Sadly there are some for whom money is no object and scalpers are just another supplier, then there are those who don't like scalpers but will buy from them when they can't find what they're looking for, seeing them almost like a necessary evil for when they can't get what they want. Everyone in all hobbies should hate scalpers, but sadly as long as things like FOMO sales tactics exist, they will unfortunately always have a market.
Go to automotive swap meets. There will be tons of these guys trying to sell their collections. Some are pretty ridiculous, but most are pretty reasonable, like $1-$5. Keeping in mind that they have to pay a costly fee just to be allowed to set up there. These guys tend to be much older, and realized the pointlessness of collecting just to collect. Some vendors, you’ll find the packaging all yellowed, devaluing their “investment.”
Personally I REFUSE to buy from any reseller. I buy these little cars for my enjoyment, and to customize as I see fit. I have seen other collectors fall into this trap though. Thet go from "Its just a hobby. I only collect what I like." to "I dont care for this casting, but it is worth alot online" and then they go into the resellers game. It's a real shame that this hobby has went to hell like this in the past years, but Im glad to hear someone calling out the ridiculousness.
Bro but in some countries like India only way to diversify our collection is to buy imports from resellers 😢 we mostly get imports from Malaysia Thailand
The real people to blame are people like Ynon Kreiz, Steve Totzke, Roberto Stanichi, and Katharine Buford at Mattel who refuse to improve product availability via platforms like Mattel Creations. People like Chris Down and Ted Wu get taken advantage of by these types of people in charge.
I usually just buy off mattel creations, but even if I don't like or care for a casting I'll still buy it just to complete the set, but I will never resell
I stopped collecting because of scalpers. I still have my whole collection of 15k plus. From reds to mains. My son will one day get them. I do it for the cars and the memories.
If your kid not into cars / diecast himself, first thing he'll do - it to put inherited collection to attic or basement. The second thing - he will sell them in garage sale, when will be cleaning attic / basement.
@Lar.Real.Diecast scalpers and resellers are not the same. I hate scalpers too. But I'm a collector who will resell cause ot is part of any hobby. When I'm ready to move out my house, I resell it. When I buy a new car, I will resell my old one. Reselling is a part of life. Scalping isn't. Scalping is mostly about greed, reselling is getting value out of your collection because it does have a market value whether you like it or not. My two cents.
Why would you leave your son that burden? What makes you think he wants them? He’s gonna grow up hit puberty find a girlfriend and is going to care less about your measly collection. Sell it now while you can put that money towards a college fund, a lot of you collectors act like your collection is going to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future and you’re somehow going to leave your kids with a treasure trove 🤣
I have been, am and always will be a collector and will never turn to the darkside like so many others. If I buy extras there for myself, trading or for friends and won't buy more than 3, if someone I run into at a store I will always help them out that is what this HOBBY is all about.
I only take What I need for myself or if I know somebody's looking for that casting Otherwise I just leave them be I have actually left Chase peices I have no interest in or none of my friends
I worked at Target from 2003-2007. There was a gentleman who’d come in and ask to see if there were any unopened boxes of hot wheels in the back. He was a collector, who shared his hobby with his kid. I also was apparently the only one willing to help him that he would actually look for me (toys was never my department) and even request to see me by name. Anyway, he told me not to bother with opened boxes because that meant that a scalper had already gotten to it. So even back then, he was dealing with this problem. He would request a box, dig to see what he wanted, then offer to put up the rest of the stock for me on the peg hooks.
Yeah, I worked Target fm 2003-08, went to TRU, then back to Target 2018-present. Some of the good ones (the true collectors) would neatly stock the product once they were done with the cases. The scalpers on the other hand.... Fuckin vultures is what they are.
I worked there in 2019 & 2020. There were NEVER any good hot wheels on the pegs. My buddy worked in toys and he said that they hoard everything. I was totally unaware as I only picked up a few cars of interest every now and then. Fully into the hobby now Thanks to Covid and the toy dept mafia is real. I have heard stories about Wal-Mart too and I only find gold at the one that has mostly elderly toy dept staff 👍
@@boot_leg_ramen_noodle I knew a guy who was a collector and a Target manager and let collectors look over the unopened cases first. That's a level of collecting that I can't get into. Those extra hoops and back room shenanigans. Forget it.
@@scockery same here bro, no shade to ANYONE but I can’t be at the store outside waiting for it to open and stalking the toy dept employees. If that’s anyone’s thing, do you.
I think the surfacing of other brands like Mini GT, Tarmac Works, Pop Race, Inno 64, and many other brands coming from Asia. Collecting Hot Wheels doesn't feel worth it. Why go through all this effort over a diecast that loses on quality compared to mentioned brands and also goes higher in price in terms of resell prices. In my country, there are collectors going to lengths of getting supermarket or store employee or manager contacts to get their supply. It's a disgrace.
@@90heroes Yeah that's the thing also. I have to go through a lot of effort to get Hot Wheels at retail price and most of the time I don't see them at stores and the resell price especially new castings and release are stupidly overpriced.
(Nearly) every time I had any duplicates of toys I've been collecting (that weren't primed to be an army builder) I usually gifted them away to kids of my friends.
I recently sold my entire Hot Wheel collection, it was close to 9,000 cars, including about 30 super treasure hunts and 200 premiums, over the last 6 years of the hobby I spent more than $10,000. I was in a bad financial situation, and it ended up selling for $6,000, not even close to what I paid, considering the gas and time spent collecting. I don't think there really is any profit for resellers, I live in a major city, and if you go to Marketplace and look at ads for Hot Wheels, they don't sell, they just sit there for months at a time. the real problem is adult collectors like myself that horde all the cars, it's the Desolation of Smaug syndrome, a big bad dragon sitting on its golden treasure.
there is profit, but for the upcoming content, not for the old trash. old trash only appeases the true collectors who fall in live with old trash. the new shit , the new already considered RARE MODELS even before leaving the factory, are the ones on the hype and selling fast. what suckers dont understand is that to make profit you have to live this reseller´s life 24/7.
@@EugenioHertz They will have seen an antiques' show where an unopened vintage toy from the 70's or earlier is worth a load of money because the box and contents is pristine and then think if they collect new toys that one day it will happen to that. The problem is a load of people will have the same idea, buy new toys, keep them in the box and then in twenty years time think that it will be worth money - it won't because it's not rare. They should just buy for their kids and let them play with it. Their unopened toys will most likely end up in landfill when their home gets cleared out because they've died, or have become a hoarder.
I know of several scalpers, I can't stand them. When I am at the hot wheels section and I find a bunch of cars that I know the scalpers will take them all. I collect most of them put them in my cart and go hide them in the store and every day after work I will grab a few and put them in the front on the pegs. It has turned into a game of cat and mouse for me with these scalpers. When I run into actual collectors I will ask them what they are looking for. If it is one of the cars I have hidden, I will tell them come back tomorrow and look at so and so place and you will find one there. Good times. !!!
I am collector. I understand the pain. I had bought a skyline super silhouette for 16$ loose. Car collecting is a pain as certain cars are never there as they only want the price and not the craftsmanship of making the castings.
I’m a Godzilla figure collector. The most I’ll buy at one time is two of the same item; One to remove from the packaging and handle, another to keep in the packaging for the bookshelf. Even then, this is pretty rare for me. Godzilla collectibles aren’t exactly cheap most of the time, and scalpers are a big problem for them too.
I'm not a Hot Wheels collector. I'm a Godzilla collector, and my friend is a Gundam collector, and I know people who are Lego collectors. All of us have this issue. Issue where hype and rarity, obsession with market value and FOMO, reseller and scalpers, all this became the main drive for most collectors. Everyone is mad when their beloved item got reissued or no longer as rare The price tag and exclusivity became main value to the collectors, not the personal value. It's honestly tiring and annoying, as it pushed everyone in the hobby sphere to scalp and price everything crazily. I personally don't like to use the term "collector" nowadays due to all this characteristic that I dislike attached to it. I prefer calling myself as a "hobbyist", people who truly enjoy the hobby in and of itself. My main driving factor to collect is what I like. I don't care about the rarity and exclusivity, I hate those labels. Heck, even when I do like exclusives and own them, I wish they were regular release so that more people could enjoy it. I also resell stuff, but more often than not it was at a slight loss. Due to me knowing my buyers are fellow hobbyist and I know they'll enjoy those items more than I am now. So I'm willing to let it go at a bargain. I enjoy my hobby, and I hope more people would enjoy it again. Let's forget the numbers and the investment for once, and re-embrace your inner manchild. Play with the damn thing, enjoy it. Walk away from the community, isolate yourself and develop your own strict taste, that is for you and you only. Not the ones that'll please the people at the community, nor the ones that'll please the market. But one that pleases you and your personal enjoyment. It's a hobby, not a job. It's an child-like escapism, not a calculated investment
Why would a person be mad if your favourite piece is reissued? Surely it's a good thing because more people can enjoy this cool thing? Only reason would be if the value was the most important aspect of the piece...in which case the objective was always to sell, and that means they aren't a collector, they're a trader. Collectors don't sell, except to restructure a collection.
At least with plastic model kits majority of people demand for new kits that will sell out instantly, and the brands go 'nah, lets just make another spitfire instead'
My only beef with gunpla is that some of the new mold was slapped with P-Bandai, especially on the MG kits that I wanted like Gundam MK-V and GM Space Command. I think it’s mostly Bandai’s part of gouging prices on p-bandai kit and then scalpers double or triple it even more.
Yes, but not really. That mainly happens to the kits that Bandai just straight up refuses to reissue after a long while. Other than that, the main issue we are facing today is too many kits now locked up behind P-Bandai pay wall. Great to be in Japan or North America, but everywhere else are pretty much screwed
@@nimay13 I'd say it depends on how you wish to enjoy the hobby. If you are just a regular builder (which most people are), while it does get more expensive by a margin compared to the past, the additional expense can be explained by accounting a lot of factors. And it's completely understandable in terms of financial & technological advancements. However, if you are down for more advanced stuff, especially customizing, then there is no doubt that the expenses just go up rapidly. But it's always an option, not a must.
