About Us

Mighty Ape is one of Australia’s leading e-commerce web sites and the winner of numerous awards including the 2009 NZ NetGuide Web Award for “Best Online Shopping Site”.

We’re bananas about online shopping and we’re having a blast building a world-class online shopping site for Australians.

We’re specialists in Games, Movies, Music and Books and we employ a team of experts to ensure we stock the very best products that can be delivered anywhere in Australia quickly and without breaking the bank.

We’ve built our business on providing the very best customer service and ensuring our site is one we’d be proud to recommend to our friends. We source great deals, offer fast shipping and have a dedicated customer support team that's willing and eager to help you.

Mighty Ape.com.au was launched in March 2010 but we've been operating in New Zealand since 2008.

We believe…

• online shopping should be fun
• holding stock is the key to fast delivery times
• in putting the customer first and being available when things go wrong
• in keeping it real (no fancy TV ads, fancy offices or even fancy haircuts)

How are we doing? Check out what our customers are saying about us…

What makes Mighty Ape mighty?

Tonnes of stock

Unlike most online stores, we hold stock…tonnes of stock. Our distribution centre is packed to the ceiling full of thousands of items that can be delivered anywhere in Australia.

Fast shipping

We know you don't like waiting for your order, and neither do we. We work our tails off to get your order out the door fast. In stock orders placed before 1PM Monday-Friday are dispatched on the same day you place your order. Out of stock items are ordered in and shipped the same day they arrive in stock.

Best service

When you're parting with your hard earned cash to buy the products you love, we know it's important to be there should things go wrong. We have a full-time customer support team who are willing and eager to help. We offer 1800 phone support, email support and you can even follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We're real people and don't hide behind our screens!

Cool web site

We're true Internet people, not old-school retailers trying to sell online. We invest a lot of time into our web site and have an in-house team of developers and designers building the site from the ground up. We love working on the site and hope you enjoy using it too!

Wide range

There are over a million products for sale on Mighty Ape across all our categories. Unlike retail stores, we're not restricted by what we can fit on our shelves and have speedy access to millions of products from all our suppliers both local and abroad. If you're looking for something obscure, chances are we have it.

Our company

We're fiercely independent and pride ourselves on putting our customers first. The business was founded by Simon Barton who also co-founded Zillion and Gameplanet.

Our team is currently made up of over 30 very dedicated monkeys including Simon, Vicki, Rose, Gaz, Matt P, Dylan, Shane, Pete, Scott, Tsai, Moana, Kristin, Ruth, Chris H, Rhia, Chris S, Richard, Alastair, Annemarie, Matt H, Justin, Mary Anne, Leona, Toni, Jaimee, Justin, Samantha, Che and Ben.

Where did the name Mighty Ape come from?

The name is paying homage to the mighty ape himself – Kong.

Who the heck is Al?

Al is our mascot. Al was named in honour of the original Space Monkeys (I-V). Unlike the space program, no monkeys were harmed while making this web site (well, other than web monkeys).