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How to tell which Beanie Babies are collectors
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How do you identify which Beanie Babies are collectors and of any value?
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Hello,
How do you identify which Beanie Babies are collectors and of any value?
kh-shakhib
·1 year agoHi everyone,
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cocoa_1176
·1 year agoSo I have been keeping my Valentino Beanie Baby immaculate in a plastic container since about 1996 for nothing?😠It's not that I thought he was going to be rare, but it was a Valentine's Day gift so I put him away. And I had no grandkids to play with him anyway. So it's actually Valentina? All this time I thought he was Valentino like that ancient movie star.🤔
pcobra93
·2 years agoNever does a day go by without a "Beanie Baby" thread....SMFH.
benj9061
·2 years agoI have multiple beanie babies that have other tag errors unique tag marks such as Jake. He has 409 red stamps on the inside of the tag. I have lots of ones with the TY tag having issues or errors. My grandmother provided this to me. I didn’t know anything about it but Essentially you look up rare baby she has all those more and then she has a separate pile with ones that have I guess errors which I am learning are an increasing factor to value rather than detrimental
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoAn error on a Beanie Babies tag isn't rare and doesn't make it more valuable.
I haven't seen one that didn't have errors.
1786davycrockett
·1 year ago@benj9061
As a former printing press operator, I can tell you that tag "errors" for Beanie Babies are quite normal, and only indicate that the original printing press plates were poorly edited and never corrected -- so an underpaid, Third World printing press operator just continued printing off thousands and thousands of the same "error" tags, over and over again, which were then shipped (without proofreading) to the United States.
"Errors" numbering in the thousands do not make an item "rare."
And the market for Beanie Babies -- "rare" or not -- died out 30 years ago.
Too much inventory, and not enough interest.
1786davycrockett
·2 years ago@ole_476574
If you are asking which Beanie Babies are "collectible" or "collector's items," then the answer is NONE of them.
These were mass-produced in the tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) in a third-world country by poverty-stricken employees, and then promoted in the United States by a greedy and unscrupulous manufacturer, who publicized them as "instant collector items" to an unwary and ignorant public.
They have NO value. They're not "rare." They're tiny stuffed animals.
Nearly every day on eBay now, it seems that yet another Beanie Baby "investor" is attempting to dump their collection of stuffed toys -- but there is NO market for them: the supply far exceeds the demand.
Real "collector's items" have a high degree of scarcity -- and there are NO scarce Beanie Babies.
soh.maryl
·2 years agoCheck eBay listings. And by that, I mean look at the ones that have actually sold.
The local thrift store where I shop has bins of "stuffies" for sale. The large ones are $2. The mediums are $1. And the small ones (most Beanies) are 50 cents and sometimes 3/$1.00. Have bought some for a small child that I babysit. Among them are some of those that are rumored to be worth thousands, like Princess Diana.
tinsoldierunderground
·2 years ago@ole_476574
Most are selling in the $1.00 range - you can search the site and see. Even the rarest lately don't go over $10.00. The thrift stores are full of them for less than that.