Defining promotional items?

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  1. Cyantist

    Cyantist Site Supporter 2012,2013,2014,2015

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    How do you define promotional items? For example here I have a fuel advertisement. I took it from asda and it comes on cardboard. It isn't painted or anything fancy just sent out to asda to advertise the game.
     
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    It was free? Never sold?
     
  3. Cyantist

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    Never sold. They used it to advertise in the electronics section. They were chucking it out so I took it.
     
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    I should have been more clear. Promo = free, never sold attention item so yeah it's a promo.
     
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    Promotional items bear a "not for sale" writing most of the time. No matter if you call it NFS, Hibaihins, Promos or whatever - anything that was given out free and has never been distributed commercially is a promo.
     
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    This is the item in question. In the corner (cut off) It has a pegi rating (7+) If anyone can value it even better. I just want rid of it.
     
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    I salvaged a Brutal Legend vinyl album cover out a dumpster from my towns defunct GameCrazy. Also got this really big window vinyl for Extreme Ghostbusters.
     
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    these were being tossed at work, so I took one.
     
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    Right, and a promo also can be the very same game which is commercially released later as a official vesion, but in an other package, or with removed stickers, or different printing on the package or disc/cart etc.

    In contrary it can be also a very different still unfinished state or just a part of a game (like a proto).
     
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