Rare error Ty beanie babies
Hello I was wondering about a few rare error Ty beanie babies that I have. One is Valentino and another is Britannia the bear (1 of 4 collectible from McDonald’s)
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Hello I was wondering about a few rare error Ty beanie babies that I have. One is Valentino and another is Britannia the bear (1 of 4 collectible from McDonald’s)
kensgiftshop
·1 year ago@mando.64
They are not that rare.
Right now there are
7,600 Britannia Beanie Babies listings
7,200 Valentino Beanie Babies listings
pickapaper
·1 year agoBeanies are not rare, the craze died years ago, no one wants them anymore. You can buy them at every garage sale, thrift store, junk store, antique mall, and anywhere else, usually for a dollar or less.
If you look on eBay at sold listings, you will probably see where some Beanies have sold for big amounts. The problem is, those listings are usually done by sellers with zero or low feedback and the people who buy them also have zero or low feedback and never pay for them. It seems to be a little game they like to play.
Just donate them to a children's home, an old folks home (they use them for bingo prizes), the local police station (they use them for scared kids), or someplace similar.
1786davycrockett
·1 year ago@mando.64
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