{"id":11431,"date":"2025-06-13T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/?p=11431"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:37:00","slug":"buyer-beware-dice-nest-is-super-shady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/buyer-beware-dice-nest-is-super-shady\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Beware: Dice Nest is super shady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a quick heads up about a Chinese store called <strong>Dice Nest<\/strong>. They carry a few exclusive dice that look pretty cool, but my experience with them has been less than stellar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The stabilized wood dice set I ordered is super wonky with the edges differing in up to 2mm in some of the dice (see photos)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I left a 2-star review on their shop listing which they removed (i.e. they engage in review manipulation and their review ratings cannot be trusted)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They sent me unsolicited promotional e-mails after the purchase, even though that&#8217;s illegal in Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They post on Reddit under the username HandcastDice and make false claims and engage in soft advertising<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dice Nest not only uses their HandcastDice Reddit alias to soft advertise, they also use it to recommend the Dice Nest shop to other Redditors, pretending they are neutral bystanders who aren&#8217;t associated with Dice Nest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dice\/comments\/1lje5p0\/comment\/mzmw4wg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fbuyer-beware-dice-nest-is-super-shady-v0-j37vjjwp8iaf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D939%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1963af166ebcba3f5d4860e4079110623f5341cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[2]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps you wanna think twice about ordering from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"11432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215-931x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215-931x1024.jpeg 931w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215-273x300.jpeg 273w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215-768x845.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215-1397x1536.jpeg 1397w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215-847x932.jpeg 847w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0215.jpeg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"829\" data-id=\"11433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213-1024x829.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213-1024x829.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213-300x243.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213-768x622.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213-1536x1243.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213-847x686.jpeg 847w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0213.jpeg 2021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"951\" data-id=\"11434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214-1024x951.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214-1024x951.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214-300x279.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214-768x713.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214-1536x1426.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214-847x786.jpeg 847w, https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0214.jpeg 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick heads up about a Chinese store called Dice Nest. They carry a few exclusive dice that look pretty cool, but my experience with them has been less than stellar.<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/buyer-beware-dice-nest-is-super-shady\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11460,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions\/11460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}