Closing date for the January 2026 issue (No 465) is 29th December 2025
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Issue 464: December 2025
In terms of number of items sold, November must have been one of the best months for sales ever. Gone are Haydn Board’s UM H-31, 3 more envelopes, 3 baskets, 6 burners, 6 fans and 6 miscellaneous items including the last of the Zebedee flight bags.
For December G-CCVZ, the Cameron O-120 envelope moves from Stop Press to the main list, Mike Scholes has added a burner frame and Ball 655 instrument and has also reduced the price of his Concept 70 envelope and T&C stainless steel tanks.
The calendar for 2026 is slowly filling up – lots of winter meets and old favourites to follow, although we hear that ‘Enenvol’ (was ‘Metz’) has been cancelled.
Finally Zebedee thanks all those who have used the List to sell or buy all sorts of balloon related ‘gear’ over the past year. We wish all our readers a Happy Christmas and a safe New Year when we hope that very item for which you have been after for so long finally appears in these pages!
See you at the Icicle Refrozen Meet in 2026 (details at icicle-refrozen.com) with our usual selection of spares at the exhibition area of the hotel.
Time for bed said Zebedee!
For several months we have been contemplating the future for our business, as has Chris Dunkley at Easy Balloons. Don’t panic! No immediate changes are planned, but being realistic the next few years will see us winding down and we thought we should spell out some timely truths and maybe encourage some youngsters into balloon maintenance & repair.
We have written a joint statement which we hope will trigger both business enterprise and some thoughts as to how you can ease the pain of your next repair …..
Scam Warning
WARNING!
We have been alerted by two of our advertisers to a scam which is currently doing the rounds. In each case the potential buyer agrees to buy an item and then sends a cheque in payment. However the cheque is for more than the asking price of the item. The ‘buyer’ then asks the seller to refund the difference. Because it sometimes takes a week or more for the bank to process a cheque, it can be some time before the seller realises the cheque has bounced.
We have heard of 4 advertisers who have received enquiries in the past week for equipment. They all involve a complicated routine involving (international) cheques and the fact that the enquirer is on honeymoon… beware !