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Anybody into Hot Wheels Treasure Hunts?
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08-10-2010, 01:36 AM
Scoop
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In my opinion Hot Wheels are probably the most scalped toy there is.
I know everyone here complains about people scalping Joes, but I've never seen any of the scalpers in my area ever come close to even touching a Joe.
They usually go for Hot Wheels, Lego, and Power Rangers...that's right I said Power Rangers, go figure. (No pun intended.)
The funny thing when it comes to Hot Wheels is that employees of stores like Target, TRU and Walmart hate these collectors or scalpers the most.
I've heard that they trash the section looking for the Treasure Hunts and then they don't clean up their messes. They even go as far as taking every car off of the pegs and toss them into a shopping cart only to wheel it away to another section so that they could take their time looking through them. When they are done they just leave the cart filled with all of the cars that they didn't buy, which is about 99% of them.
Now that habbit is messed up.
No offense to Hot Wheels collectors here, but I think that their antics give the rest of the collectors a bad name, especially when it comes to the way store employees feel about collectors in general.
Now I know not all Hot Wheels collectors are like this, but most of the ones I've come into contact with are very ecentric.
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