New Zealand's major electronics retailers are yet to stock the devices, but Josh Maunsell of screenhug. co.nz has imported several from China and expects customers to snap them up on Trade Me for $14.95.
"It's easier to take a selfie because there's this long rod which goes out and you can fit a bigger group in if you want," he said.
"I noticed heaps of them when I was overseas in Hong Kong recently, people with their phones on the end of these poles taking photos like that because they can't be bothered asking someone else to take it for them."
He imagined New Zealanders would soon catch on.
"I guess if you're confident then it doesn't really matter if it looks a bit dumb."
Internet Party leader Laila Harre, who recently posted a poorly-taken group selfie from a union conference, said she would have no qualms about using a selfie stick.
"I think that would improve my selfie performance by a country mile," she said.
"A stick would be fantastic because I have a tremor that I was born with and that does make my selfie product kind of shaky."
"Selfie" was the Oxford Dictionary word of last year, after everyone from Barack Obama to the Pope joined in the trend.
