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The return of Peru's selection to a World Cup after 36 years of absence infected the entire country with a fever for collecting cards from the Russian World Cup 2018 a mission that can easily cost more than 850 soles ($ 264), the value of a minimum wage
In the capital Lima, gets the l & # 39; album or envelopes with figurines, as it is known in Peru and in other South American countries to imprints with the faces of players, has become a very complicated task, because the envelopes put up for sale are sold at any time. 19659003] The demand is permanent, and sellers claim that it grows up even with the days, so that only in the first ten days of distribution were sold 140 tons of figurines, all "a phenomenon", said Óscar Pizarro, sales manager of Tai Loy, a chain of stores that has a car "In twenty minutes, we sold twenty-four packs," said a store manager, where collectors make queues all the days when they discover that new lots have arrived, something unpredictable, because they do not know in which store.
These queues gathered hundreds of people in the early days and caused conflict and tension in some places when impatient shoppers learned that the store was empty and that their wait had been vain. "We are all with this fever and euphoria, I have already opened four packages and I still can not finish my album," laments José Luis, a collector who goes to a center every day to trade his cards. with 520 cards, it is sold in authorized stores at 215 soles ($ 66), while the price of separate envelopes, with five figurines inside, is 2.50 soles ($ 0.78), but the value increases in the street, where resale abounds. Just walking briefly in the historic center of the Peruvian capital is possible to spot the dealers who sell the package to no less than 280 soles ($ 87) and envelopes to 3 soles.
The most enthusiastic buy them at 2, 50 soles, the same price of an envelope with five cards, the stamps of the most valuable players. Among the most requested are the stars as the Argentine Lionel Messi, the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Brazilian Neymar, but also the players of the 39 Peruvian national team, in particular Paolo Guerrero, Raúl Ruidíaz and Miguel Trauco. However, the most complicated cards to get are the golden cards, as is the case with the shields of the selections and other allusives at the World Cup, for which they pay up to 39%. at 30 soles ($ 9.33).
all tastes, like that of a Venezuelan who offers the cards of the 620 players that currently make up the collection for 310 soles ($ 96) then the golds between 10 and 15 soles (between $ 3.11 and 4 , $ 67) each. There are also collectors of all kinds and, far from being a children's affair, adults are most obsessed with badembling all their figurines, although not everyone recognizes it.
"No, I do not buy," says a red-haired worker about 50 years old, of a notary trying to hide the list with the missing card numbers, at the exact moment he asked a street vendor. Paola, a 32-year-old collector, claimed that she was immersed in this whirlwind by her two daughters, who asked her to do so, and despite the price she said she was doing it too because of the return of the team to the World Cup.
that it is very awake buying them, because maybe the album or the numbers are wrong, like the 20,000 or so albums that the Peruvian police seized this week in a warehouse in Lima. Even the same players from the Peruvian national team as Luis Advíncula have shown in the social networks that they are also looking for the cards themselves, a collective fever that does not seem to drop before the coup d'etat. 39, sending the World Cup. [19659012]
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