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10-01-2008, 09:40 PM | #1 |
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I had a funny story that happened to me last night and I thought I would share it with my fellow joe collectors. As you know, there are collectors and then there are the Hot Wheels people.
Last night, my fiancee and I had to run to Walmart to get the usual items (shampoo, bread, etc) and we walked over to the toys and saw they had about three full pallets of toys they just put out so we start to look for anything GI Joe related (they had nothing BTW). Well I spot three boxes of Hot Wheels (I had never seen them before) so I was curious to what a case looked like. I asked the sales associate if he would open one up and he gladly did. I looked inside and I noticed all the different colors on the cards and only one green one (a Treasure Hunt) so I pulled that out and noticed the Trea$ure Hunt$ were in the dollar signs so this peaked my interest level. I don't collect Hot Wheels at all but I was looking at it and I noticed this grubby looking dude was headed my way. I thought 'he HAS to be a Hot Wheels collector' and sure enough he was. But before he got there, he stopped in electronics to look at something so by this time the other boxes were being opened by the sales associate and being a little devious, I looked inside and took all of the Treasure Hunts out that I could find (just for kicks). Not even three seconds later, that guy is looking around the skids at the Hot Wheels and was like "oh boxes, can I look at them too?" and starts ripping them apart. About a minute later, another grubby looking dude comes by and starts doing the same with the boxes I had already looked at and the first guy had ripped apart. The first guy finally asks me "what have you got there?" and I showed him and said "I don't know anything about these" and the other guy said "get anything good?" and the first guy was like "yeah, he got the Super one and the other three Treasure Hunts" So I walk away and left them to continue rummaging through the cases. I did buy the Hot Wheels and figured hey why not put them on eBay and put that toward my joe fund? We went to some other stores and I got curious and said "let's go back to the Walmart" and we did only to find those same two guys looking at the cars on the pegs and they were pulling the mystery car packages off the cards to see which ones were inside and then found four cases of the Halloween specials or something like that. So they started tearing those apart looking for the chase cards, etc I guess. I just started snickering and we went home. Well I looked up the cars I found last night and put them on eBay and they were sold within an hour of each other. I spent $.76 on each of them (four) and sold them for $60 total which pays for my Wave 3 vehicles that I just ordered from BBTS. I had heard stories about "Hot Wheel Guy" on here but never understood what people meant until last night. What an eye-opener for me and now I know the difference between a toy collector and a Hot Wheel collector. And knowing is half the battle ....
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10-01-2008, 09:53 PM | #2 |
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Is fun and games till they start going thru the joes.
Those guys are fierce and wait till they recognize what you collect. I bet they will bend the hell out of all the cards and get all the variants.
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10-01-2008, 10:01 PM | #3 |
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10-01-2008, 10:02 PM | #4 |
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I met one...what a real obnoxious pr!ck he was AND he was fat and grubby-looking. What is it with this stereotype that holds so true?
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10-01-2008, 10:04 PM | #5 |
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If he'd done this with Joes people would be screaming "SCALPER!"
Note, OP....you made a huge profit. Good for you. Capitalism in action. But I love watching hypocrisy in action too.
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10-01-2008, 10:28 PM | #7 |
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a lot of those "hot wheel guys" are total scum and i really mean that. Most everyone of those guys i have every met, and theres a ton of them in my area, are dirty mean nasty people who i have personally seen take these cars out of the hands of kids.
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10-01-2008, 11:33 PM | #8 |
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After he opened them he said to me "I am just glad you were not one of those mini car collectors." I have met a few joe collectors out in stores and now I know there is a difference between what looks like toy collectors and hot wheel collectors and I don't understand how almost ALL of them fit the same bill?
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10-01-2008, 11:47 PM | #9 |
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I just started snickering and we went home. Well I looked up the cars I found last night and put them on eBay and they were sold within an hour of each other. I spent $.76 on each of them (four) and sold them for $60 total which pays for my Wave 3 vehicles that I just ordered from BBTS.
I had heard stories about "Hot Wheel Guy" on here but never understood what people meant until last night. What an eye-opener for me and now I know the difference between a toy collector and a Hot Wheel collector. And knowing is half the battle ....
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10-01-2008, 11:58 PM | #10 |
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I used to work at Toys R Us as a manager. For 7 years. Sometimes collectors got on my nerves. But most the time they were cool. (some SW ones were kind of a-holes). But I LOATHE Hot Wheels collectors. Biggest bunch of old whiny a-holes I have ever met. Old men running in the store to get to the cars first. We'd have to yell at them to walk. Freaking ridiculous. Just to spite them, we'd sometimes buy the treasure hunts up and then put them in the Birthday Club box of little toys kids got to pick from when it was their birthday.
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