From: classicgumby@yahoo.com
As a toy, Beanies are a good value at $5.00
During the "Beanie Craze" alot of people made alot of money on
Beanies....including people who added no value to the product (people who
just happened to get their hands on one and paid a reasonable price for it
and decided to bump up the price) We've all seen these people...they are
vendors at flea markets, they have websites, some of them just had ebay
accounts. Those people ruined the Beanie market because people were now
having to pay more than suggested retail price for a product whose
"collectibility" is precarious at best.
It took a few years, but people eventually realized that there were more
sellers than buyers and that the way Ty manufactured yielded nothing
remotely collectible. Ty may have produced an average of 80 or more styles
per year...each in quantities of millions....that's hardly collectible.
Soon enough production far exceeded demand. People who were having a good
time trying to track down a reasonbly priced collectible now found
themselves with too many styles to buy, too many levels of sellers, and just
too much product.
Ty products continue to be one of the top selling "boutique" toys so the
company can continue to operate...but they are no longer collectible. It
remains to be seen whether Ty can pull another scam on American consumers
and convince them that they need Beanies. In the meantime...he'll continue
to try lame attempts at duplicating Beanie success ( Kids, Boppers, Punkies,
Pluffies, Buddies, etc) All of this while former collectors sit with tubs
full o beanies that they don't know what to do with.
It was a fad...the fad is now over.
"John Llort" wrote in message
news:buvhv2$m3ujf$1@ID-155262.news.uni-berlin.de...
> I remember hearing about people spending 400-1000 dollars on mass produced
> made in china/taiwan stuffed animals. What did you guys do and how is the
> market?
>
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