How to sell rare beanie babies
Are your Beanie Babies Worth Anything in 2020?
are your beanie babies worth anything
find out right now everyone Krista the
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beanie babies yes beanie babies we've
heard the crazy story some of them are
worth thousands of dollars and I'm here
to destroy your dreams right now and let
you know that 95% of beanie babies are
virtually worthless now what I mean by
that is if you're thinking about
reselling them you're not gonna get a
bunch of money and we're gonna go
actually through the whole thing right
now today so definitely click the like
button if you're excited to learn about
beanie babies now this is gonna be the
god-honest truth about beanie babies in
this video you're gonna learn enough to
know what to look for how to look for it
what is what what is good what is bad
because there's a lot of bad out there
and we're gonna get into it right now as
we could see here we're on the Thai
website they're still selling beanie
babies till this day beanie babies came
out around 1993 and have been pushing
forward all this whole time actually the
things with the crazy eyes the beanie
boos really catapulted beanie babies
back on the scene as for many years they
were in decline and so they're still
making them and all that but we're gonna
go over the other older beanie babies to
look out for and and see if you happen
to have any are these particular ones so
today we're definitely going to start
off with the most important thing is tag
generations as we can see here there's
been 19th generation so far of tags and
I'm going to tell you the god-honest
truth is anything after third generation
is used
not worth much as we can see here if you
see a star you're mostly going to see
these at thrift shops and garage sales
the one with the star right here and let
me see if I can actually zoom into that
real quick here this fourth-generation
and in below as you can see everything
has like you know little stars and
everything like that you want to look
for the tags that don't have anything on
it the first generation second
generation those two generations are the
things you want to look out for
everything else you do not want to look
out for we've seen on eBay some of them
have gone for thousands of dollars
that's not true and we're gonna go for
that in a second so no your tags as we
can see here if it has anything else on
it other than the tie logo you don't
want nothing to do with it even third
generation I would stay clear of there
are a couple of third generation figures
or figures beanies that we're going to
talk about in a second and we'll get
into that but anything fourth generation
and above forget it there is very few
and far between good stuff that's after
fourth generation but for the sake of
this video and for the sake of your
collection this is what you really want
to look out for for sure a lot of the
older stuff that's the only thing that's
gonna be worth anything as you can see
first and second generation tags have
these funny kind of tie lower case
looking tags that's what you want to
look out for third generation
there's a couple of them that are worth
it as a matter of fact I've actually
seen appraisal shows in channels on
YouTube professionals that are literally
got PhDs saying that third generation
beanie babies are worth hundreds of
dollars and I have to laugh because I've
been in this business for a long time as
a matter of fact in 1995 that was one of
the very first things I ever sold on
eBay back in the old days was beanie
baby so I have a very wealth of
knowledge here when it comes to beanie
babies and you're gonna learn about it
right now
so definitely click the like button if
you actually learned something so far
we're going to get into a lot more stuff
right now so stay tuned
so first up want to kind of backtrack a
little bit there's two different types
of beanie babies there's actually beanie
buddies which is a larger kind of bear
which is almost about 8 inches nine
inches tall and there's beanie babies
the ones that we all know about the four
inch to five
a little bear figures and there's
different kind of animals everything so
be aware of that you have seen if you've
been out to thrift stores estate sales
and things you've seen bigger beanie
babies you're like oh what are those
they must be worth more since they're
bigger but I'll let you know that most
beanie buddies are worth less than $10
so just stay away from them there's a
couple of them that are worth some good
money and not really I'm just saying
maybe worth over $20 I think there's the
Flamingo and there's another one but to
be honest if you just stay clear of
those things you're gonna be good most
beanie bug buddies I think they retailed
for like fifteen or twenty dollars when
they came out someone in the comments
please correct me on the beanie buddies
manufacturer price and I want to say the
beanie babies were like five ninety five
in the late 90s in the early 2000 cuz I
actually worked at a hobby shop and we
did sell these so there's that so I just
wanted to be clear that there's two
different types of beanie babies for the
older ones that we're talking about
