So I am really excited I just negotiated a trade for one of my 12 Caesar's sets. Just take a look at what I got in return!
Oh. Right. Heh. I thought Orfew had made a shrewd business move and was going to flip the beanie baby and use the proceeds to buy three more 12 Caesars sets. Or a bunch of Flavian variants.
I remember when beanie babies were all the craze. Prices can only go up up up. Good thing you snagged that one when you did @Orfew
Sadly, this was no joke: "Nov 5, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Attorney Frank Totti looks over papers while his client Frances Mountain sorts out Beanie Babies with her ex-husband Harold Mountain in Judge Gerald Hardcastle’s Family Courtroom in Las Vegas November 5. The couple, who were divorced four months ago, were ordered to divide up the collection valued at $2,500 to $5000 but were unable to do so by themselves. The collection was ordered spread on the court floor and divided up one by one under the supervision of Family Court Judge Hardcastle."
I was pretty young when beanie babies came out, but I still remember all of my friends thinking that they would be millionaires with their collections. Perhaps even more surprising is the fact that some actually are valuable. I periodically forget how many things are as popular or more so than coins. A few years ago, my dad called me up and told me that he was cleaning out his basement, and asked if I wanted any of his old video games before he took them to goodwill or trashed them. I took them, because why not? Most of them were indeed junk, but one of the games was a 4-floppy set of the original Doom, complete with manual and some other paperwork (registration instructions maybe?). I listed it on ebay at a $25 start bid, and it sold for $305.
