About Us

Marion Zollinger
Head of Customer Care and Order Handling
Nico Meili
Deputy Head of Order Handling
Sebastian Castorph
Customer Care
Yvonne Gleim
Customer Care
Isabelle Roten
Customer Care
Piera Forleo
Customer Care
Françoise Waespi
Customer Care
Rosa-Maria Caamaño
Customer Care
Martina Birchler
Customer Care
 

E-mail: support@supermagnete.fr
Phone: +41 43 399 03 59
Fax: +41 43 466 95 10


Information Technology

Reto Heygel
Chief Information Technology
Walter Bürki
Software Developer
Michael Psarros
Software Developer
Matthias Ragaz
System-Administrator

Matthias Ackermann
Chief Executive Officers
Claudia Ackermann
Finance, Bookkeeping
Roger Schnider
Marketing
Cora Egli
Applications
Keiko Saile

 

Security, Financial Collection

Yoyo
 
Employees of the sheltered workshop Murghof in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) are responsible for stocking and packaging of our magnets.
Each package is assembled with great care and the contents checked twice.
We are glad to have found a reliable and service-oriented partner for this important task in sheltered workshop Murghof. If you are in a great hurry it is sometimes possible to pick up your order directly in Frauenfeld - after having arranged it with us.
The parcels for our customers in the European Union are sent from Konstanz (Germany) by DHL/GermanPost World Net.
All packages are insured against loss and need to be signed by the receiver.
Packages for our Swiss customers as well as for customers outside the EU are sent by Swiss Post.
January 2003
www.supermagnete.ch goes online.
March 2003
Webcraft GmbH is founded.
June 2003
Stocking, packaging and delivery are outsourced to a logistics company.
March 2004
www.supermagnete.de goes online. Deliveries to customers in Germany are sent from Konstanz, Germany. With that move all customs and VAT red tape falls away for our German customers.
June 2004
Murghof (a sheltered workshop which provides a protected working environment for handicapped people) takes care of stocking, packaging and arranging delivery, see Our Partners.
November 2005
All customers in the European Union receive their packages from our delivery warehouse in Konstanz, Germany. This greatly improves runtime, cost and quality of the deliveries for our EU customers.
June 2006
Through a logo competition we choose our new Supermagnete logo.
July 2006
The English language version of the shop goes online.
August 2006
The French language version of the shop goes online.
November 2006
The Italian version of the shop goes online.
December 2006
The Spanish and the Dutch versions of the shop go online.
February 2007
The Polish and the Russian versions of the shop go online.
March 2007
The slovenian version of the shop goes online.
May 2007
The Greek, Czech, Slovakian and Romanian versions of the shop go online.
October 2007
The online game Guess the language goes online.
November 2007
We move into new offices with three times the space.
November 2007
The group Applications goes online.
December 2007
The portuguese version of the shop goes online.
February 2008
The Bulgarian, Finnish, Lithuanian and Hungarian versions of the shop go online.
April 2008
www.supermagnete.fr goes online.
September 2008
www.supermagnete.it goes online.
October 2008
Our logistics partner moves into a new dispatch center of 500 square meters that is being utilised for storage, packaging and shipment of our supermagnets.
January 2009
www.supermagnete.nl goes online.
How does one get the idea of selling magnets - of all things - on the web?
It all started in 2001, when I ordered, more by chance than by necessity, some neodymium magnets from a webshop in the US. These magnets caused great amusement and amazement amongst all my friends. Nobody had seen such absurdly strong magnets before.
When at the end of 2002 a career move was in order, I decided to program a webshop, over which I would sell these type of magnets. As a software engineer I had already made quite a few purchases on the web and had thereby encountered a lot of online shops that didn't work properly.
Chances that one could successfully close the order, and then actually receive the ordered items in the time span promised were at about 50%.
Inquiries by e-mail were often not answered at all or one received a pre-fabricated answer that didn't answer the question submitted. On the phone often nobody could be reached.
Delivery was rarely on time, products were suddenly not available anymore, orders were lost and so on, and so on.
I pledged to myself to avoid all mistakes that I had encountered on other shops, to keep the shopping process as simple as possible, and to answer each and every e-mail, if possible within hours.
Meanwhile our team has quickly grown, but we keep with the principle of a simple and easy to use website as well as first class and personal customer care.
Today, a good 7 years later, with more than 230'000 orders fulfilled, all the overwhelmingly positive feedback we get from our customers seems to indicate that we are on track.
We are looking forward to serving you, too.
Sincerely, Matt Ackermann
This website was developed using open source software.
Our thanks go to the developers of following software packages:

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In a Nutshell
  • All prices include 19,6% VAT.
  • Ordered today - sent tomorrow!
  • Postage insured France EUR 6,50 (shipment to other countries)
  • Pre-payment via credit card or bank transfer; for institutions and companies also on account
         
  • Minimum order requirement EUR 15,00 (below surcharge of EUR 7,00)

For details, see Terms of Delivery

Applications
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