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Would you like to add any comments on the beanie baby phenomenon? What do you like and dislike? Predictions on trends or ideas on products or retirements:

• Would like to know how to report retailers that are pricing beanies sky high
• It is rediculus that people are following the truck to get princesses and other rare beanies. It doesnt let the real collectors have a chance to collect unless that want to spend ten times the amount for the same item.
• They are really cute. Prices vary from dealer to dealer far too much. It acn only grow in popularity, at least for awhile. sg
• I LOVE BEANIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I have had a wonderful time hunting these babies! Even my husband and children have joined in. It's not unusual for my husband to make a "Beanie run". It is frustrating however, when the one's you are missing are priced way out of your range.
• I think ty should have a tighter check on those who are over charging along with putting the prices for princess and erin way to high
• I admit it, my daughter got me good and hooked on Beanies. I dont like the fact that the TY company is so tight lipped about informationand the way it treats its retailers. Many a shop owner has complained to me that the reason they are charging so much for any given item is that they simply can't get enough of what they order. If I was a retailer I wouldn't want to have this type of comunication problem with one of my suppliers. There is an old saying "What oges around comes around".
• I am dying with AIDS. Some friends started sending me BBs in the place of cards. It caught on, and now I have a nice tidy little collection. On the days I can't get out of bed, I look up at my Beanie Shelves and talk to my "family" -- it provides me with hours and hours of comfort and sometimes makes me almost forget about the pain. I have stated in my Will that my Beanie Babies are to be donated to the Children's AIDS ward at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix when I die......with one exception... ..Jolly is to be placed in my shirt pocket with his head sticking out. I want him with me in the next life. Michael Greenlee, XBigBear@aol.com
• I hope ty makes more beanie BEARS...lots of them, so they are not so scarce. Some little kids really want to own a beanie bear and they are so high priced and so very hard to find.
• I am a 5 year old girl. I dont like how hard it is to find beanies in the local stores. I am looking for Magic the dragon for me and my Mom. Robin
• I don't like the fakes
• I enjoy new ones being offered. Wish stores could be surer of what orders they are getting and when. Dislike some stores selling at higher prices than usual and some of these stores must be getting theirs from illegal sources since they are not authorized Ty dealers. I like the idea that super stores such as Wal-Mart and Toys R Us are not allowed to set up accounts. Smaller stores should be the ones to receive accounts with TY. Enjoy the web site.
• I have been unable to get a Princess or Erin bear. There is no way I can afford the high prices on these. The cheapest I have found were at $100.00.
• The stores i get beanies from, charge way much for common ones. Retired ones- i can understand. But $8.00 when they are supposed to be $5.00 is REALLY getting to me. But, they gotta make a profit somehow. BUT STILL.... Thanks for your time. i love beanies from one of the thousands of beanie lovers
• Why can't I find Zip?
• The thing that upsets me with the retail stores is the fact that they don't put them all out for the public to buy. I have been told by several other people that they are selling the Princess and Erin Bears out the back door so they can get more money for them, which of course makes the price go up and then we can't afford them. I had to pay 100.00 for a Princess bear and still do not have Erin because I refuse to keep paying that price and more. Of course, my daughter who is only 10 doesn't understand hy we can pay it once but we can't now. I can't afford to keep paying 100.00 for a beanie baby.
• the beanie freaks who grab up all the beanies and then hoard them or resell them take the fun out those of us who just want the collection set for ourselves
• Erin and Princess are impossible to find. The ones in retail stores we have seen are asking $300.00.
• I have just started collecting the Beanie Baby's. It's very exciting and fun to see the increase in value these little guys will bring.
• Stores are very unfair. Chances of getting the likes of Erin or Princess other than secondary market are very slim. Nordstrom is great!
• I feel like very irritated that we could not get MAPLE or BRITANNIA. They should release here in U.S market as well.
• I just wish it wasn't so hard to get some of the current ones like Peace and Erin
• I DO LIKE THE INVESTMENT POTENTIAL, HOWEVER, I DO NOT FEEL SECONDARY MERCHANTS SHOULD CHARGE SO MUCH FOR EASY TO FIND CURRENTS. NOT FAIR!
• You guys rock!!!
• I dislike the high prices. I wish that at least some of them could stay at $5.00. I still like beanie babies, though!
