The VW Pin Saga Continues

[tysmagic]

Roughly a year ago I bought around 300 VW harlequin pins from the owner of Open Air Imports, a FB Oppo member.

I made a goal of getting my investment back within the first month and I managed to do that. I kept momentum going on them through the holidays and managed to come out pretty well.

Things went a bit stagnant from there. I was selling a couple every few months. A couple weeks ago, I met this guy on eBay. He wanted to get 16 of them ASAP for a VW meet he was going to that weekend - little back and forth, we made a deal to include quicker shipping. We kept chatting as he seemed like just the perfect guy to buy the whole lot...and he did!
All in, I walked away with $1600 in pin sales.

Turns out it's the 25th Anniversary of the Harlequin this year! He's done a great job repackaging the pins and is presenting them really well on this website:

https://www.peoplekars.com/product/volkswagen-golf-harlequin-enamel-pin/187?cs=true&cst=custom

So the saga continues! From Open Air Imports, to Boring.Cars, to PeopleKars - maybe he can be the one to finally sell them all?

[A Former User]

@tysmagic
Open air Imports keeps popping up in one of my FB feeds. It's surprising just how many cars they sell from the U.K. and mostly RHD cars though a good amount are LHD coming from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, etc...I'd of thought RHD would of put many people off but no, seems like the slightly cheaper price and English language convenience are just the ticket.

[tysmagic]

@svend I'm interested to hear the feedback when I eventually sell my LR since it's RHD. It's novel and not really bothersome as the driver, but they do seem to come in at lower price points

[A Former User]

@tysmagic
The general feedback seems to be rather good as several in the U.S. have bought further cars and one father/son duo bought VW Corrados each.
Speaking of harliequin, they have imported some recently.
Some though haven't been all that much cheaper if I'm honest after comparing them to Euro autoscout24 prices.