Title: Geek Node News: Unbowed, Unbroken, Unbent - No more BS Reviews
Author: Darth Zady Bun
Recovered Author: Darth Zady Bun
Published Date: 2016-09-17
Original URL: https://geeknode.co.za/2016/09/geek-node-news-unbowed-unbroken-unbent-no-bs-reviews
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Categories: Geek Node News
Tags: actionfigure, Darthzadybun, feature, geekygoods, intro, new, news, Reviews, Zaid Hassen Motala

- Darth Zady Bun

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Introduction – Why We Need Reviews

We live in a world where you can buy cheese in a can, candy floss flavored grapes (I swear – Google it!) and there are new collector grade products announced every other day.

Comic book “counter culture” has become “popular culture”.

What a time to be alive!

Unfortunately, with everything rising except salaries, it’s nearly impossible to determine whether something on offer is worth grabbing there and then, or if you should wait for the next item to be announced instead.

It is for this reason above all that you need straightforward, no nonsense and simple to understand product reviews.

Just Another Idle Sunday

Before I introduce myself, lets run through a scenario.

You are in bed scrolling lazily through Facebook and your eyes widen with glee as you learn that a local comic book store is having a flash sale.

The drool drips off your chin as you view image after image of the eye candy (the products on sale, not the stuff on your incognito tab) available.

Should you bite the bullet and fork out some of your hard earned Madiba-Print-Moolas on a few treats for yourself? Oh Hella Yeah!

The stock is limited so you frantically Google every item on offer. You get price estimates and read dozens of Amazon reviews. Hell, you even read the Wikipedia page for the character whose merchandise you are plotting for good measure.

You convince yourself that something on offer is a grail item (even though you didn’t care that it existed before now). A series of flow charts and Venn diagrams are compiled, in fact you go so far as to whip out the old Ouija board to work out if you should make the purchase. Yes – Make it so!

Alas- verily fate doth do conspire against thee and your heart sinks when you realise that you can’t even pay attention, much less pay the purchase price for this grail.

“Screw fate! This is a grail!” you exclaim defiantly and place your order anyway.

The package (the figure you bought, this is not that kinda website) is delivered and you gingerly liberate your prize from it’s packaging…

Your eyes widen in horror as you learn that you were suckered into buying a glorified cold cast porcelain/ vinyl//PVC turdball in fancy wrapping.

All because the reviews you relied on to make your purchase decision were a little disingenuous.

No more…

Enter The New Guy

Hi! I’m Zaid. I collect a little bit of everything from action figures, statues and comics all the way through to games (PS for life y’all).

I am also going to help you make better collecting decisions by investigating, inspecting and deconstructing the sales fluff we see in relation to merchandise available to us and will report my findings here on the Geek Node.

I will provide you with a series of no holds barred, unabashed, unapologetic and unbiased count-for-count recounts of the items I get to review.

As of right now, the only thing you have to worry about is how to liberate a set of kidneys to get the money to pay for your stuff.

Easy enough right?

Lets do this.

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Darth Zady Bun

Guest Contributor

Zaid is a story teller, traveller, artist, entertainer and comic culture geek of note.

Powered by chocolate, and guided by an ever growing bucket (and collectibles) list, he finances his addiction to geek merchandise, comic books, action figures and all the cold cast porcelain and PVC pieces of heaven he can buy by giving (mostly) legal advice. He is also rumoured to have once eaten an entire pack of Marie Biscuits with a single mug of Five Roses Tea.

Witnesses deny the incident.

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