Everyone was wrong about the Values of Transformers and GI Joes! 

Would you have taken the money or come back when your toys are complete?

This is a recurring theme, lol. People bring in stuff unprepared and basically clueless-and are shocked when they are not getting double what they have in their head.

You want max value, sell your own stuff. Don't pawn and expect top dollar in return.

Dude knows nothing “yeah it was opened once” 🤦‍♂️ can only ever be opened once, opening it a hundred times is the same as opening it once

All these people saying, "well I got another box at home"..." well bring it, what are you doing other than leaving money on the table? I f you got more stuff bring it with the rest ;)

Just a friendly suggestion, both for sellers and buyers: Transformerland is a GREAT reasource to see what figure comes with what accessory. Not just for transformers, they have info on many other lines too.

Opened once means shit. It was either opened or not.

This why I tell people do not get in toy collecting thinking you going to make money do it cause you like it. The store sell high and buy low. There the only making money.

People are so gullible. When a company sells something as "collectable" it will never be collectable.

do these people suffer from not knowing about ebay sold listings? come on, this isn’t brain surgery!

I see this all the time at my car dealership. People bring in a trash car and want full retail for it as a trade in and then want me to sell them a car for a wholesale price lower than I paid for it.

You gotta stop rubbing your nose and touching your mouth while you're going through these things

These uploads have become a staple of my Saturdays now,so many nostalgia hits! And oddly soothing and relaxing, great work TF

Showing up with a box of TF not bagged, not complete..randomly tossed in a box and expecting $ = stupid.

When you go through a middleman, you will never get Fair Value. I once took my Hot Toys collection to a retailer, they asked me to sell them the items at half of the initial retail price when the item was first sold, despite the fact my collection was sealed. I sold it an Ebay, made 3 grand... profit...

If they have accessories, why not bring them all at once?!?! Make it make sense

they pump out so many toys now its hard to predict if anything will be worth anything. it takes a specific person to want something. or have room for it. i started the motu origins and have all of them up to date in a room that was already filled. 3grand later and im out of space and ill never be able to get rid of this stuff if i wanted to at what i paid for it

gi joes are a risky investment… the people who care about those toys are getting old

Just found your channel, can’t get enough. Love the RU-vid vids but swear you could get a legit TV show deal. I’m Major sports /Pokémon/mtg player collector, in my 20s & most of these toys are out of my age range but idc. This is so entertaining/festinating I can’t get enough. Just feel, there’s somethitn hear for a legit tv show that people would love to watch this. Keep it up man best of luck

Being in Australia, i find myself pausing the video a lot and looking at what is for sale in the background that i can't buy lol 😄 would love to go thru your store

Commented too early..just saw the Joes ( my favorite as a kid) i got the Sears "winter set" or something like that once and took the arms off SGT. Slaughter and put em on Spirit and would play like he was the badass Native "Billy" in Predator!

Toy Federation….please buy a few iPads…it will change your lives! I would go bonkers trying to stare at small phone screens all day 😂. Love the episodes!

These guys are extremely fair and reasonable and unless you want to take the time to sell online yourself dealers have overhead and they can't pay retail they have to resell.

It's obvious people here don't know that the value of energon transformers have dramatically increased. This dealer shorted the offer

These guys seem fair, the guy that owns my local toy store is a con artist always trying to down play the value of items to an absolute dirtbag level! Buys extremely low & sells extremely high! Ive personally watched him lie to people about big ticket items not being worth the money & the person knows they are taking a bath on it but people take his offer because they are desperate! Not good for business & needless to say I havent been back since!

These are "recent" transformers the one are expensive are g1 transformers from the 80

Almost 40 years later, and I still remember that Xamot has the scar. :) Great video TF! Thanks!

Wonder if he brought some Joe stuff in hoping to get more for it, then he'd come back with the other parts, thinking he'd get more money somehow rather than just bringing it all in , in one go

Toy federation guy is right. I have some of those figures. They're all complete. The sellers isn't ..

It kind of amazes me that when people bring in a huge haul and want to maximize the trade/cash value they don't bother to put in the extra effort of taking a couple hours to sift through and be sure to match the figure with it's accessories and weapons. This is the internet age, it doesn't take much effort to go online and see which figure came with which accessories and to even ballpark the value of what you have. Instead, you have these lazy people just dumping the figures and accessories and making everyone waste their time trying to figure out what is complete, what isn't, what it's worth, etc. Put in the extra effort, please!

1985 tomax and xamot, Xamot has the scar on his cheek.

