Charles and Camilla Merchandise....

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I know there has been a thread on here already about the Pope and the Royal wedding. I've just heard on the news that there is a nightmare going on with the Charles and Camilla merchandise that has been prepared for the wedding. Now they have changed the wedding date - all the merchandise has the wrong date on. OMG - what a nightmare. Don't know what they are going to do with it all. . PMSL

what a pity hahaha!

just saw it on the news: the teatowels with the wrong date. pmsl lol

Wicked aren't we?? - it is bloody funny though.

i must admit I chuckled when I saw the advert for the royal wedding on tv, hardly charles and di, is it, more like horse of the year show, miaow!

Haven't seen that - will look out for it.

The stuff with the wrong date on will probably be worth a small fortune on Antiques Roadshow one day.

mieow, lucy5 ! However when it came up last night that the "celebrations" might clash with coverage of the Grand National dh and I did wonder whether anyone would really mind, what with Camilla, Princes Anne .....

Apparantly the stuff with the 8th on are already selling for a fair bit above their originall RRP on e-bay; but the ones to get are the stuff with no actual date (they just say April 2005) on. There was a very small production run of about 200-400 of these and s will be quite a rarity and will be the most sought after in years to come.

they are apparently binning it all but I have heard that the wrong dated stuff will be more collectable than the proper date stuff in the future.

Dunno about binning it all - after yesterday's anouncement the stuff was flying off the shelves in Windsor.

It's an ill wind

Apparently there's an official Camilla HRT pill packet holder- with the engagaement photo of her on the cover.

You have got to making that up Bubble!

E-bay listings (8/4/05):

4 bookmarks - already at £32
4 coasters - £21.50
1 place mat - £33
Royal Mail stamp poster - £51
Mug - £36 (think these were about £12-13 new)

I kid you not. It's sold alongside the "Camilla Paker Blowes" hand held fan for dealing with those embarrasing hot flushes.

Who buys this stuff anyway? Sorry Hula if you've already put your bids in

Er....not me! Only looking for MN research. Actually heard about the ebay successes on radio 2 on way home today.

Is it me or are all these actually home-made? Same feeble b&w pic on all of them.

Mugs ahoy!

Crappy laminated bookmarks - "only 200 produced" - yeah? By whom?

Thought not. Had you down as far too funky for dolly loo roll covers and the like

LOL bubble

They do look so rubbishy don't they? Why not e-mail them as an interested party and ask for more info???

mouse mat - "WE HAVE PRODUCED ONLY 100 OF EACH OF OUR DESIGNS". "THIS MAT IS 31/100 AND WILL COME WITH A CERTIFICATE"

We all have computers and printers don't we? Some of us have laminators? Get in there!

People are buying too!!!

One of the dad's at DS' school works as a buyer for a mail order company which sells those things that you see in the back of Sunday tabloid magazines (not that I ever read them ) I asked him how he can bring himself to be responsible for selling such tat. He said that they have product approval meetings where he and his team sit around a table cringing at just how awful this stuff is.
Huge apologies to any mnetters who are at this point stroking their Queen Mother commemorative loo roll holders and saying "But I think you're lurvely"
A large majority of their orders come from The Midlands, apparently.