I don't have a problem with selling older products, the problem is the needlessly 'limited edition' nature of the product - they went to all the trouble and expense of making a special mould and then voluntarily stop using it...why? limited edition anything really piss me off, but especially things that take lots of time and effort to create.
I work at a Walmart, we have collectors/resellers/scaplers who will open the boxes themselves to get at the cars if the stockers aren't fast enough. I'm only a causal collector(mostly Matchbox) myself, I always unpack them because space for me is limited.
I've been collecting diecast for decades, only for me. I have never found a STH. It's frustrating but I stopped caring. Scalpers are irritating. Finding Boulevards? Pretty much gave up on that too
I found 1 and I opened it, I only collect Batmobile's and they are all opened and on display, my son can touch and look at them when he wants to. They are for me and me alone. Won't pay more than few £ for them.
Last time I got a boulevard was 2021, never seen one ever since because the shelves are always empty. They should just start selling all their premiums online.
I collect since 2009, long before the hype and never became a scalper; I resell some of my old cars when their value become high in order to buy new ones or other toys that are expensive. I mainly collect since 1991 japanese toys so I started collecting Hotwheels for American Muscle&Pony Cars to add some variety to my whole toy collection so even if I have a JDM collection, it is not my main interest. I refuse to fear of missing certain models so I buy some online some cars when they are release and are around the same price as in shops or have contact of reseller who are not scalpers for Premium sets. But it is more than 5 years that I really find back the pleasure of collecting and "hunting" with no stress and only good vibes with Barbie, I only collect a certain "style" and I only buy what I can display (I buy stands in order to give them the posing they deserve to get), As for the Skyline Pace Car from Gran Turismo, I also refused to buy it only as the prices were minimum 3 times the shop price and I found it 2 or 3 months ago, but I must admit it would have pissed me off to never come across that particular model.
I am a collectors and scalpers have made the hobby into collecting undesirable now. Like yesterday, there were 9 boxes of the Hot Wheels boulevard with the 22' Civic Type R sitting on the pallet at Walmart. This was about 8:20pm I asked a manager if I can get any assistance and he told me that the stockers would be there around 9pm to start putting the cars up. I went out to get something to eat and then to return in hope to catch them stocking it up. I come back around 9:10pm and every single boxes were went through. All the Civics Type R were gone. I asked the stock woman, and she said someone already open them up before she got there. Sad world we live in. I feel like I just hang it up. They be selling them at the flea market for $25 a piece and I refuse to buy them.
I still find the joy of finding and appreciating this little pieces of artwork. In my years of collecting Hot wheels and endless hunts, I did manage to have some luck with Treasure hunts, chases when I find them. I really don't look at its market value but its value in my eyes
This video is so underrated. I collect mostly Tomica and there is a line of Nissan cars that I want so much (cars inside boxes of the posters of the old Godzilla movies) and resellers are just reselling them at such a high price, I don't even want them anymore.
EXACTLY! Id give you 2 hearts if i could. I could have the skyline i want but I won't feel the same if i have to pay more. I feel regret to buy from resellers
Tomica, in general, is also more expensive than hot wheels. I thought that was odd. I assumed, with the yen being so weak, everything that was by a Japanese company within Japan itself would be much more affordable. I think that was the only example I found of products that weren’t cheap.
Yeah I feel you there. Here Skyline got scalped to DEATH. I have to go to another brand to get my R34 (MiniGT). I did obtain the R34 pace car but it was selling as a 5 cars Pop culture set. Fortunately I also like the GT R35 and the MTV van so I did bit the bullet. But for others its a struggle really. Hope those scalpers got what they deserve with price fell out to the window. Hot wheels also began playing with the number of cars in a box, especially in silver labels. For example in FF Dom set, there are 3 RX-7s instead of 2. And in the speed graphic set, Civic EK9 will be 3 cars. Hope this strat works for long terms.
I went to the Hot Wheels Legends tour a few months ago, since it came to my area. They were having a promotion at the Walmart where if you bought $25 worth of Hot Wheels, and brought the receipt out to one of the booths, they gave you a bag of goodies which included an exclusive casting. While I was in line to buy my Hot Wheels (I just picked ones that I liked, no scalping), I watched as one of the Legends Tour guys came out from the back of the store with some cases of the more premium castings to stock on the shelves. This poor guy nearly got mobbed by these rabid, fully grown adults for these cases. It got to the point where the local police had to surround this guy as he stocked the shelves. As soon as he was done, the first few people just grabbed everything and left nothing for anyone else. It was mind boggling and surreal to watch adults fight over childrens toys. I kid you not, I really thought one of them was gonna get walked away in handcuffs. I was just there to meet up with friends, look at some cool cars, and have a good time. Definitely was not expecting that. You are 100% correct. The collectors (scalpers) scene is unbelievable.
I'm a Ghostbusters collector Last year a local store got in a shipment of action figures , a scalper went in and bought every one in stock (including the unopened cases still in the back) then he bragged about wiping out the stock at another store .🤬
Some action figure sites "How are scalpers still a thing? Stores don't stock anymore enough to matter." The idea now is that collectors order everything online and don't bother with physical retail, yet, the scalpers operate online, too. It's not just collectors getting the sell-out-in-10-minutes online exclusives. And the rats won't leave the ship until its sinking, so scalpers will be around until no adults collect anymore. And toy companies largely don't care. Mattel can have items that sell out in 15 minutes or less and will NEVER OFFER THEM AGAIN. (Or offer a paltry amount at some random time of day unannounced.)
As someone who just started collecting again 2 years ago, the diecast community in my city was chill. There wasn't a feeling of competition since there were only a few of us; eventually more and more started collecting to the point where they'd start to hoard and eventually resell. This made collecting a hassle and it took away the joy of hunting. Because of this I sold all my HW collection and used the money to buy more premium brands such as MINI GT, Kaido House and Inno64 which did not have any competition. I must say life has been easier knowing that I don't have to be the first to line up when the store restocks and just let them compete with themselves.
this is 99% true. There is a small exit out of that path. You learn how to customize and create your own version. Too many people are lazy and rather become a reseller just to cover the cost of the cars they want.
I've only sold diecast one time and that is because my collection had grown to large and I needed to get a focus instead of buy bulk. So, I went through all of my stuff and pulled out what I wasn't crazy about and sold as a lot locally for a really cheap price. Then my scrap cars were placed in a large bag to take to the nail shop where my wife works so she can let her customers kids play with them and keep some if they want to. I have only one treasure hunt car and I wasn't looking for it. It was just right there in front of me. I only have one RLC car and I bought it at a show because I'm a huge fan of the car. No scalping. Collect what you want and don't be stupid with your money.
Great video and storytell. New sub. And here’s my small story. I also started as a collector and now am reselling. I don’t like to consider myself a scalper because I believe there is a difference between the 2. Reason being because there were plenty of cars that I used to leave behind and only took for myself. Other friend collectors would tell me what they would be looking for. So I started trading eventually reselling for small margin. That way I help them out but of course to do those favors a lot well gas isn’t cheap so I can’t really be doing it for free. But where I draw the line is abusing of that profit margin. For example I recently found the zamac EG of this year. And yes I left 3. Went yesterday to the local Diecast reunion and someone was selling them for 10 each. Curiously enough they were three, the same exact number I left behind. I was reselling them for 5. Although starting price was 3. I stick to prices I’d pay myself or depending how much I like the cars. But yea I’d say there is a thin line between a reseller and a scalper
I recently started collecting hot wheels and matchbox as I was never able to have them growing up. I feel embarrassed looking in stores because you can see the boxes/pegs are a mess. Variant boxes are open. Adults are doing this. I just want some nice cars. I bought and sold nerf for a few months. It's gross. I would buy collections, keep what I wanted, and sell the rest at sometimes a quarter of what others do. I just wanted them going to the right people. Most of them probably went to resellers. I did have a couple that sold for high price, but they were true collector's pieces.
I have an extra gran turismo gtr I’ll let you have for free. My biggest problem with the hobby is mostly everyone is very greedy and wants to make the most money/trade value
I was a casual collector of HW diecasts. My focus was on Batmobiles and DeLoreans. It became crazy as I too started to adopt the resellers/scalpers mindset. I quit because I could accumulate anymore. I had to learn to appreciate what I already had.
Collecting Diecasts is like a business now rather than a hobby. Here the JDM cars are scalped to DEATH. Especially the r34. And I can’t really stand scalpers unfortunately. It makes me sometimes to quit this hobby and do something better. Hell I never properly ever found a chase or a STH in the wild, mainly because nowadays collecting in the wild is a waste of time here
this is because you only look for the dirtiest brand called HOTWHEELS. those who made cheap crappy cars filled with hype and overpriced tags. you could have better and even cheaper than hotbulshiet, but you dont want it.
what wild? all the stores are closed anyway, used to be 10 stores i could go to look for games,they all out of business now, might as well shop online, looking for used shit on ebay can be fun, you gotta check every day to get good stuff
Used to be $1 a car, then Hot Wheel made a it $6 with same old cast with different packaging. Limited edition for $30. Having a hobby getting so expensive now.
@@samueld5418 My point was Hot Wheel is selling the same $1 car you find 5-8 years ago to $6. You still can buy a pack of 10 or 12 cars for $10, but you might just want 3 cars in there. I just buy when I see some cool ones and don't even know how people know when they release a good car.
@@samueld5418 Not in the world beyond the USA. Cheapest place that sells mainlines costs $1.94 equivalent here, more often $2.30-$3. Premiums cost the equivalent of $11.83 where I am, Team Transports $24.98. Shit's mad. Lots of places are even worse.
It does make me sad to see greedy individuals who ruin the hobby for the rest of us. I’ve got 2 supers to my name, 1 M2 coke chase, and 4-5 errors. I run on a rule to take only what I need (maximum of 2 for ‘high value’ castings). The only way I’d sell anything from my collection is if I was strapped for cash.
i got 1 super and really i lost the hype over looking for one after my first. i learned to just buy wheels from Temu and make my own STH. but yeah people who horde all the cars to resell gets on my nerves. been looking for the current Bumblebee car and the Duck super rig for months and nothing.