• If Ty was really so upset about the secondary market they would quit retiering them so much. They should also check the stores to whom they sell to, to actually see if they are selling at the correct price. It also should be limited to retailers like toys r us which would sell at a set price. That would limit the secondary market idiots and leave it to collectors to trade as they will.,
• Would like to see more of Erin so the children can get them. Too few at too high a price for little kids.
• Although some secondary resellers set fairly honest prices, I think far too many are hoarding hard-to-find Beanies 'til they're retired, then jacking the price way up (Radar is an excellent example in my area-never found him until after he retired, then flocks suddenly appeared for usually well over $75). Retailers should strictly limit purchases to one of each type, and refuse to sell to anyone they recognise is buying up for resale; this way, everyone gets a fair chance to buy Beanies while they're $ .99. As for ideas, how about releasing a new alligator, one that actually looks like a real alligator instead of a...well, I can't really think what Alley looks like, except that if he didn't have green w/ that patterned fabric, he definitely would not have been considered an alligator. 'Gators have raised eye ridges, and ridges down their backs, and their nostrils are also slightly raised. Check out Lumpy's Gang's 'gator beanie for a very well-done example.
• I LOVE collecting Beanies, but I am disappointed in how the secondary market drives the prices up so sky high that honest collectors who do it because they like the critters, not because they are trying to make a buck then can't afford a lot of the ones they are looking for. But I guess that is the way most collectables are. Your website is great--keep up the GREAT work!!!
• Beanies are fun to collect. My children love them. They "buy" me some free time--while the kids play.
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• I THINK THAT McDONALDS SHOULD HAVE MORE TBB'S ON HAND!!!!!!!1
• No comment
• I love beanie babies so much my son will never trade the ones he has singles of only.
• I just like beanie's. I'm not in it for the money, so I think ot's really unfair that some are so highly priced my parents couldn't afford them. And it's not fair secondary marketers price them as high as thy possibly can.
• iI believe it is a disgrace that little children for whom they are intended can not afford to buy them - someday my grandchildren and great grand children should have mine- I am taking good care of them!!!!!!!! i
• I think that retailers that hike their prices should be banned from selling beanies because children can't afford to buy them afer all these were supposed to be children's toys. I really like the colorful bears. Ty needs to make a dark blue teddy.
• The secondary market is getting out of control! There is one store I occassionally visit and the owner was trying to sell Princess and Erin for Over $500! They are still on her shelves and she won't come down on the price. All the retired ones she has are for $200 or more. The most I have spent at this store is $50 for Peace the Bear.
• I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Ijust want to say that I love Beanie Babies!
• I would like to know when the new releases are coming out.
• I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO PURCHASE PRINCESS OR ERIN DUE TO THE GREEDY DEALERS. I WILL MAIL YOU LIST OF THOSE I AM AWARE OF. (PRINCESS $150. & ERIN $175) THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.
• I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO PURCHASE PRINCESS OR ERIN DUE TO THE GREEDY DEALERS. I WILL MAIL YOU LIST OF THOSE I AM AWARE OF. (PRINCESS $150. & ERIN $175) THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.
• I think it is very wrong and unfair to sell current Beanie Babies like Princess and Erin for $200-$500. They should be sold for $5.00 like Mr. Warner intended. Now I can't get them even if I saw them because they cost so much.
• I love Beanies Babies because I am a beanie and I am a baby.
• The one I am mainly looking for is Erin. I will pay $30 or less! Help if possible. I would like one in mint condition!
• I think that the adults who got involved in this for the value have blown the whole thing out of proportion. They must have a sick mind to (and I've seen it happen) to hand wrestle a child for one. In my town there was a princess drawing and there were some greedy grown ups who put in more than 10 tickets.
• I enjoy buying the beanie babies as a hobby. I wish more people would do that , rather than try to make money off collectors. I hope we can locate the beanies more freely in Canada. I would like to get some Mc Donald's beanies next, if we can find any.
• I buy beanie babies to trade for my #1 hobby - Barbie Dolls. Many barbie collectors are now into beanies, so I can get better deals by trading beanies to these other collectors than if I just paid in cash. Also I do enjoy talking to other beanie collectors waiting on lines, etc.
• this is *really* addicting!!!! and I really dislike the "gouging" by the stores, particularly the popular current ones on back walls at twice or three times the price.
