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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:25 am 
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I got this text from Flute this morning ,

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I'm outside spotlight waiting for it to open in 5 mins . My boss thinks us mini people are mad . He might be right!


which started me thinking , just how mad are mini model collectors and what is the furthest you have gone to get a model ?

The one that comes to mind for me is arguing with a Hong Kong florist in his tiny shop for about an hour as to why I HAD to buy a model he had on display (was a wedding bonbonierie of a cartoonish newly wed couple in a convertible mini) while he was saying he had to buy another 400 personalised ones to get a sample to display in his shop . He spoke only a dozen or so words in English and I spoke 2 words in chinese .... I ended up holding HK$150 in one hand and the model in the other , he looked really confused and torn but after ten minutes more of hand gestures and half of my Chinese repertoir (Please) he agree'd and took the money (roughly $20 Australian at the time) . Then he got the other half of my Chinese repertoir (Thankyou) :lol: To buy 400 they were HK$5 each so I paid over market value but they weren't availible singly . Keep thinking I need to find the wholesaler though and buy 400 to sell over here :D

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YES.

If you went to buy a new car, you would buy one and not the whole lot just cos they are there.
If you find a model mini you will search the rest of the display to get any others, and buy them too. 8)

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Last weekend there was three members at a local model car sale, swap day. Micheal (kerrie Wilks) who i have known for 20 something years. i also met Rob (goldbrocade_62) and his partner, everybody had a bag of goodies! :D


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yep were all mad...but my mini collection is quite good...

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Its all fun, except when the kids get in the way in the toy isle at woolies etc :x


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I've only just started my collection so dont have any stories to share but I'm sure there will be some in the future.... my collection already has a dedicated shelf in my cabinet...... :wink: hmmm but will that be enough????

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I'm with you on this one Ian :lol:
I didn't realize how big and how much "crap" is in those Spotlight shops!
It took me ages to find the Model Minis,they had them in a large glass jar :roll:

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roads75 wrote:
my collection already has a dedicated shelf in my cabinet...... :wink: hmmm but will that be enough????


Mine started with it's own little shelf in a tiny display case .....

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20951

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lol Sports, I have a funny feeling that I will need a bigger space :wink:

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Exactly :lol:

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