5th generation Pugsly the Pug Beanie but with Tush Tag Error - Confused

[ap-3779]

Hello! 

I am new here and new to actually looking into selling any of my beanie babies, guess I am a little sentimental. Yet, I was going through my collection and found one beanie baby of mine with a glaring error. The hang tag name and tush tag name do not match. It is a 5th generation pug "Pugsly" beanie but the tush tag says the name "Stinky". Now, I have two other of the same beanie that are same generation and don't have this error. I have been trying to research what to do or what it means to have something like this. Does this add value, does it lessen the value. I am so lost its unbelievable. I have even tried to look up this specific beanie baby with this error and its the only one that I can't find anywhere. 

Anyone with any suggestions on what to do please let me know! It would be greatly appreciated! 

[wastingtime101]

My best suggestion is hold on to your sentimentality as (I'm sorry to report) beanies were over produced, the market is completely saturated, and people have trouble giving them away let alone selling them.

While you can find listings where people are asking high prices for what you have, like this one, those listings are not sold, and sold is what counts.

According to eBay Product Research tool, the average sold price for Pugsly with tag errors over the last 3 years is about $7 and many of them sold for $0.99.

P.S. Welcome @ap-3779 ! And if you decide to start selling (beanies or otherwise) and have questions about the selling process for a new seller, post them here.

[mooncat_watches]

I doubt it would add value as someone could simply claim that the tags were purposefully switched.

A double strike or printing error may or may not, but even that I would think would be minimal value added.

If you do a search for beanie babies and include the term "tag error" you can compare sold prices of the babies with and without the error to make a determination if value increases.

[1786davycrockett]

@ap-3779 

It would be very difficult (if not impossible) to prove that the "error" tag was a production error, and not something deliberately (or accidentally) done sometime after the point that that particular shipment of Beanie Babies was shipped out from whichever Third World country they had originally been manufactured.

Because Beanie Babies were manufactured in quantities in the hundreds of thousands, and they are just not considered to be "rare" -- not until 99.9999% of them are destroyed.

Ty Warner deliberately scammed millions of impressionable and unwary individuals, by promoting these cheaply-made toys as "instant collectibles" -- and he became one of the world's richest men, by taking advantage of buyers' credibilities.  When stores were no longer able to sell many of these toys, he announced that they had been "retired" -- thus causing a rush by buyers to swoop in to pick up these items, before they were taken off the market.

In reality, these "investors" were doing Ty Warner a favor, just as he had planned -- if stores did not return unsold inventory to their distributors, then Ty Warner did not need to credit those stores for returns -- and the "investors" just fell into Warner's trap, and made him that much richer.

It is probably not worth your time to try to sell that "error" item on eBay, as there is no way to track the provenance of the "error" tag.  And there seem to be more individuals attempting to unload their vast inventories of Beanie Babies, than there are actual buyers -- there's just too much loose inventory out there, and most of it is priced well below $5.00 each.

Maybe a children's hospital might be interested, or a local police department for "comfort toys."

But that craze has definitely come and gone.