After a very pleasant and lengthy break in Mexico, its back to the grindstone time.
It has taken a huge amount of time to wade though the correspondence; the offers of Wii's at amazing prices and the general start 2008 brouhaha to ring things back to normal.
The retailers are doing their annual wringing of hands and bemoaning the poor Xmas sales and have to sell off their stock at amazingly low prices (yet still make a profit!).
Yes, it's January, the month of making resolutions, breaking resolutions, plans for the year and the start of the 'look for an excuse to market yourselves' 2008 calendar.
Americans are superb at this lead by meisterguru of marketing Dan Kennedy. Today is Martin Luther King day, the first proper public holiday of the year in the US (I don't count NYD as it's part of the Xmas fiasco).
In poor blighty we have to wait three months for our first day off - Easter and in 2008 we get a poor 2 days off!
2008 will be interesting for toy collectors, the tough trading conditions and the economic downturn will make little difference to people who want to buy what they want to buy. There is still big money floating around and this is good news for owners of collectibles and memorabilia, particularly rare toy owners, which is still a fairly inflation proof investment.
We are compiling a report on the most collectible and rare toys of 2008 and hope to have this done by February, together with a guide to prices being paid for the items.
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BTW Wii's are becoming easier to obtain in the UK - the sports pack priced at only $140 over retail took almost an hour to sell out completely at Game.
Monday 21 January 2008
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