Hi guys, this question is really for those who rediscovered smurfs as adults after starting their collections as kids - many of us seem to fall into this catergory.
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Here is our story, we first went on the internet in about 1995 and surfed around as you do, not really knowing how it worked or what to look for. I know I definitely did a search for smurfs and found a couple of sites (and I mean a couple) which weren't particularly good. A few bits of clipart and very slow loading photos so I suppose I didn't really take much notice. This combined with the fact it was very expensive to go online meant once again smurfs returned to the back of my mind as a distant childhood memory.
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Then in 2000, a friend of ours mentioned Ebay and what a brilliant website and idea. We investigated and then spent the next few days trying to get a PlayStation 2!
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After the Ebay discovery I then started searching for smurf websites to find out more information and was very pleasantly suprised to see that smurf collecting was a popular hobby worldwide and I wasn't alone in my crazy quest.
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What's your story?