Beanie babies found in attic!

[eliz37177]

Very confusing of which BB are worth selling? Help?

[farmalljr]

All of them are worth selling. But only some individual beanies are worth anything. Most Beanies are sold in lots, for about a buck each. Lot them in 20-40 piece lots, if they hold no significant value. 

Make sure they are clean, and you have good pictures/description. 

If you don't want to do the work, you could donate them to a shelter or kids ward of a hospital. 

[soh.maryl]

Best way to discover that information:  Search for Beanie Babies on eBay.  Click on the ones that have actually sold and note the price, but remember that there is no guarantee that those were actually paid for.

Locally, most of them go for about 50 cents to a dollar at the thrift stores.  A little girl that I baby sit for always loves different ones, so have picked up quite a few.  The biggest haul was a bag full of Beanies, about 13 of them, plus a few other toys, for about seven bucks.  

[albertabrightalberta]

I hate to be Debbie Downer but I see hundreds of them at thrift stores packed in baggies of 5 for $2.99/bag and they don't sell at that price. I've even seen some in bigger bags of 10 for $3.99 and they too sit unsold. 

[maxine*j]

Most of them are not worth trying to sell except, perhaps, in large lots if you keep your expectations low.

They never were anything except cheap  mass-produced-in-Asia kids' toys, despite all the hype and marketing ploys that once sucked people into believing they had value beyond that. 

Rule of Thumb:  Anything that is made and sold as a "collectible" and an "investment" and all such nonsense will, in not too long a time after its initial sale, be worth less than the original cost.  Think Norman Rockwell collector plates, Thomas Kincaid and Louis Icart prints, Hummel and Precious Moments figurines,  Cabbage Patch Kids, most modern baseball cards, and on and so on.

It's all rather like the old pyramid scheme:  The first few in, the originators who are part of the opening puffery and promotion, make out like bandits.  Après eux, le déluge.

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[simba6]

If you do an internet search on Yahoo or Google, you will find a list of the few that have some value.  There are a very few that still have some value.  

[soh.maryl]

They "may have some value", but, do they actually sell for that value?      

[slippinjimmy]

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@soh.maryl wrote:

Best way to discover that information:  Search for Beanie Babies on eBay.  Click on the ones that have actually sold and note the price, but remember that there is no guarantee that those were actually paid for.

Locally, most of them go for about 50 cents to a dollar at the thrift stores.  A little girl that I baby sit for always loves different ones, so have picked up quite a few.  The biggest haul was a bag full of Beanies, about 13 of them, plus a few other toys, for about seven bucks.  

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I'll quibble with your suggestion. Looking at Completed still shows sales that were never paid for, only searching via Terapeak only includes actually sold AND paid.

Many (most?) sellers don't even know about Terapeak so they look at completed and see the inflated prices the fun&games crowd have bid up.

Maybe it's better if you only look at Fixed Price completed but even there you can find many "joke" sales showing.

Bottom line of course is that Beanies are pretty worthless.

[mtgraves7984]

Beanie babies found in attic!

@eliz37177 

Better than finding squirrels up there... 😉