their buddies and the beanies and I
think buddies came out around the I want
to say about the fifth or fourth
generation is when the buddies came out
as you can see here the buddies have the
star logo that you want to stay clear of
let's talk about princess die
everyone thinks when they see a princess
die beanie baby it's worth thousands of
dollars
it is not they're probably worth about
eight to ten dollars to be honest there
is one there's three different types of
princess die beanies we're just gonna
get over or go over the one that's
actually the worth the most and it's not
by much it's called the PVC pellets
version
now each beanie baby will have a touch
tag which means the little tag that
sticks out of its butt I think it's a
clever little name to call it a touch
tag it's kind of a you know way to say
tushie or but or whatever but as we can
see here let's click over this you can
see here polyester fiber PVC pellets now
there's a PE pellets version and there's
the PVC pellets a version the very first
version that came out was the PVC
pellets version and it's they were they
made millions of these things so let's
just get that right out
there's no princess die bears that are
worth even over $100 unless they're
authenticated
and they have the crazy case and all
that stuff you might get $100 for the
PVC pellet ones that are authenticated
and we're going to get into that in just
a second so any princess bearer is
literally worth under $15 they have to
be in mint condition
the PVC pellet ones probably go between
15 and 20 dollars the PE pellet ones
they made tons of them of both versions
but the PVC pellets ones are the ones
that they made less of therefore they're
worth a little bit more a little bit
more not by much and for those that
don't know beanie babies get their names
because there's little PVC polyurethane
pellets inside they're kind of like a
beanbag that gives it the beanie baby
name that's what that means those are
the pellets I'm not sure exactly why
they changed them over they went from
PVC to PE could have been like I don't
know like a economic thing it could have
been an environmental thing if you know
in the comments below why they changed
it swapped it over or whatever you can
leave a comment below so just to be
aware PVC pellets on the twitch tag for
the princess bear that's the one you
want to look out for it's worth a little
bit more like I said there is no
princess bear worth over $20 let's just
get that straight right now there is
none unless it's got a crazy error a
factory error that you know I've never
even heard of which definitely could
happen so we're going to get into the
errors and stuff in just a second
next up we just want to say that the
first generation as we can see here
we're going to go back to the Thai logo
thing here the first generation they
have the weird funky Thai logo those are
the ones that are going to be worth the
money as far as finding them you know at
first stores broad sales estate sales
and we're going to see one here that has
been authenticated as we can see here
this was an earlier version of the bear
these kind of look like the the bears
from the very first generation the
second generation look like this they
kind of almost look like a little bit
like vintage Winnie the Pooh bear's they
didn't quite look like the smashed face
bears that you see now so once again
you're looking for this tag as we can
see here I'm not quite sure if this is
going to be a
first generation or second generation
but it doesn't matter if you see this
kind of tag with the funky little under
key under or lowercase tie those are the
ones to look out for and also of course
if you see some authentication box that
stuff is in it's usually going to tell
you that it's been authenticated this
kind of authentication thing kind of
looks a little funky becky's
authentication we're going to get into
that in just a second is the really one
you want to look out for as we can see
here we're gonna back up just a second
to actually show you another first
generation beanie baby this is a first
generation and actually let's actually
show you the first generation touch tags
are gonna look like this everyone's
pretty much familiar the ones that are
red and white that had the little hearts
on them the very first ones that were
made in 1993 I want to say there was a
run of 12 different styles I want to say
the original 12 and I think Goldie was
one of them and 1993 through I want to
say 1995 they might have the touch tags
that look like this if you see any of
them that say 1993 those are the very
first ones as we can see here for the
most part a lot of the older ones you
might find without the tags that's very
common and a way to tell what generation
it is to look at the touch tag if you
don't have the normal tag so definitely
look out for 1st or 2nd generation those
are what the tags look like also we're
going to talk about some of the ones
that are actually worth money some of
the employee bears this one went for 400
here's a billionaire bear that went for
$130 so if you see any of the Bears with
the money symbol on them every year type
puts out a billionaire bear for the
employees and let's see if we can
