I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Printable Version

I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Printable Version

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I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Nigels - 08-29-2024

It's been a while now, but I just got a job lot of mini's off eBay Smile

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - sunhuntin - 08-30-2024

nice, nigel. are you getting back into them, then? there is another advent calendar due out, too

i found a new box locally yesterday, so got the new ones from that.

still missing 2 from series 24, and 2 from this year. i can find them on a website in the UK, but with postage its $45NZD, far too much for two minis.

and these are what i need still... EDIT: i just bought the monster harold off ebay.

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Destination Realization - 08-30-2024

Hmmm, I may be wrong but read the title

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - sunhuntin - 08-31-2024

yes, he said he was out of the game, but just bought that bulk lot.

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Super - 08-31-2024

Haha....shows you how much this old man pays attention...I don't even remember you collecting Minis Nigel. 🤔

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Nigels - 08-31-2024

(08-30-2024, 01:45 PM)Destination Realization Wrote: Hmmm, I may be wrong but read the title

It read "I GAVE up", not "I GIVE up" Tongue

To be honest I probably would still be collecting them, but since the pandemic they are pretty much impossible to find in stores in the UK. If you can't buy them you can't collect them. I just saw that job lot on eBay and it had some that I didn't have so I decided to buy them. As it happens I have another batch of 35 coming as well lol! This isn't to say I'm going to start collecting them seriously again because as I said FP are making it very difficult to get them here, then they wonder why their profits are dipping, dumb arse company.

(08-31-2024, 08:55 AM)Super Wrote: Haha....shows you how much this old man pays attention...I don't even remember you collecting Minis Nigel. 🤔

Back in the day when you walk in a store and buy them I was, I was even hunting our rarer ones online, but when they became as rare as hens teeth in the stores only to disappear almost totally (apart from old stock here and there) after the pandemic I was sort of forced to give up collecting them. The cost of importing them was way too high.

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Nigels - 09-06-2024

Well, it seems having looked on eBay the other day was a mistake as shown by these;

Found this bundle, a rather nice collectors case with 58 mini's of all sorts...

Then a few days later another little bundle;

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Super - 09-07-2024

So you bought it Nigels?

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Nigels - 09-07-2024

Yes, bought both of those bundles and the one below which turned up today...

Means I've added over 200 mini's to my collection in the last fortnight or so lol!!!

Angel

RE: I Gave Up Collecting Mini's - Super - 09-07-2024

LOL..." I Gave Up Collecting Mini's"