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Offline core

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Re: playmobil u.s.a. gone mad
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2010, 08:01:51 »
My take/theory/??? ...

There was a previous discussion here with regards to PM US's perceived financial operations - that they did not have enough credit to order substantial quantities from PM DE, especially at year's end.  So what would you do when you need to fill out quite a large quantities of specials to ship around the retail stores this year?  Make a deal with PM DE to get previoud year(s) ex-stock at a discount compared with this year's new specials.
 
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Re: playmobil u.s.a. gone mad
« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2010, 15:19:12 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on January 09, 2010, 06:08:41
Maybe if you have a complete set of "Pals" then you can truly say you collected them all!  ;D

Hi Martin!  :wave:

Actually, I doubt that I do -  I tended to pick up the Target pals/specials (or blisters) when I was there anyway and I would forget which ones I had already bought so I ended up with weird quantities on some of them (8 of the 4531 mummies, for example.  ::))  Also, I usually just bought the ones that I liked or the ones that I wished I had bought when they were originally issued as specials.  Anyway, I don't think of myself (can't admit?) that I am a proper "Playmobil collector" - I am more of an accumulator.  :-[ 
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Re: playmobil u.s.a. gone mad
« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2010, 17:26:25 »
Quote from: core on January 09, 2010, 08:01:51
My take/theory/??? ...

There was a previous discussion here with regards to PM US's perceived financial operations - that they did not have enough credit to order substantial quantities from PM DE, especially at year's end.  So what would you do when you need to fill out quite a large quantities of specials to ship around the retail stores this year?  Make a deal with PM DE to get previoud year(s) ex-stock at a discount compared with this year's new specials.

That would make sense, except that these old specials are apppearing on all the countries' PM websites, not just the USA.

Quote from: Indianna on January 09, 2010, 15:19:12
Hi Martin!  :wave:

Actually, I doubt that I do -  I tended to pick up the Target pals/specials (or blisters) when I was there anyway and I would forget which ones I had already bought so I ended up with weird quantities on some of them (8 of the 4531 mummies, for example.  ::))  Also, I usually just bought the ones that I liked or the ones that I wished I had bought when they were originally issued as specials.  Anyway, I don't think of myself (can't admit?) that I am a proper "Playmobil collector" - I am more of an accumulator.  :-[ 

I got quite a few "Pals" off eBay to fill in gaps in my accumulation, but none of them are still boxed.  ::)
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