Sell all my beanie babies

[allkn-63]

I want to sell all my beanie babies

[soh.maryl]

OK.  Are you registered to sell on eBay?

Have you checked "Sold" similar listings on eBay to get an idea of what the market is?

You may get an unpleasant surprise.  

[1786davycrockett]

@allkn-63 

Recently there has been a flood of individuals offering to sell their Beanie Babies on eBay.

But that craze died out at least 15 years ago.

Beanie Babies were a manipulated "collectible" -- meaning that they were falsely advertised as being a terrific future investment item, worth their weight in gold.

They aren't.

They were mass produced in the tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) by poor, underpaid and overworked employees in third-world countries; then shipped back to the United States and marketed as "instant collectibles" to a very unwary and gullible crowd of buyers, who seriously believed that these little stuffed toys were solid investment strategies.

They aren't.

Check the eBay listings -- there are page after page after page of unsold (and unwanted) Beanie Babies, most of which can be purchased at any thrift store or flea market or garage sale for less than $1.00 each.

The only way that Beanie Babies will ever grow in value, is if 99% of the current available inventory is deliberately burned up and destroyed.

And I'll even volunteer to strike the first match.

[allkn-63]

Well to me there worth something regardless of this storyline you had mentioned me in thanks for the information but I'm still gonna sell my beanie babies 

[allkn-63]

I don't base my own decision on what others have on here that's why I don't sell on eBay really because too many people have different prices but thank you for the information but I'll continue what I feel like works for me 

[1786davycrockett]

@allkn-63 

If you don't sell on eBay, why are you trying to sell your Beanie Babies on the eBay Community Boards?

By the way -- it's a violation of eBay policies to offer to sell items on the eBay Community Boards.

[allkn-63]

Look don't be rude or all in my business thank you good bye

[kensgiftshop]

Don't know what kind of price you think you'll get, but they don't sell for much anymore.

I've sold a few for $10 and free shipping and it took a couple years to sell those.

[1786davycrockett]

@allkn-63 

"Look don't be rude or all in my business thank you good bye"

Being honest is not being rude.

If you ask questions on the eBay Community Boards,   you'd better expect direct answers -- which is what you've been receiving from several of us.

We aren't going to sugar-coat the fact that the Beanie Baby market is overinflated with inventory, the vast majority of which was artificially manipulated by the owner of the company  decades ago -- and now many of the "investors" from years ago are finally attempting to empty their closets and storerooms -- and a large number of those "investors" seem to think that eBay is a prime market for overvalued stuffed animals.

If you don't wish to listen to us, there are plenty of other sites which will tell you the same thing -- and in much more brutal detail, with facts and figures.

But don't offer to sell your items on the eBay Community Boards -- it is considered a violation of conduct.

[alesm_38]

Not necessarily. There are ones that were not mass produced and are in fact rare. I have a 1999 mint condition Lips that was not mass produced and had to be special order. Details for it are in the description of my post for it. 

[lacemaker3]

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@alesm_38 wrote:

Not necessarily. There are ones that were not mass produced and are in fact rare. I have a 1999 mint condition Lips that was not mass produced and had to be special order. Details for it are in the description of my post for it. 

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Sorry, but even excluding lots (sales of multiple items together) there have been almost a thousand lips BBs sold in the last 3 years, with an average selling price of less than $10.

You can't believe everything you read on the internet. Just because someone says it's rare, or lists errors, doesn't mean that it really is. Pretty much all beanie babies have errors. And they were all mass-produced, even the ones with limited production runs.

Terapeak:

[fab_finds4u]

I want to sell all my beanie babies

I'm going to reply as if I haven't read the other replies.

1. What's stopping you?  Do you need help making a seller account?

2. To announce what you have to sell is advertising your item here and here is not the place to do that. Advertising here is against policy.

Sorry, we don't  make the rules.

3.  Read the policies before you venture into selling and know what you're up against. 

There are 510,000 listings for beanie babies.  4,400 sold.   That mean the competition is fierce. It appears that fad had passed but you're welcome to list them.  Good luck in selling.