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ladymoon2007 · ‎08-02-2020

Hello Everyone,

this is my experience selling beanie babies on ebay. My husband lost his job and as a consequence I have been trying to sell everything that is not attached to the wall around the house. I have two huge boxes of Beanie Babies and upon " sold " research, I see that some sold for thousands of dollars. Skeptically I find several brand new with the same " errors" that are first generation, discontinued etc. I list for a huge amount ( a lot less than the " sold" ones on ebay) and wait. Lots of watcher but when you send an offer they disappear which suggests they have one just like mine and want to know how far it goes. If I accept the offer from ebay to promote and pay a huge amount for this service they promise they can sell. I accepted , after all what is 20 on something you are selling for 80 if you think it's only worth 5. Right?

I accepted the promoting offer and the item disappears from my active list but there is an offer to list another just like it for the same price. My friends say that my listing appears SOLD then after a week or so it reappears on my active listings. Apparently the promotion has ended and I am on my own. In the SOLD now appears that a bear just like mine was SOLD and with my same picture with my same dog in the background. WHAT GIVES?? Is this the biggest scam that ever was or a glitch? I concluded NO ONE sold for those amounts and that this is a way to jack up prices and create a buzz. Any comments on this would be appreciated . I have been a member since 2007 and they say I just hit my second anniversary..I want what Ebay must be smoking, sounds like it would help with my money anxieties . In any case did anyone sell these things successfully? Thank you everyone and YES the constant badgering about changing a price that is already very low it maddening and I don't know WHY they started this at all.

oldwestgold · ‎08-02-2020

I don't know much about Beanie Babies but for an example, the turkey you have listed at over a grand is listed everywhere for $99. Maybe I am missing something, as my wife would say.

coolections · ‎08-02-2020

Iggy, from what I can tell, sells between $50 to $300. Don't go by those crazy prices you see. You are right, it is a scam. Some sellers will do that on purpose hoping when they relist later they can snag a sucker. Go by the normal price range and/or sell at auction and let buyers decide the price. Too many sellers fall into that trap.

pburn · ‎08-02-2020

@ladymoon2007 wrote:
. I have been a member since 2007 and they say I just hit my second anniversary..I want what Ebay must be smoking, sounds like it would help with my money anxieties .

@ladymoon2007

Looks like you've already received sound advice on the Beanie Baby issues, but I can clarify the above misconception.

You joined the eBay discussion-board community on April 19, 2018. You're seeing the two-year anniversary notice based on that date. The two-year anniversary date is not when you registered to be an eBay member, it's when you signed up to participate in the discussion-board community.

I can't explain the discrepancy surrounding the date you registered as an eBay buyer/seller, though. You say you joined in 2007; however, your feedback profile says you joined in 2002. Do you know whether you joined in 2002 or 2007?