Customer stories
Collections our customers built, and the sourcing runs behind them.
Mar 24, 2026
Zhang Jian's music collecting journey
Nearly 10,000 pieces — Walkmans, record players, cassettes, vinyl — and the sourcing runs that built the collection.
Mar 24, 2026
What does it feel like to own 1,000 Walkmans?
From the 1979 TPS-L2 to the Sony × Tiffany WM-701T — fifteen years of hunting one model at a time.
Some of these stories predate the name Hobbeex; the customers' own words still refer to us as Collection World.