[HPFGU-OTChatter] No more HP toys???!!!

[Wolfie!]

bumbledor wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wolfie!" <wuff at internode.on.net>
> To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 11:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] No more HP toys???!!!
> 
> 
>>> Yeah, well I have been looking at those.. Nice.
>>> I just wish I could find some adult sized hats. Owls, etc..
>>> NO ONE has the larger sized hats.. Seems they all are made for kids.
>>> WB is messing up again.. They forget that there is a large contigency of
>>> adult fans.
>>>
>>> Maybe thats whats wrong with american media? Too programed to think that 
>>> a
>>> story may
>>> attract an audience bigger than the targeted one.
>> It's worldwide.
>>
>> JKR said her books were for anyone who wanted to read them.
>>
>> But once the marketing guys came into play with their charts and
>> "target audience" theories, well...
>>
>> What I'd like is to get some real looking wizard clothes.
>> thinking of going to a place which sells gothic clothing.
>>
>> I told my friends that as i age, I will begin to look more wizard like
>> that's if I can find the apparel. :)
>>
>> BTW: the watch can be seen at my page: www.users.on.net/~wuff/ [in the
>> about section there's a link].
>>
>> and you can still sometimes see them for sale on ebay.
>>
>> Wolfie!
>>
> Yep, thats the watch.. ya know how much they go for?!!

Well I payed a very nice woman in Indianapolis around $200US.
I had bought a HP lamp from her [which I still havent seen working 
because it has a US plug on the end, I need to get a transformer for
it since electricity over here is 240v 50hz] and she said she saw one
in a local fossil watch shop and said she'd get it for me if I wanted.
she thought that if I didn't pay, she'd sell it on ebay seperately.

Then when everything turned up, I sent her some chocolates to thank her.

I have seen the watch going for as high as... I think it was $700US on
Ebay... and they sold it which amazed me.

Then the HP fad died off a bit and prices came down.

There is a wizard watch which has a similar look, but a lot of winders
on the side of it, and an unusual glass over the top...
but it has the HP logo inside and isn't really a HP thing...
but it's quite nice just the same.

I believe the fossil watches use seiko innards too, seiko is a good 
brand... I bought a moon phase watch when I was 21 and I still wear
it today [I'm 40].

I'd be careful of bids going at more than $400, but then they are
very rare now.

Wolfie!