Only one Playmo purchase while in Spain - But it was a biggun
I set it up in a scene whilst I was there:
And lastly some odds - some real odds
Anyway, It was found at a local Saturday Fleamarket
We were walking down the last aisle of stalls, my hopes of finding any Playmo dashed, on the fith to last stall I saw two large boxes on the floor with Playmo in them.
There was no way I was going home without them.
The stallholder spoke no English.
He started off by drawing a large '35' in the dust on his Van. I imidetly played the trick of shaking my head, and we walked of to look at the last five stalls of the market.
It had worked. When we returned, he greeted us by now drawing a large '30' in the dust on the side of his van.
I had none of it, and picked up a couple of bits that were damaged (crack in ring seating etc) and continued by saying 'Is broko, no good'. A large '25' was now drawn in the dust by the stallholder on the side of his van.
Knowing this was a reasonably good price, and feeling cheeky, we got out a 20 and implied that was all we had, and a couple of minuites later the stallholder was having none of it, and starting to melt in the heat of the midday sun, we handed over the 25 Euros, and the Playmobil was bought.
I think this was part of a much bigger collection (5300 Mansion, Pirate ship, Train etc), and I think the stall holder has been selling the bits off seperately because of the huge boxes they were in, and the fact that during negotiation, he picked up a Klicky and said '1 Euro'
(well if it were anybigger I wouldn't have got it home)
Ok nothing is really complete, but after spending 2 hours of cleaning it, and chucking the non Playmo bits, I think it was a great lot and a good price at just over 20 quid.
Damo
