I can understand people (mostly adults, I suspect) being interested in collectables.

And I can see how the little shop things may be of interest to people in eg 50-100 years time.

I would certainly be interested in seeing a replica set of the items on sale in 1919, if they had made them back then.

But here's the thing. If they had made them back then, they would have been made to last. They would have been in a decent material and the display case would have been made of wood.

What we are seeing with the Little things is display cases that cost $4.

I think that this time round, Coles has learnt a lesson and is limiting sales(or at least in our supermarket they are) but last year, the cases sold out immediately and were later fetching $50-$140 on ebay. Now, these little cases are the cheapest of the cheap plastic. They will be brittle and probably will disintegrate within a few years. They had the trolleys last year as well. Again, they're pretty flimsy things.

I wouldn't mind if shops came out with collectable/memorabilia but would prefer to see it come at a price, with perhaps a discount for other purchases over a certain amount. But I would like to see the quality rise about 1000%. At the moment, these things are pretty much junk.

Making them flimsy can help with collectability due to the fact not as many will survive 100 years. The only problem is to make money on them would be if you found a set in 50 years in new condition and sold them the next day. 

Probably. Except I won't be here in 50 years.

It wouldn't be much fun having a collectable set though if you couldn't take it out sometimes to look at or show your children & grandchildren.

I've no doubt the little things will be a collectable in 50 years because I think a lot of them have just been thrown out and even in 20 years or so, people may toss out the cases as junk.

Some of the early McDonald's toys (unopened) are now worth a bit, apparently. But who can bother keeping every bit of plastic junk that comes into the house. Most of these things just become landfill.

The Not for Resale is for Retailers and businesses.

Private individuals can sell their own.

I'd be selling them Jane, if the kids have completed their collection. I have a stack here. I have sold some, unopened. I'm tempted to open the rest, because one might be the illusive hairy Simba. I'd hate to sell it unopened for $5, when I could sell it for $250,000!!!

According to woolies they don't support the resale of the ooshies.

Scammers are placing fur on the regular ooshies and saying that it's the fury ooshie lol and asking $5K