A-Team vintage sticker album

[Jukebag]

I know this isn't really relevant, but it's still TV related I suppose, and besides there's no other related thread.

Came across this A-Team sticker album:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-A-Team-Vintage-Pani...

Is it just me or is this seller having a laugh?. 100 quid for a 1980s sticker album?. I suspect these are very rare and collectable?. But even so that's just ridiculous. Who determines the value of these things? it's not as if these are classic cars and artworks. I can think of lots of things to do with a spare £100 (like paying for shopping and bills lol), but not something like that.

There's also a Star Wars sticker album for about the same, with about £13.00 postage lol. How the hell does it cost 13 quid to post a sticker album which probably weighs a few grams?. I can understand the Star Wars album as everything vintage Star Wars memorabilia is in demand.

Edited by Jukebag on Sunday 26th January 12:58

Edited by Jukebag on Sunday 26th January 15:02

[dogbucket]

I assume somebody is chancing their arm as being a rare item means there is no established market value. But then rare doesn't necessarily mean something has great value.

I bought an original 1980s A-Team Thermos lunchbox to use at work and I forget what it cost but was pretty cheap and was shipped from America. I doubt it ever had much value and it is now well used and starting to fade.

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Jukebag said:

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There's also a Star Wars sticker album for about the same, with about £13.00 postage lol. How the hell does it cost 13 quid to post a sticker album which probably weighs a few grams?. I can understand the Star Wars album as everything vintage Star Wars memorabilia is in demand.

Edited by Jukebag on Sunday 26th January 12:58

Weird. If it's the same Star Wars item it shows 13.99 post, but when you click on the item it shows free. Muddle up with destination country?

[Jukebag]

I agree, lie likely someone chancing and trying to give the impression it is rare, and it could be but like you say that doesn't mean great value.

I don't remember any A Team album for some strange reason as I used to watch the show, though I never realised they made A Team toys like the van, but I have fond memories of having the Garfield sticker album and collecting the stickers from the local shop in the hope that the packet I bought didn't have stickers I had already got lol. I'm not sure if I ever did complete the album. I also remember the Real Ghostbusters album. Can't believe this was 30 years ago now. I can understand the nostalgia appeal with these things though.

Take a look at this at £149.99:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Smash-Hits-1984-Vintage...

Not TV related as such here, but here's a pricey tem:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-X-Factor-magazine-C...

I still have every single edition of this magazine, though I only have the one binder. It's one thing I will be keeping hold of regardless if they're worth anything or not.

[mygoldfishbowl]

If there were dozens of these being sold for 8.50 then that would be what these are worth, but there isn't so surely the value is judged by the buyer. If someone really wants it and is happy to pay 99.99 then that is what it's worth.

Personally I think it's really cool and easily worth 99.99 of anyone's money. .

Edit. I once paid more than a tenner for a cardboard VHS advertising bust of Wonder Woman. I still have it and although I was pissed at the time it was definitely money well spent.

Edited by mygoldfishbowl on Sunday 26th January 17:09

[yellowjack]

Can you smell it? Ammonia! They use it on the floors, and it eats through the soles of you're shoes...



Gotta love The A Team, but you'd have to be really keen or nostalgic to want to part with £100 for a sticker album...

But then again, it's probably better value than spending a fortune on a part-work magazine to build your own model of a Spitfire/GT40/The Titanic/Ferrari 40 or whatever the current load of tat is. "Only £2.99 for part one. Part 2 is £5.99!" Then in the on-screen small print you see that the remaining 97 parts are £8.99 apiece, adding up to the thick end of £900.

[Troubleatmill]

An item is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

Heck, some people pay millions for a stamp or a comic mag because it is old, rare and in mint condition.

[Old_Skool_Fool]

Jukebag said:

I know this isn't really relevant, but it's still TV related I suppose, and besides there's no other related thread.

Came across this A-Team sticker album:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-A-Team-Vintage-Pani...

Is it just me or is this seller having a laugh?. 100 quid for a 1980s sticker album?. I suspect these are very rare and collectable?. But even so that's just ridiculous. Who determines the value of these things? it's not as if these are classic cars and artworks. I can think of lots of things to do with a spare £100 (like paying for shopping and bills lol), but not something like that.