• I don't like how people are so rude over getting them. They think it is the end of the world if they can't be first in line. I won't put my children in that kind of situation. If we have to stand in a line with people pushing and shoving we won't get a beanie baby. Also we will not pay the enormous prices that some ask for the beanies like Princess and Erin, they are new out and some people are asking $150. for them I'll just wait or not get it for my child.
• I hope people don't ruin a good thing.
• I'm 81,just started collecting last month, have never paid more than 6 dollars for a beanie baby, i have every one (even Britania and the dark blue elephant), And i just want to say keep looking and i believe that you can find every one for the normal price (i'm living proof), and ROCK ON BEANIE COLLECTORS!!!!!
• well hallmark card stores in my area never sell the bears for 5.99 like ty says
• I think the much-rumored Peach(es) will come out like htis. OK THink back to the October Retirement , two months pass, a special bear comes out, then the january retirement about 2 months pass a special bear comes out. May 1st retirement , about 2 months later I think Peach{es} will come out. Just my 2 cents.
• I'm over 81 yrs old I have not paid more than 6 dollars for a beanie babie, and i just began collecting 1 month ago!!! i even have Britania!!! ROCK ON BEANIE COLLECTORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I really like Beanie babies and think that they should be world-wide monuments for the styles of the 90's
• I love beanies and if you are willing to sell them for $10.00 or less I am interested.I like retirements.I dislike people who sell them for $1,000,000,000,000,000 when there only worth $10.00. As I said , I love beanies. from Emily G
• I THINK, AFTER 2 YEARS OF PRODUCTION,TY SHOULD ALWAYS RETIRE THAT BB.
• People that complain about the high secondary market prices shouldn't buy from the secondary market...my ENTIRE set was purchased at retail prices, and those retailers that sell the beanies for more than a reasonable 5-7 dollars should have their liscenses taken away by TY, and people should stop buying from them...
• People at the Ty company tell you to sell them around $5 but it's their fault they cost more because they don't make enough, and they retire them.
• I really enjoy collecting beanies!! I am collecting them to decorate a nursery for when I get pregnant. I don't like the way some retailers treat the "older" collectors. It shouldn't matter how old, how young, how many kids, etc..,.as long as you enjoy them!!! Right?
• I don't think the people that sell the beanie babies should get to keep as many as they want of what ever for them selves and their family.
• i want more
• I think that beanie babies should not be retired, and should be plentiful no matter what design they are.
• BEANIES RULE!!!!
• I DISLIKE HOW PEOPLE ARE SO GREEDY. TY SHOULD MAKE A NEW MOUSE.
• i think all beanie babies accept for humphey,chilly ect. shouldn't be going for such high prices
• I'm hooked! I started buying for my three boys. Now I have taken over the collecting and just love it! I have three of many since I bought one for each boy. Now I am working on acquiring the Retired Older Beanies. I am spending alot of money, but feel the investment will pay off in the future.
• Our area still has retailers gouging people on princess and erin when they receive them.
• people should sell cheeper beanies
• BEANIE BABIES ROCK
• I enjoy collecting BBs. I didn't think I would get caught up in the trend but they grow on you. They are sooo cute, and generally affordable.
• Would like to see a collie dog, siamese cat and palomino horse because I have these animals.
• That some retailers try to sell the babies at an extremely HIGH price and that the secondary market makes it so hard for the average person to get one they want!!!
• we love all the babies!!wish it were easier for the kids to get some of the harder to get babies to add to their collection.Tuffy to retire
• B.B.S ARE COOL
• I like the way the birds body parts move about.I like their dark shiny eyes.
• I think that the beanie baby phenomenon was one of the greatest money racets of all time.
• that when a new release is done not enough are avaliable for all to buy. and the people who take more then one and dont think about those who only one for them selves.
• I just LOVE Beanies, and since I just started, I am hoping to get A LOT MORE!
• I think they should not really make bugs because they are ugly most of the time they should make more bears but this time sell them for 5.00 in sted once they getout the are selling for 200.00 and then other people and i cant buy them because they are selling for that much.
• i think they should lower sales prices in stores so children can afford them
• Retail outlets should not be allowed to have these soo called "consignment" beanies. It is hard enough to find beanies, and I don't mind buying on the secondary marker, but not from a retailer.
• Collecting BB's is fun, and my 8-year old says she wants to collect them until she graduates, at which time she plans to sell her collection for college funds. Since they are appreciating faster than her mutual fund, I am helping her as much as I can.
