05/06/2026
Hey Mr. Google and Mr. Bing, we don't want your AI misinformation. Our name is Putiputi Ra, meaning flower of the sun but do we sell flowers!!!! 🌻🌻🌻🌻 No, we sell health products, the hope of wellbeing, lifestyle products, organic food products, gluten free and vegan, we have a fully qualified Homeopath, Naturopath and Herbalist to help our customers. We have a selected ranges in skin care, personal care, super supplements, so much for our customers to choose from. Too many to list put that in your search engines but what we don't want is old information picked up as new, old store hours regurgitated as present shared with external portals confusing people. Old descriptions which are inaccurate.
What we don't want is our information stolen and duplicated fraudulently which is why we laid a complaint with face book a few years back for theft and misrepresentation, as our face book page which had been duplicated, photos and posts stolen blatantly misleading the public and linked to our old address which we lost during online difficulties with security during the covid lockdown April 2020, which was the first month of covid lockdown and when the Government ordered a shutdown on Social media misinformation and when the format/use of this face book page was forced to change. For months we were without a website well paid for in advance and knew not why it suddenly disappeared? Then sometime later we discovered it was being used and linked to a bogus page copying us and our advertising, we were mortified, the regulators were inadequate in holding the same a party accountable for misusing and misleading, regardless of the claims of a new task force to help. Though face book did shut the duplicate fraudulent page down the website .co.nz was still live and still is noticeably. (This is what lead to the change of web address from co.nz to www.putiputira.com)
Hey, Mr. Google and Mr Bing, what we need is our customers to have confidence that when you link our store with information that it is accurate and not sourced inaccurately from a third and fourth party in non specific terms passed off and implied as fact.
To our dear customers in this age of online information, of dependency and compliance, there is a lot of hope for convenience but also a lot of disappointment when products and descriptions are old news, this is rampant even in up to date shopping websites where they are not edited regularly, you think you can purchase, go through all your choices then find out you've wasted you time, when you click shopping, it comes up blank, not even implying at times out of stock.
Often we expect up to date information but find when you look deeper the link information has already expired and not removed, still online in differing layers on differing portals due to search engines. Realestate advertising is a good example. Photos of a property for sale can be up for years giving away too much information about a property for would be thieves, google earth street view, again though novel and useful has it's down side for giving away too much aspect information too easily for would be criminals. It's seems for every benefit there are other consequences to consider and as this online world progresses we are somewhat forced into navigating through these changes. Just today I found a service post advertising Putiputi ra which had the date of establishment of the business as Oct 2013 which was blindly incorrect, they had taken the date of when I established the face book page, it quoted old hours from over 10 years ago and the obsolete troublesome co.nz web address. Please be vigilant and not too disappointed if you see something online and find we do not have it in stock, how and why there will be variables, if you have a query about a new product specifically, save yourself a trip and give us a ring the old fashoned way, we do not want you to come all the way in store with an expectation from an online presentation which implies something we simply know nothing about. We do not want you to be frustrated and disappointed but in the same breath neither do we not want to please. We work very hard to offer the best we can, if we don't have it in stock, in the past we have tried to source for our customers or explained why we may no longer have it in stock, etc.
In the confusion of modern life it is easy to forget those human interactions are so important, especially when you have a work ethic and drive to make a difference and you are greeted with the complexity of a medium that is out of your control.
We look forward to continuing to serve all our customers to the best of our ability and strive to keep our store a haven for nurturing and good will but we must learn from experience and share knowledge to stay safe in this online existence which is growing it's tentacles into all aspects of our lives not always so productively as once assumed.
We wish you all good health and happy nurturing as you search out your most precious needs to sustain your health.
signing off for now, Bev
