Rise Of Hot Wheels Diecast Scalping & Request

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cassanovalite

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So I like to casually collect hot wheels, nothing too extreme or such, pick the cars that I like. However there has been a significant rise of scalpers in this area as of late. So much so that its become extremely difficult for even people in tier-1 cities to get their hands on the new releases. The last case was a pretty good case with Ferrari F40, SF90, Mercedes F1, Merc 560 SEC, BMW 635 CSi along with a separate 5-pack of F1 cars. So you can imagine the scalpers having a field day with this. The scalping is easily 3x-4x times the price. On amazon you can see the F1 5 pack listed for 2.5k whereas its MRP is 899. Single pieces which have a 179/ MRP are being listed for 800-1000. This issue has gotten so worse that the only way normal collectors are able to get these are via blinkit/instamart/zepto.

So I would like to request that if you're in a tier-1 city & are a fellow hot wheels collector, Do help me out with these pieces as I am in a barely tier-2 city. If there are enough hot wheels collectors on here, maybe we could start a megathread and help each other out?
 
Unfortunately for me, Those don't have anything in my city, I checked the same with the address of a friend who lives in bangalore but they are always OOS. Scalping really is getting out of hand. Last year I was able to secure some decent pieces for myself & some other people as my city being tier 2.5 had them in stock but yeah. Have gone around the city to no avail this year.
 
I live in a metro city yet hardly see any cars in shops been 1-2 yrs as all these shopkeepers are sellouts to all the scalpers which fall for those extra 50 100 odd bucks. I have researched it all on this racket and its as dirty as drugs. And whatever available are those basic cartoonish kiddish fantasy cars which I'm not even interested in.
Being a professional diecast collector for decades. this situation totally hurts sentiments and how cheap and dirty this hobby has turned in the past 4-5 yrs.
Also, I'm also mostly done with hot wheels and have shifted to other premium brands which are worthy which cannot be scalped!
 
I am in a tier 2 city and have given up. I think i have a decent enough collection, started in 2011, had a good run, especially while in the US. Fook the scalpers, I am out.
Anway I've just gotten into a housing loan and need as much monies as I can, so I'm out.
 
thekaran595 said:
If you are in delhi maybe you can go to select city walk, there I've seen some hotwheels at a reasonable price
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in big chain stores, if they have hot wheels they're usually MRP but as of late those are getting 'raided' by scalpers as well, asking the people working there to contact them when new stuff comes and giving them a tip for the help.

nRiTeCh said:
I live in a metro city yet hardly see any cars in shops been 1-2 yrs as all these shopkeepers are sellouts to all the scalpers which fall for those extra 50 100 odd bucks. I have researched it all on this racket and its as dirty as drugs. And whatever available are those basic cartoonish kiddish fantasy cars which I'm not even interested in.
Being a professional diecast collector for decades. this situation totally hurts sentiments and how cheap and dirty this hobby has turned in the past 4-5 yrs.
Also, I'm also mostly done with hot wheels and have shifted to other premium brands which are worthy which cannot be scalped!
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yeah there are discussions on reddit about how someone checked in delhi airport hamleys and apparently 40 pieces of F1 5pack had come but it was kept aside for some dude who bought em all.


greenhorn said:
I am in a tier 2 city and have given up. I think i have a decent enough collection, started in 2011, had a good run, especially while in the US. Fook the scalpers, I am out.
Anway I've just gotten into a housing loan and need as much monies as I can, so I'm out.
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I used to see the scalping situation in the US and used to be happy that this isn't happening in india even after the fact that we don't get half the hot wheels + limited edition stuff that are released but now we're in the same boat as well
 
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