Having a look at these for my son who is obsessed with all things football atm, just wondered if anyone on here had purchased from them or a similar company and ifso, what did you end up with ?
Please, please just ask the kid what he’d like, or do some detective work. I promise you, you’ll never get anything good in a mystery box. I could go on for hours about how these companies work as a collector and seller myself, but I’ll keep it short and sweet
These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box
Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.
Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes
let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.
so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop
Having a look at these for my son who is obsessed with all things football atm, just wondered if anyone on here had purchased from them or a similar company and ifso, what did you end up with ?
I have a friend who has ordered 3 times, got some team in India I don’t remember, an early 2000s Fiorentina kit which was really nice and then Lechia Gdańsk
Please, please just ask the kid what he’d like, or do some detective work. I promise you, you’ll never get anything good in a mystery box. I could go on for hours about how these companies work as a collector and seller myself, but I’ll keep it short and sweet
These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box
Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.
Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes
let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.
so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop
Cheers for the feedback, not that fussed about getting £30 worth of kit... I pay £50 a shirt for Charlton ones that are £15 months later. It's more about learning about new teams... he's obsessed with flags etc so its more of an extension of that.
Please, please just ask the kid what he’d like, or do some detective work. I promise you, you’ll never get anything good in a mystery box. I could go on for hours about how these companies work as a collector and seller myself, but I’ll keep it short and sweet
These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box
Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.
Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes
let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.
so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop
Cheers for the feedback, not that fussed about getting £30 worth of kit... I pay £50 a shirt for Charlton ones that are £15 months later. It's more about learning about new teams... he's obsessed with flags etc so its more of an extension of that.
No problem, learning about slightly obscure teams is actually one of the few things these boxes are alright for 👍
Having a look at these for my son who is obsessed with all things football atm, just wondered if anyone on here had purchased from them or a similar company and ifso, what did you end up with ?
I am waiting for the day @shine166 is commissioned to design our 3rd kit
Funny enough, I was approached to paint a mural for Hummel in Walthamstow when we had our kits made by them, but nothing came of it, was hoping that would be my 'in' with them.
I did it once, got a nice Sevilla home shirt. Happy with it. I specified that I didn't want any UK teams just to offset the risk of getting a Millwall away shirt or something
Never done a mystery box but I do get shirts from Classic Football Shirts - that way I can pick and never get any other English teams or International sides. Sizes are definitely an issue, need to check carefully, have a Korean kit that I had to get as XXXL because in UK size it's equivalent to a large. Get some decent deals on there, I never buy any for more than £25 and have about 20 different ones now.
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These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box
Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.
Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes
let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.
so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop
only issue is its a sport fit one and being a bit of a fat git makes it look like a condom full of peanuts on me