If you’re tired of filling that room your girlfriend doesn’t care about with Lego bought from the same old faces online – in other words, Great Yellow Brick and Brick Up Africa – there’s now a new face you can stare at to complain about the price of the Great Deku Tree set for the umpteenth time (before buying it anyway). That would be Zando, a self-proclaimed “leading online shopping destination in South Africa.”
Yup. Zando is officially one of South Africa’s retailers thanks to a partnership with Brick Up Africa CC and serves to broaden the company’s e-commerce ambitions, which so far offers everything from fashion to tech and now, Lego.
It costs how much?
“This partnership with Brick Up Africa CC represents an exciting evolution for Zando as we continue to expand our product range and provide our customers with even more reasons to shop with us. By integrating LEGO’s beloved products into our platform, we are not only enhancing our offerings but also enriching the shopping journey for families and individuals alike,” said Morgane Imbert, CEO of Zando, in a release shared with Stuff.
That’s all well and good, but there’s just one problem. After scrolling through Zando’s sparse Lego catalogue (not a word you want to hear when describing a “leading online shopping destination”), we weren’t compelled to move our business from the already-established Great Yellow Brick.
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The Lego Creator 3-in-1 Flowers in Watering Can set goes for R550 on Great Yellow Brick, while the same set garners an extra R50 on Zando’s store before it’ll agree to see that Lego room of yours. We won’t list every example we found, but it’s worth noting for future purchases. That’s not to mention that orders over R500 are free with Zando, while all deliveries from Great Yellow Brick are free.
The best thing we can say about Zando’s expansion is that it does at least offer South Africans another place to purchase Lego should other retailers be out of stock – though we weren’t able to find any examples where that was the case. We also wouldn’t judge Zando’s catalogue too early. It’s barely a week old, and given time, may well prove its worth to the market.