actually see what it looks like it'll
even say on the tag here tie employee
1998 those are relatively worth you know
100 to 200 and some of them are actually
worth 60 $30 even I've seen them as low
as so definitely look out for the
employee bears and they'll say on the
tags and things like this this one
happens to be one of the buddies when
were we talked about the buddies earlier
in this video this is a larger one and
it's kind of funny there's lots of blog
posts that always pump up
for I don't know why they say this one's
worth like $7,000 or something look at
the price that went for $28 so there's a
lot of stuff that is misrepresentative
there's a lot of people trying to push
blogs as same like beanie babies there
were so much same thing with VHS as
Disney VHS is I'm here to tell you that
95% of beanie babies are pretty much
worthless I don't want to say worthless
because you can still sell them and
stuff like that and so let's talk about
actually some of the ones to look out
for as far as errors bongo was the
original name for the monkey as we can
see here now there were some that were
produced very the very first bongos that
were produced were actually called Nana
so anytime you see a monkey they
produced a lot of these and I want to
say this was fourth generation every
time I see a monkey I always open it up
because I'm looking for Nana I've never
seen an Anna in person but if you see
the monkey his name's Bongo you're
looking for Nana that is probably one of
the biggest rares or errors you're gonna
find in the line and what I'm saying is
you're probably gonna find this one
because they produce so many bongos that
every time I see the bongo monkey I
always look at the tag to see if it says
Nana on it so that's one of them a
wingless clackers is definitely one for
the books this is a classic now it
wasn't an error when they first came out
with clackers placards did not have any
wings as we can see here this looks like
a second-generation tag or a first
generation tag as we can see here in
1993 this wingless Quackers in the
heyday went for about twelve hundred
dollars between eight hundred and twelve
hundred dollars you can find these for
$100 or less some of the authenticated
ones go for about $200 this is one to
look out for like I said if you don't
find one with a tag which is gonna be
you're gonna see that all the time
you're gonna look for the touch tag and
of course like that so let's talk about
authenticated beanie babies this is
probably the PSA of beanies is Becky's
true blue beans this is the box and
certifications you want to look for this
one happens to be a fourth actually I
don't know why they said oh it is a
third generation this is a third
generation peanut came in royal blue the
a very short run of them normally peanut
came in like a sky-blue so if you see a
dark blue peanut definitely grab it yeah
it's it's pretty much valuable this one
went for about a thousand dollars
that is a legit price I would say
certified peanuts probably go for about
six hundred to eight hundred dollars I
don't know why this one went for so much
but it did and just be aware there's a
buddy there's a bigger version of the
blue ones so don't get excited if you
see it and it's a larger one I wanted to
talk about McDonald's
beanie babies real quick because
everyone comes across the McDonald's
ones and I want to tell you that there
is no McDonald's beanie babies that are
worth anything and even this original
set which used to sell for about $200
you can barely get $20 for that now
I want to talk about these ones people
have seen these many times in these
packages they're not worth anything
don't bother with them there's some of
them that have been selling for hundreds
of dollars that's not a true price I
don't know why they sell for that much
just be also aware that the McDonald's
the original McDonald's ones and let me
see if I can actually find one here's
the original set right here the original
set will actually have the touch or the
tags so if we can see a good photo the
tags do not open up there one piece just
remember that don't get fooled
McDonald's beanie babies are the small
ones they're not going to be the large
ones and just look out for that anyways
this is actually a really short video to
let you guys know what's up with beanie
babies 95% of them aren't worth anything
and I want to say like they're not worth
anything they're probably worth about
five dollars or less
hopefully this video helped you out some
people have asked me how do i saw beanie
babies eBay's pretty much flooded one of
the things that I saw my beanies on if I
do have a collection is Amazon Amazon is
a good way to sell your beanie babies
there already have auctions that are
listings that are already pre populated
if your if your tags are in good
condition you can just put it in like
new condition and sell them with Amazon
Amazon seems to be the better way of
selling your beanie babies just make
sure that you have you don't have one of
those super rare ones once again I'm
Chris
shop hustler hope this video helped you
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next time take care
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