• I think they are going to try to retire all the Mamas and Babies (old and new) Because they are coming out with 12 new Teenie Beenies May 22. I also think they will try to retire all of the cats and a couple of bears.
• I really like Beanies, but I don't likfe when they retire one about a month after it was introduced. (1997 Teddy)
• I think a person should be able to get all current beanies for under 20 dollars. Someone is making an extreme markup off hard-to-finds!
• please bring out more new beanie BEARS.............thanks
• I think the beanie phenomonon is great, but retailers put the prices on beanies up way, to high. They're supposed to be for kids. How many kids do you know can afford a Princess the bear at $200.00?
• I hope Ty comes out with more fish. They are my favorite. Several retailers in my area (St. Paul, MN) have received many damaged and wet boxes of beanies and they are not very happy. They said Ty will not take any merchandise back. Some of the beanies received lately have been made very poorly also, ripped seams, bunched up seams, less beans, crooked faces, etc. The retailers are not happy about this at all. I questioned the authenticity at one store, and the manager showed me bills of lading, sh wed me the boxes, etc. $8,000.00 worth of junk that Ty would not take back. I don't feel this is good business practice for Ty.
• Ty's website should be more informative & up-to-date.
• I wish that the prices for bears (Erin and Princess) were not so high and that the retailers selling them at this cost would come down
• I feel the Beanie rage has gotten out of hand. These cute little animals were started out as an inexpensive toy for children to collect. They made great rewards, birthday gifts, holiday gifts and allowance gifts for children that were not too expensive. Now the secondary market has made these next to an impossibility for the children who had been collecting them. This is a sad lesson for our children to learn. They have been given the opportunity to purchase an inexpensive toy that is not violent, but the type of toy all children, boy or girl, can enjoy. Now the greed of the secondary market has made this an impossibility for these children. They cannot stand outside of stores at early hours of the morning to purchase the whole shipment at the stores. I think this is a sad situation to be presenting to our children. GREED is not something my children need to learn.
• I love collecting beanies because they are cute not because of value
• I LOVE BEANIES!!!!!!!!
• I love Beanies. No matter that most people think(including my spouse) that to collect them is silly, stupid, rediculous, a waste of time and money, whatever, I'm hooked and they are adorable.
• I like beanies. They're cute and a good investment.
• More new releases NOW!
• I think people should sell all current or new releases for $5-$6.
• I absolutely LOVE beanie babies! I have 98 of them, and can't stop collecting!!!! There's nothing bad about them! I think it's dumb how everyone's jealous, and is trying to sue ty for everything, though!!!!
• Iwish that Ty would stop making errors to keep beanies alive.
• I am collecting these for when my children get older and are ever in a tight situation, they can sell off the beanies as they need money,not for me and no for now to sell or trade.
• I enjoy the Teenie Beenies, but do not look forward to eating another 60 Happy Meals. I don't really want to pay more than $7. I am thinking about selling all of my duplicates retired & new because I am tired of the "hassle" and stores like Rainforest Cafe charging $75 (like they did for Princess & Erin).
• I, like half of the world, have gone nuts over Beanie Babies. I love them and enjoy collecting them. I regret not knowing about them sooner. It is costing me a great deal more than the average collector. I want them all!
• I love Beanie Babies more than my children! I think I've taken this collecting thing way too far.
• nice work!!!!
• I am really enjoying the trend of collecting beanies. I am getting frustrated with the retailers that are getting cranky of the phone calls and people checking on a daily basis. They have had to know what they were getting into when they "signed on" but alas that doesn't seem to be the case. I have encountered a couple of retailers that are invoking some suspect conditions in which to buy the highly treasured ones. Recently a store had a number of Erins but would only sell to you if you bought 20 o hers (at the same time). I mentioned it to one retailer that I frequent and who is having a good time with the beanie craze. She said that that offended her and she would feel as if she were being blackmailed. Another store in town had "leaked" the story that they were going to release a shipment the next day Saturday oddly enough, and that bears were included. Hours before the store opened the line began to form. When my girlfriend was in line more than 1 hour before the store opened she did not get o even see any bears. But when someone was fancied by the salesclerks they would "go see what is in back" and oddly enough it was 2 Peaces. Obviously both sold in an instant. Strangely enough to her sister and her sisters friend that had only heard of Beanies a few hours before.
