Monthly Archives: November 2016

My last video was of the sales shelf on top of my cabinet of personal Breyer horses. I collect custom finish Breyers. Here is 1 shelf of them. None of these are for sale. This is just a sneak peak of my personal collection. I’ll make more videos if there is enough interest.

Hi guys! If you weren’t lucky enough to be drawn for Avalanche, Breyer is drawing their wait list today! This is for the left over Avalanche that weren’t paid for by end of day on November 21st. Collector’s Club members, be sure to check your email for a second chance! And don’t forget to check those spam folders!

My Avalanche is due here on Friday and I’m waiting on pins and needles! The in hand pictures that I have seen of Avalanche look so much nicer than Breyer’s stock photos.

Have You Seen The New Breyer Web Special Run Avalanche

Typically, we only ship USPS Priority Mail because I have had good luck with the quick transit time and we stock a lot of Priority boxes. This year, we decided to offer FedEx SmartPost on a few of the heavier items. I personally hate this service but it is a lot cheaper than Priority Mail so I offered it as a shipping option on:

Xavier Mystical Unicorn

Woodland Splendor 2016 Holiday Horse

Keep in mind, FedEx SmartPost is only offered in Aidan’s Toy Trove eBay Store as we can’t create FedEx SmartPost labels outside of eBay for website or private sales.

Over the weekend, we had a few of these particular items sell on eBay and I spent a good portion of the morning creating custom boxes for them (as we don’t stock these size boxes for non Priority Mail). FedEx SmartPost packages have to be dropped off at a FedEx location even though they are delivered by the Post Office. I loaded up the car and drove over to the only FedEx drop (which is a small little local mailing place) and guess what?! The mailing store is moving locations and is closed during their move. ARGH! The closest FedEx drop other than this particular store is 90 miles away. I might be able to pay for a FedEx Pickup but I’m not sure as the website says that the pickup option is for FedEx Ground and Express packages and it’s rather costly and is charged by the package. Oh the joys of living in the middle of nowhere!

Soooo…today, I will be stalking our small town’s ONE FedEx Ground driver. I’m crossing my fingers that I can catch him.  I almost never offer FedEx as an option and the one time that I do, this happens. What are the odds??

On the bright side, it’s a nice sunny day! I might just go walk around the neighborhood and catch some Pokemon and hope that I hear the rumble of the FedEx truck!

Breyer NIB 1757 Xavier $63.95

It’s raining outside. In fact, it’s pouring rain and the thunder is coming and going. Aidan and hubby are gone until Thanksgiving. The cats are terrified of thunderstorms and are all hiding. The house feels quite empty!

On a model horse related note, we once again overhauled the shipping on the website. I can’t believe how hard it has been to offer anything but flat rate. Calculated and combined shipping requires expensive WordPress Plugins and while our website is still just getting off the ground, we’re trying to keep things cost effective for us and our customers! I believe we have finally conquered this and the website now offers shipping rates based on your location and the total weight of the items ordered. Hurray!

This applies to both domestic and International shipping. Canada has a significant discount from the rest of the world but other countries have the same shipping rate as it is very similar in cost. However, because of the post office’s pricing structure, International buyers likely won’t see much, if any of a rate decrease until the order hits 5 pounds. I apologize to our International buyers (and we have a lot!) but this is how USPS ended up restructuring their rates. And yes, it stinks.

We also discounted a lot of our 2016 Breyer line. We need to  clear some space for yet another Breyer order that is due here on Tuesday. As I’ll be the only one home, I’m dreading wrestling with a pallet of ponies in the rain. But perhaps mother nature will cooperate and give me time to unload the Breyer boxes without drenching the horses and me? Please please? The Breyer Categories are slated to be restructured but you can see all of our Breyer Website Offerings here:

https://aidanstoytrove.com/product-category/model-horses/breyer/

Thanks everyone, I hope you are staying warm and dry!

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The much anticipated and much dreaded Breyer Black Friday sale is back! Breyer Collector’s Club  Members get early access. To see the Black Friday Sale, make sure you are signed into your Breyer Account with an active membership. An active membership for 2016 or 2017 should work. Then click Collector’s Club on the top left. The first banner at the top will be for the Black Friday sale. Click the banner and you can see the goodies 🙂

In the past, Breyer’s Black Friday sale has been plagued with problems. They have oversold on multiple items and collector’s swarming to purchase great deals have even brought down the website. Hopefully this year goes more smoothly! If you decide to take the plunge, don’t forget to add your CLUBPLUS16 or CLUBPLUS17 discount code at checkout!

I anticipate that Breyer will keep adding new horses to the sale so do keep checking the website. This morning I only saw 2 horses that I was interest in:

Breyer Black Friday Sneak Peak

The Vintage Club Stablemate Bravo who was already sold out for the price of $19.95.

And the

Vintage Club Charlie who is priced at $145.

But buyer beware, it looks like Breyer has raised their shipping cost.