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Buying Official Genshin Impact Merch From China Safely
A reader in Manchester sent me photos of a Hu Tao acrylic stand she had bought from a marketplace listing that described it as...
Every Lunar New Year sale, the forum I used to moderate got the same wave of posts. Someone in the UK wanted to gift a co-op game to a friend in Brazil or the Philippines, clicked "Purchase as a gift," paid, and then found the gift could...
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A reader in Manchester sent me photos of a Hu Tao acrylic stand she had bought from a marketplace listing that described it as...
Games
A pity timer is the quiet rule inside many games that guarantees a rare item after a set number of tries, so a run of bad luck...
Fan Merchandise
Enamel pins went from niche hobby to mainstream merchandise seemingly overnight, and now they fall out of every convention bag,...
Shopping Guides
The best fan merchandise often lives on the sites nobody has heard of, a small specialist shop, an overseas platform, a seller...
Games
Games taught a generation to read rarity at a glance, the colour coded tiers that mark an item as common, rare, or legendary.
Games
Many games include a trade up system, a way to hand over several lesser items and receive one better one in return.
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CN Fans is written by three people who spend too much time thinking about what to buy, where to buy it, and whether it was worth it. We cover fan merchandise, digital products, online gaming purchases, and the shopping habits that make sense for people who care about getting it right.