I came across an intriguing advert on the TV yesterday.
It's a model of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 car with the ejector seat made by Corgi.
The commercial plugs that you can buy it for £19.99 with an additional bunch of free gifts, worth £14.98, thrown in.
Oh, the box also contains an extra henchman to eject from the seat should you require one. I thought that was a funny touch.
I was interested. I took a photo of the television screen so I could look further into buying the model once I had woken up properly.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to bother. The small print put me off.
The model wouldn't be mine for 'just £19.99'. If you look at the bottom part of the commercial, you'll see that I'd be expected to pay £3.99 for delivery.
That's not all.
The purchase kicks off a subscription service which means, unless cancelled, I will be sent a new die-cast model each month and charged £24.99 plus £3.99 for delivery.
I was keen on getting the car, but not THAT keen.
The main reason why I was inspired to make the purchase is I had a small car like that when I was a child. It was a silver Aston Martin with a really small red figure that would pop up from the seat. If I recall correctly, I broke the roof of the car so it wouldn't work after a while.
I thought it would have been fun to have a new, better, edition of the vehicle all these years later, but I am not interested - whatsoever - in signing up for a subscription service for model cars.
That's just me, I'm sure there are some collectors out there willing to do so. I won't be die-casting another day.
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