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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2016 22:34:12 GMT
Heh heh heh.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 10, 2016 22:31:51 GMT
Today I got home to find a packet of joy from Topps had arrived containing my last few missing stickers. I am now complete, and the bonus wallchart is in the post too. So I am done! and the cover hasn't come off.
I reckon I have around 75 stickers heading for the bin that would be better off in your album Ralph; the ones from part one you needed listed further up thread plus 60 or so I've got left over from Part 2. More than happy to send them on if you tell me where.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 10, 2016 22:53:31 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Calamity! CALAMITY!
I have just stuck my final stickers only to discover I missed one when ordering the final few! The satisfaction of completion is denied by the absence of sticker #273!
ARG!! there is a HOLE in my collection!
Pinwig is not having a good evening.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 11, 2016 8:39:07 GMT
I will take...the stickers....and there my quest will end....
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 11, 2016 19:34:24 GMT
Saved! Although the limiting system means you can't order more than 25 stickers overall per payment account, you can order in as many goes as you like up to that 25. So Topps are now sending me one sticker at a cost of 10p to me, and god knows what in envelope, postage and invoice printing costs to them.
I shall be complete no matter the cost... (even if it is only 10p)
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 15, 2016 20:02:27 GMT
A mysterious package of stickers has arrived. It begins...again!
*froths at mouth*
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 15, 2016 20:45:52 GMT
They have been stuck...which has reignited the fever...but I am still 105 stickers short of completion!
*screams*
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 15, 2016 21:53:55 GMT
Mwaha! The evilness of my evil is very evil.
You could persuade people to buy direct from topps for you. Postage is free so for 2.50 you get 25 stickers. I tried to order two sets, in my name and the missus, but used my PayPal account for both. One got cancelled and refunded, but when I reordered and used her PayPal it was fine.
Course if you have empty packets around, the wallchart offer also gets you another 18 stickers and a poster for them to go on for the price of a couple of stamps. Those comprise 12 normal and 6 shiny.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2016 21:45:13 GMT
The saga continues!
An envelope arrived from Topps today with the last missing sticker. Except it wasn't. The invoice showed I'd ordered the right sticker, but they sent the wrong one!
And what's more the wrong sticker was the sparkly old man Luke!
Email to customer support sent...
Still incomplete...
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2016 8:09:45 GMT
I am sure Andu would like the sparkly Old Man Luke sticker.
I am on the horns of a dilemma! I would need to buy five part 2 packs to get the wrappers to send off for the wallchart thingy. Then I would have to co-ordinate with several folk to get the round about 100 stickers I would still need! This seems fiendishly complicated and TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 18, 2016 20:58:58 GMT
I can help there. I actually kept back 5 part two wrappers in case you wanted to get the wall chart but didn't send them as I thought you'd moved on. If you've got five part one wrappers it's worth getting the wall chart for the price of a couple of SAEs. I will send the part 2 ones up to you tomorrow along with the old man Luke sticker for Andy.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2016 21:16:10 GMT
Hooray!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2016 13:54:59 GMT
The sparkly Old Man Luke picture has arrived for Andu!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 22, 2016 20:57:31 GMT
Excellent. I hope he sticks it somewhere appropriate.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2016 21:52:06 GMT
It's probably best not to know where he will stick it.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 25, 2016 22:57:16 GMT
A week after contacting customer support I am still bereft of the all important #273. Amid the Bank Holiday madness tomorrow is my only hope of seeing the postman until Tuesday.
I am tense.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 26, 2016 10:43:40 GMT
Noooo!! Postman brought no sticker. This is becoming intensely frustrating. Which in itself is quite ridiculous, which makes it even more frustrating. It should have been here by Thursday. I believe they have not sent it. I will never complete this sodding album.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 26, 2016 11:29:06 GMT
I have lost the will to go on any further.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 30, 2016 9:31:30 GMT
STILL no #273. ARG!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 9, 2016 12:22:47 GMT
Today the saga concludes. After several more emails to Topps' customer support, #273 finally arrived in the post. The album is complete. All 350 stickers are now in their respective places and I rest easy.
The end.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2016 13:11:02 GMT
Well done.
I failed...I failed...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 2, 2017 22:57:12 GMT
After inspection it seems the Rogue One album is a shadow of last year's behemoth. 40 page album instead of 64, 200 sticker set instead of 350. No text stickers. No poster to send off for. It also looks like the album doesn't actually tell the story, it's all themed pages on characters and vehicles. It does have the foil stickers again though, same as before one to a pack.
I wonder if that's because the last one didn't sell well, or because they anticipated less interest for this film. Still, I'm tempted to buy a sealed box of fifty packets to see how close I get to a set.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2017 17:47:41 GMT
Shamefully I took the easy option. I bought a full set of 200 stickers for twenty quid from ebay, which equates to buying 40 packets at retail price and getting no swaps. The most cost effective way to do it. But it's denied me all the packet opening fun and I now feel empty and devoid of the desire to stick them in.
I also seem to have completely lost the album. Absolutely no idea where I put it.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2017 18:48:11 GMT
Oh dear. On both counts.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2017 19:25:29 GMT
I'm really quite surprised. There are only a handful of places it can be, but it ain't with the Force Awakens one. Mystery.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2017 19:42:38 GMT
It is clearly karma for your cheating
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