Football Programmes Centre

roughyedz · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 608 Location: Oldham

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1888.....43d5882287

I would be gratefull if anyone could please try to explain to me why anyone in their right mind would buy one of these "Matchsheet's'". . . . . The chap thats selling them,( and he has over 300 listed on E-Bay at the moment ) has a feedback that would suggest he has sold nearly 1500 of them. He can only be typing the details, that are freely available, onto a template and printing them off on his PC. Anyone who uses a PC to trawl the internet and E-Bay can produce one of the "Matchseet's" as he calls them for arond 5p a throw I would have thought !!!!! You dont suppose some or many of the buyers think they originate from the original match do you ???? ( 1889 as per the above example) Some of his customers buy several at I time I see from his feedback .... It just puzzles me Shocked

pafcprogs · Joined: 24 Dec 2008 Posts: 994 Location: Westerham Kent

The suspect thing is he lists them in pre 1950 football programmes when they are neither of those things

Still ebay make some cash so they won't care and frankly if people are dopey enough to buy them...its their loss

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DannyRoberts · Joined: 29 Apr 2012 Posts: 505 Location: South London

pafcprogs wrote:

The suspect thing is he lists them in pre 1950 football programmes when they are neither of those things

To be fair to the seller there is no category entitled 'worthless rubbish' for him to put these collectables in !!

Can you imagine the thousands of items that could be correctly listed if such a category existed.

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treble99 · Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 1000 Location: manchester

it's a bit like modern badges

If somebody wants them they are collectables

Wullie · Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Posts: 3427

He has been mentioned many times. Collectors will buy anything. Probably quite time consuming if someone wanted to produce one . He has photo of the old cup in background , so for a couple of quid, no hassle, you can have the match information of a game , a programme which you could probably never afford.
The bizarre ones are league games where programmes are ten a penny.
Maybe collectors like to insert the information sheet alongside the programme. That's where it would become expensive and totally silly.
Mike Ashley became a billionaire selling shite to gullible people. Nothing new here. Laughing

auctioneer · Joined: 25 Jan 2015 Posts: 72

the collector has the programme, he has the ticket, so he wants the teamsheet.

sharrowblade

roughyedz wrote:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1888-89-FA-Cup-Semi-Final-Preston-North-End-v-West-Bromwich-Albion-Matchsheet-/291345277575?pt=UK_Sports_Memorabilia_Football_Programmes_ET&hash=item43d5882287

I would be gratefull if anyone could please try to explain to me why anyone in their right mind would buy one of these "Matchsheet's'". . . . .

I think the answer you're looking for is in your first sentence.
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sharrowblade · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:17 pm Post subject:

auctioneer wrote:

the collector has the programme, he has the ticket, so he wants the teamsheet.

But the teamsheet never existed.......so what's the point.

It cant even be a reproduction, because there isn't anything to reproduce.
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derby1884 · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:18 pm Post subject:

Reasons? Well, there are loads of possibilities....

a) people collect strange things. Crisp packets, garden gnomes, signatures of executed murderers, butter labels. Perhaps there's a hardcore of enthusiasts for home-made teamsheets. Who's to say?

b) the purchaser's great-great grandfather played in/attended the match - and they want a souvenir (of sorts) to add to their newly-created family album (they've paid their fee to ancestry.co.uk but what turned up was minimal to say the least...unlike the neighbours, who got a ton of information. And haven't stopped crowing about it ever since....)

c) these are, in fact, genuine. And not home-made. And it's us who's got it wrong. Big time.

d) the seller's a canny bugger and asks what games potential purchasers would like a "souvenir" of. he tells them it'll take a while, take a lot of research, indeed take a lot of time. His time. But he'll get there. And all for less than the price of a pint.

Take your pick....
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sharrowblade · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:20 pm Post subject:

The more worrying aspect of this, is that ebay is now clogged full of continious s***e, of offerings like this, attasquash with his hand signed cutting cards at £30 a go, and the three stooges with their never ending supply of crap which they regurgitate thousands of times, to the tune of everyone saying 'They've cornered the market, they do this well they do that well. 'I got a great programme for £2.99'

Bully for you if you have, because I've long since doused myself in petrol ready to light the match before I entertain buying anything from these tossers.

ebay used to be an enjoyable experience especially on a sunday night. Sadly that has long gone due to people like these and many others.
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holtie96 · Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 2309

Can't even search by number of bids on my new ebay app, so bloody frustrating
Anyone worked out how it can be done or is that part of the ebay plan?[/code]

derby1884 · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:29 pm Post subject:

sharrowblade wrote:

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ebay used to be an enjoyable experience especially on a sunday night. Sadly that has long gone due to people like these and many others.

You too?
I just came off it after 30 minutes of shaking my head at the programme pages and 20 minutes of shaking my head at the pages involving 1960s beat EPs.
By the time the wheat is separated from the chaff , I've lost the will to live....
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JJPROGRAMMES · Joined: 25 Nov 2009 Posts: 551

auctioneer wrote:

the collector has the programme, he has the ticket, so he wants the teamsheet.

Not these team/match sheets if hes a Fulham collector, the kits are all wrong!

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