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Point #1 -- Beanie Babies are not "rare." The market is oversaturated with Beanie Baby "investors" now trying to unload their inventory. Too much supply for too little demand.
Point #2 -- The manufacturer of Beanie Babies deliberately manipulated the market, to make Beanie Baby "investors" believe that some of these toys were being "retired." Actually, the market had dried up for some of those models; so the manufacturer had to create a false "rush" on what stock actually had remained. Once again -- too much supply and too little demand.
If I had some disposable income to devote to investments, I wouldn't be spending my money on items which had been originally marketed as "collectible," but were actually manufactured by the tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) in some third-world country, by underpaid labor; and then overhyped by a greedy manufacturer upon an unwary and gullible public.
These are not gold ingots -- they're only little stuffed animals!
