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Originally Posted by JOinGA
I had a large tote of Beanie Babies sitting in the attic for years. I went through them and pulled out the ones that could sit out as part of the decorations for holidays.....bunnies for Easter, black cat at Halloween, etc. Then I had my 33 year-old-daughter sit with me and go through them. I was amazed that she remembered most of their names. We had a smaller plastic box and she chose her favorites that would fit in that box to keep. The rest I plan to donate. As much as people roll their eyes at the craze, they were good, inexpensive birthday gifts and fun to collect at the time, as Kentucky62 mentioned. The value was in the fun.....not in making any money on them.
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But that's how you thought. Kentucky made clear in his post that was not going on.
Stuffed Animals made from the 90's on, everybody bought and saved them, and they will be worth bux in the future. And they are stuffed animals.
Sure, some still sell for crazy money.
Are they artistic, nope, iconic, nope, nostalgic, nope ( unless you are 20 maybe?) Unusual, nope, interesting, nope.....I mean WTF to put it mildly.
I saw this nonsense first hand with sports cards. I remember Jose Canseco's Donruss rated rookie selling like hot cakes for $90 in 1989. Anybody who was popping them off was smart. They aren't worth ten cents now. And that was going on with a lot of modern cards back then.
This modern run to the store in hopes of finding your rare Pop Figure is just bananas, and shows how little people know about collectibles.
At the opposite end of the spectrum I was at a coin show in 2001 and a dealer was trading this young kid $2 gold pieces for 1999 silver proof sets. I think the kid had over 20 sets. (Kid being early 20's)
I wonder how each made out over time? If the dealer managed to move them in less than 5 years, and the kid held onto the coins for about 10 they both made out. But in the long run the kid made out like a bandit!
Those sets were selling in the $250+ range just a couple years after they came out. Now they are worth a little more than the issue price.
Don't get me started on the scourge of grading companies for coins, comics, cards......
(My copy of Werewolf By Night 32 that I paid $1 in 1981 is worth in $500 range in average condition, it was an older book when I bought it, and still wasn't worth a damn thing in the mid 90's, key though, IT WAS OLDER!)
It's not always age that matters, but the kind of things that are collectible now are older, and were pitched, damaged, or destroyed. And things that younger people would find interesting, unusual.
One thing, people are shedding the collecting mindset. They want "Experiences", not stuff. And I tend to side with them mostly.
I am not trying to pick on anyone. But this is my observation.
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