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|Founded=2007

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|Website=https://www.okkazeo.com/

|Description=Okkazeo allows board game players selling/buying second hand game

}}Okkazeo<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2025-08-21 |title=Okkazeo Homepage |url=https://www.okkazeo.com/ |website=Official Okkazeo Website |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251126001330/https://www.okkazeo.com/ |archive-date=26 Nov 2025}}</ref> is a French company founded in 2007 that offers a consumer to consumer platform for board games enthusiasts. It allows board game owners to sell board games from their collections to potential buyers. The website is using a reference list of existing board games to make the articles easier to find for adding your copy for sale or find one to buy.

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Okkazeo<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2025-08-21 |title=Okkazeo Homepage |url=https://www.okkazeo.com/ |website=Official Okkazeo Website |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251126001330/https://www.okkazeo.com/ |archive-date=26 Nov 2025}}</ref> is a French company founded in 2007 that offers a consumer to consumer platform for board games enthusiasts. It allows board game owners to sell board games from their collections to potential buyers. The website is using a reference list of existing board games to make the articles easier to find for adding your copy for sale or find one to buy.

==Consumer-impact summary==

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==Incidents==

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===Lifetime membership revoked (''2023'')===

Okkazeo used to offer a "Premium" <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2025-08-21 |title=End of Premium Program |url=https://www.okkazeo.com/users/premium |website=Official Okkazeo website |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251126001330/https://www.okkazeo.com/ |archive-date=26 Nov 2025}}</ref> status to its users. This came with several benefits : it was a '''one-time payment''' to be able to promote 5 active sales simultaneously (instead of only 1 for free users) and additional quality of life advantages. Some users perceived this permanent transaction as a good investment as well as a nice way to promote and encourage a growing website.

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However an email sent to users at the time of the change was more explicit about the impacts:

[[File:VIP ~~Changes~~.jpg|left|thumb|The new VIP subscription continues the advantages of the previous Premium using a yearly fee (instead of a one off payment). It also adds a partnership with a store and offers a time-limited offer for 12€ instead of 15€ if subscribed in the same calendar month of the announce.]]

[[File:Okkazeo VIP changes.jpg|left|thumb|The new VIP subscription continues the advantages of the previous Premium using a yearly fee (instead of a one off payment). It also adds a partnership with a store and offers a time-limited offer for 12€ instead of 15€ if subscribed in the same calendar month of the announce.]]

[[File:VIP ~~Impact~~.jpg|center|thumb|VIP users (theoretically for life) will continue to have access to their privileges up to 1 year after subscription anniversary. If the VIP purchase dates back more than 1 year ago, privileges stop immediately. Users are then encouraged to purchase a yearly subscription on top of the "no longer for life" advantage they purchased. Interestingly, the payment for the premium status is referred to as a "gift" which seems to make it of lesser importance and thus less engaging for the provider.]]

[[File:Okkazeo VIP impact.jpg|center|thumb|VIP users (theoretically for life) will continue to have access to their privileges up to 1 year after subscription anniversary. If the VIP purchase dates back more than 1 year ago, privileges stop immediately. Users are then encouraged to purchase a yearly subscription on top of the "no longer for life" advantage they purchased. Interestingly, the payment for the premium status is referred to as a "gift" which seems to make it of lesser importance and thus less engaging for the provider.]]

==Products==

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 {{CompanyCargo
 |Founded=2007
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 |Website=https://www.okkazeo.com/
 |Description=Okkazeo allows board game players selling/buying second hand game
-}}Okkazeo<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2025-08-21 |title=Okkazeo Homepage |url=https://www.okkazeo.com/ |website=Official Okkazeo Website |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251126001330/https://www.okkazeo.com/ |archive-date=26 Nov 2025}}</ref> is a French company founded in 2007 that offers a consumer to consumer platform for board games enthusiasts. It allows board game owners to sell  board games from their collections to potential buyers. The website is using a reference list of existing board games to make the articles easier to find for adding your copy for sale or find one to buy.
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+Okkazeo<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2025-08-21 |title=Okkazeo Homepage |url=https://www.okkazeo.com/ |website=Official Okkazeo Website |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251126001330/https://www.okkazeo.com/ |archive-date=26 Nov 2025}}</ref> is a French company founded in 2007 that offers a consumer to consumer platform for board games enthusiasts. It allows board game owners to sell  board games from their collections to potential buyers. The website is using a reference list of existing board games to make the articles easier to find for adding your copy for sale or find one to buy.
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
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 ==Incidents==
 This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
 ===Lifetime membership revoked (''2023'')===
 Okkazeo used to offer a "Premium" <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2025-08-21 |title=End of Premium Program |url=https://www.okkazeo.com/users/premium |website=Official Okkazeo website |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251126001330/https://www.okkazeo.com/ |archive-date=26 Nov 2025}}</ref> status to its users. This came with several benefits : it was a '''one-time payment''' to be able to promote 5 active sales simultaneously (instead of only 1 for free users) and additional quality of life advantages. Some users perceived this permanent transaction as a good investment as well as a nice way to promote and encourage a growing website.
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 However an email sent to users at the time of the change was more explicit about the impacts:
-[[File:VIP Changes.jpg|left|thumb|The new VIP subscription continues the advantages of the previous Premium using a yearly fee (instead of a one off payment). It also adds a partnership with a store and offers a time-limited offer for 12€ instead of 15€ if subscribed in the same calendar month of the announce.]]
+[[File:Okkazeo VIP changes.jpg|left|thumb|The new VIP subscription continues the advantages of the previous Premium using a yearly fee (instead of a one off payment). It also adds a partnership with a store and offers a time-limited offer for 12€ instead of 15€ if subscribed in the same calendar month of the announce.]]
-[[File:VIP Impact.jpg|center|thumb|VIP users (theoretically for life) will continue to have access to their privileges up to 1 year after subscription anniversary. If the VIP purchase dates back more than 1 year ago, privileges stop immediately. Users are then encouraged to purchase a yearly subscription on top of the "no longer for life" advantage they purchased. Interestingly, the payment for the premium status is referred to as a "gift" which seems to make it of lesser importance and thus less engaging for the provider.]]
+[[File:Okkazeo VIP impact.jpg|center|thumb|VIP users (theoretically for life) will continue to have access to their privileges up to 1 year after subscription anniversary. If the VIP purchase dates back more than 1 year ago, privileges stop immediately. Users are then encouraged to purchase a yearly subscription on top of the "no longer for life" advantage they purchased. Interestingly, the payment for the premium status is referred to as a "gift" which seems to make it of lesser importance and thus less engaging for the provider.]]
 ==Products==