12 days of Christmas - he's back!

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I remembered a thread from a couple of years ago, have just had a quick look on eBay, and YES! He is back again! Feast your eyes on this year's delight! (And no, I'm not affiliated in any way whatsoever, good god, no!)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401730194746?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HpUXcKnJSKe&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=0qiRClotSLu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

£33.02 for 24 months with PayPal credit... it's tempting!

Oh god, I don't think I dare. I really need to get to be early tonight.

Oh go on then, a quick peep.

Let's club together and buy it - £2 each and take it in turns to have

After reading exhaustively about the allegations aimed from many towards this seller, I suppose the question is, is this even a GENUINE 12 Days of Christmas massive plastic centrepiece? I mean for all we know this could be a fake with a Roses tin in the middle instead of the correct Quality Street tin. 🧐

Added my watch with pride

I'd hazard a guess he's a basement dweller

The negative feedback about the flocked reindeer is hilarious

I was thinking about this the other day; but then contemplating this objet d'art has now become entrenched in my 'preparing for Christmas' traditions. David's jubilation if/when it finally sells will be matched by the tears of sadness of 10,000 MNers.

I've noticed that he claims it has 'MANY USES' - please, dear MNers, help me out here; pleeeeeaaassseee?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

You do have to feel for this chap: he's finally made the difficult, heart-breaking decision and come to terms with the fact that it's finally 'time to let it go' - and yet, despite his best efforts, it's still been lingering with him for YEARS like an eggy fart in a lift!

Hate to say it but I've noticed he lives in my home-town. I wonder if he decorates the front of his house in a similar fashion for Christmas!

You now know what your mission is. It's up to you whether you accept or not; but if you decline, we...have...ways which may or may not include adding your personal contact details to every one of our Janet & Roy round robin letters that we all dutifully send out.

Looks like the crap they advertise in TV listings magazine. Poor quality and poor taste. However, as the saying goes, nobody ever went broke underestimating public taste

Thomas Kinkade (whose name does sound like a drink they sell in the vending machines at Ann Summers) seemed to make a bob or two from it!

Does anyone know the size of it? No mention of height etc in description. I asked him about the weight of it and he told me its not to heavy and to avoid scratches from the plaster of paris on your table to use a placemat.

He said it's 'OVER A FOOT TALL' in the listing (which makes him sound like Borat) - but then again, I'm over a foot tall; my house is over a foot tall; the Eiffel Tower is over a foot tall - so who really knows?!

I've noticed that he claims it has 'MANY USES' - please, dear MNers, help me out here;pleeeeeaaassseee?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper Ok here goes, my attempt at 12 uses for a 12 Days of Christmas centrepiece (one for each day):

1. Put it in your garden to scare away evangelical door-to-door types. Once they see you merrily celebrating Christmas with such abandon they will KNOW you are not for turning to one of their "we don't celebrate Christmas" religions. Like a scarecrow on a mission from God. It might need a pair of sunglasses to convince people it's really on a mission from God. Sunglasses not included.
2. Put it in your freezer to scare away Aunty Mary when she goes looking for the ice cream after she overstays her welcome on Christmas day. Like a scarecrow in a freezer. This one is not on a mission, it's just in a freezer.
3. Upload it to one of those "things that look like other things" websites where people upload photos of labradors that look like Louie Walsh and so on. In this case, it's clearly a dead ringer for a 12-legged pair of siamese octopi twins joined at the tentacles, in their favourite Christmas outfit (what do you mean your family don't celebrate the Christmas octopus???).
4. Deep fry it with some tartan and it doubles up as a Hogmanay decoration for stereotyped bastardisations of Celtic cultures (very popular amongst some).
5. Automatic balloon popper. Are the Whiteadders on their way to your home? Do you need to pop a lot of balloons FAST? Then fear not. Just put your balloons in the vicinity of the centrepiece, press them against it firmly, and you're sorted. POP and the balloons are gone.
6. Dust catcher. Scraping the bottom of the barrel here but dear God I committed to thinking of 6 more of these.
7. The central component of a Wallace and Gromit or Mousetrap style machine which is an extremely convoluted way of finding the doofer when you need to change the channel and cannot remember which arse cheek you sat on it with.
8. A yardstick by which to measure all other tat before binning it all. Except metric tat which would need a metrestick, but that's fine because down with imperialism. Except the mints. They're ok.
9. Something you could use to make a short film about the apex of consumerism and the decline of rational taste. For bonus points, submit it to Cannes and pretend to be surprised if you actually get nominated for something. You can't do this one if you're in the film industry, you might actually win something, and then the centrepiece would be significantly less naff and possibly become meaningful.
10. Use it to start a cult. The cult is only allowed to admit trendy types who have hipster hair.
11. Start its own Tiktok channel where you just wave a camera at it with text overlay captions saying witty and earth-shattering insights like, "new phone, who dis?"
12. Wear it as a hat and stand for election in Rishi's constituency at the GE to make a point of making no political point whatsoever.

i read on another thread that it’s been sold for £699? 😂

Yep, says sold, I've just checked.

I'd like to see the feedback from the person who bought it. It is possible to mark something as sold when in fact the seller has just ended the listing, I think.

Nooo how will we get in the Christmas mood next year if it's been sold?! Never again will we see that delectable menu described in all it's glory.

SOLD?!!!!!

full disclaimer, I accidentally ended up "committed to buy" it after submitting an offer with a (joking) message saying would they accept £2.50 for it (alcohol was involved in my antics!) I saw it on the 'Christmas tat for sale' thread and watched it then a few days later, a bit tipsy.....decided to try my luck.

I didn't pay (obviously!!!) so it's been relisted now.

And yes I am a bit ashamed of wasting their time!

It's not relisted. It says no longer available.

it's still up here
12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS MASSIVE TABLE CENTER PIECE DECORATION ALL DAYS / FIGURES | eBay

Well. Now I want it. Damnit.

I messaged the seller and, wait for it... apparently he has another one the same!!! Twins!

@RudolphComingIntoLandOver so fear not and make your offer ready for next Christmas!

But if he made it for a dinner party centre piece originally why does he have two?
Is anyone brave enough to ask why the stupid perhaps slightly optimisticprice?

I have messaged him and asked what his best price would be considering I now have to wait an entire year to make use of it. I shall report back!

@ireallycantthinkofaname a lot of time and effort must have gone into that. Some people have no respect for what goes into handmade items and what everything at temu prices. Blood, sweat and tears went into that and now we find out there's two of them so that's double the blood, sweat and tears. Really, have some respect!

No way is there 2, he's lying like a rug!

So is he saying that one sold and this is now the second one up for sale?