Geekcrate.co.za

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Awesome site!

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What is Geek Crate?

Geek Crate is an amazing new product based in Cape Town, South Africa. For just R300 p/m (that's including the price of shipping), a Crate filled with mystery arrives at your door every month.
What's in the Crate, you ask? Good question. Our Geek Crates contain different items every month - comic books, clothing, tickets, collectables and more...

We take great pride in our Crates and make sure that everyone is packed with quality items worthy of any Geek's attention.

So sign up today and get your Geek Crates ASAP.

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A friend got his first one today, he wasnt that happy with it.
Geekcrate tshirt, 1 comic, 1 pack of Marvel mini top trumps, 2 Zang caffeinated chocolates, 2 plastic Warhammer minis

He said if it was at least a decent tshirt he would have been happy, but since it is just their tshirt he wasnt that impressed.
 
Definitely a cool idea. I love receiving parcels even when I know what's in them :p. But R300 is a bit of a steep monthly commitment. I'll follow initial impressions first.
 
I saw their 'demo' crate pic on the site and it didn't look worth the money at all. Glad I decided to give it a miss.

Compared to what you get in the Lootcrate this is an epic fail.
 
Just found this pic of the contents on FB:

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That's so bad as to almost be daylight robbery. Joh, what a bunch of crap for R300. :wtf: I would honestly ask for a refund.
 
Looks like some guys trying to cash in on a fantastic idea...

I just dont get how these guys can justify this? Its not even a geek "crate" its a geek cardboard box...

Also do they just throw in a gaming magazine for shits? If i wanted a nag i would go to the shop and buy one... Now are we supposed to wait and see what the crate has before buying anything?
 
Looking at their responses on MyBB, I think these students are in over their heads. They did not do market research and they do not understand their demographic. Hopefully they can turn this around, but they were definitely not prepared before they started this company.

I would rather support a local company than have another US company come to SA, but at this point the value compared to Lootcrate is incredibly low.
 
Graal said:
Looking at their responses on MyBB, I think these students are in over their heads. They did not do market research and they do not understand their demographic. Hopefully they can turn this around, but they were definitely not prepared before they started this company.

I would rather support a local company than have another US company come to SA, but at this point the value compared to Lootcrate is incredibly low.
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It makes little difference. Most of these products are from the US anyway. It's not like the local SA company would produce local comics, local figures, local games, local anime and so on. All of this stuff comes from a handful of nations (US, Japan, UK, Korea and some European countries like Poland for Witcher) and 99% of manufacturing is in China.
 
Personally I don't understand why an individual would undertake this. AWX would have been perfect since they already have the suppliers, customers and reputation. University kids just don't have the required information for something like this.
 
Ike_009 said:
Personally I don't understand why an individual would undertake this. AWX would have been perfect since they already have the suppliers, customers and reputation. University kids just don't have the required information for something like this.
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And they're expensive as heck. Unless they were to sell knock off Chinese made counterfeit merchandise like much of the cheap stuff on Ebay.
 
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