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Fiddle Spinners!!

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  • 04-05-2017 11:31am
    #1
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭


    My son has me demented looking for these bloody things. We went into town on Tuesday and everywhere was sold out with dozens of parents, like myself, wandering from shop to shop asking if they have them.

    So, if you've seen them in central Dublin or the north suburbs please post here.

    PLEASE! :rolleyes:


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    #2
    noble00
    Registered Users Posts: 273 ✭✭noble00


    Hi I have seen them for sale on groupon I think they were 4.99 plus delivery or living social for 5.99


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,381 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    lots on adverts, only heard of them in the last few days
    http://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/q_spinner/

    fidget spinner is the proper name

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidget_spinner


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    RosieJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Got 2 on Mary Street yesterday lunch time, selling them outside between Deals and M&S.


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    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Charlestown shopping centre has a pop up shop selling them


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    BeerNut
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    RosieJoe wrote: »
    Got 2 on Mary Street yesterday lunch time, selling them outside between Deals and M&S.
    They were there today too.

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    foodaholic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭foodaholic


    I saw them on sale on Henry st yesterday


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    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Got them in Charlestown, thanks for the nod.

    200% mark-up on the RRP, the guy was raking it in. Fair dues to him being in the market at the right time. This time next month they won't be able to give them away.


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    Doctor Nick
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    Are these those yokes you put on your finger and they spin? If so, I've seem them being sold on Henry Street between Dealz and M&S.

    Personally don't see the appeal. Though maybe I'm wrong in my thinking.


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    cee_jay
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    They have them on some shop on Talbot St (next to FX Buckley butcher). Shop has a sign up outside this evening advertising them.


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    Cienciano
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    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Got them in Charlestown, thanks for the nod.

    200% mark-up on the RRP, the guy was raking it in. Fair dues to him being in the market at the right time. This time next month they won't be able to give them away.

    He was looking for €8 each!


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    Gloomtastic!
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    He was looking for €8 each!

    2 for €15, I got 3 for €20. :rolleyes:


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    MartyMcFly84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭MartyMcFly84


    I bought two on Amazon.co.uk for 4 pounds. Delivered to your door


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    Gloomtastic!
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    MartyMcFly84 wrote: »
    I bought two on Amazon.co.uk for 4 pounds. Delivered to your door

    So did my wife last Saturday. They're due for delivery end of this month!! :mad:


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    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I saw them for sale in shops on Talbot Street on Friday - kids really like dumb stuff sometimes. In my day it was bits of elastic for the "England, Ireland, Scotland" game.


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    January
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    Got 3 in Charlestown yesterday. 5 euro each


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    Doctor Nick
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    I don't understand the enthusiasm for these. You hold them between your thumb and index finger and a piece of plastic spins around? Seriously, why would people spend their hard earned money on crap like that. The kids would be bored with it after 10 minutes, if that.

    B'ah! Maybe I'm just old now.


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    MartyMcFly84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭MartyMcFly84


    There are always things like this that come along every few years. From Rubix cubes to Yo-Yos to Pogs, its just something for kids to do that catches on.

    Kids want to have what their friends have and start start working on their parents endlessly until they get one, sparking massive demand that fizzles out in a few months, only for them to become retro 20 years from now and the circle is complete.


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    Cienciano
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    January wrote: »
    Got 3 in Charlestown yesterday. 5 euro each

    He wasn't there today. Fad must be dying off already


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    Neon_Lights
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Neon_Lights


    I can just imagine OP going into smyths perplexed looking for

    "one of them fiddle spinner yokes or whatever you call em"

    to the bemused look of the shop assistant


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    miamee
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    If anyone is still looking for these, Mr Price apparently have a load of them, €2.99 each


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    Gavin "shels"
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    miamee wrote: »
    If anyone is still looking for these, Mr Price apparently have a load of them, €2.99 each

    Tonnes of them in Mr.Price in Blanch as of 8pm.


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    infogiver
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    Gavin "shels" wrote: »
    Tonnes of them in Mr.Price in Blanch as of 8pm.

    Another craze bites the dust!


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    mvron
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    Street traders on both Grafton and Henry Streets selling these yesterday


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    January
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    He wasn't there today. Fad must be dying off already

    Was on the stand that sell the bows and stuff near to Heatons it's always there they must have been out of stock.


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    infogiver
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    January wrote: »
    Was on the stand that sell the bows and stuff near to Heatons it's always there they must have been out of stock.

    I was in the queue in Lidl earlier and earwigging on the conversation between 2 student types of The Young Ones type.
    One was saying how he spotted a 9 ct. gold plated fiddle spinner called a Wolf Fang earlier.
    Apparently it has a glass centre with a picture of a wolf.
    €80!!!!


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    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    infogiver wrote: »
    I was in the queue in Lidl earlier and earwigging on the conversation between 2 student types of The Young Ones type.
    One was saying how he spotted a 9 ct. gold plated fiddle spinner called a Wolf Fang earlier.
    Apparently it has a glass centre with a picture of a wolf.
    €80!!!!

    World's gone mad!

    I didn't really want to even spend a fiver on one! My daughter bought them for her and her sisters out of her communion money so I couldn't really say anything.


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    #28
    loyatemu
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    every discount and phone shop on Talbot St. is selling them - one of them has 3 for €10 if you're looking for cheap spinners.


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    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    loyatemu wrote: »
    every discount and phone shop on Talbot St. is selling them - one of them has 3 for €10 if you're looking for cheap spinners.


    I think of all the fads throughout my lifetime, this one came in the fastest and lasted the shortest amount of time - between a week and 10 days. The illegal non-CE approved gadgets, and anyone selling them, cleaned up because they were first on the market. The shops tried as hard as they could but couldn't get stocks in time. Now they're left with unsellable stock. They'll be talking about this one in marketing lectures for a few years yet. :rolleyes:


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,381 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    The illegal non-CE approved gadgets,
    CE is required for childrens toys, if it was sold as an adult stress relief device it would not require it. This is why you often see these "this is not a toy" stickers on things, to be sure to cover themselves, and for genuine safety warnings.


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    #31
    infogiver
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    Born in 1965 the first craze I remember (apart from hula hoops and skipping ropes, which come and go) was "klackers".
    2 balls on 2 pieces of string, attached by a loop, which you had to...well, clack off one another so that...well, ...nothing really.
    Genius.


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