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Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:01 pm
by fixer
Neither have I it was just a theory to explain the apparent UK price on your box Hugh , it just seems likely to me to keep shop supplies flowing maybe I wasn't clear enough
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:09 pm
by motorman
Idris wrote:fixer wrote:I can't see any reason models destined for over sea's markets couldn't end up on the home market and vice versa after all they are toys and surely stock would have been sent to where it was needed especially at high volume times like Christmas , if some Aral tankers were needed to make up an order for a large customer such as Woolworths it would be logical to do so
I have never heard or read any reports of Aral tankers having being found in UK shops.
And yet you have a box with a price ticket that suggests otherwise. Perhaps a batch of these, however small, did end up on a shelf in a Wooly's near you Hugh.
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:10 pm
by Idris
motorman wrote:Idris wrote:fixer wrote:I can't see any reason models destined for over sea's markets couldn't end up on the home market and vice versa after all they are toys and surely stock would have been sent to where it was needed especially at high volume times like Christmas , if some Aral tankers were needed to make up an order for a large customer such as Woolworths it would be logical to do so
I have never heard or read any reports of Aral tankers having being found in UK shops.
And yet you have a box with a price ticket that suggests otherwise. Perhaps a batch of these, however small, did end up on a shelf in a Wooly's near you Hugh.
Just for the sake of clarity, it's not a price ticket but a hand-written price. It does make me wonder......
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:15 pm
by johnboy
Where did you buy the box from Hugh?
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:16 pm
by Idris
johnboy wrote:Where did you buy the box from Hugh?
It was an Ebay purchase from a Uk seller.
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:25 pm
by motorman
Idris wrote:johnboy wrote:Where did you buy the box from Hugh?
It was an Ebay purchase from a Uk seller.
I guess the hand written price ticket could have been added by someone in the UK at a garage sale or church fair in the early 70's, who knows.
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:46 pm
by johnboy
That is curious, as we know many smaller retailers wrote prices on boxes. I wonder if it was a delivery error or perhaps some back-door stock that found its way to retail.
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:36 pm
by GHOSTHUNTER
Maybe it is part of some unwanted stock returned to the UK for resale, its possible the shop closed down and if the stock was on a sale or return basis (still very popular today for small retailers), it would have to come back to the UK.
Can you determin what the price is Hugh.
Ghosthunter.
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 11:41 pm
by Rob
There are quite a few possibilities, maybe a UK collector picked one up during a visit to a German swapmeet, and then sold it on in the UK. I came across a Superfast version in box during the 70s at a UK swapmeet for not much money, so it could be.
Re: Interesting 32c Aral
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:31 am
by Idris
GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Can you determine what the price is Hugh.
I'm back home now and so am able to look.
The price is very clearly 2/3. Putting this into context, the price of Matchbox cars immediately before decimalisation (on 15/2/71) was just under 3/-. (They were 15p after decimalisation.) I think this could therefore de a normal retail price since, if it were being resold by a collector, a significant mark-up could be expected.