Mystery football kits

shine166

Having a look at these for my son who is obsessed with all things football atm, just wondered if anyone on here had purchased from them or a similar company and ifso, what did you end up with ?

 https://www.mysterykits.co.uk

se9addick

Probably end up with a Palace shirt knowing my luck!

sam3110

se9addick said:

Probably end up with a Palace shirt knowing my luck!

You can specify teams and leagues to avoid, so in the notes you can put, "No Palace, no Millwall, no Estonian 3rd Division" or whatever 

iaitch

Every season ours is a mystery kit until a week before the season kicks off.

cafcfan

Men's shirt less VAT £29.15. Kids' shirt, which is zero rated £29.99 So they are actually charging more for the smaller shirt. lol.

Foxycafc

Please, please just ask the kid what he’d like, or do some detective work. I promise you, you’ll never get anything good in a mystery box. I could go on for hours about how these companies work as a collector and seller myself, but I’ll keep it short and sweet

These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box

Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.

Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes

let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.

so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop

LTKapal

shine166 said:

Having a look at these for my son who is obsessed with all things football atm, just wondered if anyone on here had purchased from them or a similar company and ifso, what did you end up with ?

 https://www.mysterykits.co.uk

I have a friend who has ordered 3 times, got some team in India I don’t remember, an early 2000s Fiorentina kit which was really nice and then Lechia Gdańsk 

shine166

Foxycafc said:

Please, please just ask the kid what he’d like, or do some detective work. I promise you, you’ll never get anything good in a mystery box. I could go on for hours about how these companies work as a collector and seller myself, but I’ll keep it short and sweet

These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box

Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.

Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes

let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.

so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop

Cheers for the feedback, not that fussed about getting £30 worth of kit... I pay £50 a shirt for Charlton ones that are £15 months later. It's more about learning about new teams... he's obsessed with flags etc so its more of an extension of that. 

Foxycafc

shine166 said:

Foxycafc said:

Please, please just ask the kid what he’d like, or do some detective work. I promise you, you’ll never get anything good in a mystery box. I could go on for hours about how these companies work as a collector and seller myself, but I’ll keep it short and sweet

These companies buy shirts in tonne bags from Poland and Tunisia. Anything over £25 they’ll sell, anything under will be put in the ‘mystery box pile’. Often they’ll buy last years shirts from discount websites for the cheaper teams (Palace, Everton, Southampton, non top6 in the bundesliga) which you could buy yourself for cheaper than the box

Every 100 boxes or so, they’ll put in something actually worth the box or more. They’ll lose money on this one box, but the receiver will tweet out thanking them, which they can then retweet. The nicer shirts are obviously the ones they will use in their promotional work too.

Don’t even get me started on the multitude of fake shirts that unless you’re a bit into football shirts, you might not know are fake that are shoved into most mystery boxes

let me put it this way, you will NEVER get something worth the boxes value. Often some boxes will put in a load of tat. The more tat, the lesser the value of the shirt, obviously.

so please, just ask your kid, before he ends up with a PSV Eindhoven shirt from last year, or an early 2000s Kaiserslautern ‘banger’ worth 2.50 in a charity shop

Cheers for the feedback, not that fussed about getting £30 worth of kit... I pay £50 a shirt for Charlton ones that are £15 months later. It's more about learning about new teams... he's obsessed with flags etc so its more of an extension of that. 

No problem, learning about slightly obscure teams is actually one of the few things these boxes are alright for 👍

MrOneLung

I am waiting for the day @shine166 is commissioned to design our 3rd kit

Pelling1993

shine166 said:

Having a look at these for my son who is obsessed with all things football atm, just wondered if anyone on here had purchased from them or a similar company and ifso, what did you end up with ?

 https://www.mysterykits.co.uk

I've done it once before and got a nice Werder Bremen shirt. Good bit of fun.

shine166

MrOneLung said:

I am waiting for the day @shine166 is commissioned to design our 3rd kit

Funny enough, I was approached to paint a mural for Hummel in Walthamstow when we had our kits made by them, but nothing came of it, was hoping that would be my 'in' with them.

Garrymanilow

I did it once, got a nice Sevilla home shirt. Happy with it. I specified that I didn't want any UK teams just to offset the risk of getting a Millwall away shirt or something

palarsehater

i did at xmas well had it bought for a present and ended up with Goztepe from the turkish 2nd div. 

only issue is its a sport fit one and being a bit of a fat git makes it look like a condom full of peanuts on me 

DyerConsequences

Never done a mystery box but I do get shirts from Classic Football Shirts - that way I can pick and never get any other English teams or International sides. Sizes are definitely an issue, need to check carefully, have a Korean kit that I had to get as XXXL because in UK size it's equivalent to a large. Get some decent deals on there, I never buy any for more than £25 and have about 20 different ones now.

talalsrightfoot

Lol my missus signed me up for fathers day im the proud owner of Accra great olympic fc away shirt

danwhicks

Here’s mine!