@toyfederation - I can’t help but think a business like this is an accountant’s nightmare. Is it hard to keep track of everything on the financial side?

If you really want to get more for your items, you need to sell them yourself and take the time. However, if you are in a situation, where you need immediate compensation, then you are out of luck as you will be expected to lose 50% to 70% to a business. They will have to find the clients to buy it may have to sit on it for a while. Unfortunately, it is what it is.

I understand this Some go in with the thoughts it's going to be worth more I feel because when you look at ebay and you see what the prices are people will reflect on this But to a toy store with experts It's not what it seems Great episode today. It helps to know the difference when selling open box as well as new inbox

The 82-83 Joes (and now more, occasionally even 00s have poor plastic) are breaking a lot more often when I replace O-rings or even put them on the original Hasbro stands. Waists break and heels fracture apart when the now-brittle plastic is stressed. I've gone to larger O-rings to prevent this. So... some of those with broken O-rings may well end up also being worth much less. It's a problem because all the O-rings eventually will need replaced. Even MOC behind bubbles. And you see the broken pieces mint on card more often.

I wish the episodes was way longer. Really enjoy watching them. Have a good one 🤠

i know nothing about transformers. but I know everything about Gijoe. I have just about every figure in the vintage line. I use yojoe for reference when completing figures.

Oh man, how did I miss that they made an Puppet Angel puppet. While James Marster acted his off in that episode, the performance from Puppet Angel was Oscar Worthy.

Cool vid! Gotta have those accessories! Thanks guys for another great episode!

Man, i want that Smile time angel Puppet

@4:15 that’s cyberton galaxy prime, the bot and trailer… and the second trailer was for energon prime

Can’t get enough of seeing what some people bring in it’s great and to also watch what they take after the trade. Can’t wait for more

love this channel i dont even collect toys why isnt this show on tv ? pitch this to somebody dude your awesome

yes ... If you are selling💵.. you are not going to get retail price if you are selling to the💸 trade🤷🏻‍♂️

Great video. People harp on the sellers and sure you get the occasional disappointed person but for the most part I expect adults bringing stuff in know ahead of time they are getting a re-seller offer and are probably not concerned that much about it. If you're bringing in something to sell or get store credit, it means it has lost its personal value to you. Anything you actually care about you're most likely going to be trying to sell it online somewhere. But someone out there still loves those figures you no longer do, and that's where Toy Federation steps in.

transformers is a addicting toy line i myself have bunch of boxed and sealed g1s and almost every g1 transformer made , japanese etc

Men and Women and children of all ages if you are a toy collector of ANY kind and you live nearby Greer S.C. like me or even if your passing through the state of South Carolina you would be doing yourself a diservice not to stop by this toy Nirvana. If not for the RU-vid channel I would never have never found out about it. I traded in some old Kenner Star Wars figures for a Transformer I have been looking for unsuccessfully for a while and it was a wonderful experience! I could of stayed in there all day but I had a four year old with me and he had a doctor's appointment so I was in a rush. Im going back as soon and as often as I can as can now that I know it's only 25 minutes away. I was blown away by the place! They have EVERYTHING!!!!-I guarantee you will love it. It's toy Shangri-La 🤖👾🤯✌️👍👍

LOve your ring tone Ryan! Probe droid.

So funny! You're literally holding the parts of the Prime together! You're right though we are in an era where the toys parts are not even the problem, but the panels on the toy ARE - example> (Transmetal Dragon Megatron R/L Foot Wheel Covers)! Also, from experience check the cracks of the bottom of the GI Joe (others too) trays, I once found a Cobra Fire Fly Walkie Talkie jammed in there! You are the Pawn Stars of the Toy World! (In a good way!)

I love the state of mind we collectors have, me included. We should all get what we collect for super cheap because care so much about them, we "deserve" them and when we have them they should be worth the highest value possible. Such a classic state of mind from car collectors to toys to cards to comics to rocks. We're all the same. Please actually become a seller before you even think to critique the art of the deal. Anyone claiming scams, if you only knew how stupid you sound, you'd stop. Its obnoxious! Start selling your precious collection and then tell us about how cheap you sold it all for. I dare you. Oh but you'll never sell right? Hahahaha! Sure.

Ok, they’re not worth what the seller wants. Then why are they priced crazy, with no weapons, and expect the sellers not to get a little bothered over that shit. I have sold to toys stores in the past, just to come back and see them priced 3 to 4 times, than what I was paid for them. Like seriously GTOH, people. Y’all way too shady with yalls comment. It’s horrible for a seller to demand close to a fair price than a low ball one, but absolutely in the right given mind for stores to price them insane. Hypocrites. Stay with the same energy.

