Watch This Video BEFORE You Sell Your Hot Toys! 

Soon we might not even be around to be able to sell our figures. Loved the video, per usual!

Space is the biggest factor for selling. A crowded collection looks like shit and the sun is worse than the parts. Not everyone has a basement or a room or even multiple shelves to fill up. I am lucky to have a collection room and I still have to be careful not to fill it up with unnecessary items.

Really thought about purging the collection recently, and ultimately sold a few off to make room for some pre-orders coming in. This is by far my favorite hobby!

All good stuff dude. I would add... If you must sell at a financial loss , keep in mind that you did get enjoyment somehow (buying, displaying, posing ect) that figure. Whatever loss you take is the cost of your experience collecting and holding the item.

Man, Keco, you’ve saved me from a bunch of figures!!! I’m still fairly new into collecting. Going to 1 year and a half, but yes now I’m only collecting IPs that I love.

I feel like this applies only to those that buy anything and everything because when you pick and choose from the start your collection is only made up of figures you have connections to, I never understood people buying just to buy like okay ya drop 250-300 on a character you don’t care about that’s stupid but every figure in my collection is because of the connection I have to them

I have thought about ones I want to sell, but I have an emotional connection to them all in one way or another. I feel happy when I walk in my room and that is what is important. Thank you as always for a great video and awesome content! Strong work💪🏻💪🏻🔥🔥

I slow down due to running out of space lol 😂

I sold 3 iron man figures that I regretted selling. I bought them again, one I have now and waiting on the other 2. When I was debating on selling them, these were my questions: Do I connect with them? Are they good characters? Did they do much in their respective movies? I also didn't want to be recognised as a huge Iron Man fan as the number of them was climbing up and I wanted to make room for my display. But recently I realised all that doesn't matter, it's whether I like the figure that counts.

Best piece of advice in here is invest in yourself and other things for enjoyment. I think people who have tunnel vision are the ones who fall the most down the rabbit hole of I need everything. I'm extremely selective, and it pained me to pass on Artisans Scarlett Witch/Johannsen. I have NFL tickets to plan for, I grabbed the t rex cliff attack from Prime 1 (years ago) where I know the bill is coming due at some point..plus just life. Sometimes going out for a nice dinner is worth way more than a hot toy...sadly for a similar price now a days 😂. It also let's me enjoy my collection way more when I select the odd signed sports item, statue, cgc comic, and just life activities. Memories > merchandise.

Patiently awaiting your take about the latest InArt news about only shipping the Aragorn cloak with the influencer batches.

Very helpful info... Grandma even learned a thing or two!

Great topic You always come up with interesting topics to discuss

0nce again "Keco" spilling facts...my man's always on point...educating the masses.

My last purchase was Inart Joker 2 pack last June, and the last thing I had delivered was my Jazz Inc ZSJL Batmobile. I said this on a previous video, I'm not bored of the hobby, but I did massively downsize my collection and I'm happier for it. There are figures I want but I'm in no rush. Thanks for the video! It's always good to see you talk about topics that people dont want to talk about

I’m really happy this video came out because I’m on the edge of buying beetlejuice and old Indiana jones and I need to stop myself cause I rushed into getting jack sparrow too and now I’m not even sure I want to keep my pre order for it with all the new stuff that’s been announced since that I have in pre order! 😂

I think when you get to a certain age, you need to take more responsibility for those around you over yourself (Mrs, kids etc.) Having a large collection isn't healthy and imagine the day you're not here and having to leave all the work to them. I also think less is more. Better to have a few nice statues, figures of your top characters / movies only, set up with nice cabinets, lighting, accessories etc. Then 500 1/6 in a small detolf posed like 5 year old toys. Been in the process of selling for a while now, reducing colleciton, doing above, and closing rabbits holes. Far more happy because of it. What I love, favourite is quality premium collectibles. But yes, it's a ball ache to sell, especially the current market. Still have a while to go sadly. But if I'd could go back.... Make a plan that's for only you. For me. Write down top 20 movies. Top 5 movies can spend anything within reason (silicone bust, statues, custom figures, better made 1/6 etc.). 6 to 20, regular 1/6. Less than say 500 per collectible. Horror (open, but less comes out, so easy to manage) If I had done that earlier, knew my space, saw my end game (above). I would have saved quite a bit. But I got there in the end. Just for the newbies, spend hours, do your list now and stick to it. Learn to appreciate what you have and stop chasing anything that's not written down. This is a hobby and nothing more. Making memories (family, kids etc.) is what being rich is really like. My 10 pence on the matter anyway. Good video for the community. Well done.

This was great advice. And some which I've already been using.

I re-evaluated my collection and that's why I want to sell some figures as they don't fit into my theme. Thanks for another good informative video!

Hi KeCo, great points. Thank you

Again you're 100 percent correct!!! I'm at a place now that my collection is right where i want it!!! Finally got a hulkbuster at a great price and it is so dope..so the figures I have now were so hard to come by and I will never get rid of them😊

Yeah I'm currently going through this right now. When I first started I got into the hobby because of the hot toys iron Man's I was so impressed when I got that mark 7 in the mail. So I bought a batman here a Darth Vader there and before I knew it I had dozens of figures. I've decided to go back to just collecting iron Man's and im selling my star wars and DC stuff this hobby can get away from you really quickly

Awesome video Keco. This applies to me not in terms of Hot Toys but I’ve been contemplating selling some of my Marvel Legends and Star Wars Power of the Force collection from the late 90s and 2000s and my comic book collection from when I was a kid.

