Beanie babies need authenticated 1 generations

[stelat1742]

Need authentication on 1 generations beanie babies 

[soh.maryl · Accepted solution]

eBay doesn't have a way to authenticate Beanie Babies.

Their value isn't as great as you wish it was.

Check "Sold" Beanies on eBay.

One of our local thrift shops has two big bins of "stuffies", ranging in price from $1-3.

When the bins get too full, they're 50 cents or a dollar and that's when I've bought at least one or two of the supposedly "rare"ones.

Sorry.  

[pickapaper]

Beanie Babies are basically a dead collectible; no one wants them anymore.  If anyone pays more than a few dollars for any of them, they probably have a personal reason for doing so.  Generations, error tags, and anything else that people perceive to make them desirable is just wishful thinking. 

If you look at Beanies on eBay and look at the "sold" ones, you will probably see a few that have sold for high dollars.  That does not mean they were paid for.  For some reason, some sellers like to think their Beanies are valuable and list them for high prices and then some "sport buyers" come along and buy them but don't pay for them.  Both buyer and seller in these scenarios are usually zero or very low feedback individuals.   

[vintage-camerastuff]

Why?   They are worth nothing.

[1786davycrockett]

@stelat1742 

Beanie Babies were deliberately promoted as "instant collectibles" by Ty Warner, as a means to con gullible and unsuspecting buyers 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.

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