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Marcus FeldEditor-in-Chief

Shopping agent fee structures, parcel consolidation economics, shipping line selection and cross-border delivery timing.

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.

Hoe ik test

Marcus Feld opens an account with every agent scored and orders the same three-item basket using a personal card. Payment, warehouse receipt, QC photo posting and delivery are logged. Each parcel is weighed on arrival, its delivered cost is rebuilt from the invoices, and the basket is rerun every 90 days to keep the comparison table like for like.

Kwalificaties

Freight Forwarding Operations CertificateSTC Group, Rotterdam 2013
Advanced Consumer Reporting WorkshopDutch Journalism Training Centre 2018

Loopbaan

2011Joined a Rotterdam freight forwarder as a documentation clerk
2013Promoted to logistics coordinator for groupage shipments
2015Moved to consumer publishing, covering cross-border e-commerce
2018Senior writer on parcel forwarding and import costs
2021Co-founded Kakobuy News in Rotterdam

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Priya RaghavanReviews Editor

Apparel fit, sneaker sizing, warehouse QC photo verification and batch consistency checks.

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.

Hoe ik test

Priya Raghavan photographs every garment on arrival in the same 5600K lightbox, compares its flat dimensions with the listing chart and checks agent QC photographs beside the parcel contents. Testers across three body types wear apparel through a full working day, and footwear is walked on wet pavement before any fit verdict is written.

Kwalificaties

Textile Quality Control CertificateTiruppur Textile Training Institute 2015
Applied Statistics for Product TestingRotterdam University of Applied Sciences 2021

Loopbaan

2014Quality-control assistant at a knitwear exporter in Tiruppur
2016QC technician handling buyer specification checks and pre-shipment inspections
2019Started writing e-commerce fit and sizing guides
2021Joined Kakobuy News as reviews editor
2023Standardised the desk's QC photo comparison routine

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Tomas LindqvistResearch Editor

Agent rate card analysis, duty and threshold research, exchange rate tracking and comparison table design.

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.

Hoe ik test

Tomas Lindqvist rebuilds each agent's fee schedule from current public rate cards, then enters the same declared weight and volume into every calculator to examine what checkout actually charges. Each table is dated and prior versions are kept for correction checks. Duty thresholds and exchange rates are rechecked on the same 90-day cycle as the haul tests.

Kwalificaties

Data Analysis for JournalistsRotterdam School of Journalism 2017
Customs and Import Compliance FundamentalsDutch Association of Freight Forwarders 2019

Loopbaan

2013Pricing analyst at a Nordic parcel carrier, modelling zone rates
2017Moved into data journalism, covering shipping and import costs
2019Built rate comparison tools for a trade publication
2022Joined Kakobuy News as research editor
2024Moved the desk's fee tables to a versioned, dated format

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Marcus FeldEditor-in-Chief

Shopping agent fee structures, parcel consolidation economics, shipping line selection and cross-border delivery timing.
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.
Hoe ik test
Marcus Feld opens an account with every agent scored and orders the same three-item basket using a personal card. Payment, warehouse receipt, QC photo posting and delivery are logged. Each parcel is weighed on arrival, its delivered cost is rebuilt from the invoices, and the basket is rerun every 90 days to keep the comparison table like for like.
Kwalificaties
- Freight Forwarding Operations CertificateSTC Group, Rotterdam 2013
- Advanced Consumer Reporting WorkshopDutch Journalism Training Centre 2018
Loopbaan
1. 2011Joined a Rotterdam freight forwarder as a documentation clerk
2. 2013Promoted to logistics coordinator for groupage shipments
3. 2015Moved to consumer publishing, covering cross-border e-commerce
4. 2018Senior writer on parcel forwarding and import costs
5. 2021Co-founded Kakobuy News in Rotterdam
Volledig profiel bekijken →
Priya RaghavanReviews Editor

Apparel fit, sneaker sizing, warehouse QC photo verification and batch consistency checks.
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.
Hoe ik test
Priya Raghavan photographs every garment on arrival in the same 5600K lightbox, compares its flat dimensions with the listing chart and checks agent QC photographs beside the parcel contents. Testers across three body types wear apparel through a full working day, and footwear is walked on wet pavement before any fit verdict is written.
Kwalificaties
- Textile Quality Control CertificateTiruppur Textile Training Institute 2015
- Applied Statistics for Product TestingRotterdam University of Applied Sciences 2021
Loopbaan
1. 2014Quality-control assistant at a knitwear exporter in Tiruppur
2. 2016QC technician handling buyer specification checks and pre-shipment inspections
3. 2019Started writing e-commerce fit and sizing guides
4. 2021Joined Kakobuy News as reviews editor
5. 2023Standardised the desk's QC photo comparison routine
Volledig profiel bekijken →
Tomas LindqvistResearch Editor

Agent rate card analysis, duty and threshold research, exchange rate tracking and comparison table design.
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.
Hoe ik test
Tomas Lindqvist rebuilds each agent's fee schedule from current public rate cards, then enters the same declared weight and volume into every calculator to examine what checkout actually charges. Each table is dated and prior versions are kept for correction checks. Duty thresholds and exchange rates are rechecked on the same 90-day cycle as the haul tests.
Kwalificaties
- Data Analysis for JournalistsRotterdam School of Journalism 2017
- Customs and Import Compliance FundamentalsDutch Association of Freight Forwarders 2019
Loopbaan
1. 2013Pricing analyst at a Nordic parcel carrier, modelling zone rates
2. 2017Moved into data journalism, covering shipping and import costs
3. 2019Built rate comparison tools for a trade publication
4. 2022Joined Kakobuy News as research editor
5. 2024Moved the desk's fee tables to a versioned, dated format
Volledig profiel bekijken →