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Filling Panini World Cup sticker book estimated at £773

By davieG, in General Football and Sport

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davieG

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Filling Panini World Cup sticker book estimated at £773

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Filling this year's Panini World Cup sticker book costs £773.60, twice the cost for Euro 2016, according to maths expert Prof Paul Harper.

The pages contain 32 squads of players, plus managers, stadiums and World Cup legends, totalling 682 stickers.

A pack of five stickers has risen from 50p to 80p - a 60% increase.

If you buy 137 packets and never get the same sticker twice, it will cost £109.60, but this is "extremely unlikely", says the professor.

Prof Harper, from Cardiff University's School of Mathematics, worked out a formula to include the least probable number of duplicate stickers.

In the end, he demonstrated that on average you would need to buy 4,832 stickers - or 967 packets - to complete the Italian-made book.

Sticking point

One cost-saving measure is swapping stickers between friends, but even with that tactic, filling the album would be expensive.

With 10 friends swapping, it could still cost them an average of £247 each to complete the album, according to the professor's calculations.

In 2016, he made the same calculations for the 680-space Euro sticker book. It was £374, meaning the cost has more than doubled.

While the Euro competition only had 24 squads - 10 fewer than the World Cup - there were only two fewer stickers in the book printed two years ago.

"I can still recall the joy of finally completing my first Panini album as a young boy for the 1982 World Cup in Spain," said Prof Harper.

"Filling an album has become progressively more expensive over the years since then, not just because there are typically more teams competing now, but because Panini have become more creative about allocating spaces."

AKCJ

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:(

 

Feel sorry for young lads who don't get to experience these because of the cost.

 

Just about every lad in my class had a book for the 2002 World Cup. Swaps galore.

 

I was actually thinking of getting it for nostalgia sakes but **** paying 750 quid for a sticker book.

lildave3

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39 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

:(

 

Feel sorry for young lads who don't get to experience these because of the cost.

 

Just about every lad in my class had a book for the 2002 World Cup. Swaps galore.

 

I was actually thinking of getting it for nostalgia sakes but **** paying 750 quid for a sticker book.

You don't pay £750 for a sticker book...

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Izzy

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My young lads bugging me to get this for him.

 

At £750 he can fvck right off.

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Ted Maul

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Loved collecting these in the 90s. 

 

Honestly, I think kids learn valuable lessons from them too- how to negotiate and trade (I certainly learned early doors that swapping a wad of spares for the Leicester badge wasn't as great a deal as I thought it was at the time), and how to stand up for yourself when it inevitably gets a bit aggressive.

 

Such a shame that kids are being priced out of it. Mental really.

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lildave3

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I don't understand why you have all taken this £700 thing as gospel. What kind of weird sticker collector buys packs without swapping? If anything with all the social media around these days you probably have to buy fewer packs than ever before...

brucey

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Yeah pretty sure this was debunked on twitter. Apparently you can order the last 50 in one go direct from panini + with swaps it can be done for under £100.

Still far too much for what it is though.

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Izzy

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20 minutes ago, lildave3 said:

I don't understand why you have all taken this £700 thing as gospel. What kind of weird sticker collector buys packs without swapping? If anything with all the social media around these days you probably have to buy fewer packs than ever before...

Apparently kids aren't allowed to swap them at school now as it causes arguments. A load of bollux if you ask me.

Charl91

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Used to love swapping stickers when I was a kid, though I wasn't so interested in the football ones. (Had a ton of pokemon stickers though lol ). Crazy expensive for what it is though. Then again, that applies to hundreds of hobbies I suppose.

 

13 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Apparently kids aren't allowed to swap them at school now as it causes arguments. A load of bollux if you

ask me.

It's really not. I have enough duties to deal with, without adding negotiator-of-sticker-trades to my list. If kids want to swap stickers, they can do it out of school.

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Izzy

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16 minutes ago, Charl91 said:

 

It's really not. I have enough duties to deal with, without adding negotiator-of-sticker-trades to my list. If kids want to swap stickers, they can do it out of school.

It was never an issue when I was a kid at school swapping stickers in the 70's & 80's. It was what break and lunch time was all about back then.

 

Not sure why teachers have to get involved these days tbh. Many a life lesson was learnt as a kid swapping stickers - including negotiation skills...

Charl91

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10 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

It was never an issue when I was a kid at school swapping stickers in the 70's & 80's. It was what break and lunch time was all about back then.

 

Not sure why teachers have to get involved these days tbh. Many a life lesson was learnt as a kid swapping stickers - including negotiation skills...

Because of parents.

 

Personally, I don't mind the idea of swapping stickers, but one way or another, it will take up a crazy amount of time - either through having to arbitrate various sticker-related arguments on a daily basis (and may I add, it's really difficult to judge if you don't know whether 'Shiny Vardy' actually originally belonged to little Timmy or Jimmy), or having to deal with the fall out from parents rushing into school to know why their darling child was conned into swapping their Shiny Ronaldo for a Schlupp.

 

Sadly, it's just not feasible. The only exception is if you run some sort of sticker-swapping lunch time club.

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Izzy

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3 minutes ago, Charl91 said:

Because of parents.

 

Personally, I don't mind the idea of swapping stickers, but one way or another, it will take up a crazy amount of time - either through having to arbitrate various sticker-related arguments on a daily basis (and may I add, it's really difficult to judge if you don't know whether 'Shiny Vardy' actually originally belonged to little Timmy or Jimmy), or having to deal with the fall out from parents rushing into school to know why their darling child was conned into swapping their Shiny Ronaldo for a Schlupp.

 

Sadly, it's just not feasible. The only exception is if you run some sort of sticker-swapping lunch time club.

Wow. What a shame it's come to this. I find it quite sad really...

Charl91

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Just now, Izzy Muzzett said:

Wow. What a shame it's come to this. I find it quite sad really...

As do I, to be honest. I used to love swapping stickers / cards at school too. 

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Dan

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£700 is a load of bollocks. That's probably the calculation of how many packs it would take you to complete it without swapping a single one.

 

I still think 80p a pack is a joke, mind.

Tuna

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I remember getting the packs of Premier League 94/95 stickers for about 15p from the local shop; the price these days is ludicrous!

 

 

 

 

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