Sterling marlin 1/64 car and a Hotwheels 1964 Richard Petty Plymouth
(also 1/64).
The Petty car was marked at $19.95 (!for a Hotwheels!?) but the lady
that rung us up got the price wrong, and I got it for $9.95. Normally,
I would bring such a mistake to the person's attention, but I got a
really bad attitude abvout the whole thing because of the marlin car.
<RANT>
Action seems to think that collectors want to display a freakin beer
bottle on a shelf. That's right, the Marlin car is ONLY available in
that stupid beer bottle container.
To get to the car itself, you have to unscrew the bottom of the bottle,
and the car is actually contained on a clear plastic base inside a clear
(very flimsy and unattractive) plastic cylindrical container.
Can you see through the bottle? NO, because it's brown like most beer
bottles are.
Can you display the car with the bottle in some sort of meaningful way?
NO, because they didn't go to the extra trouble to include a cradle-
mounting system for the bottle itself, and then provided a way to attach
the car's base to the unscrewed bottle bottom and to the inside of the
bottle (or optionally to the beer bottle cradle that they didn't make).
Instead, you get this crappy beer bottle thing you don't need/want, you
can't see the car in the bottle (even if you wanted to keep the bottle),
and the whole damn mess costs almost $40, when all you wanted was the
freakin $10 car inside. And it's oih-so-collectibly valuable with over
32,000 units produced.
To make matters even worse, I would really like to get hold of the gold
Coors Original car he's gonna drive at the Coke 600 next week, but it's
only available in a freakin beer can container (in 1/64 scale).
This is a suck-ass way to drive the cost of 1/64 scale cars up into the
range of 1/24 scale cars, and I'm taking it personally. I collected
almost 500 cars in the last four years (the vast majority of which are
1/64), but since they started going nuts with this ***ed up packaging
system, I've dropped off to MAYBE one or two new cars every year.
Last item of note - the Nascar collectible store I went to is EXTREMELY
expensive compared to the internet (or even the stores I went to in San
Diego). I could have bouth the sterling marlin car for less than $25
online, but the real problem I have is that this guy thinks he can
charge any price he wants because he's "the only diecast place in town
and he can charge whatever he wants" (paraphrased).
That really pisses me off, and he won't be seeing any more of my
business. The name of the place is Sterling Collectibles and it's in
San Antonio. Steer clear of there if you don't want to get screwed.
</RANT>
I hope he chokes to death when he goes over the receipts and finds out
that I got the Petty car for $10 less than the marked price.
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