ZSUN, September 15th, Ziasun's E-Commerce Portal Asia4sale Launched
HONG KONG - September 15, 1999 -- Asia4Sale.com Ltd, a wholly-owned Asian subsidiary of ZiaSun Technologies Inc (OTC BB: ZSUN.OB) (www.ziasun.com), today launched its new and unique global e-commerce shopping portal, Asia4Sale (www.asia4sale.com).
From its Hong Kong base, Asia4Sale has developed a web shopping portal that provides free on-line retail stores, specializing in Asian products, to anyone wanting to get into e-commerce.
Any Internet user can open a store on the Internet stocked with thousands of products to sell direct from manufacturers in Asia. These on-line franchised stores are available on the web absolutely free of charge from Asia4Sale starting today.
Asia4Sale, in a joint-marketing arrangement with Cable & Wireless HKT IMS, the largest ISP in Hong Kong, will make its promotional debut on the IMS Netvigator portal (www.netvigator.com).
Asia4Sale showcases thousands of products manufactured in Asia, and provides individual customers with a convenient way to purchase them on-line. The merchandise ranges from electronics and CDs to Chinese arts and crafts and sporting goods, at prices from US$25 to $1,000.
Shoppers can order direct from the manufacturer and have the goods delivered to their homes anywhere in the world.
Asia4Sale vets the quality of products and reliability of the manufacturers. The secure on-line credit card payment system is operated by First Ecom, a major on-line credit card system forerunner, in conjunction with the Bank of Bermuda.
"Companies have enthusiastically responded to our invitation to feature their products on this new on-line retailing system," reported Mr Brian Hodgson, Managing Director of Asia4Sale.
"We have more than 50 companies offering over 3,000 products, and more applications are being received every day. There is bound to be a snowball effect as word gets round the business community and more and more shoppers log on.
"One big problem that has held Asian companies back from selling products on the Internet has been the difficulty of obtaining e-commerce credit card merchant accounts. We have now overcome this on their behalf."
To make Asia4Sale better known around the world, Internet users are invited to become franchisees and set up their own fully-stocked on-line Asia4Sale stores, free of charge.
They will then receive generous commissions on sales by promoting the store and its products among their family, friends, business associates and the Internet community in general.
'Asia4Sale' is a joint-venture with Momentum Internet Inc (www.momentumplus.com), another subsidiary of ZiaSun Technologies.
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CONTACTS:
Asia4Sale.com Ltd:
Brian Hodgson, Managing Director
12A First Pacific Bank Center
56 Gloucester Road
Wanchai
Hong Kong
Tel: + 852 2915 2155
E-mail: info@asia4sale.com
Website: www.asia4sale.com
ZiaSun Technologies Inc
Anthony L Tobin, President and Chief Operations Officer
12A First Pacific Bank Center
56 Gloucester Road
Wanchai
Hong Kong
Tel: + 852 2866 9323
E-mail: atobin@ziasun.com
Website: www.ziasun.com
Mark Harris, VP Investor Relations
462 Stevens Avenue, Suite 106
Solana Beach, CA 92075, USA
Tel: 858 350 4060
E-mail: mark@pinmail.com
Website: www.ziasun.com
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