Here's a blast from my past, an old mail order sales list of mine from the year 2000. I traded as Moonzero in those days.
This blog very nearly got called Moonzero Base!
This is one of many lists I sent out in the post. It was hugely enjoyable to trade like this back then. Ebay arrived shortly after and my mail order service ended.
I'll try to find the rest of my old lists and blog 'em. Its a bit of fun from twenty years ago. What would you have bought? Anything?
Did you sell by mail or send your wants lists out?
Brings back fond memories, Woodsy. I was a subscriber to a number of regular price lists in the 80s and 90s. Always typed, copied and stapled. A notable one was sent out monthly by a couple called Bev and Shaun. Going by the name 'Premier', they specialized in vintage Action Man. I never met them, but regularly phoned to place my orders, desperately trying to get in before other collectors. Good memories of good days and good toys :)
ReplyDeleteI like Bev and Shaun already Tone. Sales and Wants Lists were part and parcel of pre-internet collecting for years weren't they.Did you manage to bag a few bargains?
DeleteOccasionally I'd strike lucky and snap up a rare item. But back then, in those pre-eBay, pre-internet days, everything seemed far rarer. Great, memories nonetheless, Woodsy. Nice to see your list of vintage cool :)
DeleteI did, I got a jr21 zero x main body for £3.50 from just such a list in the late 80's.
ReplyDeleteWow! the 80's! Now that's going back! Kev, do you still have lists from back then? What happened to the Zero X?
DeleteI don't have the lists. I still have the main body (I also have a complete boxed Zero x). I made a battery box for it and it runs! Incidentally, the same list I bought it from also had the tower that was really a spaceship prop from the Doctor Who story discussed recently (State of Decay).
ReplyDeleteThe actual prop Kev?
DeleteI believe so, yep.
ReplyDeleteHave you got it Kev?
DeleteNo, but someone must still have it!
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