I have just had confirmation that both the Shamrock and Gender pins will be available in limited quantities soon. The Gender pin will be available on the official London 2012 online store.
I have no information on how limited the numbers may be, so don't hang around if you need want either of these pins for your collection.
I cannot confirm which retailers have either or both pins, so you may want to contact your preferred supplier for more details of what they have available.
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15 comments:
Hi all,
Sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but I wondered how quickly we're going to see new pins appear over the next few months? It seems strange to me that over the past four years Honav have released around half of the 2012 different designs (that's just over 5 pins per week on average), meaning that the other half will presumably arrive in the eleven weeks between now and the end of the Paralympics (so 90 pins per week on average).
Even accounting for large groups that will presumably be released in one batch such as the 200 national flags, that still leaves hundreds unaccounted for with little time left to announce/ship them. They can't all be One-Off or Sponsor Pins to be sold only at the events, surely?
Another New Song from " PIN COLLECTING-THE MUSICAL "
2012 PINS ARE BEAUTIFUL
WE WANT TO COLLECT THEM ALL
2012 PINS ARE WONDERFUL
HONAV MADE THEM ALL
EACH LITTLE PIN IS HEAVEN
TO COLLECTORS - ONE AND ALL
THEY WANT ALL - NEW ISSUES
AND BIG ONES AND THE SMALL
2012 PIN ARE BEAUTIFUL
SOME TRY TO COLLECT THEM ALL
2012 PINS ARE WONDERFUL
HONAV MAKES THEM ALL
THE FAITH PIN AND THE TRANS GENDER
DISAPPEARED AND WERE HARD TO FIND
UNTIL PINHEADS STARTED MOANING
" IT WAS NOT FARE AND WAS SO UNKIND ....! "
SOON WE ALL WILL BE LUCKY
TO OWN ONE OR MAYBE TWO
ONE FOR YOUR OWN COLLECTION
AND ONE TO TRADE FOR YOU.
REMEMBER DON'T BE GREEDY
AND BUY LOTS JUST TO SELL
AS COLLECTORS ARE NOT HAPPY
AND LIKE TO MOAN LIKE HELL ....!
2012 PINS ARE BEAUTIFUL
MANY HAVE GOT THEM ALL
2012 PIN ARE WONDERFUL
HONAV MAKES THEM ALL
(DEDICATED TO ALL AT PIN HEAVEN)
The Shamrock pin and titanic pin are available on the coin bazaar website.
Yes they are at a MARKED UP price..... as usual !!!
Are we still missing a pin from the diversity set... Faith, age, disability, gender, LGBT, and ethnicity. I understand there are six pins in this set. I know we are still waiting for the gender pin but is there another that's not been released yet or are there only 5 in the set after all.Does anyone know.
Online retailer doing a sneaky and selling titanic pins on eBay.com not UK at inflated prices (thought we would't notice). Wouldn't mind them trying to make a profit but not even available on their own website at normal prices. That's loyalty to customers. Thank you Honav for finding them just pity we cannot buy them. At least there were some good ones that sold legitimately to us collectors.
As if by magic they appeared but sold out. I appreciate it must be frustrating when they then see them on ebay at over inflated prices by people who have just brought them from them. Maybe rationing I don't know.
What appeared? The Gender pin? If so, it must have been VERY limited as I've been on the shop site about 4 times per day.
Hi TJ - yes there is another diversity pin coming out later (Ethnicity) and Mikeyboy, the Gender pin hasn't been launched in the London 2012 shop yet, so keep watching.
Thanks for that John thought there was.. Hopefully the ethnicity pin won't be so difficult to get like the gender..I've not seen the gender pin either mike..
you dont need to call them an online retailer. if you are merely reporting facts, you cannot be libellous.
and the facts here are that the pinsandthings website has the shamrock, giants causeway and harland pins as 'sold out' and yet they have listed all 3 pins on ebay.com tonight with buy it now prices almost 300% of the recommended retail price.
obviously youre all free to do as you wish but i will be voting with my feet and using retailers that dont wish to take the pee out of me
... and not only that, £6.36 for postage!!
I checked the website of the "online retailer" before I went to bed on Saturday night and nothing, I woke on Sunday morning to find an email saying they had these pins available and they were all sold out!
Then they appear on ebay!
hmmm....
A handful of Gender pins are now available at Coin Bazaar.
Visit www.coinbazaar.co.uk
More Gender pins are now available at Coin Bazaar
www.coinbazaar.co.uk
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