Big thanks to all the bargain hunters and rummage sale goers for finding tons of figures and vehicles. They brought them in and it flooded the market. Bigger quantities available the lower the prices. Good time to buy. Poor time to sell.

Don’t they know about the internet

If they would have bought gold they would be rich 😂😂😂😂

Why does anybody think they can bamboozle this guy???

Interesting.....Toys are not an investment in most cases, a lot hold out forever to get their money back, but sadly that is not the case.....FOMO drives the prices up

Now will he come back?

That Angel puppet looks dope.

I bet you even dream about awesome toys..been watching awhile now..freekn luv this show/vlog/series whatever they call awesome nostalgic entertainment these days!

I most likely cannot be a toy store owner like yourself. I'm pretty sure that you guys have spent a lot of time to check each figure was complete and offered you the number and have the person say that they will think about it or bring the missing parts all together and never come back. I just don't have the patience. I would feel like I just wasted my time that I could of done something else. But that's the reality of the business side. You need people coming in and trade in to replenish your inventory and also the person who is bringing in the toys are actually buying more than their credit.

Thank God for Rad & Thrashin'. Although I'd love to find original bob & vincent

At least they were understanding about not being complete and didn't argue with you about it. Love the shop videos with trades in them and lol 😆 my son had transformers armada toys and I grew up with transformers and lol 🤣 I couldn't transform some of them. Great toy line though and it had the first unicorn toy ever, hopefully you get one of those if you don't already have one in the shop

I’m not a collector, but I find this fascinating.

Dude knows nothing about toys fire him

80s toys have IMO topped out. I will say this I know a lot of toy dealers they are jumping all over 90s toys. I am saying this you can still find 90s toys cheep. But some are already super high like TMNT. Some are crazy high already.

Modern day drug dealing. 😂🤣

This is probably why I couldn’t bring my early Cinemaquette and low number Sideshows here. Love the store, and you guys are awesome though.

If you are able always sell online whether its toys video games or whatever.A retailer/resale shop will screw you over royally and youll end up with a small fraction of what you could have gotten selling on Ebay, Amazon, Mercari ect.

I’m curious how they keep up with what all they have they don’t have the best inventory system and what box it’s in in the back

This was painful to watch. As soon as they said that they didn't know the sword was stored there on Vector Prime and that they were learning I would've walked out. Then again when they didn't know where Commetor was on Armada Jetfire. Couldn't tell Jetfire from Cybertron Optimus from Energon Optimus from any version of Ultra Magnus. Did they even check Menasor's chest for Heavyload? They at least knew enough to check Tidal Wave's arm for Ramjet. You'd need more than ten to fifteen minutes to give a proper evaluation. And to go to someone who at least knows more than these people did. I get that I know more as Transformers is my thing but I can price pretty much anything from any toy line out more accurately than that. Cybertron Optimus Prime even incomplete can sell for around the $120 range. So no, these figures are not "trash" like people in the comments are saying. Vector Prime with sword, missile and Safeguard is around $70. Energon Tidal Wave is around $90 even without Ramjet or the missiles. Cybertron Menasor without Heavy Load is around $80 as it's the big floppy things on his back that are the pieces mainly missing but NEEDED for the alt mode since Heavy Load is almost always in his chest. So that's the $350 before going into Cybertron Defense Red Alert & Hot Shot, Cybertron Megatron, Armada Jetfire, Energon Optimus, 2007 Optimus and whatever else they had in there. Given overhead and whatnot, a better offer would've been around $550ish just based on the Transformers. I spy Universe Fireflight, Alternators Optimus, Alternators Shockblast, Alternators Grimlock, Energon Slugslinger, Classics Cliffjumper, Classics Astrotrain, several different Animated Megatrons it looks like, Cybertron Undermine, Energon Ironhide, Energon Divebomb, Titanium Optimal Optimus, Titanium WWI Optimus, Classics Starscream, General Grievous and more. Did you even go through the entire box to see if the missing pieces were on the bottom or check that baggie? Nevermind, it should've been more around $700ish for trade in value just based on what I see for the Transformers only. And why are you so fixated on the Cyber Keys? There's only a small handful of them that actually have any value. The Matrix key from Optimus, the special Decepticon key from Megatron and Galvatron, the key from Vector Prime and maybe the four gold bordered Planet Keys from Metroplex, Override, Evac and Scourge (who all don't seem to be there anyway). Also the Botcon and SDCC exclusive keys but there's no need to worry about those either. Anyone calling the Unicron trilogy era figures trash knows nothing about Transformers. The people who grew up with those series are the ones now going back and collecting so prices have gone up quite a bit. It's the G1 figures that have gone down unless they're Headmaster, Powermaster or Targetmaster units or a select few other figures. Those will always have high value. The rest keep going down due to constant reissues every few years that ALWAYS go on clearance and the near endless stream of knockoffs. There's a whole new series of KOs right now that are easy to get complete with KO boxes and inserts.

