McDonald's error beanie babies 1996, 1997, 1998
I have 3 out 4 that we're made they all have multiple errors on box and tag !!! Looking to sell.
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I have 3 out 4 that we're made they all have multiple errors on box and tag !!! Looking to sell.
kensgiftshop
·1 year ago@loosert_99
Good luck.
They all have errors and not worth much.
albertabrightalberta
·1 year agoBeanie babies with and without errors are common and don't sell for much.
But if you are willing to sell for <$5 (if that), you need to list them.
1786davycrockett
·1 year ago@loosert_99
Items which were manufactured in amounts over 100,000 will never be considered "rare", until over 99.99% them have been destroyed.
There are over 13,000 McDonald's restaurants in the United States, and each restaurant received multiple HUGE cartons of "collectible" Beanie Babies. My sister had TWO huge cardboard boxes filled with them, and they wouldn't even sell for a buck apiece. We finally unloaded them on Goodwill.
Beanie Babies were deliberately promoted as "instant collectibles" by Ty Warner, as a means to con gullible and unsuspecting buyers into believing that his cheaply-made stuffed toys would have investment value.
Big reveal: Beanie Babies have NO value, because TOO MANY were manufactured.
He made millions of dollars hoodwinking his customers, and became one of the richest individuals in the United States.
The "rare" Beanie Babies were actually oversold inventory which retailers no longer wanted on their shelves; so Ty Warner came up with the marketing campaign that those particular Beanie Babies were going to be "retired."
Result? Beanie "investors" rushed to gobble up all those "retired" stuffed toys, under the mistaken belief that anything being "retired" must eventually mean "rare."
No -- it simply meant that Ty Warner didn't have to pay retailers for returned merchandise -- the Beanie "investors" paid the retailers, and Ty Warner never had to pay a cent in return fees.
Don't believe me? Check out this article from the History Channel --
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-beanie-baby-craze-came-to-a-crashing-end