Hi I was wondering how much are my orignal beani bay are worth

[hecp72]

I have a original beani baby Valentina from 1998 that has some errors and I think it’s worth something

 i also have a original beani baby hippity from 1996 which also has some tag errors I don’t know if it’s worth something

and that last one in a 1997 Erin original beani baby with errors

I don’t know if any of these are worth anything and I want to know how much to sell them

[stainlessenginecovers]

.01c each. 100 for $1. 1000 for $10. 

[1786davycrockett]

@hecp72 

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.

Printing "errors" are apparently quite common in  Beanie Baby production, resulting from sloppy proof-reading at the time that the labels were originally mass-produced in a Third World country.  Instead of correcting these "errors" before or during the printing process, and correcting the error, the Third World printing companies just decided to cut the cost of correction, and permit the "errors" to run through.

Resulting in hundreds of thousands of "rare" Beanie Baby "errors."

However -- items which were manufactured in amounts over 100,000 will never be considered "rare", until over 99.99% them have been destroyed.

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

[wastingtime101]

I looked up sales history for you @hecp72 to demonstrate what others said above.

Hippity 1996

In the last 90 days there were about 35 sold between $4-15 and nearly all the ones in the $10-15 range were sold in lots of 3-4 with other beanies. Most of the singles sold for about $6-7 and that's before eBay fees.

There are 1,700+ currently listed.

I also looked up Valentina 1998 which looks like it had a big boost recently because Valentine's day just passed and most of those were sold as a pair with Valentino. $1-5 for a single and $8-10 for the pair. 50 sold in last 90 days and 2,400+ currently listed.

In other words: take @1786davycrockett 's post to heart about the over-saturation of product and lack of demand from buyers. The sell through rate is roughly 2%. There's no market for them. You're better off giving them to a kid you know and finding something else to sell on eBay.

[bossesale77]

Beanie Babies are like 1980's baseball cards: massively overproduced and not worth a thing. Maybe they'll be worth something in 100 years or so after most of them have been destroyed or sent to the landfill.