I’d love to visit this store, super cool. I never sell, but would love to look at the Transformers!

That guy with the case of G.I Joes ARAH got flat out robbed! An average Joe on eBay with no weapons sells for $15 ea. Not to mention the fact that a lot of those he had were V1 figures that avg $40-$60(i.e Scarlett, Tomax, Zamot, Barbecue...etc...etc..) Yeah, so $200 for that case is highway robbery. Toy Federation re-sold those for over $1500 easily. C'mon guys, a lil bit of integrity goes a long way. You saw that guy coming a mile away.Yo Joe!

U just find ways for joy..... you're money back for the collection is snagging also because there's soooo many other places that rip people off but u guys never do...WE THANK U FOR THAT

How big is the comic selection in the store? I see at least a dozen long boxes. Any slabs or keys? If I make the trip that would be the first thing I look at. 🙂

Kevin Fiege? 😂🤣

Remember: toy stores are like comic stores. The item you bring in, even a character that’s really popular, might sit on their shelf for months or years. Typically, if a good condition item is supposedly selling for $100, you might get $30 for them to take it off your hands. Open toys are not an investment. Also, with newer toys, it’s hard to know what will be really valuable down the line. So, if you have money to waste on this, then buy that G1 Megatron in the box for several hundred. Don’t buy 50 new Transformers today and hope for something in 30 years.

we wasted our lives m8

Let us know if he does come back with the other box of figures

Another good video.

Great episode, only place I shop at check it out if you’re in the area

Where are you located, and do you sell online?? I'm in New Zealand 🇳🇿

It’s going to take another 20 years for them to reach true value

Like your vid’s keep it up

The Transformers guy why didn't he just bring all the pieces in instead of making things hard

I love Transformers. The G1 stuff is worth more than when I was collecting it in the 2000s, but I'm not sure about the Bay stuff, or Energon and Cybertron.

That stuff looks like a bit of my collection. that was galaxy force optimus trailier and the links optimus trailer. i forget what that is call in 'merica What is a binaltech -17 wonderfest exclusive worth? i have 4 of them.

The smiling time Angel is pretty cool. I didnt know they made a puppet out of that episode. Great episode.

Cool seeing some Transformers Unicron Trilogy era stuff again (Armada, Energon, Cybertron) Their Really solid Transformers toys, a golden era for engineering and value. Energon Tidal wave even without the missiles and ramjet is still pretty valuable. been going through my stuff lately from when I moved and it was a terrible mistake to try and seperate parts from the transformers figures. They ended up separated across several boxes. I know I just put all the cyber keys in one bag somewhere. Very few figures would just hang on to the key. Would be nice if they all had a compartment for it.

Love ur channel and videos, I plan to stop in sometime this winter from Florida. Making the trip up. Thanks again for the constant uploads . I look forward to these each Saturday morning.

I'm super curious why I haven't seen any mention of the Micronauts.... that was a really awesome toy line even if I maybe wasn't as successful as some others..... I'm not a collector but if I was the Micronauts would be what I would collect...

Absolutely love the content! Great shop. Keep the videos coming!

Have all 5 mutant earth figures there awesome not selling them because nobody wants them ❤ cool history behind the sculptor works on various projects including book of Boba

The whole unicron trilogy transformers figures are so cool to mess around with. They might be chunky or funny looking, but I love finding loose ones just to fiddle with.

I'm buying allot of older space lego right now you really have to do your research and go for bigger lots sometimes to get value but know when to walk away also so i get it

Heck yeah! I just woke up and it’s ready to go!!’ Sweet!

I have a lot of Dino Riders and they are worth a lot and 100% complete

Another awesome video and love the knowledge on the newer transformers

I sold my junk to bookoff for pennies on the dollar, dont buy ebay

Really enjoyed the video. Ryan you should have a T V show

saw you this weekend at tfcon but i was on staff with the guest so didnt have time to say hi