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Panini cards: count more than 1000 euros to complete the Qatar World Cup album

2022-09-30T07:54:07.096Z


If the blank album of the next Mondial does not cost more than 10 euros and a bag of 5 stickers about one euro, to complete the collection cost


Deciding to complete the Panini album for the next World Cup in Qatar is a good idea.

In the store at the corner of the street, you will be sold the album for less than 10 euros and for a little more than an additional euro (1.05€), you will leave with a bag of 5 stickers which will make you happy.

The Italian firm promises that in this cover you will not have any duplicate images.

But it won't last.

Because be careful, from that moment on, you enter a dangerous spiral.

The Panini sticker has a perverse effect: it is addictive.

When you start a collection, you want to see it through at all costs.

And the expression fits the situation well.

Thumbnails are not immune to rising prices

The French version of the Qatar album includes 670 stickers.

At a rate of around 20 cents per sticker, count already at the very least 167 euros to fill the book.

This obviously does not take into account the inevitable duplicates.

A British mathematician, Paul Harper, from the University of Cardiff, amused himself by calculating that it is necessary to buy 4,832 stickers in stores to complete his album 100%.

This calculation is therefore equivalent to spending 1,011 euros in a few weeks.

Yes, it's getting expensive.

As everything increases, thumbnails are no exception.

During the last World Cup 2018 in Russia, it was necessary to count a little more than 850 euros to hope to fill his album.

A little something in passing?

If you are ever missing less than 50 stickers, it is possible to order all the missing ones on the official Panini website.

It's faster, but it's less fun.

More than 2 million vignettes sold in France for the World Cup in Qatar

According to estimates, nearly 150 million Panini stickers will flood the market for the World Cup in Qatar (November 20 to December 18), in all four corners of the globe.

There is no precise figure, the Italian firm does not communicate them officially.

We must therefore be content with estimates and, according to them, in 2018 for France and the World Cup in Russia alone, 2 million stickers and nearly 500,000 packets were sold to around one million customers.

The figure will probably be exceeded four years later.

Several editions of the World Cup in Qatar are on the market these days: a Western European version, a United States version for example with different covers depending on the country.

Every four years, the World Cup is a fantastic booster for the transalpine factory.

In 2018, for the World Cup in Russia, Panini achieved an annual turnover of one billion euros, double a year without a World Cup.

Each year, across all of its collections around the world – unquantifiable, there are so many of them (sports, TV series, children's shows, etc.) – Panini sells a billion different covers, ie more than 5 billion images.

Source: leparis

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