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Wow, you found those in a thrift store.. that’s surprising.
A few years back, while scouting yard sales, I got in a conversation with a guy who had a box of old hot wheels and a bunch of tracks. I ended up buying the whole lot for $80. The cars weren’t quite as old as yours, but there were a lot more of them and 5 were still in the original packages. I still wish I’d kept a couple of those.
It took about a year and 25 listings or so to sell the lot, but I did pretty well and learned a lot.
I still have two wall display cases with the remnants of my own collection. I made a conscience decision a few years ago to trim it down to something reasonable. These have been in storage, since I moved, but might be time to put them back on display.
If you do sell them, I hope you get your price. There’s nothing wrong with keeping them either. The best part of the conversation is that you’re only into them for $25.
I can’t believe a thrift store sold them for that price. I’d make it a point to go back there on a regular basis and see what else they have.
JOE
Mine is left automatically as they pay.
“A+ Buyer..Thank you for your Purchase from Uncle Joe’s Vintage Emporium.”
I don’t think it ever hurts to get your store name out there.
A Picture is certainly worth a thousand words.
Very cool stuff and certainly original.
The stuff that brings the really big money is generally in like new condition or super rare.
The funny cars are the Snake and Mongoose. You may want to sell them as a pair. The chrome Camaro is one of the “mail away” cars and pretty cool. It’s amazing that after all these years, the surf boards for the Deora never disappeared.
Offhand, I don’t see anything super rare or expensive, but I have a deeper knowledge of Matchboxes than Hot Wheels.
I think you’ll find plenty of solds on Ebay to help with your pricing. You might be looking at closer to %500 than $1500, still a very good return on your $25.
Thanks for posting the pictures, it really made my day. The curiosity was killing me.
Ok Great.
It sounds like you’ve got a handle on these. I didn’t mean to rain on your parade. I’m officially jealous.
$1500 is very possible or even more. Do you have a white Camaro or a Beach Bomb..(VW Bus) ?
Good Luck with them.
Hi Mark,
Congratulations on picking up the Redlines. They can be worth an awful lot of money.
You may already know this, but the date on the bottom of the car is generally the original casting date. In other words the base may say 1969, but the car may have been made and sold in the 1990’s. Also, over the years, Hot Wheels made and sold “Vintage” replicas of the original cars, generally with color variations. The newer replicas are generally only worth a few dollars each.
I’ve gone down way too many rabbit holes, researching Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.
If yours are truly the genuine vintage cars, you made a huge score. Everything counts on these. The color, condition and the country they were made in.
Take your time, before listing them as there are some variations that are really valuable.
Toyota use to make a 3.0 V6 engine from like 1989 to 1994. There was a recall on the head gaskets and they were replacing them for years. Some of the forums (for motorhomes) say there are dealers still replacing the head gaskets even now on some of them under recall.
That is just one of the reasons Toyota sells to so many repeat customers.
Getting to cruise around in a new loaner truck for w while… Cool.
Great Podcast as always.
Wow.. Toyota is paying for a new frame for your 10+ year old truck. That’s HUGE. Just the labor cost on that is probably close to the value of the truck. Toyota is a company that really stands behind their product and reputation.
Insulating the house is almost always a homerun. When the former owners of my house, had it built, they used 2X6 studs (instead of 2X4) and really paid attention to the insulation.
I am reaping the rewards of their design. Last summer, July and August were 100 degrees almost every day and I never used the air conditioner. I do use a swamp cooler and the hottest it got inside my house was 80 degrees. In fact, unless it gets past 92 or so, I don’t even use the swamp cooler.
What’s the future of Ebay.. who knows, but it’s smart to keep all options open. Ever since I moved, my account has been very passive. Geographic arbitration was the best move I’ve ever made.
Ditto on the Brother printer.
The XL cartridge is rated at 2600 pages. I bought my printer on sale at Office Depot a while back for $100. I couldn’t be happier.
If you look at Resources tab on this site, Ryanne explains it all. She also has a video on refilling the cartridges.
Good Luck
http://www.estatesales.net has auctions as well as estate sales listed and is worth a look. I have better luck in this area with them.
When you end an item and sell similar from the “ended listings”, it is not removed from the “ended listings”.
You need to manually delete the items from your “ended listings” after relisting as “sell similar.
If you don’t manually delete the items from the “ended listings” it creates a real mess when you end more listings to “sell similar”.
I don’t believe this is what’s going on with the original posting, but though I’d add it.
To keep track of things, I run split screens when ending listings and doing “sell similar”.
Well the above item I bought on 10/29 says it was shipped on 10/30 and then there are a couple of scans by the seller, but USPS has not received the item yet. I wonder if the seller has the item yet. By the way the estimated shipping date is 11/06, still 2 days away. We’ll see if it makes it.
I solved my own problem. I have reactivated my Amazon account. I’m not going to buy from these high volume sellers anymore on Ebay. If I need to, I’ll be sure to buy at least $25 of stuff at a time to get the free shipping from Amazon.
Ebay is still a great platform for buying and selling unique items. I think they have completely missed the mark on selling new stuff and commodity items. The high volume sellers are very good at gaming the system regarding shipping times and defects.
Wow, look what I found in the free section of Craigslist.
https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/zip/d/chino-all-kinds-of-shelving-4-14-high/7009629040.html