Reseller is good? Trust me they have no mercy on everything they want, I think we all experiences can't find the model we want and reseller post the stock stack like mountain in his warehouse
I don’t collect them anymore because scalpers ruined the experience one too many times for me, I just could never find what I wanted. I do still look whenever I’m at the shops though,if I see anything good I put a small rip in the box/cardboard so hopefully they leave it for a kid to buy and play with instead of getting to rip people off.
I’ve been collecting Hot Wheels since I was around 8 years old, and my very first car was the Brick Cutter - and it still there on my shelf. I still remember sitting in front of the store shelf, carefully picking out the funkiest car I could find. Now, in my 30s, I’m still collecting and every single car I own is loose. I play with them, race them, and enjoy them for what they are. If you ask a scalper what their first car was and they say something like a JDM or Skyline, you know they’re just in it for profit. For me, it’s never been about that. I don’t keep my cars on their cards because I’ve never cared about their "value"-I’m not in this to sell. I refuse to buy at any resellers or resell anything from my collection. Somehow I think I traded once with fellow collectors without adding any money because luckily he has what I want and I have what he wants, it's just a taxi car. Yes, I’ve been lucky enough to find some Skylines on shelves before the storm of scalpers hit, but I only grab one for myself and leave the rest for other collectors. I don’t chase after colour variants, bullshit STHs, or error cards either-I just want one for my collection. This is what collecting is about for me, pure enjoyment, no hoarding, no flipping. Proud to say I’m a true collector!
@@Lar.Real.Diecast it was a car i really liked though, so i picked it up. i really love mercedes from the 80s so i was really happy to find a ‘89 mercedes benz 560 sec amg. it hangs proudly on my wall
Not just these facts, but also the fact that newer stuff just doesn't feel as good as it used too. That's why I collect primarily older hot wheels and diecast, back in the days when they cared about the product they delivered and the product felt special. Nothing today feels like that anymore and its a shame.
There is a group that calls themselves the Diecast mafia. If you want it, they have it. They have truckers and Mattel reps in their pockets. It's weird but it's a hustle worth quite a lot of money. To combat that, my friends and I buy up popular models and then return them whenever we see the price has finally dropped back down. You come to my city and there is a real chance of running into last year's cool cars because we do that all the time. It's fun to hear guys brag about finding something they had really wanted and being amazed it was there a full year or so after it should be. We do also pick up multiple to trade amongst ourselves.
Hot tip, if you get there before the scalpers, hide/scatter the cars you don’t want around the store. They will slowly be found and returned to the shelves at random times ensuring everyone gets a chance to buy. 😅
Honestly speaking in my country malaysia you'll probally never gonna find any premium or sometimes mainline (mostly jdm and euro cars doesnt exist) in a regular store. You can find premium but only store like toyRus sell them (not sure if there is any other store tho that sell premium), but they dont have that much in stock. If you want more you gotta go to the resellers store but expect some crazy prices. My advice for the new collectors JUST COLLECT WHAT YOU LIKE. Dont follow any trend and do not care about the future value of the car. If you want to kraken it (crack it open) just do it and learn to customize it the way you want it. Its way more fun.
@@spiders_8792 exactly! If anyone wants to scalp, sell concert tickets. Its a way bigger and faster turn around than toy cars. I get that they make 7 bucks here and there, but its just not worth the time and overhead to keep at it.
It's so frustrating knowing that the shelves will be picked clean of any interesting models, before i even get to see them on pegs. Also Treasure hunts etc are nice but buying them from resellers defeats the purpose of a treasure HUNT 🙄
That also defeats the purpose of collecting pleasure and admiring aesthetics from the castings themselves. If you want the "good ones" (th and sth, looks to me like this is what ppl want, due to the hype from other ytbers) you will need to go to many stores during restock and fight with other scalpers..hence after sometime on doing this you will end up being scalper yourself. It's a cycle where I just realized that i was starting to become part of the problem
I'm a collector, but i also resell here and there. Since I can't find what I'm looking for in the stores, I pony up the money and buy cases from wholesalers. The scalping has become a problem since 2020. It's gotten worse. My co worker is a collector and has never sold one thing in his collection, and he's been collecting since the late 90s. However, I have seen the scalpers that go first thing in the money, and they never go to the swap meets, or are even in the diecast groups in my area. Diecasting is really popular here in New Hampshire, and all over New England. I look for some of my friends, and they do the same. The over hype with JDMS is a generational thing. I'd hate to be a new collector nowadays. They almost have something to prove. At least 3 guys that collect civics actually have civics, and one of them is a fully built drag car. I don't really care about supers all that much. I've never found one, and that's OK. I buy older supers because I'd rather have the earlier ones pre 2020 anyways. Just cooler cars, in my opinion. That all being said, I'm always having fun, my wife collects too, and we just do our own thing. The skyline I have in my collection, stay in my collection. I have a tote for American muscle, JDMS, exotics, premiums, etc etc. Cool video, and you got a sub from me! Hope all is well boss. Happy hunting! 😊
I don't think this is such a problem here in germany. hotweels and matchbox don't go so well and you find them piled up in stores.. I'm looking for a Ford Escord RS [number], if it even exists... I don't really collect, but saw a cool honda civic a month ago and now I bought a ford GT40 and a Fiat 500, because I drove them in video games 😛 I bought a Mercedes SL whatever for my brother in law and he was so happy about it, that it made me happy, too... didn't even know he liked that car. it was just a joke gift hehe
In my country hws are very much still for kids so i like collecting the specific packs like for example i got all 5 of the 2024 roadsters collection and just seeing them displayed in my room,brings me joy in high school,i dont like drinking or smoking so i dont have any actual friends.I liked watching this video and it is thought provoking but doesn't discourage me from enjoying the hobby my way 👍
Well you have to understand my friend. I don't collect hot wheels but I do collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And I can tell you that collecting is a hobby that across the board functions pretty much the same. Some people are knowledgeable and try to make money off it. Others just want a collection. Some people just lose interest in there collection and sell theres to invest in something else. At the end of the day the hunt for the rare item is what collecting is all about. But to say people don't appreciate the models is silly. Obviously if people felt that way, they wouldn't spend ridiculous amounts of money to complete there collections.
Ive been hunting for a Gucci Cadillac seville RLC car for ages, because like you, I wanted to collect it and it wouldve been a great thing to show off. I had it in my cart and sold out within in 2 minutes waiting in line to purchase online. It grew on me and made it a goal to cop one some day. Since then, Ive been buying RLC cars that were of "value" just so I can possibly find enough good hyped RLC cars to sell em to get the gucci cadillac seville, I still dont have it and my collection grows in boxes. That transition from collecting to hoarding, its insane how it can get started at any point.
i have been collecting for nearly 20 years. that scalper in the store in coping hard when he says everyone eventually becomes a reseller. which is why i quit hotwheels and moved on towards more premium brands where the scalper ratio is less.
I recently started collecting Johnny Lightning for this reason. If there is a cool base set hotwheel or premium I’ll buy it at the store if I see it. Otherwise right now Johnny Lightning and Autoworld are more appealing. Especially with the cool limited production numbers. Only problem is it’s hard to find them.
I just got this video recomended recently since I started recently to collect some random hotwheels and I completely understand you... I bought a few cars that were increasing in prices since it was a ferrari (license expired 10+ years ago and valuable) but coming from Portugal its as bad as USA in terms of scalping or even worse since STHs are harder to get here. I actually want a STH of a car I genuinely like but its impossible. Btw I work at a hypermarket so from time to time to bug me if im gonna restock hotwheels or not which is even more annoying since we don't receive even a tenth of what usa receives to stock even in christmas time... its so sad tbf. my luck is 2nd hand online shop for europe (vinted) which some people are nice enough to sell stuff they dont use at good price. i want to sell mines beacuse i dont have any more space and im gonna make sure they are low price just out of morality tbf. shame that anything some adults touch go from entertainment to business
I have been collecting since the 90s. In 2006 i went into a depression and gave all my collection to my nephews who destroyed and got rid of the cars in like 2 years. I started collecting in 2009.. i have sold only 1… and it really was an exchange + some money!
“Everyone” is a very broad generalization. I’ve been a collector for 20 years and over the years just as my taste has changed, my collection has changed. I sell cars and use the money from those sales just to buy new cars that fit my current collection. I’ll never be a “reseller” or scalper but I do sell cars.
Gave away my old collection when i hit high school. After rewatching a childhood movie series called Acceleracers, ive started collecting fantasy cars from the 2000s. I never knew about this dark side of Hotwheels collecting, guess ill be careful from now
I always wanted to find a HotWheels Delorean from Back to the Future,and I only found it at a small little shop in a small town because of my father,two exemplars,but at the big stores,nothing,and I think it's rarer to find because I'm in Brasil and because of that situation
If you buy a certain line of toys but you never open & play with any of them, you'll become a reseller eventually, because you weren't buying those things for yourself. It's like people who buy sneakers but never wear them.
Sadly this stretchs further then die cast further then collectables this goes all the way to one time purchases like video games and machine spare parts
It’s so annoying how people just buy for value now I miss when I could just go to the shops and find a random skyline and buy it cuz I love the thing and along with that I’m scared to open any Hotwheels that I don’t have a duplicate of anymore because I feel like I’m losing too much I feel but I still appreciate them and love them but I’m just scared I was lucky enough to find the pop culture gran Turismo GTR Nismo concept in the wild and 2 R30 skylines but I was so over the moon but I never opened them this video has made me remember who I am and now I have decided I will too leave some for everyone else but if I find another one of the same car that I like in another day I will buy it
Lego is going the same way. People buy several copies claiming to be collector's that love lego. But in reality they are scalpers and are only in it for financial gain. I call it greedy and selfish.
NEVER! ABSOLUTELY NOT! NOT ON YOUR LIFE...OR MINE! ) I WILL NEVER BECOME A DIRTY LOWDOWN GOOD FOR NOTHING SCALPER! WHOEVER GETS MY COLLECTION WHEN I DIE WILL INHERIT LOTS OF COOL CARS THAT WILL ALSO BE WORTH LOTS OF $$. You know what they say... WHOEVER DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS! 😊 Oh yeah and btw GREAT vid! If I had the Gran Turismo Skyline, I'd trade it to you for something I wanted!!
