melbourne is an awful city to do business in – everyone is either incompetent, criminal, or…
Our Story
Running a club, sourcing new equipment is always a question. Stones get broken or lost, boards get loaned to other clubs, and before too much time passes you find yourself short. So I found myself asking “Where can I get replacement sets when I need them, without breaking the club budget (literally)?”
I did some research, and like most of you, I found that go sets are really, really expensive. Like, unnecessarily so. Like most of you, I wasn’t after kaya floor boards with slate and shell stones, with bowls made from the skull of Go Seigen and Cho Chikun. However, I also didn’t want to use really ugly, low-quality sets where the stones are about one-third the size they should be and made of bad plastic, while the boards are printed on styrofoam. Turns out, there wasn’t anyone providing that.
So I decided to fix that.
My goal with PacifiGo is very simple. I believe go (also known as baduk in Korean or weiqi in Chinese or igo in Japanese) is a very fun game, and more people would enjoy playing it if they had a chance. However, the sheer difficulty of sourcing quality equipment, especially in Australia, makes for a massive barrier, both for individual players, and clubs. So, by offering quality but affordable equipment, I hope to lower this barrier.
While most of my orders are from Australia, I have customers from the USA, the UK, the Czech Republic and New Zealand. So evidently this isn’t solely an Australian goal!