Has the arse fallen of the programme market.........

[Featherstone Rover]

Senior82 wrote:

The current football programme is slightly larger than the current Championship RL programmes - those Fev v Eagles programmes you sent me are the size we're talking about. They're usually glossy and are 70 to 100 pages of well, not a lot really. And yes, why are your programmes £3 when every other team in the league is £2.50?!

I would have thought that was obvious.

You have to pay a surcharge for the amazingly interesting and informative articles on Rovers' history written by a dynamic young journalist who also happens to be an avid programme collector.....

[tigertrucker]

Yes I think it has thanks to ebay,i think it just goes to show you there were always more programmes in peoples lofts then we knew thought,just took ebay to come along and flush them out,dealers must curse the day they come along.

[Tynie Topics]

Well tonight I bid on a Scotland programme I already have which I rarely do, I only got my copy 6 months ago for £40, which was a very good price. This programme doesn't appear very often on ebay and when it does it should be making £50-£75, and a dealer would list it towards the top end of that price bracket.

Tonight? won it for £15. It didn't have a pic but the description was decent and from a seller I have bought from before.

Another example of the arse falling out of the market or just in the right place at the right time? harder Scotland issues usually make their money and its rare you get a good bargain, but it seems to be happening more regularly.
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[tigertrucker]

15 quid that is a result well done,funny enough sunday nite is the one night I never think you are likely to do wellon ebay ,to many folk at home just shows .

[nozer]

The Blackburn v Rochdale Football League Cup 1960 was selling for£130+ twelve months ago same sold for £38 ebay friday ?.

[Posh1959]

nozer wrote:

The Blackburn v Rochdale Football League Cup 1960 was selling for£130+ twelve months ago same sold for £38 ebay friday ?.

The one that sold this weekend did have a match report stuck on it covering half of the teams, clean copy will still fetch £100 ish.

[nozer]

Posh1959 wrote:

nozer wrote: The Blackburn v Rochdale Football League Cup 1960 was selling for£130+ twelve months ago same sold for £38 ebay friday ?. The one that sold this weekend did have a match report stuck on it covering half of the teams, clean copy will still fetch £100 ish.

Yes forgot to mention it was not in the best of condition, but a bit of tlc from Programme Presavation could have turned here into a near "mint" con item for half the price ?.
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[Tynie Topics]

Just to bump this back to the top, I noticed a week or two back an England v Scotland 1928 "Wembley Wizards" programme, in good condition, which used to be £400+ every day of the week, went for £200 on ebay.

Pity I never had £200 spare, it's an astonishing price and perhaps another example of our hobby being in a bad way at the moment.
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[goonerboy]

the market has definitely dropped overall but with pockets of buoyancy....the question is whether it will ever go up. So for example would investing £200 in that 1928 programme get you a return in any meaningful time or will it stay a £200 programme for years ? I guess the answer comes down to whether there will be enough new collectors to sustain a market.

I would be very interested to hear from the dealers to get a flavour of whether the type/era of items being sold today from their catalogues has changed over the last few years. Do people buy modern stuff from dealers or is it mainly mature collectors buying older stuff ? Has the demand for 60s/70s changed ?

[kenred]

I still see some Manchester United programmes listed @£24 upwards to £40+for post war items up to 1954-1955,and they dont seem to sell.I have managed to secure some decent condition items for much less.team changes ,and scores ,half times written in arent a problem for me however. are my collecting standards low if I accept such blemishes?
Its still the match programme I want!

[Auchinleckian]

Ken, I decided the pre 1951-2 section of my Man Utd stock was sadly lacking, ie none, about 6 months back. Have since purchased about a dozen, with none of them costing more than £16.99 - which was for a 48-9 one in very good nick. If you're prepared to bid relentlessly, at much less than the expected price, you will eventually get bargains.