Open everything, greatly takes away the urges to flip things, people don’t like paying nearly as much for uncarded stuff so takes the intrusive thought out of the equation
So true… sad but true. I’ve started collecting 4x4 offroad HW and after 2 years I’m thinking about buying and selling - not collecting. Thank you for your video. I need to prioritise my needs and become a kid again - collecting my favs HW cars
100% agree with everything you said buddy. I gave up collecting Hot Wheels and focus on Tomica instead. I still buy them here and there when I spot something interesting on the pegs, but I won't go out of my way to hunt for them store to store. Tomica's Skyline and R35 GTR offerings are still abundant in the market and you can get them below the prices at Toys R Us on online platforms. I also opened my Skyline GTRs from Tomica Premium and holds them on my hand, opening their doors and roll their wheels. Call me childish but its better than buying Hot Wheels and leaving them carded. Tomicas comes in boxes, if you're done playing, just put them back into their box, simple and easy.
don't give a fuck if it's for kids. let em take it. scalpers not gonna sell anything with those hideous prices. Tomica for instance. been existing for a long while too. the only turn off for tomica is the wheels. other than that. tomica casting far more solid than hot wheels will ever be. yeah premiums included @@angel-ij4xv
This video is spot on! I am from Malaysia and the hot wheel scene is chaotic as it can be. I stopped collecting Hot Wheels and switched to collecting Tomica.
I think its is important to decide before hand the scope of the collection you want. If you have decided beforehand you can stop when you have everything and you wont buy stuff to resell or speculate since they are not part of the objective.
I just started collecting it, and it was really disappointing that it's always out of stock I went to different stores around the city and found nothing. Good thing a kind employee hides some for the new faces. Thanks to him, I got one of my favorite cars a premium fairlady z.🥰 I need to protect that man at all cost!
I do understand the feeling brother!! I am a collector like you who buys them for the car not the value or rarity. Scalping is a serious problem hee in India too. I got the gran turismo Skyline for retail in a shop here and bought it too :)
@@Lar.Real.Diecast the mf'er had several with him just a few hours with him after restocking at the store I had no other choice, atleast I got for a relatively lower price than other scalpers I know of, besides I sell some cars too, but at the retail price, no markups I understand how annoying it is to overpay for a car, so ig I'm doing smth nice
Yes, I agree that most scalpers and reseller starts as collectors. They see the value in the cars and pick up a few to sell on the secondary market so they can profit to buy more. Then the heat continues and they buy everything that they can turn into a few bucks. I have been collecting for about a 15 years+. JDM cars right now are crazy hot especially the era of the Import Tuning for examples cars from the late 80's to the 90's. Skylines, Civics, and Supra are probably the most scalped cars right now. Good luck if it even makes it to the pegs.
It's the same here in Australia. If it's not the scalpers, it KMart/Target/Big W etc staff that help themselves to the fresh cases before we even touch them. And what I buy, I buy for myself and what I like. And I agree with you, the obsession with Supers and TH's drives me mental. Great piece of content, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I buy them for my six year old boy. He really likes Teslas for some reason. I love GT on the PS. One day while shopping, I looked and found that skyline from GT. That one and a GT-R. I only bought two of each. For my son and for me. Only cuz he scratches them up sometimes.
@@Lar.Real.Diecast You know the truth is that, sooner or later. Hot Wheels hype will die down just like the Jordan shoes hyped by Vines in 2012-2018. The reason is that the rise of Collector grade model/TrueScale 1:64 here in the Philippines. such as Mini GT, Inno64, Tarmac Works, Fuelme, and CM Model. They become hype nowadays so i think scalpers will eventually die for a Toy Grade model such as Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels premium such as Skyline R34 in FnF is starting to price down because no body is looking for them anymore. Comparing a price for a HW Premium R34 Skyline vs a Collector grade Inno64 R34 Skyline in pre order price literally make no sense because collector grade still win for a pre order price. so keep that in mind, scalpers only go for the hype for cash cow, not a true collector, if the hype goes down, so on their market and eventually they gonna sale it for set in steal price.
The thing you said about Skylines also seemed to apply with Supras especially the Mk4 / A80. Anytime I saw a Hot Wheels version, it's always at least 100k IDR or essentially 3 times the retail value to the point that I bought a MiniGT version for roughly the same price at a far better quality. Edit: And don't even start on the Hondas especially the Civics.
0:33 maybe that is Mattel, you ever see those premiums being sold in the RLclub? It’s always the ones that are peg warmers, where are the ones that are not peg warmers from those groupings, where they sell at? 😂 🧐
That was soo deep, i started collecting from last year, thank god i saw your video, initially I started collecting cars that i liked not which included fantasy cars. But then I don't know why i started buying cars which will have more value in future. Thanks for saving me from the dark side, i will never sell my cars. Love you bro
I’m the same way about any Jeep or any E30 M3. My Aunt from Texas accidentally found an 90’s E30 325is with opening doors and sent it to me in MI. I also love any 911 pre 2007. Some I keep in packages and some I like to touch. It’s a HotWheels, I’m don’t expect to get rich off them
Welp, i miss the days where i can still leave dozens of reality casting cars on shelves and only pick what i want. Nowadays, especially here in the Philippines, resellers gatekeep the reality castings so i had to wait in front of the malls for minutes before it opens.
During the Holiday Season in the late 90s, I applied for a job at Toys R Us, and mainly worked unloading the trucks, as well as fetching Big Ticket items such as Sandboxes. Anyways, while unloading the truck, the Manager would want to search the truck for the Hot Wheels and at the time the Furbies, to get those off first, then let us deal with the mess of sorting everything else out while unloading. They would crack open each Hot Wheels case, and sort them before putting most of it out on the pegs, obviously keeping out certain ones. I do collect Hot Wheels myself, but only occasionally do I go out to see what's out there, and sometimes go a few years without looking at the Hot Wheels pegs. Mostly I just get the odd ones and sometimes if I like a certain car design. For decades though I have never understood the resale market for Hot Wheels!
I just can’t see how you can make profits that are better than working a few hours of overtime at work. It’s a lot of waiting around for the staff to pull out the pallets and butt kissing them to open the cases for you. The gas and time you put in to be a profitable scalper is never going to match what you earn at your job. Unless you have some sort of mafia-like control of your area. I guess they don’t see it as working. 🤷♂️
I will never resell. I go once a week. If I find something cool. If not oh well. I buy to customize.
Same bro
Same here. I customize for my own pleasure or to send it in for mail in tournaments.
There's tournaments?!!
Not all Hero's wear capes , Maybe just not smart ones if you statement is the truth .
Same actually
If everyone in the hobby hates scalpers... who is buying from the scalpers?
Sadly there are some for whom money is no object and scalpers are just another supplier, then there are those who don't like scalpers but will buy from them when they can't find what they're looking for, seeing them almost like a necessary evil for when they can't get what they want. Everyone in all hobbies should hate scalpers, but sadly as long as things like FOMO sales tactics exist, they will unfortunately always have a market.
It was a rhetorical question, but I like your answer.
Rich people i suppose, diecast junkies...(My prrrrrrrecious)
FOMO people and "normies" from my experience
happen on every single case (pun intended) of silver line hotwheels in my country except vintage line.
Go to automotive swap meets. There will be tons of these guys trying to sell their collections. Some are pretty ridiculous, but most are pretty reasonable, like $1-$5. Keeping in mind that they have to pay a costly fee just to be allowed to set up there. These guys tend to be much older, and realized the pointlessness of collecting just to collect. Some vendors, you’ll find the packaging all yellowed, devaluing their “investment.”
Personally I REFUSE to buy from any reseller. I buy these little cars for my enjoyment, and to customize as I see fit.
I have seen other collectors fall into this trap though. Thet go from "Its just a hobby. I only collect what I like." to "I dont care for this casting, but it is worth alot online" and then they go into the resellers game.
It's a real shame that this hobby has went to hell like this in the past years, but Im glad to hear someone calling out the ridiculousness.
Bro but in some countries like India only way to diversify our collection is to buy imports from resellers 😢 we mostly get imports from Malaysia Thailand
Still only collect Nissans Mazdas & Hondas only 😂
Same dude I collect Johnny lighting and I have massive collection of them I usually buy cars that look cool and nice
The real people to blame are people like Ynon Kreiz, Steve Totzke, Roberto Stanichi, and Katharine Buford at Mattel who refuse to improve product availability via platforms like Mattel Creations.
People like Chris Down and Ted Wu get taken advantage of by these types of people in charge.
I usually just buy off mattel creations, but even if I don't like or care for a casting I'll still buy it just to complete the set, but I will never resell
I agree, my friend. Buy them because you enjoy them. It’s a silly investment vehicle!
I stopped collecting because of scalpers. I still have my whole collection of 15k plus. From reds to mains. My son will one day get them. I do it for the cars and the memories.
If your kid not into cars / diecast himself, first thing he'll do - it to put inherited collection to attic or basement. The second thing - he will sell them in garage sale, when will be cleaning attic / basement.
Thats great you have all that collection, but also sad that scalpers are ruining the hobby for us 😞
@Lar.Real.Diecast scalpers and resellers are not the same. I hate scalpers too. But I'm a collector who will resell cause ot is part of any hobby. When I'm ready to move out my house, I resell it. When I buy a new car, I will resell my old one. Reselling is a part of life. Scalping isn't. Scalping is mostly about greed, reselling is getting value out of your collection because it does have a market value whether you like it or not. My two cents.
@@joyh_nt_r8538 Fully agree on it.
Why would you leave your son that burden? What makes you think he wants them? He’s gonna grow up hit puberty find a girlfriend and is going to care less about your measly collection. Sell it now while you can put that money towards a college fund, a lot of you collectors act like your collection is going to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future and you’re somehow going to leave your kids with a treasure trove 🤣
I have been, am and always will be a collector and will never turn to the darkside like so many others. If I buy extras there for myself, trading or for friends and won't buy more than 3, if someone I run into at a store I will always help them out that is what this HOBBY is all about.
Agreed with you.