• i think erins should be easier to find.
• I hate that the beanie dealers in my area are very tight on there princess bears by holdingthem and going to flea markets and reselling them for higher price when they arent even retired yet. I have 3 kids been hunting for a princess and entered many drawings and still cant get one unless i pay out the butt for it.
• I heard that retailers have to buy other TY items if they want beanie babies. It is harder to find retailers that have them. I also think that it is not ok for retailers to sell them at any price. This has started out to be for kids. They are great gifts for kids because they are so cute and so cheap! Which comes in handy when kids play with toys till no end. Which I must say that beanies hold up pretty well. I started to collect them for my future child that me & my husband may have in a couple f years. I was afraid they would'nt be around anymore. They would be so cute for a babies room on a shelf. Now it's a hobby for me & my husband.
• I'm having fun collecting Beanies.
• I think TY should pair up with McDonald's again and make Teenie Beanie Babies of the most popular beanies as of right now.
• I'm having fun collecting Beanies.
• I think that more Erin and Princess Bears should be put out for us who can not pay $100 to $300 that places charge.
• I hope the person responsible for creating Beanies got a huge raise! They're all adorable!
• I think that more Erin and Princess Bears should be put out for us who can not pay $100 to $300 that places charge.
• My family enjoys beanies I even got my mom in on the hunt. I wish the secondary market could be controlled.
• It upsets me to see people buying them for a normal price and then selling them for a secondary price. I was in a Hallmark shop[ a few weeks ago at Oakland Mall in Troy, Michigan - they sold a young man over a $1,000.00 of Beanies - he left with 6 large shopping bags!!!! Some people have a hard time finding them as it is and then to have someone like him come along and take them all...
• Beanie babies are adorable! Can they make more wrinkly ones. For example mastiffs. and other ones.
• I don't like the elevated prices of some stores. I just don't buy them. I don't track them enough to make predictions. I think they are cute and buy them for our grandchildren and ourselves.
• I wish that Ty would come a little more creative in their new releases, as in the intire line. I recently purchased the Mothers Day Bear, to find out that it was just Romeo with a lace collar on. There was not much thought put in to it. Needless to say, I was not very happy. Please, Mr. Warner put a little more interest in your new releases, so we can all be excited to see them and want to buy them.
• I would like to get more up to date data from Ty rather than off the street. Such as the sale of McDonald's sales on the beanies again in the Happy Meal. I also wish dealers would not hord or sale out the back door.
• I would like to get more up to date data from Ty rather than off the street. Such as the sale of McDonald's sales on the beanies again in the Happy Meal. I also wish dealers would not hord or sale out the back door.
• They are absolutely the hottest thing since sliced bread. The only thing that bothers me is the vast array of different tags that can be found on these critters. With so much talk of counterfeits how can the average collector keep up when so many errors are being made by Ty itself?
• I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR FOR RETAILERS TO NOT PUT OUT WHAT THEY GET IN, IF THEY ARE SELLING "OUT THE BACK DOOR" TO THE SECONDARY MARKET, THEY SHOULD BE SUSPENDED FROM THE PROGRAM. THESE WERE MEANT TO BE CHEAP COLLECTIBLES FOR KIDS. NOT A WAY FOR ADULTS TO MAKE A LIVING. AND IF ANY RETAILER HAS ANY PROBLEMS WITH ANYONE IN THEIR BUSINESS REGARDING BEANIE BABIES, THEN THAT PERSON SHOULD BE ARRESTED. I HAVE HEARD SOME REAL HORROR STORIES. PEOPLE KNOCKING DOWN KIDS AND TAKING THE BEANIES FROM THEM. THA 'S TERRIBLE. IF I WERE THERE, I PERSONALLY WOULD'VE CALLED THE POLICE ON THE WOMAN AND THEN TAKEN THE BEANIE BABY FROM HER AND PURCHASED IT FOR THE KID, AND WAITED FOR THE COPS TO ARREST THE LADY.
• BEANIE BABIES ROCK
• I'm having great fun collecting and am grateful for all the info beaniemom.com provides. It's to bad TY's web page isn't as helpful. An official TY magazine would be nice, something they put out from the company with which collectors could verify their product.
• I breed and show cocker spaniels, so when I heard about Spunky, I wanted it. In the course of looking for just Spunky, I got hooked and started buying other beanies. Other than Spunky, I like the tie dyed beanies the best.
