This site is a dismal failure This site is a dismal failure. After promising a better experience than we were having on The Toy Peddler, It has shown to be poorly designed and difficult to use. I had over $800 in listing credits on TTP and now they are gone. TTP said that listing credits never expire, Hobbydb says that they will let me sell for no fees for a while. That does not help as my sales have dropped from 350-450 per month to one sale a day. At that rare I would have to sell for free on Hobbydb for 4 or 5 years to break even.

New & Improved TTP - Not so much As a 15 year plus member on the original Toy Peddler, that had become a great site for selling and buying diecast. Fortunately when the migration to Hobbydb happened I was not in the position of having a ton of sellers credits banked (maybe $50), so losing those in exchange for no fees on Hobbydb wasn't a huge issue. What IS a huge issue is the fact that Hobbydb is not remotely user friendly, and trying to use the search function (as a seller or buyer) is a painful process at best. Gone are the days of scrolling through a members specific category listings and purchasing as you can no longer easily find those listings. Looking at member profiles, people with 25000 plus sales on the previous site now have 25. So traffic that's actually purchasing is WAY down from the previous version. Add to that multiple site downtimes/glitches and slow page loading as you scroll through an endless mass of pictures. I can appreciate that there may have been issues we as end users didn't see with the old site, but the "improvements" made to the back-end side of the new site have pretty much ruined the customer experience on the front-end.

HobbyDB does not deserve this 1 star… HobbyDB does not deserve this 1 star but but its required to give a star rating. It is a scam they take your money and make out like you are the problem and they do everything correctly. I have sold the same car several times after selling it the first time. When they took over TheToyPeddler and merged it with HobbyDB site they took my listing credits of close to $100 away. Did not offer a refund or partial refund. They removed all my current listings and told me I had to relist them which would require having to repay to list these Its again. Having to pay a listing fee twice is just another way to scam more money.

They had a fraudulent listing and wouldn’t refund my money I paid for an expensive item and didn’t receive it. The seller communication was mostly non existent except when they said that the listing I bought from went out of stock months ago and I shouldn’t have been able to pay for it and it they said it was the websites fault. Keep in mind this item was supposed to ship two days after purchase and it took about 20 for me to hear from the seller after I tried to reach out to both customer service and them. The customer service kept coming up with excuses why I can’t get my refund from them and they had me jump through many hoops. Keep in mind I wasn’t getting the item and they had a lot of my money. One of the support staff, Christian, even belittled me while they still had my money. I have reported to my bank and am contesting there theft of my money and I reported them to the Better Business Bureau in hopes to get my money that they kept from me under a listing that they had no item for. Please save yourself the stress, money, and time and go to a reputable website because all they had to do was refund my money for an item I was never going to get (apparently) and they haven’t as of the moment I’m writing this.

A great database of collectibles A great database of collectibles. I add to it all the time and use it to research what I miss in my model car collection. It's very broad so you can store a lot of information and photos about each item. Also SEARCH ON KEY WORDS TO FIND WHAT YOU are looking for.