About
Kakobuy News / kakobuy.news
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A desk built around parcels
Kakobuy News was founded in 2021 in Rotterdam by Marcus Feld and Priya Raghavan, who started out sharing a spreadsheet of agent fees, warehouse photos and delivery times between the two of them. Tomas Lindqvist joined in 2022 to rebuild the rate tables, and the spreadsheet became a publication.
We are three editors and no sales team. Our testing team orders the items it writes about, pays with its own cards, and keeps the parcels. The desk covers shopping agents and the products people buy through them: agent fees and consolidation, QC warehouse photos, shipping line timing, sizing and fit, batch consistency and the paperwork that decides what a parcel costs at the door.
How the desk works
Marcus runs the fortnightly haul test and signs off every score. Priya handles apparel, footwear and QC photo verification. Tomas maintains the versioned rate tables and the duty and threshold notes that sit under each shipping comparison. Anything that goes out with a score has been ordered, opened and handled by at least one of us.
What we will not do
We do not accept payment for a review, we do not let an agent preview a score before publication, and we do not run sponsored rankings. We earn affiliate commission on some links, which we disclose on the pages that carry them.
Changes with a date
Kakobuy News follows changes to agent fees, warehouse procedures and shipping routes alongside documented haul reviews. Announcement dates, effective dates and the date a source was checked help readers separate a new policy from an older test result.
Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Marcus Feld serves as editor-in-chief at Kakobuy News and personally runs its fortnightly consolidated-haul test. The work covers agent fee structures, shipping line selection and cross-border delivery timing, with order records spanning payment, warehouse receipt, QC photo posting and delivery. Weighing parcels on arrival and rebuilding delivered costs from invoices bring the physical shipment and its charges into the comparison table. The same three-item basket is also rerun every 90 days, alongside the regular consolidated-haul tests, as part of Marcus's examination of costs and timing.
Shopping agent fee structures, parcel consolidation economics, shipping line selection and cross-border delivery timing.
Reviews Editor
Priya Raghavan leads reviews at Kakobuy News, focusing on apparel fit, sneaker sizing and batch consistency. Each garment is photographed on arrival in the same 5600K lightbox, measured flat against the listing chart and checked alongside the agent's QC images. Testers across three body types wear apparel through a full working day, while footwear is walked on wet pavement. These procedures bring warehouse photographs, delivered-item measurements and wear conditions together before a fit verdict is written, giving Priya's review work a defined sequence from arrival to use.
Apparel fit, sneaker sizing, warehouse QC photo verification and batch consistency checks.
Research Editor
Tomas Lindqvist maintains the versioned fee and shipping tables behind Kakobuy News comparisons. Current public rate cards provide the basis for rebuilding agent fee schedules, while identical declared weight and volume inputs are run through the calculators to examine checkout charges. Every table is dated, and earlier versions are retained for correction checks. Duty thresholds and exchange rates are reviewed on the same 90-day cycle as the haul tests, connecting price calculations, version records and cross-border conditions within the desk's ongoing research work.
Agent rate card analysis, duty and threshold research, exchange rate tracking and comparison table design.