• Miniature bears would be a big hit with beanie collectors as well as people who are into miniatures.
• I love most beanie babies, and would like to see a hamster beanie baby. I also wish I could find a retailer who take my order and let me know when my beanies have arrived. It's hard sometimes running around to all the stores to check out inventories.
• Thanks to the great appreciation in value, I have started a vacation fund with proceeds I have received from selling Beanie Babies on the secondary market. My son really likes the dogs and cats. He is very willing to sell others when I tell him that each one we sell increases his Disney World spending money!
• Retail stores in this area have exclusive customer lists. Those on the lists get first shot at all beanies. It takes the fun out of buying beanies when you don't have a chance to buy the most popular ones or the new ones. One retailer sold Princess bears for $100 cash, no sales receipt, and no Hallmark Gold Crown points. These sales were not entered into their computer register. Something was definitely irregular about this. People were very upset including me. Beanies are cute and lovable. That is the reason to buy, not to make money. It should be fun not cut-throat.
• i think all stores should limit the quantity to 3 per person
• I have humphrey, slither, rex, steg, and bronty I paid 900.00 for bronty that was the most expensive beanie I bought to this date, I won Humphrey from les and Sue Fox you can see my picture on page 17 in the 2nd edition of the beanie baby handbook my initials are rs see you later
• I enjoy collecting beanie's for my kids but get frustrated at the very low supply of special beanies such as Peace, Erin, Princess, Zip, etc.. Most are raffled for charities (which is fine), but I would like to see more readily available to the general public at reasonable prices.
• I am tired of not being able to get Princess and Erin. What is the purpose of introducing a new bear and not having it available? If they can make lots of the 1997 Teddy then why not Princess and Erin?
• I think that Ty Attic Treasures will become popular (I have over 60, more than half of my collection is retired, and I have valuble ones like Colby the mouse).
• I would like tighter control on retailers, so that I have a chance to collect all the beanies. The price is so outrageous on some, that there is no chance for me to get them. I collect for myself and my grandson.
• It's great. I haven't been this interested in something for so long. It feels good to have a hobby. My sisters are interested in beanies and it's nice that we all have something in common and can talk on the internet.
• I like the adventure of collecting, but it can be really a reminder of how sad our cuntry has become. And it has when people will pay more than $2,00 for a pellet filled animal. Don't get me wrong, we have a great and powerfull nation but we are greed obsessed. Or at least some people are. There's nothing wrong with collecting and being a grown up, but you have a sick mind when you will fight with a little child over a toy. My question is why. The world will never know.
• I do like what the secondary market has done to Princess and Erin. My kids collect them and are not interested in selling them. I will pack them away in a few years with the Barbie's and Fisher Price toys.
• Ty should set a MANDATORY price of $5 for each beanie. Secondary market should be illegal and discontinued. The high prices are ridiculous and children can not buy them. Also Ty should produce more so people are not fighting to get them when they see them in stores. Almost everyone has the regular ones so Ty should now produce more of the hard to find ones such as Erin, Princess, Peace, Maple.
• I think that Ty has blown the whole thing out of proportion. I love beanies and I do collect, but greedy selfish grownups have taken all the fun out of collecting. Now I'm searching for Teddy and because so many people have turned this into a huge mess, I can't find him for less than $100! I think the grown ups should just let the kids have fun and not take all the valuable or rare ones for themselves. I just like beanies because they are cute and cuddly. Eventually I think that beanies won't be worth heir weight in beans anyway!! People will get tired of working their brains out for little toy animals!
• I think the secondary markup on Princess is disgusting. The profit made off that bear should be given to the charity that the bear was designed to benefit, not individual, greedy people.
• I think some prices are rediculas!They should not be any higher than $50.00.I don't think little beanie filled animals should cost over $50.00!Thanks!
• They should make more Beanie stuff besides the toy.
• I think that Beanie Babies are a passing craze. In a few years they will be worthless. Sell know while they are worth something!
• I think that all beanies should be readily avalible instead of having to pay top dollar for them because you can't find them!!!!
• release more new ones, please
• i would like to add that Peace the bear is the next on my list and he isn't in that part above. Beanie Babies will rock and McDonalds is going to earn a lot wit the next happy meal promotion gig thing.
