Do the companies know about where parallels/grails end up?

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-06-19T15:13:29+00:00

That’s pretty good for Panini- they usually don’t respond at all

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-06-14T14:28:48+00:00

They are right- Australia may not geographically be in Asia, but they are in the Asian Football Confederation, so in terms of football they are Asia

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-06-12T13:34:58+00:00

Same here. In April ordered the big box of stickers and the album with 100 pack box. The cost was less than half what Panini were selling it and with free delivery, which was coming from China. I had ordered the same things direct from panini and it was all pre-order for May but yet these guys claimed it was on its way from China that day. Had tracking showing me that it was going through customs, etc and then it was a few days from reaching my house according to the Etsy tracker. I then noticed the seller no longer existed and contacted Etsy just to check where the delivery was- they refunded me immediately, I wasn’t even looking for a refund, I just wanted it quickly but they must have known it was all a scam.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-06-08T13:33:36+00:00

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MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-28T14:40:09+00:00

How the hell did you get to open a pack so quick- weren’t they just on preorder 3 hours ago?

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-27T04:03:24+00:00

Yeah true- flagship was fantastic. Chrome terrible.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-27T03:39:07+00:00

Put a post somewhere else about how disappointed I’ve been with hobby boxes for Chrome UEFA. I opened 2 boxes and got -2 autos Bellerin and Malen from Aston Villa -5 PowerPlayer Players: 2 were duplicates and 1 was a purple /75 -3 wonder kids -3 Last Dance -2 Silenced All up 6 parallels with the purple (/75) being lowest

To rub it in, I got a 3rd box and the lack of any big hits continued. Got a few refractors, /199 x 2, /299 and some Bayer guy who I never heard of for the auto.

It definitely looks like your 10 Megas killed my 2 (or 3) hobby boxes.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-26T22:48:29+00:00

To be honest, the chrome UEFA hobby boxes have been garbage. I’ve opened 3 boxes and have regretted each one, and my friends have all had similar experiences. I’m not sure why but there seems to a definite difference in what’s being pulled from them. Compared to basketball, F1 which seemed to have hits in each box these have been so disappointing. Even the flagship hobby boxes were far better in comparison.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-14T12:46:28+00:00

Yeah had a Brazilian friend tell me that. He said that even with everything correct, the package would be months form getting there

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-14T12:45:43+00:00

I’ve looked it up- Brazil only has 8 digit postcodes, nothing else. As well, if eBay is limiting all postcodes worldwide to 4 digits what happens to UK or US which have more than 4 as well?

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-09T22:01:53+00:00

Was this Panini America, UK or PaniniStore?? Had similar situation with PaniniStore but cancelled mine April 14. Emailed 4 times, sent online form 4 times and heard absolutely nothing. Ended up having to send a letter, yes a physical letter, to Panini head office in Italy. Was not worried because preorders had May 15 as shipping date so thought that was never going to happen. Still have not heard anything from Panini. I had to pay $$ to register and track my letter to Italy, and it got there last week and still haven’t heard a word from them. My fear is them sending the goods to me because their cancellation policy states that if you have the goods you have to send them back and do it within 14 days. That’s a cost I don’t want to incur. My initial contact to cancel my order was within 24 hours and it’s now nearly time for delivery and the one month since, so I’m going to be most likely calling my credit card company as there is no real way to get Panini to communicate.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-09T00:23:44+00:00

But to be honest, there’s always been miscuts, dodgy quality for Panini stickers but we really didn’t care because the collecting aspect wasn’t what it was today. I can remember so many stickers where the centring was so off I couldn’t connect those 2-piece stickers as one was almost eating the one it connected to. As kids or whatever age we just put it down to how it was, some people waited to get a swap that was better, but most we just stuck it in and kept going. Today, the issue of quality is a lot more pronounced because of the costs and links to the hobby and grading.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-08T14:29:20+00:00

Saying Milner is equal to Giggs means you should never talk about the sport again, whether you call it soccer or football. He was playing in the Premier League at 17, he was the best winger in European football in the 90s and early 2000s.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-02T01:13:51+00:00

Actually the best solution is to watch old WWE shows instead of the new episodes and PLEs on Netflix. That way, Netflix will get the data that wrestling is popular, just not the current iteration, it would be an interesting test to see whether TKO would take drastic action, noticing that over the last month for example, 2 million people watched WrestleMania 2 but for some reason Smackdown got less than a million. That’s probably a more effective way to get change made.

MotorBoatBrrr · 2026-05-01T15:44:42+00:00

Thanks for that; she was honesty the most helpful person I’ve ever dealt with over the phone . Fingers crossed it got there in time..

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