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	With the new craze for [[stamps]] having caught the imagination of obsessive collectors, what's the betting that ''Beginning Pins'' will collapse, leaving the hapless buyer with half a pincushion and only a handful of pins to stick in it...		With the new craze for [[stamps]] having caught the imagination of obsessive collectors, what's the betting that ''Beginning Pins'' will collapse, leaving the hapless buyer with half a pincushion and only a handful of pins to stick in it...


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Rene at 14:25, 12 January 2011

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A [[Magazines|magazine]] available from [[Dave's Pin Exchange]].

This is a part-work that promises a new pin every month. However, experience would suggest that anyone beginning to buy a part-work, in the post-festivities optimism of January and a new year full of potential, might

i) get bored with it by July and start skipping copies;

ii) discover that the promised model of the Titanic, that comes with four or five parts every month together with a magazine padded out with irrelevant trivia and ephemera, will only ever be half-built, as the publisher discontinues further copies round about Part Thirty because of lack of interest. The hapless buyer then realises they have spent the best part of £250 on a model that will ''never, ever'', be finished. They might just as well have bought an Airfix kit for a tenner, as at least all the parts will be in the box right at the start...

With the new craze for [[stamps]] having caught the imagination of obsessive collectors, what's the betting that ''Beginning Pins'' will collapse, leaving the hapless buyer with half a pincushion and only a handful of pins to stick in it...

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