# Is collecting Beanie Babies still really a thing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-collecting-beanie-babies-still-really-a-thing/747928>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 4, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-collecting-beanie-babies-still-really-a-thing/747928 "2016-03-04T15:37:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-collecting-beanie-babies-still-really-a-thing/747928/21 "2016-03-06T21:56:14Z")

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People collect all kinds of things because they like them, and resale value has little or nothing to do with it.

At the height of the Beanie Baby craze, an Obnoxious Morning Deejay wanted to cut one open to see what was inside, and didn’t do it because people acted like he was going to cut one of his children open to see what was inside. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-collecting-beanie-babies-still-really-a-thing/747928/22 "2016-03-07T05:41:59Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> People collect all kinds of things because they like them, and resale value has little or nothing to do with it.

True, but this thread is about eBay listings for BBs that are in the tens of thousands dollars.

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