Hot Wheels Boulevards are God's Gift to Collectors!

[@23miked]

That sounds like East Coast Fred Meyer to me. 2:29

[@urideamabal]

I had a general manager at a Kroger, tell me that he buys all the exclusives, before they ever make it to the floor. He no longer works there, now I can find the exclusives, every once in awhile. I'll be getting that Boulevard series, in a trade.

[@hotwheelcollector16]

Never pay scalper price

[@toejam503]

Samba just classifies the bus ss having a sunroof and skylight windows.

[@bsea35]

We have Fred Meyers (KROGER) on the West Coast. The guy that works in the toy department at our local one collects hotwheels so I know I’m never going to find shit.

[@Chris_Hood]

🤣🤣 Brilliant story Joe!! Definitely well played _and_ told, there! Wow, that Kroger's location is far bigger than anything I've encountered, three full aisles for toys sets that apart, let alone having a *clothing section.* If they're serving so big an area, hearing that _Desperados_ are paying off employees doesn't come as a great surprise.

[@GigantoidArchive]

It's kind of typical for this area. It would be am amazing Kroger, if there's was the insider exchange going on. Maybe I'll film it one day.

[@Chris_Hood]

@IgnitionDiecast a surreptitiously taken photo would satisfy me. This is behaviour that has always missed me, zero complaints about that!

[@Jonesin_For_164]

😂 Regarding your 128 only needing a battery. It's a German car thing. My GTI was giving me all sorts of issues - erratic idle, bad injector codes, going into limp mode throwing weird codes and then after a few weeks of this the battery was dead twice, so I replaced the battery and every single problem went away after that. It couldn't just tell me the battery was no good, I had to go through hell first

[@ronaldcarter888]

Keep telling the truth about these scalpers and thieves. They really suck.

[@jodezero]

Cool stuff. Great story. That Volvo looks sweet

[@Josh_Quillan]

Turns out the reason I can't find that grey GTV6 is you! A butterfly flaps it's wings in China and there's a storm in Florida, A man punks a noob in Georgia and there's a nationwide shortage of 2024 D cases in the UK... About all i know about VW vans is 1) you have to call them buses or the VW fans get upset and 2) the more separate windows they have, the more they are worth.

[@mathewhudson7649]

HA HA excellent mind games, well played. 😎

[@michaelharrington223]

I will admit I do use my phone sometimes when I'm in the aisle. Either to reference a car for whatever reason or sometimes I'm looking to buy a car for some of the kids and I just want to know if they liked it or if they want one. I'm pretty sure people think I'm just scalping for price but I'm not at all LOL story was great that is hilarious karma's a bitch LOL I think I'm going to have to break down and pay real money to buy that samba. Somebody told me it has something to do with the windows to differentiate from other Volkswagen buses I guess. I think that M3 version is great definitely going to have to pick that up.

[@GigantoidArchive]

I went ahead and researched it... the Samba had hinged middle doors that opened like the front doors, not a sliding door side door like the regular Transporter.

[@michaelharrington223]

Cool, knowledge expanded.

[@AFAFsamedwards]

That’s hilarious. Smooth move on rook. Thanks for sharing and have a good day sir.

[@Mega-G-Star]

Kombi.