For the man who has everything and wants more, an epic collection of vintage Matchbox cars and trucks, valued at $100,000, is up for auction on EBAY. https://www.ebay.com/itm/322986273161?ViewItem=&item=322986273161&fromMakeTrack=true
While this is true. I shiver to think how much money I've spent buying diecast cars and planes and other collectibles one at a time?
He is selling off his collection in pieces in the near future. Be interesting to see how close he gets to that when he starts breaking it up into smaller lots.
Some of those sets hold more value than some people's project cars. Even some single cars. That seller would help everyone out by having better pictures and maybe a list. You also have to remember some of threading you are here is because you may have played with these when you were little. But yeah it's a bit like the guy with the junkyard trying to sell it all without working hard to organize it.
I know of a guy that spent upper 5 figures for a single Hot Wheels car. If this guy spent 20 years spending $50k for a collection and then gets 100k out of it, it doesn't seem so bad....
Anyone seen the pawn star show where they had the toy guy come in and see if they could give another guy a $20,000 loan and used his matchbox collection as collateral? He said no problem that it was worth like double ,triple or even more and that was just a fraction of what this guy has.
When I was a kid a match box was near the stove with matches in it,my cars consist of blocks of wood with Coca Cola lids for wheels. I always liked the vintage Buddy L's and my pal Rene' was a huge collector and I have seen him pay stupid money for some of them,I guess anything is worth what a individual is willing to pay. HRP
When I see collections of things that I personally don't hold much value on I think to myself ,he made that money so he can spend it any way he wants ,it's all fine and dandy when times are good but when the next recession [ and there is always a next recession ] it will become a grand monument to stupidity.
He should sell it now. His kids probably don't appreciate it and the coming generations won't want it. The value is now and it is probably already past the peak. As it usually is.
I was a Hot Wheels collector in the early '90s back when I had more money than sense! Spent a good $10k and was featured in the Hot Wheels newsletter. I sold off the entire collection about 10 years ago. Got about $2k for the mint redlines and $1200 for everything else. Redlines went fast but buyers weren't beating a path to my door for the majority of the collection. It was in the middle of the recession though. Collecting was fun but financially it was a bust. Lesson learned!
Different folk collect different things . I spent a lot of money with my kids getting the right hot wheels for their set.Getting up early to hit wally world.going to shows.Don't know how much i spent, but it was worth every dang cent of it.Yesterday was my B Day. We all got together. Kids still talk about the excursions /finds of hot wheels. Kids are now 33/28.I'd do it again.If either has a grandson...IT'S ON!!
If this guy has a Matchbox 1968 Green Mercury Cougar (#62) and a 1968 green Mercury station wagon I certainly would like to get them. Neither car is of exceptional historical significance but I had them both and would like to re-acquire them both.
Those were the fist things I bought when I got my first computer and found Ebay,then it progressed to larger items. I replaced all the ones I destroyed or lost and then the ones I did not have but wanted.
I'd have to put that in the More Money Than Brains Club, put once you have started a collection it can become an addiction.
A few days ago, I mentioned in a thread about my Mother's old steamer trunks, and what she kept in them. I forgot, but she also had Match Box Cars/Trucks in little yellow boxes; she'd never let me and my younger brother play with them when we were little kids. She had answered an ad on Craig's List from a guy looking to buy Match Box Toys. She had roughly 30 of them, and a couple duplicates in the bunch. I called the guy for her as she was about 85, and we set up a time when I could be at her house. She had them "displayed" on the kitchen table in a semi-circle. The guy walks into the kitchen, and just stopped, eyes focused on the display. Mom whispered to me she wanted $35.00 for them; I told her to wait and see what he offered. He starts adding things up on his cell phone, looks at Mom, and asks sheepishly if she'd be willing to take $800.00 for them. Before I could tell her to "deal a little higher", she says "SOLD!!!". Guy was happy as a clam, and could't wait to add them to his collection, and tell all his friends about them. This was about 13 years ago; I think she could have gotten at least a grand from him. I think he really was a collector, and not a dealer. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
Many decades ago I had about 20 Matchbox, 20 Hot Wheels with hundreds of feet of yellow track, Eldon slot cars, Tudor Electric Football, and various other "toys", all from the 1960's. One day I told my mom to take it all to the church. It had to be a 100% cold turkey release of an emotional attachment. I really don't regret my decision to "grow up" but now I find I want all that stuff back, not to play with, but to display, to remind me of my youth.
I had Match Box along with Hot wheels cars growing up but the Match boxes were always kind of the generic Hot Wheel, and then there was the bottom of the line, almost different category tootsie toy type cars I had, maybe for younger kids that you could get a bag of at the dollar store that no one wanted compared to the awesome Hot wheels. But guess what I have a small collection of now
I did pretty much the same thing 40 years ago when I got married and moved out on my own, except I gave all my Hot Wheels stuff and my 1/24 models to my first cousin. I think he may still have some of them, he was always into HO trains, too. I bought some when my boys were small, one still shows up every now and then where they lost them in the house or yard. I bought some of a OT car I had to display with it, traded the car, kept the Hot Wheels......when my Grandson came along, I started buying them again for him this time. They are good to remind one of their youth, unless you start getting too many and they become an obsession. I'll always have a few scattered around the house, just for the memories.
Back in the early 90s I started collecting Hotwheels again and tried to get every one they made but was running out of room so my girlfriend at the time had 3 young boys so they got all the goofy ones that I did not want. I now want to get rid of them but will have to settle for about 30 cents on the dollar if I sell them to a dealer,I would like to take the money from them and buy the older Matchbox gray wheels and other old diecast vehicles from the 50s and 60s.
I always preferred larger scale toys although Matchbox did have a likely the largest selection. Local store had kids buying a new car weekly from their display cabinet. I was not among them....
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