I don't remember how much they were, probably $3 for a package 20 or something. See, if the tag was touched in any way by a bare human hand, if there was so much as a fingerprint visible in the tag's coated glossy surface, the Beanie Baby would be worthless. Hence the Beanie Baby tag protectors, which I am sure were placed on each tag only after the operator was wearing protective gloves.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The dumbest thing I've ever seen
Well, not the dumbest, but certainly one of the dumbest. It was in a small gift shop in New Hampshire in the mid-1990s. Remember Beanie Babies? Of course you do. This store was overflowing with them. In the midst of the displays was a small rack of items for sale. The items on the rack were Beanie Baby tag protectors.
I don't remember how much they were, probably $3 for a package 20 or something. See, if the tag was touched in any way by a bare human hand, if there was so much as a fingerprint visible in the tag's coated glossy surface, the Beanie Baby would be worthless. Hence the Beanie Baby tag protectors, which I am sure were placed on each tag only after the operator was wearing protective gloves.
I don't remember how much they were, probably $3 for a package 20 or something. See, if the tag was touched in any way by a bare human hand, if there was so much as a fingerprint visible in the tag's coated glossy surface, the Beanie Baby would be worthless. Hence the Beanie Baby tag protectors, which I am sure were placed on each tag only after the operator was wearing protective gloves.
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I remember a table on the side of the road in Ventura a few years ago where a family was selling their Beanies for $1
I do love a good salesperson hawking their junk. A joy to watch. These people were masters.
This craze happened when I was a teenager. Once I went to McDonalds when the Happy Meal toy was a beanie baby. As I'm standing in line this wide eyed zealot approaches me and offers me $20 plus all expenses to buy as many Happy Meals as McDonalds would sell to one person (I think it was 10?), so long as he could keep the Beanie Babies. So I got free dinner and $20 for 5 minutes "work" and this Golem like figure got his precious. Bubbles bring out some strange folks.
A friend of mine, one who gets caught into occasional fads (including the housing bubble!), spent a small fortune on beanie babies. He'd even buy them overseas to get new, different ones.
He had hundreds, best I could estimate from the size of his so-precious display cases, and he actually thought he'd get rich off of them "because some of these they aren't making anymore".
Needless to say, the luster was gone in a couple of years, and he wouldn't talk about them anymore.
The final end came when his house got about a foot of water in a flood. His cabinets, made of particle board inside, soaked up water, weakened, and collapsed into the stagnant, muddy slop.
End of line for his beanie baby investment plan.
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