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12 Years a Slave? As Purchase.ie celebrate 12 years in business this month we look at whether or not running a small business for 12 years feels like being a slave. This month Purchase.ie celebrates 12 years in business. From modest beginning our team has expanded six fold since our early days back in 2009 …

Thank You 2020 It has been a very strange and challenging year for us all. There has been lots of doom and gloom and many businesses in Ireland have probably closed up never to open again. We feel for business owners all over the country that have experienced difficulties. We have had many challenges of …

Pieta Update & Christmas Shopping Deadlines With all the gloom surrounding the year that was 2020 we decided that rather than running Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales this year we would instead donate 10% of our takings to Pieta House. Based on previous years sales our expectations were that the campaign would raise 150 …

Black Friday 2020 supporting Pieta House  This year its different…. Social distancing, PPE, wet pubs, super spreader, lockdown…. Just some of the terms we never used prior to 2020 but have all of a sudden become part of our everyday language. This year is different….. It has tested the mental strength of us all.   …

Loads of small Irish businesses like us have benefited from extra sales due to Covid19 restrictions but it could be far more if consumers took a chance on us small timers rather than going straight to Amazon for everything.

Just to say Thanks… It is not said enough! This business was set up at the height of a recession in 2009. It has overcome many obstacles over the years and has been on the brink of folding several times (particularly in the early years) yet 10 years on and we are still trading away. …

Open and ready for your orders! We are delighted to confirm we continue to remain open through these difficult days in Ireland and are ready to pack your orders and to get them to you as swiftly as possible. We are of course not currently open to the public and strictly offering a delivery only …

Ralph’s  Dogs Trust Christmas Appeal Since Purchase.ie was founded in 2009 we have traditionally always tried to make a contribution to a worthy charity at Christmas. We last chose Dogs Trust Ireland as our designated charity in 2016 and Ralph  our Head of Security has decided we are going with them again in 2019. Dogs …

Purchase.ie 10 Years Old – Thank You for Making it Happen! Starting a business with little or no finance behind you and with monthly mortgage payments to meet is not something for everyone especially  back in November 2009 when the recession had left Ireland on its knees. Indeed in the early years in particular there …

This is not the first time our Head of Security Ralph has as acted as a GAA pundit. Much to the sorrow of the rest of the Purchase.ie team back in 2015 Ralph correctly predicted that Dublin would win the All-Ireland by picking up the blue ball.  This time we have the Blue ball for …