I only collect McLarens
Everytime I see a McLaren hot wheels in a Walmart I snatch it if I don’t have that model or variant of that model already
Weeell i guess is okay to give to your friends, but pls pls leave for others tq for watching 👍
I only take What I need for myself or if I know somebody's looking for that casting Otherwise I just leave them be I have actually left Chase peices I have no interest in or none of my friends
@@BreadGood_21 It's a cool looking car.
I worked at Target from 2003-2007. There was a gentleman who’d come in and ask to see if there were any unopened boxes of hot wheels in the back. He was a collector, who shared his hobby with his kid. I also was apparently the only one willing to help him that he would actually look for me (toys was never my department) and even request to see me by name.
Anyway, he told me not to bother with opened boxes because that meant that a scalper had already gotten to it. So even back then, he was dealing with this problem. He would request a box, dig to see what he wanted, then offer to put up the rest of the stock for me on the peg hooks.
Yeah, I worked Target fm 2003-08, went to TRU, then back to Target 2018-present. Some of the good ones (the true collectors) would neatly stock the product once they were done with the cases. The scalpers on the other hand.... Fuckin vultures is what they are.
I worked there in 2019 & 2020. There were NEVER any good hot wheels on the pegs. My buddy worked in toys and he said that they hoard everything. I was totally unaware as I only picked up a few cars of interest every now and then. Fully into the hobby now Thanks to Covid and the toy dept mafia is real. I have heard stories about Wal-Mart too and I only find gold at the one that has mostly elderly toy dept staff 👍
@@boot_leg_ramen_noodle I knew a guy who was a collector and a Target manager and let collectors look over the unopened cases first. That's a level of collecting that I can't get into. Those extra hoops and back room shenanigans. Forget it.
@@scockery same here bro, no shade to ANYONE but I can’t be at the store outside waiting for it to open and stalking the toy dept employees. If that’s anyone’s thing, do you.
Man this sounds like my Dad, we would hit all the retail stores around So cal walmart target toys r us etc and he would always do that
I think the surfacing of other brands like Mini GT, Tarmac Works, Pop Race, Inno 64, and many other brands coming from Asia. Collecting Hot Wheels doesn't feel worth it. Why go through all this effort over a diecast that loses on quality compared to mentioned brands and also goes higher in price in terms of resell prices. In my country, there are collectors going to lengths of getting supermarket or store employee or manager contacts to get their supply. It's a disgrace.
Especially since you can pre-order nearly all the cars you want from them and they show up at your door. No wasting gas and time.
@@90heroes Yeah that's the thing also. I have to go through a lot of effort to get Hot Wheels at retail price and most of the time I don't see them at stores and the resell price especially new castings and release are stupidly overpriced.
no need to tell me where ur from, bc I can tell by that last sentence hahahahaha
Menyala kolekdol. 😂😂
I agree with this comment lol. “Hot wheels collector” are literally blinded by the brand and not by the quality/details of the car.
At 51, I've only ever collected. I've never had interest in reselling, not even my duplicates.
(Nearly) every time I had any duplicates of toys I've been collecting (that weren't primed to be an army builder) I usually gifted them away to kids of my friends.
I recently sold my entire Hot Wheel collection, it was close to 9,000 cars, including about 30 super treasure hunts and 200 premiums, over the last 6 years of the hobby I spent more than $10,000. I was in a bad financial situation, and it ended up selling for $6,000, not even close to what I paid, considering the gas and time spent collecting. I don't think there really is any profit for resellers, I live in a major city, and if you go to Marketplace and look at ads for Hot Wheels, they don't sell, they just sit there for months at a time. the real problem is adult collectors like myself that horde all the cars, it's the Desolation of Smaug syndrome, a big bad dragon sitting on its golden treasure.
Smaug thats a nice "ring" to it 😆
there is profit, but for the upcoming content, not for the old trash. old trash only appeases the true collectors who fall in live with old trash. the new shit , the new already considered RARE MODELS even before leaving the factory, are the ones on the hype and selling fast. what suckers dont understand is that to make profit you have to live this reseller´s life 24/7.
@@EugenioHertz They will have seen an antiques' show where an unopened vintage toy from the 70's or earlier is worth a load of money because the box and contents is pristine and then think if they collect new toys that one day it will happen to that. The problem is a load of people will have the same idea, buy new toys, keep them in the box and then in twenty years time think that it will be worth money - it won't because it's not rare. They should just buy for their kids and let them play with it. Their unopened toys will most likely end up in landfill when their home gets cleared out because they've died, or have become a hoarder.
Sounds like you’re mad you sold your cars. Hate the game not the player.
I know of several scalpers, I can't stand them. When I am at the hot wheels section and I find a bunch of cars that I know the scalpers will take them all. I collect most of them put them in my cart and go hide them in the store and every day after work I will grab a few and put them in the front on the pegs. It has turned into a game of cat and mouse for me with these scalpers. When I run into actual collectors I will ask them what they are looking for. If it is one of the cars I have hidden, I will tell them come back tomorrow and look at so and so place and you will find one there. Good times. !!!
I've been collecting for like 7 years, and idgaf about "treasure hunts", and have never sold anything. I just buy what I like. And exhibit it.
Seriously a sorry state of the Hobby, I personally swear to myself that I'll never resell, I only buy the cars I love and will keep them forever
Yes!
Believe me hot wheels are only scratching the surface. Collectibles just get worse and worse by the year
I am collector. I understand the pain. I had bought a skyline super silhouette for 16$ loose. Car collecting is a pain as certain cars are never there as they only want the price and not the craftsmanship of making the castings.
Its sad really
I’m a Godzilla figure collector. The most I’ll buy at one time is two of the same item;
One to remove from the packaging and handle, another to keep in the packaging for the bookshelf. Even then, this is pretty rare for me. Godzilla collectibles aren’t exactly cheap most of the time, and scalpers are a big problem for them too.
I have a Skyline named “Guaczilla”
I'm not a Hot Wheels collector. I'm a Godzilla collector, and my friend is a Gundam collector, and I know people who are Lego collectors. All of us have this issue. Issue where hype and rarity, obsession with market value and FOMO, reseller and scalpers, all this became the main drive for most collectors. Everyone is mad when their beloved item got reissued or no longer as rare The price tag and exclusivity became main value to the collectors, not the personal value. It's honestly tiring and annoying, as it pushed everyone in the hobby sphere to scalp and price everything crazily. I personally don't like to use the term "collector" nowadays due to all this characteristic that I dislike attached to it. I prefer calling myself as a "hobbyist", people who truly enjoy the hobby in and of itself. My main driving factor to collect is what I like. I don't care about the rarity and exclusivity, I hate those labels. Heck, even when I do like exclusives and own them, I wish they were regular release so that more people could enjoy it. I also resell stuff, but more often than not it was at a slight loss. Due to me knowing my buyers are fellow hobbyist and I know they'll enjoy those items more than I am now. So I'm willing to let it go at a bargain. I enjoy my hobby, and I hope more people would enjoy it again. Let's forget the numbers and the investment for once, and re-embrace your inner manchild. Play with the damn thing, enjoy it. Walk away from the community, isolate yourself and develop your own strict taste, that is for you and you only. Not the ones that'll please the people at the community, nor the ones that'll please the market. But one that pleases you and your personal enjoyment. It's a hobby, not a job. It's an child-like escapism, not a calculated investment
Why would a person be mad if your favourite piece is reissued? Surely it's a good thing because more people can enjoy this cool thing? Only reason would be if the value was the most important aspect of the piece...in which case the objective was always to sell, and that means they aren't a collector, they're a trader. Collectors don't sell, except to restructure a collection.
At least with plastic model kits majority of people demand for new kits that will sell out instantly, and the brands go 'nah, lets just make another spitfire instead'
Same with many hobbies like Gunpla, people would buy limited edition and then selling it at a higher price after a few years later
My only beef with gunpla is that some of the new mold was slapped with P-Bandai, especially on the MG kits that I wanted like Gundam MK-V and GM Space Command. I think it’s mostly Bandai’s part of gouging prices on p-bandai kit and then scalpers double or triple it even more.
Yes, but not really.
That mainly happens to the kits that Bandai just straight up refuses to reissue after a long while.
Other than that, the main issue we are facing today is too many kits now locked up behind P-Bandai pay wall.
Great to be in Japan or North America, but everywhere else are pretty much screwed
With scale modeling, it’s slowly becoming an expensive hobby. Kits now costs a lot. It used to be cheap. I’m sad.
@@nimay13 I'd say it depends on how you wish to enjoy the hobby.
If you are just a regular builder (which most people are), while it does get more expensive by a margin compared to the past, the additional expense can be explained by accounting a lot of factors. And it's completely understandable in terms of financial & technological advancements.
However, if you are down for more advanced stuff, especially customizing, then there is no doubt that the expenses just go up rapidly. But it's always an option, not a must.
I don't have a problem with selling older products, the problem is the needlessly 'limited edition' nature of the product - they went to all the trouble and expense of making a special mould and then voluntarily stop using it...why? limited edition anything really piss me off, but especially things that take lots of time and effort to create.
I work at a Walmart, we have collectors/resellers/scaplers who will open the boxes themselves to get at the cars if the stockers aren't fast enough. I'm only a causal collector(mostly Matchbox) myself, I always unpack them because space for me is limited.
I've been collecting diecast for decades, only for me. I have never found a STH. It's frustrating but I stopped caring. Scalpers are irritating. Finding Boulevards? Pretty much gave up on that too
I hear you about STH version's. I have one chase and 2 TH vehicle's! Been collecting since 1999.
I found 1 and I opened it, I only collect Batmobile's and they are all opened and on display, my son can touch and look at them when he wants to. They are for me and me alone. Won't pay more than few £ for them.
Last time I got a boulevard was 2021, never seen one ever since because the shelves are always empty. They should just start selling all their premiums online.
@users4007 Might as well & sorry you have as hard of time as me lol I guess try to stay positive & good luck on future hunts my friend
I collect since 2009, long before the hype and never became a scalper; I resell some of my old cars when their value become high in order to buy new ones or other toys that are expensive.
