A Question of All the Dealers (1 Viewer)

[sceic2]

Regardless of the official definition of toy soldier dealer/retailer, how many of the dealers on this forum collect what they sellconfused:

I have read on Bill Sager's site that he started his business so that he could afford to collect King & Country; George at Minute Man is a collector; but, how many others (willing to ID themselves) are collecting what they sell and what lines and series do you collect?

I would think that getting product at wholesale would make it easy for most dealers to be a collector. Maybe dealers are more addicted to this hobby than we retail paying collectors. Or, are they like drug dealers who avoid the drugs cause they see what happens to the users everyday?

 

[Fubar]

"Don't get high on your own supply". Wasnt that a line from Scarface?
I sell Conte plastics and metal via EBAY at Civil War reenactments here in the NW and mostly just plastics at my friends local hobby shop.
Currently chipping away at a website when I find the patience.

I was a hopelessly addicted collector before I ever started selling figures.But I was always buying selling trading for years.I seldom spent much $$$$$$ from my own payroll and I was no doubt more disciplined back then.I'd just sell off troops or trade if I wanted to do something else.
Lets see, I have managed to keep just about 1 set of the conte ACW and AWI. A few Viking sets. Oh yes, I carved up a pretty fair amount of the unpainted ACW plastics too. Maybe 150.
Many of the early playsets I already had. ZULU, Warlord, WW2 ect.
I had collected vast amounts of Marx Airfix. Britians plastics. When Conte started with WW2, I sold them all off to pay for the new Playsets.

Badly addicted.Started making my own castings since simply buying troops from all over the wolrd wasnt enough. I guess It doesnt get much worse than that!!!!!!!

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[bsager]

You are correct Michael, I do collect what I sell. I have at least 1 set of everything from all of the lines that K&C make. I only have a few sets from the early items. I also have just about every brochure that was ever made.

I also sell only what I like. Being a Dealer is very enjoyable. I like dealing with customers that call me to buy sets and have a passion for the hobby. The conversations are upbeat and not negative and when you are finished with a call I have a sense that I made someone else's life enjoyable for awhile.

My real job is a Fixed Operations Director for 3 automotive dealerships. You can imagine how someone feels when they bring a car in that wont run and they have no way to get around. Car repairs are also expensive and people tend to be a little uptight so the conversations are not the same as when dealing with a Toysoldier Collector.

By the way, I do get high on my own supply! Scarface said it all.

Bill Sager