Is the Such a Thing as an Ethical Diecast Resller? 

I have to say it... 😋 Matchbox looks better than HW! 🤩 At least some of them! 😉 Best regards! 😁

It is nice to know that our hobby has a value to it. Also, its cheaper than Star Wars toys, Lego, other vintage toys, sports cards, pokemon cards, etc. - while money is tight and the world around us collapses. Hedge wisely. God Bless!

I'm a collector and sometimes a reseller. The thing you got look at is making fare prices and not ripping people off.

Honestly I love collecting and then ran into some rude Kevins. I find myself now saying you know what I will take more than one and Kevin can pound salt. If I can trade the extra fine if not it's in my collection and not in Kevin's hand.

Cleaning out someone’s home is a noble effort, but can be a psychological horror show. We endured 6 months of putrid smells at my wife’s stepmom’s home after her immediate family preyed on her before her passing. Hang in there Joe and buy yourself a nice gift!

I think the issue lies with the limited supply of this product. I just think of all of the hot wheels that I have stored as beers that I didn’t drink, but my kids can cash in after I’m dead. Seriously this hobby is growing and will continue to grow. There will always be nerds like us who like cars the question is are you greedy and how much profit is enough? currently, it gives me a way to interact with my kids and that’s a plus as well. In the end, the reason why I save all of these is to share them with future generations the same way a classic car collector wipes, his Corvette with a diaper I just don’t have enough money to buy a Corvette so I’m stuck spending mine on, these little ones

Nice stuff today. The BMW looks great except for the Polezi stuff. Resellers are a part of the collecting game. A way to score stuff you missed or couldn’t find. Up to you to decide how much is too much

You can be an ethical reseller but good luck becoming successful, where reselling gets to being the main gig and not a side gig. Brick-and-mortar diecast stores are hardly mainstream. The closest one to me is a two hour drive away. I have no experience with vendors at car and toy shows setting up tables, it is my assumption that prices get jacked for those events. I could be mistaken. Reselling the unwanted bits of lots purchased online to defray the cost, I see nothing amiss there. The game has radically changed but what we still have control over is the relationship we intend to have with the hobby and how healthy that will be. It is a zero sum game; everything a person local to me gets is something I may miss out on. What I need to determine is how hard I want to play and how satisfied I will be before it all stops being fun.

When did it come to that we needed a 3rd party between the consumer and the retailer. Most collectors like to go to the store and get it themselves for the price that the retailer sells it for.

I have been a few toy shows. To be fair the prices are a bit higher, but factoring the need to pay for the space to at a venue, I can deal with a slight increase in pricing. But when the prices go too high, I am out. Major retailers now have major hold on he selling of diecast. So if a reseller needs to put up prices a bit to cover cost to make money, that is fine. However ebay is full of people that bulk buy stores, making it impossible, at least for the location where the ebay cars come from impossible to get. I like the re-release cases 6 months later that one can find the now "not so hot castings" at reail prices.

I started as a collector and started with matchbox in 19 and I opened everything then around 21 a friend at work sold me all his hot wheels 😂 now mostly everything is carded but have also sold cars if I want open everything eventually

I started collecting Hot Wheels maybe 6 or 7 years ago, and I told myself I would not care about value and I would open and enjoy them instead. Flash-forward to the present time, and I often find myself paralyzed with fear about opening some of my higher-end cars. I've managed to overcome that to a certain extent, but not completely. It's an insidious and addictive hobby, and the rising prices make it very tricky at times (for me, anyway). Supply and demand always wins, I guess.

I believe the ethics responsibility falls on the buyer. If one participates by buying from an "unethical" seller, they're the ones reinforcing and encouraging the perceived negative behavior. Btw, I'm a collector, but not a reseller and probably will never be. I trade, or donate. I have no problem with reselling, the hassle just isn't worth it for me.

I believe it is possible to be a collector and still resell. Ethics are more of a personal idea. I open my cars which may diminish their value but it's my choice. I do have a handful of duplicates and currently have not sold or traded any cars. The market will make of it what it is. Simple supply and demand. Brands produce vehicles and the first year they sell for well over msrp, five years later they can't give them away.

I got tired of the "completest" movement. I became a "reseller" when I needed more room I don't do online money transfers, so my lots were cash & carry, & went for pennies on the dollar. More fun, when I was buying 1 of what I like, opening, & storing loose in a case.

I think it's okay to resell you have to pay for your hobby and obviously there is a market to buy them. If you're just buying all the good stuff off the pegs so you can charge too much money then yeah that's pretty scumbag. But you pretty much sell yours for about the price it would cost me to drive around and find one eventually LOL seems fair I know it's definitely been working for me.

I saw that video too - I noted he used one of your thumbnails very briefly to illustrate 'Treasure Hunt mania' apparently without realising it was a joke. The comment section was full of people saying "not me, I've never sold a car" (including me) and a few guys who failed to read the room going "well I usually only buy three of the scarce models, then I'll sell one to fund buying what I really want, I'm not _really_ a reseller" without any awareness that they are part of the problem. But from what I can see, you're one of a small number of ethical resellers, and you do it by the simple method of not charging way over the odds. Of course, being on the other side of the planet I am unable to use your services, but having looked at your site several times I wish I could. Naturally, being me, I wrote a long essay that nobody bothered to read, but the main thrust of it was: This is Mattel's fault because of their distro methods, and the fact that Tomica operates a different system in Japan which does not result in anything like as much reselling and artificial scarcity proves it, but Mattel do not care because we are not their customers, Walmart etc. are, and we can't expect them to fix it.

Liking that Matchbox Merc, well made casting to me.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with reselling here and there, or trading especially. But when it becomes your main objective to grab up every SINGLE hot model from every store you go to, without any regard for anyone else, it becomes a bit ridiculous. People have the right to buy whatever is on the shelves. But, some of us, including myself, are just pure collectors that have never sold a single car. So maybe have some regard for others that really just want the car for themselves instead of being greedy like our leaders.

Maybe 25% are ethical