I mainly collect since 1991 japanese toys so I started collecting Hotwheels for American Muscle&Pony Cars to add some variety to my whole toy collection so even if I have a JDM collection, it is not my main interest.
I refuse to fear of missing certain models so I buy some online some cars when they are release and are around the same price as in shops or have contact of reseller who are not scalpers for Premium sets.
But it is more than 5 years that I really find back the pleasure of collecting and "hunting" with no stress and only good vibes with Barbie, I only collect a certain "style" and I only buy what I can display (I buy stands in order to give them the posing they deserve to get),
As for the Skyline Pace Car from Gran Turismo, I also refused to buy it only as the prices were minimum 3 times the shop price and I found it 2 or 3 months ago, but I must admit it would have pissed me off to never come across that particular model.
I am a collectors and scalpers have made the hobby into collecting undesirable now. Like yesterday, there were 9 boxes of the Hot Wheels boulevard with the 22' Civic Type R sitting on the pallet at Walmart. This was about 8:20pm I asked a manager if I can get any assistance and he told me that the stockers would be there around 9pm to start putting the cars up. I went out to get something to eat and then to return in hope to catch them stocking it up. I come back around 9:10pm and every single boxes were went through. All the Civics Type R were gone. I asked the stock woman, and she said someone already open them up before she got there. Sad world we live in. I feel like I just hang it up. They be selling them at the flea market for $25 a piece and I refuse to buy them.
That civic is on my wish list too, i would never buy from them. At least i got one civic type r tomica already. Thanks for watching 🥰
I still find the joy of finding and appreciating this little pieces of artwork. In my years of collecting Hot wheels and endless hunts, I did manage to have some luck with Treasure hunts, chases when I find them. I really don't look at its market value but its value in my eyes
Yes these castings are art on themselves sadly many ppl are only interested on money 😞
This video is so underrated. I collect mostly Tomica and there is a line of Nissan cars that I want so much (cars inside boxes of the posters of the old Godzilla movies) and resellers are just reselling them at such a high price, I don't even want them anymore.
EXACTLY! Id give you 2 hearts if i could. I could have the skyline i want but I won't feel the same if i have to pay more. I feel regret to buy from resellers
Tomica, in general, is also more expensive than hot wheels. I thought that was odd. I assumed, with the yen being so weak, everything that was by a Japanese company within Japan itself would be much more affordable. I think that was the only example I found of products that weren’t cheap.
Free market. Personally, I find it more exciting this way.
Yeah I feel you there. Here Skyline got scalped to DEATH. I have to go to another brand to get my R34 (MiniGT). I did obtain the R34 pace car but it was selling as a 5 cars Pop culture set. Fortunately I also like the GT R35 and the MTV van so I did bit the bullet. But for others its a struggle really. Hope those scalpers got what they deserve with price fell out to the window. Hot wheels also began playing with the number of cars in a box, especially in silver labels. For example in FF Dom set, there are 3 RX-7s instead of 2. And in the speed graphic set, Civic EK9 will be 3 cars. Hope this strat works for long terms.
Yes its a bloodbath
but the skyline R33 is only one per case while de tomaso has three units per case in F&F
hotwheels is weird
Been collecting off and on since the mid-90s. 3K cars and never sold a single one. Trades only. I will never be a scalper
I went to the Hot Wheels Legends tour a few months ago, since it came to my area. They were having a promotion at the Walmart where if you bought $25 worth of Hot Wheels, and brought the receipt out to one of the booths, they gave you a bag of goodies which included an exclusive casting. While I was in line to buy my Hot Wheels (I just picked ones that I liked, no scalping), I watched as one of the Legends Tour guys came out from the back of the store with some cases of the more premium castings to stock on the shelves. This poor guy nearly got mobbed by these rabid, fully grown adults for these cases. It got to the point where the local police had to surround this guy as he stocked the shelves. As soon as he was done, the first few people just grabbed everything and left nothing for anyone else. It was mind boggling and surreal to watch adults fight over childrens toys. I kid you not, I really thought one of them was gonna get walked away in handcuffs. I was just there to meet up with friends, look at some cool cars, and have a good time. Definitely was not expecting that. You are 100% correct. The collectors (scalpers) scene is unbelievable.
It's getting waaaay out of hand
I'm a Ghostbusters collector
Last year a local store got in a shipment of action figures , a scalper went in and bought every one in stock (including the unopened cases still in the back) then he bragged about wiping out the stock at another store .🤬
Some action figure sites "How are scalpers still a thing? Stores don't stock anymore enough to matter." The idea now is that collectors order everything online and don't bother with physical retail, yet, the scalpers operate online, too. It's not just collectors getting the sell-out-in-10-minutes online exclusives.
And the rats won't leave the ship until its sinking, so scalpers will be around until no adults collect anymore.
And toy companies largely don't care. Mattel can have items that sell out in 15 minutes or less and will NEVER OFFER THEM AGAIN. (Or offer a paltry amount at some random time of day unannounced.)
@@scockery
Its frustrating
Because a lot of scalper/resellers have software that can place multiple orders in a matter of seconds .
As someone who just started collecting again 2 years ago, the diecast community in my city was chill. There wasn't a feeling of competition since there were only a few of us; eventually more and more started collecting to the point where they'd start to hoard and eventually resell. This made collecting a hassle and it took away the joy of hunting.
Because of this I sold all my HW collection and used the money to buy more premium brands such as MINI GT, Kaido House and Inno64 which did not have any competition. I must say life has been easier knowing that I don't have to be the first to line up when the store restocks and just let them compete with themselves.
awesome!!
buy-go home-unpack the wheels-customize them (optional), this will lower your chance to be a scalper
Open them straight after i leave the store. I collect to takw cool pictures
3:19 Nope, not for me. I'VE BEEN TEN YEARS AS A COLLECTOR AND I'VE NEVER RESOLD!
GREAT!
this is 99% true. There is a small exit out of that path. You learn how to customize and create your own version. Too many people are lazy and rather become a reseller just to cover the cost of the cars they want.
I've only sold diecast one time and that is because my collection had grown to large and I needed to get a focus instead of buy bulk. So, I went through all of my stuff and pulled out what I wasn't crazy about and sold as a lot locally for a really cheap price. Then my scrap cars were placed in a large bag to take to the nail shop where my wife works so she can let her customers kids play with them and keep some if they want to. I have only one treasure hunt car and I wasn't looking for it. It was just right there in front of me. I only have one RLC car and I bought it at a show because I'm a huge fan of the car. No scalping. Collect what you want and don't be stupid with your money.
Great video and storytell. New sub. And here’s my small story. I also started as a collector and now am reselling. I don’t like to consider myself a scalper because I believe there is a difference between the 2. Reason being because there were plenty of cars that I used to leave behind and only took for myself. Other friend collectors would tell me what they would be looking for. So I started trading eventually reselling for small margin. That way I help them out but of course to do those favors a lot well gas isn’t cheap so I can’t really be doing it for free. But where I draw the line is abusing of that profit margin. For example I recently found the zamac EG of this year. And yes I left 3. Went yesterday to the local Diecast reunion and someone was selling them for 10 each. Curiously enough they were three, the same exact number I left behind. I was reselling them for 5. Although starting price was 3. I stick to prices I’d pay myself or depending how much I like the cars. But yea I’d say there is a thin line between a reseller and a scalper
Thin line indeed, thats okay to give to friends, but pls pls pls leave for others
Yup. I leave extras behind because if someone else is to be looking out for the same piece. At least there’s more chance for someone else in my area.
I always try to find Porsche hotwheels and I never find them as well as skylines I hate scalpers
I recently started collecting hot wheels and matchbox as I was never able to have them growing up. I feel embarrassed looking in stores because you can see the boxes/pegs are a mess. Variant boxes are open. Adults are doing this. I just want some nice cars.
I bought and sold nerf for a few months. It's gross. I would buy collections, keep what I wanted, and sell the rest at sometimes a quarter of what others do. I just wanted them going to the right people. Most of them probably went to resellers. I did have a couple that sold for high price, but they were true collector's pieces.
I don't ever want to start reselling. I've bought a few from resellers and now they are in my collection.
I have an extra gran turismo gtr I’ll let you have for free. My biggest problem with the hobby is mostly everyone is very greedy and wants to make the most money/trade value
I was a casual collector of HW diecasts. My focus was on Batmobiles and DeLoreans. It became crazy as I too started to adopt the resellers/scalpers mindset. I quit because I could accumulate anymore. I had to learn to appreciate what I already had.
Collecting Diecasts is like a business now rather than a hobby. Here the JDM cars are scalped to DEATH. Especially the r34. And I can’t really stand scalpers unfortunately. It makes me sometimes to quit this hobby and do something better. Hell I never properly ever found a chase or a STH in the wild, mainly because nowadays collecting in the wild is a waste of time here
this is because you only look for the dirtiest brand called HOTWHEELS. those who made cheap crappy cars filled with hype and overpriced tags. you could have better and even cheaper than hotbulshiet, but you dont want it.
what wild? all the stores are closed anyway, used to be 10 stores i could go to look for games,they all out of business now, might as well shop online, looking for used shit on ebay can be fun, you gotta check every day to get good stuff
Used to be $1 a car, then Hot Wheel made a it $6 with same old cast with different packaging. Limited edition for $30. Having a hobby getting so expensive now.
They're still a $1 a car. Calm down dude.
@@samueld5418 My point was Hot Wheel is selling the same $1 car you find 5-8 years ago to $6. You still can buy a pack of 10 or 12 cars for $10, but you might just want 3 cars in there. I just buy when I see some cool ones and don't even know how people know when they release a good car.
@@samueld5418 Not in the world beyond the USA. Cheapest place that sells mainlines costs $1.94 equivalent here, more often $2.30-$3. Premiums cost the equivalent of $11.83 where I am, Team Transports $24.98. Shit's mad. Lots of places are even worse.
@@samueld5418 in europe their at 6€ and 19€ for premium
It does make me sad to see greedy individuals who ruin the hobby for the rest of us. I’ve got 2 supers to my name, 1 M2 coke chase, and 4-5 errors. I run on a rule to take only what I need (maximum of 2 for ‘high value’ castings). The only way I’d sell anything from my collection is if I was strapped for cash.
i got 1 super and really i lost the hype over looking for one after my first. i learned to just buy wheels from Temu and make my own STH. but yeah people who horde all the cars to resell gets on my nerves. been looking for the current Bumblebee car and the Duck super rig for months and nothing.