There's also a Star Wars sticker album for about the same, with about £13.00 postage lol. How the hell does it cost 13 quid to post a sticker album which probably weighs a few grams?. I can understand the Star Wars album as everything vintage Star Wars memorabilia is in demand.

Edited by Jukebag on Sunday 26th January 12:58

Edited by Jukebag on Sunday 26th January 15:02

The price for the A-Team album and postage for the Star Wars album are just people chancing their luck.

Panini stickers, like alot of other material items i.e. Lego, action figures etc have gone through the roof over the past few years.

The World Cup Panini stuff is always the most expensive, a few years back a good condition Mexico '70 sticker set and album got just over £5k in an Ebay auction. Prics have been rising steadily on the more recent ones, Germany 2006 could've been bought in auction for £30 just a few years ago, but now can regularly get £100 in open auction.

Prices tend to peak when there's a world cup or euro set just having been released. But if you wait for the left over stock to filter through you can pick up crazy bargains if you buy bulk.

The film and TV sticker collections are a long way behind the world cup sets, but the most sought after are usually around the £150 (the Back to the Future sticker collection and album for example).

There are some exceptions, like the original 1970's Star Wars sticker collection (there's been subsequent ones, like in 1996, which doesn't come anywhere near in terms of desirability).

Unfortunately, there's plenty of people jumping on things like this and putting complete tat up for crazy prices (which pushes up prices as others jump on the bandwagon), the 'king' of the chancers is this guy:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?item=26459065323...

I've sold (in open auction) original good condition Transformers and Thundercats collections for around £90-100 to people in Hong Kong and Canada, a guy in Brazill bought my F1 panini stuff and also sent partial sticker collections to Australia and Russia.

I just wish I'd started collecting alot earlier....!

Back on topic re A-Team, this isn't one of the more favoured collections, absolute joke of a price, but as others have said - it's about what people are willing to pay for it.

[Oakey]

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[Jukebag]

yellowjack said:

Can you smell it? Ammonia! They use it on the floors, and it eats through the soles of you're shoes...



Gotta love The A Team, but you'd have to be really keen or nostalgic to want to part with £100 for a sticker album...

But then again, it's probably better value than spending a fortune on a part-work magazine to build your own model of a Spitfire/GT40/The Titanic/Ferrari 40 or whatever the current load of tat is. "Only £2.99 for part one. Part 2 is £5.99!" Then in the on-screen small print you see that the remaining 97 parts are £8.99 apiece, adding up to the thick end of £900.

I know what you mean there. I bought the first issue of the DeAgostini (of whatever it's called) E-Type Jag model kit from my local shop, but that's as far as it went as I just couldn't be bothered with buying the rest as it was expensive and that I couldn't be bothered building it lol. I still have the half bonnet.

A-Team does have a certain nostalgic appeal, actually more so than any other 80s TV show. My brother is forever watching that A-Team reunion special presented by that Justin bloke (can't remember his surname). Strangely there's never much an appeal with Knight Rider.

[TonyRPH]

I think the appeal of the A-Team is that every episode would have a massive shoutout with automatic weapons, grenades (and in some episodes flame throwers) however nobody ever seemed to die.

And for the petrolheads, the van.

And not forgetting the standard rollover stunt in every episode!!!!

Great TV in my opinion, and I still watch it quite often when it's on! (and I'm old enough to remember watching it back in the 80's)

[Jukebag]

My god, that link to that seller is ridiculous. The seller must be a complete mental case asking for £999 for those albums (and DVD too). It makes eBay look like a complete farce.

It's always better, I think, if you've got something you think is worth alot of money, to do your research and ask knowledgeable people if they have any value.

Hard to believe those albums cost just 35p back in the late 80s. No idea how much sticker albums are now (can't imagine many youngsters being into them these days), but probably more like a 5 quid.

Edited by Jukebag on Monday 27th January 12:13

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Jukebag said:

My god, that link to that seller is ridiculous. The seller must be a complete mental case asking for £999 for those albums (and DVD too). It makes eBay look like a complete farce.

It's only £99.99, not £999 ?