SouthStand Sandwich Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 So, being bored and all, just got the new Panini world cup sticker album, and look which beauty came out first ...yes, the world's most handsome man... COYR !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I'll keep my £500 or however much it'll take to complete this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judda Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 8 hours ago, ZiderEyed said: I'll keep my £500 or however much it'll take to complete this year. Same. Buy a ST instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbo Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 11 hours ago, ZiderEyed said: I'll keep my £500 or however much it'll take to complete this year. You mean you don’t want a half completed album gathering dust in your living room for the next few years?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 Added it up and with NO duplicates it'll cost £109 to complete... Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Just been on the radio that with average luck and no opportunity to swap it is expected to cost to complete: £767 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said: Just been on the radio that with average luck and no opportunity to swap it is expected to cost to complete: £767 Prices up nearly 100% from the last tournament. Absolutely criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 On 25/03/2018 at 12:49, Robin TBW said: Added it up and with NO duplicates it'll cost £109 to complete... Good luck. Where did you get £109 from? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/panini-s-world-cup-album-costs-a-packet-5vt3wvfsl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red7 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 I'd quit while you're only slightly down. Buy a completed one off eBay in a few years' time for 20 quid or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selred Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 1 minute ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Where did you get £109 from? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/panini-s-world-cup-album-costs-a-packet-5vt3wvfsl He said no duplicates. So every packet would be stickers you haven’t got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 28 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said: Just been on the radio that with average luck and no opportunity to swap it is expected to cost to complete: £767 Criminal. Prices were probably agreed with Bristol Sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 51 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Where did you get £109 from? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/panini-s-world-cup-album-costs-a-packet-5vt3wvfsl With ZERO duplicates it'll be just over £109. There's no way it'd cost £600 though, only an idiot would collect them only by opening packets. You can order stickers individually from the Panini website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Reading this thread at lunchtime was a bad idea. I could really go for a panini now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Just now, BRISTOL86 said: Reading this thread at lunchtime was a bad idea. I could really go for a panini now. Washed down with a Peroni. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingbat Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, Robin TBW said: With ZERO duplicates it'll be just over £109. There's no way it'd cost £700+ though, only an idiot would collect them only their opening packets and trying to do swaps with friends. You can order stickers individually from the Panini website. Or use laststicker.com - I used it pretty effectively to complete the Brazil 2014 album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Groupon have 100 pack (500 sticker) boxes for £65, and eBay sellers are selling individual stickers of your choice at around £2 for 10 Not that it’s cheap still, but if you’re smart about it you should be able to complete it for pretty close to the minimum amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Do grown men actually still collect these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 5 minutes ago, Super said: Do grown men actually still collect these? I’m doing the online free one because I’m a cheapskate but I can definitely still see the appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 50 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said: Reading this thread at lunchtime was a bad idea. I could really go for a panini now. Up there with some of my bigger pet peeves, such as "very unique", or using "momentarily" in the context of soon. It is a panino, or 2 or more panini. Common usage does not make "a panini" or "some paninis" any more acceptable to me. As you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy27 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 14 minutes ago, Super said: Do grown men actually still collect these? Are there grown men that don't? Crivens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 1 minute ago, Coxy27 said: Are there grown men that don't? Crivens... Just wondered. I collected them when I was at school certainly have no interest now. Each to their own though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSSEL85 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 I have recently found my "Premier League 95" sticker book, completed. I remember at Junior school swapping 80 cards (including 5 shiny one's) to get the final player, David Seaman. I do enjoy having a look through it from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 3 hours ago, One Team In Keynsham said: Up there with some of my bigger pet peeves, such as "very unique", or using "momentarily" in the context of soon. It is a panino, or 2 or more panini. Common usage does not make "a panini" or "some paninis" any more acceptable to me. As you were. The place I get them from cut them in half before serving and thus converted from panino to panini by the time I receive it However I do apologise for my unacceptable faux pas! I shall correct it momentarily! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted March 29, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43566749 Filling this year's Panini World Cup sticker book costs £773.60, twice the cost for Euro 2016, according to maths expert Prof Paul Harper. The pages contain 32 squads of players, plus managers, stadiums and World Cup legends, totalling 682 stickers. A pack of five stickers has risen from 50p to 80p - a 60% increase. If you buy 137 packets and never get the same sticker twice, it will cost £109.60, but this is "extremely unlikely", says the professor. Prof Harper, from Cardiff University's School of Mathematics, worked out a formula to include the least probable number of duplicate stickers. In the end, he demonstrated that on average you would need to buy 4,832 stickers - or 967 packets - to complete the Italian-made book. Sticking point One cost-saving measure is swapping stickers between friends, but even with that tactic, filling the album would be expensive. With 10 friends swapping, it could still cost them an average of £247 each to complete the album, according to the professor's calculations. In a statement, Panini said: "If you have difficulty swapping, you can send off to Panini for your missing stickers." "The theoretical cost calculated by the academics assumes that the collector is in a bubble with no one to swap with or no access to the internet to send off to our missing stickers service." In 2016, he made the same calculations for the 680-space Euro sticker book. It was £374, meaning the cost has more than doubled. While the Euro competition only had 24 squads - fewer than the World Cup - there were only two fewer stickers in the book printed two years ago. "I can still recall the joy of finally completing my first Panini album as a young boy for the 1982 World Cup in Spain," said Prof Harper. "Filling an album has become progressively more expensive over the years since then, not just because there are typically more teams competing now, but because Panini have become more creative about allocating spaces." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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