Yes is infuriating
to me tho, resellers can be good (if its only a few bucks over) but if they go crazy then they're just scalping.
Reseller is good? Trust me they have no mercy on everything they want, I think we all experiences can't find the model we want and reseller post the stock stack like mountain in his warehouse
I don’t collect them anymore because scalpers ruined the experience one too many times for me, I just could never find what I wanted. I do still look whenever I’m at the shops though,if I see anything good I put a small rip in the box/cardboard so hopefully they leave it for a kid to buy and play with instead of getting to rip people off.
So another words, you damaged store property because you don’t want to buy it ? that makes no sense You’re a complete fool. 🤡
I’ve been collecting Hot Wheels since I was around 8 years old, and my very first car was the Brick Cutter - and it still there on my shelf. I still remember sitting in front of the store shelf, carefully picking out the funkiest car I could find. Now, in my 30s, I’m still collecting and every single car I own is loose. I play with them, race them, and enjoy them for what they are.
If you ask a scalper what their first car was and they say something like a JDM or Skyline, you know they’re just in it for profit. For me, it’s never been about that. I don’t keep my cars on their cards because I’ve never cared about their "value"-I’m not in this to sell. I refuse to buy at any resellers or resell anything from my collection. Somehow I think I traded once with fellow collectors without adding any money because luckily he has what I want and I have what he wants, it's just a taxi car.
Yes, I’ve been lucky enough to find some Skylines on shelves before the storm of scalpers hit, but I only grab one for myself and leave the rest for other collectors. I don’t chase after colour variants, bullshit STHs, or error cards either-I just want one for my collection.
This is what collecting is about for me, pure enjoyment, no hoarding, no flipping. Proud to say I’m a true collector!
i dont really care for supers and ths. i collect what i want to, but if i find a super i will take it.
Great that's the spirit....but realistically speaking STH are impossible to find
@@Lar.Real.Diecast yeah i have found 1 in my 1 1/3 years of hunting
@@Lar.Real.Diecast it was a car i really liked though, so i picked it up. i really love mercedes from the 80s so i was really happy to find a ‘89 mercedes benz 560 sec amg. it hangs proudly on my wall
Not just these facts, but also the fact that newer stuff just doesn't feel as good as it used too. That's why I collect primarily older hot wheels and diecast, back in the days when they cared about the product they delivered and the product felt special. Nothing today feels like that anymore and its a shame.
You mean when the only plastic in die cast cars was the windows and seats
There is a group that calls themselves the Diecast mafia. If you want it, they have it. They have truckers and Mattel reps in their pockets. It's weird but it's a hustle worth quite a lot of money.
To combat that, my friends and I buy up popular models and then return them whenever we see the price has finally dropped back down. You come to my city and there is a real chance of running into last year's cool cars because we do that all the time. It's fun to hear guys brag about finding something they had really wanted and being amazed it was there a full year or so after it should be. We do also pick up multiple to trade amongst ourselves.
Hot tip, if you get there before the scalpers, hide/scatter the cars you don’t want around the store. They will slowly be found and returned to the shelves at random times ensuring everyone gets a chance to buy. 😅
Better yet buy them & put them in the kids toys donation bins.
Honestly speaking in my country malaysia you'll probally never gonna find any premium or sometimes mainline (mostly jdm and euro cars doesnt exist) in a regular store. You can find premium but only store like toyRus sell them (not sure if there is any other store tho that sell premium), but they dont have that much in stock. If you want more you gotta go to the resellers store but expect some crazy prices. My advice for the new collectors JUST COLLECT WHAT YOU LIKE. Dont follow any trend and do not care about the future value of the car. If you want to kraken it (crack it open) just do it and learn to customize it the way you want it. Its way more fun.
Nasib baik tak collect jdm😅
For me.. I stop collecting HW sebab Proton Saga.. :P
I went full circle, from collector to reseller back to collector. These days it's way more effort than it's worth to resell
@@spiders_8792 exactly! If anyone wants to scalp, sell concert tickets. Its a way bigger and faster turn around than toy cars. I get that they make 7 bucks here and there, but its just not worth the time and overhead to keep at it.
It's so frustrating knowing that the shelves will be picked clean of any interesting models, before i even get to see them on pegs. Also Treasure hunts etc are nice but buying them from resellers defeats the purpose of a treasure HUNT 🙄
That also defeats the purpose of collecting pleasure and admiring aesthetics from the castings themselves. If you want the "good ones" (th and sth, looks to me like this is what ppl want, due to the hype from other ytbers) you will need to go to many stores during restock and fight with other scalpers..hence after sometime on doing this you will end up being scalper yourself. It's a cycle where I just realized that i was starting to become part of the problem
honestly hot wheels should be used for having fun with race tracks instead of collecting
Here in Mexico it is so hard to collect Hot Wheels these days
Resellers everywhere.
Must be brutal
I'm a collector, but i also resell here and there. Since I can't find what I'm looking for in the stores, I pony up the money and buy cases from wholesalers. The scalping has become a problem since 2020. It's gotten worse. My co worker is a collector and has never sold one thing in his collection, and he's been collecting since the late 90s.
However, I have seen the scalpers that go first thing in the money, and they never go to the swap meets, or are even in the diecast groups in my area. Diecasting is really popular here in New Hampshire, and all over New England. I look for some of my friends, and they do the same. The over hype with JDMS is a generational thing. I'd hate to be a new collector nowadays. They almost have something to prove. At least 3 guys that collect civics actually have civics, and one of them is a fully built drag car. I don't really care about supers all that much. I've never found one, and that's OK. I buy older supers because I'd rather have the earlier ones pre 2020 anyways. Just cooler cars, in my opinion.
That all being said, I'm always having fun, my wife collects too, and we just do our own thing. The skyline I have in my collection, stay in my collection. I have a tote for American muscle, JDMS, exotics, premiums, etc etc. Cool video, and you got a sub from me! Hope all is well boss. Happy hunting! 😊
Thanks so much dude!
I don't think this is such a problem here in germany.
hotweels and matchbox don't go so well and you find them piled up in stores..
I'm looking for a Ford Escord RS [number], if it even exists...
I don't really collect, but saw a cool honda civic a month ago and now I bought a ford GT40 and a Fiat 500, because I drove them in video games 😛
I bought a Mercedes SL whatever for my brother in law and he was so happy about it, that it made me happy, too... didn't even know he liked that car. it was just a joke gift hehe
In my country hws are very much still for kids so i like collecting the specific packs like for example i got all 5 of the 2024 roadsters collection and just seeing them displayed in my room,brings me joy in high school,i dont like drinking or smoking so i dont have any actual friends.I liked watching this video and it is thought provoking but doesn't discourage me from enjoying the hobby my way 👍
Well you have to understand my friend. I don't collect hot wheels but I do collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And I can tell you that collecting is a hobby that across the board functions pretty much the same. Some people are knowledgeable and try to make money off it. Others just want a collection. Some people just lose interest in there collection and sell theres to invest in something else. At the end of the day the hunt for the rare item is what collecting is all about. But to say people don't appreciate the models is silly. Obviously if people felt that way, they wouldn't spend ridiculous amounts of money to complete there collections.
Correct
Ive been hunting for a Gucci Cadillac seville RLC car for ages, because like you, I wanted to collect it and it wouldve been a great thing to show off. I had it in my cart and sold out within in 2 minutes waiting in line to purchase online. It grew on me and made it a goal to cop one some day. Since then, Ive been buying RLC cars that were of "value" just so I can possibly find enough good hyped RLC cars to sell em to get the gucci cadillac seville, I still dont have it and my collection grows in boxes. That transition from collecting to hoarding, its insane how it can get started at any point.
Good luck on that cadi...👍👍
@@Lar.Real.Diecast thanks my dude!! its kinda a wild ride just for toy cars. Forgot to mention great video too!
i have been collecting for nearly 20 years. that scalper in the store in coping hard when he says everyone eventually becomes a reseller. which is why i quit hotwheels and moved on towards more premium brands where the scalper ratio is less.
I recently started collecting Johnny Lightning for this reason. If there is a cool base set hotwheel or premium I’ll buy it at the store if I see it.
Otherwise right now Johnny Lightning and Autoworld are more appealing. Especially with the cool limited production numbers. Only problem is it’s hard to find them.
@@ICECAPPEDSKY try greenlight too
I just got this video recomended recently since I started recently to collect some random hotwheels and I completely understand you... I bought a few cars that were increasing in prices since it was a ferrari (license expired 10+ years ago and valuable) but coming from Portugal its as bad as USA in terms of scalping or even worse since STHs are harder to get here. I actually want a STH of a car I genuinely like but its impossible. Btw I work at a hypermarket so from time to time to bug me if im gonna restock hotwheels or not which is even more annoying since we don't receive even a tenth of what usa receives to stock even in christmas time... its so sad tbf. my luck is 2nd hand online shop for europe (vinted) which some people are nice enough to sell stuff they dont use at good price. i want to sell mines beacuse i dont have any more space and im gonna make sure they are low price just out of morality tbf. shame that anything some adults touch go from entertainment to business
Hobbies are now monetized 😞
I'll resell my hotwheels if money comes tight one day.
Duh
I have been collecting since the 90s. In 2006 i went into a depression and gave all my collection to my nephews who destroyed and got rid of the cars in like 2 years.
I started collecting in 2009.. i have sold only 1… and it really was an exchange + some money!
especially THE BOULEVARD LINE HOLY FK
“Everyone” is a very broad generalization. I’ve been a collector for 20 years and over the years just as my taste has changed, my collection has changed. I sell cars and use the money from those sales just to buy new cars that fit my current collection. I’ll never be a “reseller” or scalper but I do sell cars.
Nothing wrong with that
I have nearly 11,000 cars if a car makes it into my collection it stays there. I get annoyed by ebay sellers. I buy 1 of each models that I like.
