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  • Is a football shirt mystery box worth the money?

    Is a football shirt mystery box worth the money?

    If you’d have asked me what a football shirt mystery box was last week, I probably couldn’t have told you. But I do love a good football shirt as much as I love a game of Football Manager. Especially some of the old Umbro kits.

    Classic football shirts have become increasingly popular over the past few years – and now there’s a market for your old-but-good-condition football shirt purchases.

    You can scour second-hand stores around your local city or online marketplaces for hidden gems. Stores specifically dedicated to the resale of classic football shirts have sprung up and even set up inner-city exhibitions dedicated to football shirts (which I visited).

    And now, you can buy a football shirt mystery box.

    Manchester United class of 92 - wearing what could be a classic football shirt mystery box item

    The football shirt mystery box 📦❓

    Sites like Soccer Shirts Club (also on Twitter) allow you to expand your football shirt collection in a ‘lucky dip’ fashion by offering you the chance to get a random soccer shirt in your size, for a fixed price.

    For those who want a regular supply, you can get a monthly subscription – guaranteed to grow your wardrobe with one new addition each month.

    The fun part is that you don’t know what you’re going to get. It could be a classic Manchester United shirt from the 90s, or an away shirt from a third-tier Japanese league. That’s the mystery part.

    Is it worth the money? 💰

    Football merch fan and YouTube channel AwayDays asked in a recent video ‘Are football shirt mystery boxes a SCAM?!’, ordering several shirts from mystery box sites.

    It’s worth a watch if you are considering a spin on a mystery box. Soccer Shirts Club landed 2nd place, noted as sending shirts matching the value.

    So, no. Definitely not a scam. Just a gamble if you go with the wrong mystery box seller.

  • Links of the week

    Links of the week

    The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars (Wired) — A dive into the world of children making thousands of advertising dollars through filming themselves chewing, whispering and tapping things for an adult audience.

    Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO via YouTube) — Part III of John Oliver covering Brexit. It all makes sense. You don’t need to see Part I & II to appreciate this.

    Remember the Milk (rememberthemilk.com) — A website and app that is a comprehensive to-do list. Created in 2004 by two people in Australia and still an independent company fifteen years on. They have both free & pro accounts (currently $39.99 per year).

    Biggest challenge of relocating Swedish town Kiruna is “moving the minds of citizens” (Deezen) — Sweden’s northernmost town and its 18,000 inhabitants are moving two miles east, to prevent it slowly being swallowed by an underground mine.

    What has been in your browser history the past week? Leave any interesting links in the comments.

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  • Links of the week

    Links of the week

    Stewart Lee Improvised Around Industry Prejudice To Make His Name (YouTube) — stand-up comedian Steward Lee having a conversation with stand-up comedian Jamali Maddix. A nice insight into the behind-the-scenes of comedy. Also available as a podcast.

    One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With The FBI (Buzzfeed News) — The FBI does not have the ability to freely browse genetic profiles but can match suspects samples against the Family Tree DNA database. Probably not what users expected to happen when they just wanted to find their ancestors.

    The Welfare Effects of Social Media (Stanford University Research Paper) — researchers from Stanford University and New York University recruited over 2000 people. Half of them turned off their Facebook accounts for four weeks in return for $102 – a value in line with previous studies of Facebook’s “worth” to users. The “quitters” spent more time with their friends and family and were also noticeably happier.

    All Our Patent Are Belong To You (Tesla) — Elon Musk announces that people are free to use Tesla-patented technology “in good faith” without being sued by Tesla.

    Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.

    Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla – https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

    What the most interesting things you saw on the web this week? Let me know in the comments.

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