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I purchased two stickers from the USAF C17 crew at Yeovilton for £1 each last week which included the D Day special and the wing badge, interesting to note that yesterday at RIAT the same two stickers were on sale for £2 & £3 respectively, that's what you call inflation

I asked how much a Challenge Coin was from one of the squadrons and got quoted £15 & £20 at the same time from the x2 sellers

The P8 crew were selling their Challenge Coins for £15 on Friday, bit expensive when you consider most squadrons in the USA charge $8 to $10. Didn’t stop me buying one though.

dragonchaser wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:17 pm

The P8 crew were selling their Challenge Coins for £15 on Friday, bit expensive when you consider most squadrons in the USA charge $8 to $10. Didn’t stop me buying one though.

Yeah I saw a couple like that aswell, and also brought them!

On Friday the 494thFS wanted some really silly prices for their patches, for example the D-Day patch they wanted £40. Today I bought it from them for £10 + two others at a tenner each.

Rob

I must say that for some reason these days I prefer to collect stickers rather than patches, not only because I seem to have run out of space and can't decide where to put the patches/ badges but also because of the prices, now at Duxford BoB in September back in 2015 I found a Lakenheath Stall where they had some lovely merchandise badges etc but they were all out of my price range but they did have one of the Units sticker 492 I think it was selling for £1 so that had to do me.

Also for some reason I think its the venue and the people selling the items may raise or drop their prices depending where they are>

I've collected stickers for many years and from these posts the marketing of them has obviously become a bit of a racket with unscrupulous vendors cashing in by adjusting their prices according to the venue which never used to happen in my experience. In fact they were often free hand outs as they continue to be with the Belgians and Dutch. Also with the German Navy from my recent experience @ Cosford where I rec'd freebies from both the Lynx + Orion crews.

Sparky 119 wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:09 pm

I purchased two stickers from the USAF C17 crew at Yeovilton which included the D Day special ;

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By chance, is that one the same sticker-design as the shoulder/arm-patch, pictured here.......??


75th Anniv' D-Day Patch - 437th Wing, USAF by Hornchurch_Aerodrome, on Flickr


Sorry the zoom is trashy-pixelated, but merely cropping the arm-patch didn't give me much to play with (about 135.pixels !)

The geezer in the main (full) photograph is a mate of mine & kindly sent me one of each, as we've known each-other for some 14+ years.

When he posted elsewhere (on a much different forum) & previewed the patch (as his unit got 'em first), the lads were baying for his blood !

Put a whole new expression on 'rip yer arm off' (laughs !)

Even before receiving it, I thought that it was BY FAR the best-quality single patch I'd ever seen - Just stunning.

Whilst I'm not a patch (or sticker), collector, I'll treasure these, as I'm far more into WW.II stuff, than pointy-things.....

(unless that is, they're thundering along overhead, over here, where we are, in North-Norfolk)


2nd in command of the 437th Transport Wing by Hornchurch_Aerodrome, on Flickr

Yes, the sticker is the same design as the patch.