Webkinz Center

I’ve noticed that in some Webkinz retailers, they keep the Webkinz internet codes — the ones that are in plastic pouches around their necks — behind the counter, away from curious hands.  Why?  Because sometimes, they’re target for no-goodnik thieves, which is exactly what happened in Oakland, California the other day.
Wesley Fryer, at Moving at [...]

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Keeping in mind that cheating in Webkinz is something that is strictly frowned upon, and may get you banned, here are a few more Webkinz cheats that you should try (if you’re thinking of getting banned, that is!) that I’ve heard of:
Chocolate Easter Eggs: This trick only works around Easter time! At around Easter [...]

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Yoinks! Ganz, the company that makes Webkinz, has been served a class-action lawsuit by a store in California named “Nuts for Candy”, saying that the way Ganz has forced stores to order NON-Webkinz FIRST, before applying to become a Webkinz seller.
How much are stores required to purchase? About $1000 of non-Webkinz items that Ganz [...]

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Will parents still buy Webkinz for their kids — even when the economy is soft and in a down turn?  According to a new article via the Omaha World Herald, they just might.
The reasoning is that while parents might forgo personal luxuries, they’ll do so far ahead of their own children.  Translation?  They’ll suffer before [...]

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Common Sense Media, a non-profit devoted to promoting media literacy in children, released their annual “Internet Safety Score Card” for 2008, recently. They ranked a number of social networking sites popular amongst teens and tweens, such as Neopets, Webkinz and Club Penguin, across a number of domains such as:

Staff Responsiveness — responding to complaints
Flagging [...]

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Webkinz Chat Plus is a feature on Webkinz World that allows your pet to chat with other pets. However, this is a bit different than the “normal” Webkinz Chat, as you can actually construct your own sentences.
To limit the possibility of inappropriate conversations between children, however, you can only use specific words in the [...]

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Virtual worlds like Webkinz and Neopets have pretty good safeguards to prevent adults from saying or doing inappropriate things with children.  But who’s helping children when other children are the cause of the problem?
There’s a great write up in the Mercury News today about bullying, cheating, and stealing that goes on behind the scenes at [...]

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