We are performing some maintenance on the RecoverToy servers and the website and store may be off-line for some short periods this weekend starting from Friday 12th May 1500 Australian Eastern Time (3pm +10 GMT). Updated Saturday 14th May: The server migration has been completed. There should be no further interruptions after 1630 AEST (4:30pm GMT +1000) today. … [Read more...] about RecoverToy Store online after maintenance
RecoverToy will be at Adelaide’s Mega Toy Fair in June 2016
RecoverToy will be at Adelaide's Mega Toy Fair in June 2016. The toy fair is open on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of June. Opening time is 10:00. Bring all your old diecast models that need tyres and we will fit new tyres to make that model look great. Tyres for Matchbox Toys, Dinky Toys, Corgi Toys, Tri-ang Minic, Tri-ang Spot-On, Budgie Toys, Britains and many more. We will … [Read more...] about RecoverToy will be at Adelaide’s Mega Toy Fair in June 2016
Australia Post capitulate from small business protests
RecoverToy was far from being the only voice complaining at the Post Office counter. A mass of voices via Facebook and eBay forums, has seen Australia Post capitulate from small business protests. The rule change was to the use of international letter post for small merchandise items. It was introduced on Monday 18th April 2016 and was previously unannounced. It was hidden … [Read more...] about Australia Post capitulate from small business protests
Australia Post forces suspension of trade
Updated: Australia Post capitulates from small business protests IMPORTANT !! We are closed due to Australia Post changing the rules !! Australia Post has changed the rules on International Letter Post and we are currently trying to understand what this means. It appears that where we could previously send parts and tyres for $4 per package, the new rates will be, as … [Read more...] about Australia Post forces suspension of trade
Blue Box Toys
We have a selection of Blue Box Toys from Hong Kong in the 1960's with boxes that we could reproduce, including a retailers display box outer container. However, we have a long list of other boxes that are ahead of these in priority. So, we thought we should "ask the audience". Is your collection in need of a reproduction replacement box for one of the following models ? … [Read more...] about Blue Box Toys
Tonys Toys Site Link
A new link to Tonys Toys personal toy collection has been added to the menu here at RecoverToy. A lot of the parts we have and knowledge around antique die-cast toys is due to the collection that has been built up over the last 30 years or so, as well as childhood memories. The collection includes toys from Corgi, Dinky, Matchbox, Mattel, Tri-ang, Australian Micro, Streamlux, … [Read more...] about Tonys Toys Site Link
New Reproduction Boxes
We have some new toy reproduction boxes in preparation at the moment including some Tri-ang Scalex boat boxes for the 414 and 415 boats. Currently we are updating all the pictures of our Matchbox Lesney reproduction boxes to provide clearer images as some of them were over a decade old and taken with a comparatively low resolution camera. A change to the format of the Schuco … [Read more...] about New Reproduction Boxes
eBay price updates
RecoverToy runs eBay stores in Australia, the USA and UK. With the constantly changing exchange rates we sometimes have prices that are inconsistent between the sites. There was some spent today validating the RecoverToy_USA eBay store to check that pricing was consistent. We found that there were a number of listings that had been posted with parcel post pricing and not letter … [Read more...] about eBay price updates
New 1300 phone number for RecoverToy
As we start to get our new website setup we have added a 1300 number to provide another point of contact. Being based in Melbourne, Australia, our time zone is usually GMT +1000 hours or GMT +1100 hours during our summer daylight saving time. You can now call us on 1300 936 762 as well as contacting us via our email Contact form. … [Read more...] about New 1300 phone number for RecoverToy