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  <author>Ben Lilley</author>
  <body-html>&lt;p&gt;We&#8217;re all about &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;AWESOMENESS&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#8220;What the fire truck does that mean?&#8221; you might ask. It means we&#8217;ll deliver you the best, brand spanking new release games at excellent discounted prices, to your doorstep the day they are released. Combine all that with our service, which we have been told is awesome, spells awesomeness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are real people with serious gaming addictions (OR: &#8230;real people who are serious gaming enthusiasts). We live and breathe games. Games. Games. Games [drool]. Like you, we were sick of being reamed by the fat cat retailers whose only passion for gaming was what it did for their bank balances. They&#8217;d even shaft us all for secondhand goods. &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OMG&lt;/span&gt; that sucks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now we&#8217;re not sure what your Mums taught you, but ours always said, &#8220;Never bite the hand that feeds you.&#8221; (And especially don&#8217;t roger it.) Good advice, because empty tummies suck too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So we searched for a better way. Like that guy who started those red sheds, we wanted to share the love and give everyone a bargain &#8211; but with real quality gear. You know what? This better way didn&#8217;t exist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But we knew there had to be a better way. Retailers were paying rent for large spaces to hold dead stock, at inflated prices. And they were making us pay for that. So having warehouses full of games and making people pay for those overheads was not the answer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So we got thinking, wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if you placed your order before the game was released and as thanks you received an early bird discount? Why yes it would. The road to enlightenment (cue choir boy music) dawned on us. Pre-sales was the way to go!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No more paying for storage. No more getting reamed. Just great prices, great service, and the latest games on your doorstep the day they are released. That&#8217;s right &#8211; you don&#8217;t even have to leave your gaming haven to get the latest and greatest games on their release day!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So that&#8217;s how &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VGN&lt;/span&gt; was born and continues to operate. We still offer great deals after release day and the rest as they say, is history. So here you are at New Zealand&#8217;s leading online gaming store for your gaming needs. Welcome and thanks. Now go spend some money and make you and us happy &#9786;. To awesomeness.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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  <title>About Us</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-09-30T13:27:27+13:00</updated-at>
  <body>We&#8217;re all about AWESOMENESS.

&#8220;What the fire truck does that mean?&#8221; you might ask. It means we&#8217;ll deliver you the best, brand spanking new release games at excellent discounted prices, to your doorstep the day they are released. Combine all that with our service, which we have been told is awesome, spells awesomeness.

We are real people with serious gaming addictions (OR: &#8230;real people who are serious gaming enthusiasts). We live and breathe games. Games. Games. Games [drool]. Like you, we were sick of being reamed by the fat cat retailers whose only passion for gaming was what it did for their bank balances. They&#8217;d even shaft us all for secondhand goods. OMG that sucks.

Now we&#8217;re not sure what your Mums taught you, but ours always said, &#8220;Never bite the hand that feeds you.&#8221; (And especially don&#8217;t roger it.) Good advice, because empty tummies suck too.

So we searched for a better way. Like that guy who started those red sheds, we wanted to share the love and give everyone a bargain &#8211; but with real quality gear. You know what? This better way didn&#8217;t exist. 

But we knew there had to be a better way. Retailers were paying rent for large spaces to hold dead stock, at inflated prices. And they were making us pay for that. So having warehouses full of games and making people pay for those overheads was not the answer.

So we got thinking, wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if you placed your order before the game was released and as thanks you received an early bird discount? Why yes it would. The road to enlightenment (cue choir boy music) dawned on us. Pre-sales was the way to go!

No more paying for storage. No more getting reamed. Just great prices, great service, and the latest games on your doorstep the day they are released. That&#8217;s right &#8211; you don&#8217;t even have to leave your gaming haven to get the latest and greatest games on their release day!

So that&#8217;s how VGN was born and continues to operate. We still offer great deals after release day and the rest as they say, is history. So here you are at New Zealand&#8217;s leading online gaming store for your gaming needs. Welcome and thanks. Now go spend some money and make you and us happy &#9786;. To awesomeness.
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