You just earned my sub man. Hope you keep up with the great content!

Recently sold Gladiator Hulk. Amazing piece but think I’d like just a regular hulk with just purple pants someday. Only have gladiator Thor left to sell. Just like 1 of each figure unless it’s Iron man and Spiderman. Those are addicting piece 😭 Great video

Gotta make room for new pieces tho. These bases and backgrounds seem to just get bigger and bigger

There’s only 1 figure I regret getting and that’s “ cyborg spider “ also can’t wait to get mark 6 , red and chrome next week . 1989 Batmobile from jazz inc late Sept early oct

I only have a small modest collection of a mixture of Hot Toys, transformers etc. Even then sometimes I will feel its a bit too much. I gave away figures that I no longer want. Yes I gave away. I only have 10 Hot Toys figures. Previously I gave away my Hot Toys Captain Marvel figures.

Classic collector mistake here collected funko got out of control sold them all got in to hot toys. Again during Covid collection got out of control had to sell but kept some and now steadily collecting. Will always collect something had to sell some recently because financially times have been hard but still try and keep the core of the collection.

Yeah I totally understand and agree with what your saying I had over 20 thousand dollars worth between hot toys blue box and dragon models I have damn near one from every maker and I gave almost everything to my son it became a habit and felt like I was doing something wrong while buying it great video and very informative

Can you please do a video on how to take a break from collecting and if we as collectors do decide to take a break from the hobby instead of outright quit cold turkey, what’s the best practices to not get tempted from buying so many figures? Also if you can dive into on the subject on how to limit yourself on how many figures you should buy for the year would be greatly appreciated as well. Like you said, “you don’t have to buy everything” so let’s get into that quote more deeply on your next video and actually put it to good use. As always thank you Keco for helping out the collecting community, I really appreciate your inputs and opinions on everything 1/6th as always. 🫡

Good video, and thank you for the help the other day. I'm gonna work on that body as an extra to see how it turns out, just so i know. I appreciate you and all you do. Eric

Another great video and pro tips on how to be a smart collector from Keco Collects! Now here’s a question for you my dear friend; how do you deal with all of these releases, timed exclusives and artisan line? I know you always give good advice on what to do as a collector, but my question is.. how does Keco himself deal with it? 🤔

I only have 10 hot toys, only characters I absolutely love. I sort of went down the rabbit hole and got them all, but they are characters I love. I didn't go so far where I was buying everything I saw even if I didn't like them. I'm more of a neca collector as their figures are smaller and cheaper so easier to collect space and cost wise. I don't think I'll buy any more hot toys unless it's something I absolutely love, but I won't sell the ones I have either.

Keco this is about Hot Toys can you make a video about dealing with all these InArt releases I can't cope

I only collect DC but my collection has gotten out of hand. I blame Jazzinc. Seriously thinking about selling everything except stuff from the Dark Knight trilogy. Gonna sell off some side characters for now until I decide for sure or not.

Ask yourself if your pet pooped on it would you clean the figure or trash it. That tells you if you want the fig or you can sell it

I have caught myself enjoying preordering figures and i don’t understand why….so after preordering Chewie I have to stop PO and just wait for all that I preordered…I have way too many preorders…i don’t think I am done with collecting tho

How many inches is your chain? I’m been thinking of buying one. Good video. I feel since I’ve been collecting i wrote down the figures I want and that is my figure list no going off the list. Keeps me focused and not having fomo.

Weird question, what would you do, if one day when you wake up, all your figures are stolen

Hot toys aren’t worth it to sell right now. With people in Facebook groups or just people in general not wanting to even pay you retail for new in box pieces is ridiculous. It’s definitely a buyers market but if you sell expect to take a lot of losses and don’t be fooled by that 3K limited piece sideshow puts out on certain pieces cuz man you may not even get retail on those. It’s a joke selling right now.

Dude, what is wrong with you and Will? Hahaha!!! Will tells me I have chosen a hobby that is the 2nd worst to females. You tell me about selling my collection or starting over. All of this on the DAY that I FINALLY set up my Stars Wars room with almost 30 years of collecting. I am waiting on 1 light replacement for my Moduspace cases, but the room is FINALLY DONE!!!

Fully agree bud - I get caught in FOMO often and before you know it, £2k in pre-orders I don’t really want..!! 😮

Im selling 80% of my 1/6 scale figures... due to getting into statues 🎉 Hot Toys prices are way off and i get more bang for my buck.. I'm only keeping and buying what i really need

Yo keco, I just want to let you know you the real deal man. By the way if you had to pick only one hot toy to keep, which one would it be?

I get not buying anymore but selling everything you already own is insane to me 🤔

What do you think of that Hot Toys/ Hono studios Iron man, I saw it and i was both wow'd and aggravated, two weeks before they released the pre-order i had received that limited exclusive classic comic colors origins collection Iron man I was like what the Fukk that is bullsh!t lol.

Sell?.. sell? i don't get it...Sell a Hot Toy? You can have mine...when you prize it out of my cold dead hand... But seriously, i don't spend 300+ on things that i don't absolutely love. A puppy is for Christmas but a Hot Toy is for life.

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Sell the majority and keep a few... says the guy with a thousand figures behind him.. Do as I say 😂😂 Jokes aside, Good advices

Kevin

Too late😂😂😂😂😂