Finding those elusive issues - pot luck or exact science?

[whitenoize]

I've been trying to find about 9 issues (all from 2004 onwards) and have been scouring ebay almost daily trying to see if these get listed (and dealers sites occasionally). All reasonably recent (albeit U21 and Youth issues), so I doubt if they fall into the scarce category, although more disposable I guess. This got me thinking, would fellow collectors just wait to see if these 'pop by' or is there a more scientific way of finding these? Or am I looking to deeply into the problem?

[nozer]

Think I may have drained every avenue looking for the few Kettering prongs I am still shy.Don't even know if thday were issues although I have been reassured thday were, just been put in touch with a Facebook prog site that looks us full ,so don't give up hope buddy.
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[littlewiggy]

I always noticed with programme collecting, you have the usual expensive rarities, those issues that truly are rare - then you have those other 'scarcities' that aren't worth much more than a couple quid, but for some bizarre reason are really tricky to obtain.

Other collectors tend to have the same ones on their wants-lists too.

They're not valuable, or even particularly desirable, they just seldom surface for some reason.

It's just another of life's many oddities.

Hence the holy grail for some collectors isn't that single-sheet trial match from the Forties, but that ruddy Torquay away from 1972 or suchlike.


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[Dorking]

On ebay, search for what you want, eg Grimsby Accrington 2006/07

when it comes back as 0 results, click on FOLLOW THIS SEARCH

You will get an email when an item matching your search next appears

[littlewiggy]

Dorking wrote:

On ebay, search for what you want, eg Grimsby Accrington 2006/07 when it comes back as 0 results, click on FOLLOW THIS SEARCH You will get an email when an item matching your search next appears

I did that for 'Newport Crystal Palace 1987 LC Badge' mate.

I also clicked the 'Don't Tell Dorking' option as well.






PS. Seriously though, great tip - I've been on eBay for about 16 years and never realised you could do that.
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[slightfold]

Ebay has unearthed quite a few of my wants over the years with their search option. There is a slight problem (which you can live with) with it though, it cannot differentiate between home or away fixtures! I did write to Ebay regarding this but they never replied. Sometimes it's years of continuously checking and deleting the emails until, usually when you had wondered whether something would ever turn up, and then bingo and there it is BIN 99p if you're lucky! This facility saves a lot of searching.

[Dorking]

littlewiggy wrote:

Dorking wrote: On ebay, search for what you want, eg Grimsby Accrington 2006/07 when it comes back as 0 results, click on FOLLOW THIS SEARCH You will get an email when an item matching your search next appears I did that for 'Newport Crystal Palace 1987 LC Badge' mate. I also clicked the 'Don't Tell Dorking' option as well. PS. Seriously though, great tip - I've been on eBay for about 16 years and never realised you could do that.

Can safely say there are no badges for those games LOL. Programmes though, quite sought after due to tiny atendances and being a 'last season in the league' jobbie

I've already got both legs of that tie, and the one at your place only cost me 50p from what I will unfairly call a 'junk shop' that used to exist in Croydon called 'Predominantly Paper'. It closed down about 20 years ago, but I blame it for starting me collecting cigarette cards of Palace players, when previously I had only collected 'Panini stickers'. The owner of the shop was a Palace fan who had stacks of Palace programmes, and I used to go in there every few weeks and cherry pick several at a time with my paper round money. Even back then I knew it was a bargain and one to choose, as 'dealers lists' wanted over £10 for it despite it being only a couple of years old at the time.

I remember one time going in there and a really old bloke was perusing very old porno type mags! They were 1930's era magazines of women showing very little compared to what you see these days, they had loads of them to sell, and I'm not sure if the old boy was collecting from an academic/historical interest, or just having a perve!!

[littlewiggy]

LOL!!!!!!!!!

I went to both legs of that '87 League Cup tie mate.
They were depressing times to be a County fan, even more depressing than it is now.

We were stuck in that corner terrace under the floodlight at Selhurst, where the big Holmesdale stand is now.
Well I say "we," in truth there wasn't much more than about 30 or 40 of us.
Remember drinking before the match in that pub up the hill behind it, right on the junction, that was where they later filmed the hooligan getting killed in "The Firm" I believe.

Stood on that open end of yours another four or so times watching Liverpool at Selhurst as well, although one of those was against Charlton not Palace.

Never been since you built that stand though.
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