{"id":312,"date":"2017-02-28T22:19:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T03:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/?p=312"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T03:19:25","slug":"not-just-rich-beanie-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/2017\/02\/28\/not-just-rich-beanie-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just rich… Beanie Rich!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently mindlessly browsing the Facebook and a post caught my eye with an idiotic title suggesting that “if you have one of these 11 beanie babies I can retire now”. I must have been avoiding doing actual work because I clicked through and crunched the numbers. If I had all of them and could sell them at the prices the inflated prices and EBay\/Amazon didn’t take their cut… I would have only 150 thousand dollars and couldn’t possibly retire. Sounds like a Pump-and-Dump scam to me. But it got me to thinking…. so I brought out my Beanie Baby collection. Yeah, I have a whole collection! Back in the late 90s when they were all the rage I noticed the pattern that if they had “hard parts” like pincers, beaks, horns, etc, they were not collected as aggressively so they became rare<\/em>. This collection method seems to have worked as my paltry beanie-stash contained 2 of the 11 on the list. Hooray! Good thing Allison wasn’t too interested in them the last time I brought them out.<\/p>\n

So, can I retire for a month or two at least? The two should fetch $3500. Let us check the Electronical Bay of Auctions to see for what price they are actually <\/em>selling:
\nMystic the Unicorn<\/a> (with the Iridescent Horn & Yarn Mane) goes for $5.00 NOT $1,000. Oh well.
\nClaude the Crab<\/a> (with the “error” on the hang-tag) goes for $4.00 NOT $2,500. Dad Gummit.<\/p>\n

So, no I can’t retire or even pay for my Fat Tuesday meal tonight at Popeye’s. The BBs were only a few bucks each back in the day so I’m just give them to my daughter. Any she doesn’t want can go into a Beanie Baby geocache. That way I get a few smiles out of it … and hyperbole spewing bloggers and the EBay listings that feed on them don’t get a cent. Yeah, Babies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

20 years after the fad peaked, does anyone make money reselling Beanie Babies? Of course they do not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}