14.07.2011
After thousands of aftershocks our offices in the old Hanafin's Building are being pulled down this week. This picture shows our office up on the third floor being demolished.

We would like to thank you again for your support through all the shakes. We appreciate your patience when there are earthquake related delays and issues with communication.
Our best wishes go out to all our fellow Cantabrians during the re-building phase.
17.06.2011
Here at Off The Back we love to reward our loyal subscribers and shoppers. Today we are excited to announce the lucky winners of our Dream Holiday Competition. We would like to congratulate Ryan and Whitney Wilson! They will each be receiving a $1000 travel voucher to take them to the destination of their dreams.
We would like to thank everyone who took part and we look forward to our next Off The Back giveaway!
29.03.2011

Our good friend Antonia Prebble is on a fund-raising mission for Canterbury and she needs our help.
She is taking part in the Variety Vietnam Cycle Trek to raise money for the Bikes for Kids programme which gives bikes to disadvantaged children. This year all the fund-raising will go towards helping the children of Christchurch.
Many of the roads here in Christchurch are impassible by car or extremely slow. A bike would help children in our city to get to and from school each day.
We would love for all our OTBers to head on over to Antonia’s page and sponsor her to help the kids here in Canterbury. Take a look at her fund-raising page here. You would be helping a great cause.
Thank-you all for your support. We wish those affected by the Canterbury quake the best during this recovery period.
24.03.2011
Our team finally has some good news! We have found a temporary office space to begin working from next week. This means we can get Off The Back on track. Our shipping times and communication should begin to return to normal and we can put our focus back on some exciting developments for you.
We have really appreciated your patience and understanding over this difficult past month.
11.03.2011
We thought these pictures of our offices may be of interest, particularly to those from Christchurch. We were situated on the top storey of the Hanafin's building on the corner of Hereford and High Street in the CBD. This is a well known old building in Christchurch which we expect will unfortunately have to be demolished. Our team are all feeling very lucky after seeing these pictures. We are hoping to be able to move into new premises in the coming week.
Thank-you all for your continuing support of Off The Back.


4.03.2011
We would like to thank all of our customers for their support during the difficult past week. Our thoughts go out to all of those who have been affected by the earthquake.
Our staff, their friends and families fortunately all made it through the earthquake okay. Our offices did not fare so well and have since been red-stickered. We are on the hunt for new premises and hope to have our team back together soon.
At present our staff are doing their best to work remotely from around New Zealand as far apart as Auckland and Wanaka. We may have some difficulties getting access to our usual information and to email and phone but be assured that we will get to your inquiry as soon as we can. Our usual landline numbers are not operational so please contact us via email: team@offtheback.co.nz or team@offtheback.com.au.
All of our shipping is now going out of Auckland, however we are experiencing some delays or cancellations with products from our Christchurch based suppliers. If your product is going to be substantially delayed or needs to be canceled we will email you to let you know. Shipping should resume to the usual 3-5 working day time-frame next week.
Off The Back hopes to be up and running as normal soon. We will continue to update you of our progress via our news section in the coming weeks.
If you would like to donate to the earthquake appeal and help out our fellow Cantabrians you can do this here.
Thank you again for your continued support.
22.02.2011
Today there was an earthquake in Christchurch that has significantly disrupted the city.
The CBD, where our offices are is among the worst hit areas. Fortunately all of our staff got out safely, however our offices are inaccessible and we will likely be moving in the coming weeks. We were lucky to get out without a scratch as many fared far worse.
Off The Back will still be operating but in a diminished capacity for the next short while. Specifically, our customer support team will be much slower to get through all of your emails.
Our thoughts go out to those in affected areas - we hope you and your loved ones are all safe and sound.
For further information on the Christchurch earthquakes see Stuff.co.nz's coverage.
November 22, 2010.
Off The Back brings you a new and exciting mobile experience with our FREE iPhone application, available now! This app allows you to conveniently view our deals on-the-go. You can download the Off The Back app from the iTunes store here...
October 7, 2010.
As you may have noticed we’ve made some significant changes to the website. We’ve worked very hard to simplify our systems to make Off The Back the best it can be!
We have a whole new look and there are also several other key improvements:
One of the hardest decisions for us to make was removing the community section of our site. It took a lot of soul searching for us to come to this decision.
When OTB started almost 3 years ago the internet was a different place and our community was great. As our little site has grown, we’ve been flat out hunting down deals and improving our systems to cope with the sales demand. It’s fair to say we have not given the community the TLC it has needed, both in terms of us taking part and in its development.
Fortunately, technology has kept moving and there are now sites like Facebook and Twitter which are doing this ‘social media’ stuff in more exciting ways than we could have ever dreamed of. Thanks to everyone who’s taken part in our community over the last 3 years. We’ll miss reading through the comments each day. We hope you will keep in touch via Facebook and Twitter.
Our final major change is that we have closed our department store. This has gradually happened over the past few months. This change was necessary to enable the team to focus exclusively on our daily deals in order to provide you with the best online deals every day!
This is just the beginning of a raft of new features for Off The Back. We’ve got plenty of exciting developments in the pipeline for the coming months - but don’t worry we’re not going to make any as major as this last batch.
Even though our website has changed we’re still the same team with the same Off The Back philosophy. Nothing is going to change in terms of our attitude towards putting our customers first and providing you with New Zealand’s best deals every day.
If you’ve got any questions, concerns or problems please email us: team@offtheback.co.nz
Happy Shopping!