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Well, what do you know? Just three days after complaining<\/a> about the price of copies of Threads<\/a> on eBay<\/a>, somebody in Canada put up a ‘buy it now’ copy for just under 12 quid! It’s definitely worth persevering for the right price, it seems! I’ll have to post a review here after I’ve seen it again…watch this space.<\/div>\n

Well, what do you know? Just three days after complaining about the price of copies of Threads on eBay, somebody in Canada put up a ‘buy it now’ copy for just under 12 quid! It’s definitely worth persevering for the right price, it seems! I’ll have to post a review here after I’ve seen it […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/14\/threads\/","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":0},"title":"Threads","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"14 April 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Many years ago, I stayed up watching TV slightly later than usual with mum and dad and happened to see Threads. 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