Gave away my old collection when i hit high school. After rewatching a childhood movie series called Acceleracers, ive started collecting fantasy cars from the 2000s.
I never knew about this dark side of Hotwheels collecting, guess ill be careful from now
I always wanted to find a HotWheels Delorean from Back to the Future,and I only found it at a small little shop in a small town because of my father,two exemplars,but at the big stores,nothing,and I think it's rarer to find because I'm in Brasil and because of that situation
Glad you found it!
If you buy a certain line of toys but you never open & play with any of them, you'll become a reseller eventually, because you weren't buying those things for yourself. It's like people who buy sneakers but never wear them.
Sadly this stretchs further then die cast further then collectables this goes all the way to one time purchases like video games and machine spare parts
It’s so annoying how people just buy for value now I miss when I could just go to the shops and find a random skyline and buy it cuz I love the thing and along with that I’m scared to open any Hotwheels that I don’t have a duplicate of anymore because I feel like I’m losing too much I feel but I still appreciate them and love them but I’m just scared
I was lucky enough to find the pop culture gran Turismo GTR Nismo concept in the wild and 2 R30 skylines but I was so over the moon but I never opened them this video has made me remember who I am and now I have decided I will too leave some for everyone else but if I find another one of the same car that I like in another day I will buy it
Lego is going the same way. People buy several copies claiming to be collector's that love lego. But in reality they are scalpers and are only in it for financial gain. I call it greedy and selfish.
NEVER! ABSOLUTELY NOT! NOT ON YOUR LIFE...OR MINE! )
I WILL NEVER BECOME A DIRTY LOWDOWN GOOD FOR NOTHING SCALPER!
WHOEVER GETS MY COLLECTION WHEN I DIE WILL INHERIT LOTS OF COOL CARS THAT WILL ALSO BE WORTH LOTS OF $$.
You know what they say...
WHOEVER DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS! 😊
Oh yeah and btw GREAT vid! If I had the Gran Turismo Skyline, I'd trade it to you for something I wanted!!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you liked the vid 🥰🥰🥰
Open everything, greatly takes away the urges to flip things, people don’t like paying nearly as much for uncarded stuff so takes the intrusive thought out of the equation
So true… sad but true.
I’ve started collecting 4x4 offroad HW and after 2 years I’m thinking about buying and selling - not collecting. Thank you for your video.
I need to prioritise my needs and become a kid again - collecting my favs HW cars
100% agree with everything you said buddy. I gave up collecting Hot Wheels and focus on Tomica instead. I still buy them here and there when I spot something interesting on the pegs, but I won't go out of my way to hunt for them store to store. Tomica's Skyline and R35 GTR offerings are still abundant in the market and you can get them below the prices at Toys R Us on online platforms. I also opened my Skyline GTRs from Tomica Premium and holds them on my hand, opening their doors and roll their wheels. Call me childish but its better than buying Hot Wheels and leaving them carded. Tomicas comes in boxes, if you're done playing, just put them back into their box, simple and easy.
hot wheels been out since 1963 tell me other diecast brands that been out that long
Tomica’s cars are pretty cool for their price
Hopefully the dirty hands of scalpers wont touch Tomica
don't give a fuck if it's for kids. let em take it. scalpers not gonna sell anything with those hideous prices. Tomica for instance. been existing for a long while too. the only turn off for tomica is the wheels. other than that. tomica casting far more solid than hot wheels will ever be. yeah premiums included @@angel-ij4xv
@@angel-ij4xv
Since 1968*
@@urideamabal yeah you get my point
This video is spot on! I am from Malaysia and the hot wheel scene is chaotic as it can be. I stopped collecting Hot Wheels and switched to collecting Tomica.
I want tomica too!
I think its is important to decide before hand the scope of the collection you want.
If you have decided beforehand you can stop when you have everything and you wont buy stuff to resell or speculate since they are not part of the objective.
I just started collecting it, and it was really disappointing that it's always out of stock I went to different stores around the city and found nothing. Good thing a kind employee hides some for the new faces. Thanks to him, I got one of my favorite cars a premium fairlady z.🥰
I need to protect that man at all cost!
He deserves the nobel peace prize
Had that Nissan, too. Didn't buy it . The guy I work with is into them. I see more people collecting the M2 right now.
I do understand the feeling brother!! I am a collector like you who buys them for the car not the value or rarity. Scalping is a serious problem hee in India too. I got the gran turismo Skyline for retail in a shop here and bought it too :)
i just got the exact nissan pace car a week ago, and yes i had to pay a ridiculous amount for it😅
Id say not to do that, but hell, everyone has the freedom to do what they want. By doing that we help Scalpers 😞 thanks for watching
@@Lar.Real.Diecast the mf'er had several with him just a few hours with him after restocking at the store I had no other choice, atleast I got for a relatively lower price than other scalpers I know of, besides I sell some cars too, but at the retail price, no markups I understand how annoying it is to overpay for a car, so ig I'm doing smth nice
Yes, I agree that most scalpers and reseller starts as collectors. They see the value in the cars and pick up a few to sell on the secondary market so they can profit to buy more. Then the heat continues and they buy everything that they can turn into a few bucks. I have been collecting for about a 15 years+. JDM cars right now are crazy hot especially the era of the Import Tuning for examples cars from the late 80's to the 90's. Skylines, Civics, and Supra are probably the most scalped cars right now. Good luck if it even makes it to the pegs.
Very true. I haven’t sold yet but has been on my mind lately. I rather trade.
It's the same here in Australia. If it's not the scalpers, it KMart/Target/Big W etc staff that help themselves to the fresh cases before we even touch them. And what I buy, I buy for myself and what I like. And I agree with you, the obsession with Supers and TH's drives me mental. Great piece of content, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Yes its madness, its such madness its rare to see the other youtubers talking about something else 😞
I buy them for my six year old boy. He really likes Teslas for some reason. I love GT on the PS. One day while shopping, I looked and found that skyline from GT. That one and a GT-R. I only bought two of each. For my son and for me. Only cuz he scratches them up sometimes.
I like that your kid has way more fun with these scarce, """super valuable""" cars than most people. Toys deserve to be played with.
Bro! I found that Nissan at my grocery store, honestly if I had known you were looking for it I would buy it and mail it to you
Dude...
Showing that Pace Car and that clip reward?
Trigger my PTSD from IA-15 so much.
Screw you bro i need therapy right now....
Hahahahahahaha evil laugh
@@Lar.Real.Diecast
You know the truth is that, sooner or later. Hot Wheels hype will die down just like the Jordan shoes hyped by Vines in 2012-2018.
The reason is that the rise of Collector grade model/TrueScale 1:64 here in the Philippines.
such as Mini GT, Inno64, Tarmac Works, Fuelme, and CM Model.
They become hype nowadays so i think scalpers will eventually die for a Toy Grade model such as Hot Wheels.
Hot Wheels premium such as Skyline R34 in FnF is starting to price down because no body is looking for them anymore.
Comparing a price for a HW Premium R34 Skyline vs a Collector grade Inno64 R34 Skyline in pre order price literally make no sense because collector grade still win for a pre order price.
so keep that in mind, scalpers only go for the hype for cash cow, not a true collector, if the hype goes down, so on their market and eventually they gonna sale it for set in steal price.
The thing you said about Skylines also seemed to apply with Supras especially the Mk4 / A80. Anytime I saw a Hot Wheels version, it's always at least 100k IDR or essentially 3 times the retail value to the point that I bought a MiniGT version for roughly the same price at a far better quality.
Edit: And don't even start on the Hondas especially the Civics.
0:33 maybe that is Mattel, you ever see those premiums being sold in the RLclub? It’s always the ones that are peg warmers, where are the ones that are not peg warmers from those groupings, where they sell at? 😂 🧐
That was soo deep, i started collecting from last year, thank god i saw your video, initially I started collecting cars that i liked not which included fantasy cars. But then I don't know why i started buying cars which will have more value in future. Thanks for saving me from the dark side, i will never sell my cars. Love you bro
I am a 14 year old collector and I’ve been collecting since age 5
I’m the same way about any Jeep or any E30 M3. My Aunt from Texas accidentally found an 90’s E30 325is with opening doors and sent it to me in MI. I also love any 911 pre 2007. Some I keep in packages and some I like to touch. It’s a HotWheels, I’m don’t expect to get rich off them
my goal is to have a massive collection i collect for the hustle of chasing the piece
i love going to diecast meets and seeing peoples reactions when i say i dont sell only trade XD
Welp, i miss the days where i can still leave dozens of reality casting cars on shelves and only pick what i want.
Nowadays, especially here in the Philippines, resellers gatekeep the reality castings so i had to wait in front of the malls for minutes before it opens.
What's wrong with being both. Scalping I understand, but what if you're selling to get something else you wanted?
Nope...please please leave some for the rest of us tq 4 watching
why not...just use your money to buy what you wanted, without costing everyone else more (and using your time, energy and money in the process)?
During the Holiday Season in the late 90s, I applied for a job at Toys R Us, and mainly worked unloading the trucks, as well as fetching Big Ticket items such as Sandboxes. Anyways, while unloading the truck, the Manager would want to search the truck for the Hot Wheels and at the time the Furbies, to get those off first, then let us deal with the mess of sorting everything else out while unloading. They would crack open each Hot Wheels case, and sort them before putting most of it out on the pegs, obviously keeping out certain ones.
I do collect Hot Wheels myself, but only occasionally do I go out to see what's out there, and sometimes go a few years without looking at the Hot Wheels pegs. Mostly I just get the odd ones and sometimes if I like a certain car design. For decades though I have never understood the resale market for Hot Wheels!
I just can’t see how you can make profits that are better than working a few hours of overtime at work. It’s a lot of waiting around for the staff to pull out the pallets and butt kissing them to open the cases for you. The gas and time you put in to be a profitable scalper is never going to match what you earn at your job. Unless you have some sort of mafia-like control of your area. I guess they don’t see it as working. 🤷♂️
Yes i know it is insane, maybe there is a mafia who knows....( X files theme)
I used to love them as a kid, just playing with them...but now, things went crazy
5:07 Is anything for kids anymore at this point? Jesus.
Nope, kids are becoming adults, adults are becoming kids