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Little Dudes #4: What a Steal!

Published By: Mayur Gandhi On: 07/08/2006 08:00

Buyer beware, you're in for a scare!

Krazykatnz. It's a name which makes a knowledgeable gamer shiver and an unknowledgeable (sic) gamers wallet tremble. The sagely people over at NZ Game Collectors know this more than anyone – if you're looking to buy games on TradeMe, try not to get them from Krazykatnz.

Personally, I've dealt with him/her/them a few times before, and though the transactions all met a healthy end one of the following problems occurred...

No communication was received within 5 days.
Payment from them came very late.
Emails were incredibly rude.

But these aren't the problems I'm going to spend time talking about. The biggest problem with Krazykatnz is their false advertising. RARE is a word used far too haphazardly. Anyone in this industry can tell you that marketing is everything, and hell, it's working, they've got 12,000 trades under their collective belt! But honest gamers who aren't in the know are falling for these ploys, losing money which could be better spent... You see, I'm looking out for you!

Check this out – I've typed in 'rare' in the TradeMe search engine, take a look! Most of these are auctions by Krazykatnz, and if they're not, they're for items which are not rare at all.

Spread the word, let people know what's up. If you see an auction on TradeMe for a game where the trader has cited it's a rare item, ask a friend if it's true. It's better you spend five minutes talking to someone than spending an extra $20 never knowing.

With that said, Krazykatnz sometimes has some good deals, but beware of the ploys you must wade through to find them.

Here are some personally recommended game traders...

This comic has been moved, please visit Little-Dudes.co.nz to see it along with a whole bunch more!

This one is actually the first Little Dudes comic I made, originally it was only meant to act as a test of my abilities, but I ended up growing quite fond on it. Nowadays though (20 or so days later, I mean) I don't really like it, it's stylistically a lot different from what I'm doing now but hey – know your roots (and respect them).

I'm not much of a TV person, so when my 43”er died you'd expect me to not really be fussed, I wasn't, but for some reason during the time the TV was away getting fixed I had the urge to use it many-several times. Now, I have a TV in my room too, so why the desire to use the dead 43”? Some people will call it 'Murphy's Law', I call it 'annoying'.

This comic has been moved, please visit Little-Dudes.co.nz to see it along with a whole bunch more!

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