• Beanie Babies are sooo cool! I love Fleece Magic & Quackers!
• BEANIES RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Iwould like a contest to pick an animal and it's poem , the winner to get their name on the tag and get B.B. of choice. Also Harry C. B.B. how can someone get a hold of one without paying 5000 that is insane. What did those parents do to those kids to get those cows from them? Icould just imagine.
• I have many suggestions for Mr. Warner, so what am I supposed to do when I can't get the address? (I have emailed INfo Beanie, but no reply has come)
• The hobby is closley following the pattern of Card collecting a few years ago. Ty Warner will make or break the hobby in the next year.
• I HATE spooky the ghost!!
• I love Beanie babies, but I feel as though I am constantly being ripped off because I am a teenager. I know of many stores that sell Beanies for $5-7 when they recieve a new shipment. Unfortunately, I also know of stores that get away with selling Beanies for $15-20(new releases) and hold Beanies for themselves and their children. I am not able to go out the day of the new releases and buy Beanies because I am in school. I know of mothers who go to work late so they can be at a store at 10a.m., to et new Beanies. This is incredible. The Beanies were made for children, not for greedy adults looking to make a profit. I intend to keep my collection to show my children when I am older.(Just as I will save my Barbies.) I have talked to my parents about the Beanies and they say that it reminds them of Cabbage Patch Kids. It is sad to think that in a decade people(adults (with children)), have stayed so competitive and greedy. These children watch as greedy, inconsiderate, adults steal their Beanies ut of there hands. What an example we are setting! To the younger children I know: Please ignore this awful scene. You do not need to act this way. You be the ones to set the example. You be the ones the adults need to follow. Kristin M.,IL
• I think they might retire the Derby without a white star will be retired and the Mystic with the tan horn. Also I think the Rainbow with Iggy's tag and Iggy with Rainbow's tag will go up in value.
• I am nearly 50 years old, saw my first beanie 6 months ago, and have NEVER been so obsessively compulsive about anything in my life as I am about beanies. I started buying them under the guise of giving them to my grandchildren but they're MINE - MINE - ALL MINE!!!!
• I just wish Princess and Erin were more available for the regular price,so we all could have them .
• I wish I knew how to make a little money off of this Beanie craze!
• I love to collect Beanie Babies. Retailers are sometimes rude when you call them and ask if they have Beanie Babies.
• My main dislike is that a childrens toy retired or not is selling for up to 1000x's what it was issued for. Come on people they are cute and all but how can something so small and cheap be sold for as much as they are. My biggest problem is that I can't buy an Erin Bear because of the price. My birthday is St Patricks Day and oddly enough my sister's name is Erin so I thought it would be really great to buy one for my mother and myself, but not at 20x's Ty's issue price! I just don't understand it!!!!! ~Adam Mareth
• The Prices of beanie babies are getting way to high! Parents are going to have to stop buying them, because they can not afford them. Something should be done about the high beanie baby prices.
• I think they are all just too cute! It was too easy to get hooked on them :)
• I don't like the high prices for some BB's
• i think chocolate, mel, and pounce will retire next.
• I think this is a great pass time. Some retailers are greedy and do not care.They only want to make extra
• I love them! Even though my large collection of mint current and retired beanies might not make me money in the future, I still love to collect them. It is a fun and relatively inexpensive hobby that brings great joy. I really think that the secondary market is both good and bad. It benefits collectors in the way that you can see how much they are selling for at any given time, but the secondary market is sometimes greedy, and often attempts to rip people off. I think merchants have developed nega ive attitudes toward people who are interested in beanies in general, because the secondary market and greedy beanie collectors have hounded them to the point of exhaustion. I am happy to have taken your survey and wish you luck!
• i don't like how ty is marketin
• I feel the Beanie Baby craze is totally out of control. This started for children. The adults have totally ruined a $4.99 stuffed animal that a child could buy with his or her allowance. I recently went to a show standing next to a mother who told her child "I'm buying Erin and you cannot play with it". Kids play with toys that they find cute and enjoyable. The parents have turned this into total greed. I myself I'm starting a collection for my children that I do not even have yet. I feel that the ship will sink !
• It is a fun collection to share with my daughter
• make beanies more available
• I hate that all the stores in Canada say that Ty says they can't ship to the US because they will be confiscated by customs. This is wrong. I have called US and Canadian customs and asked them. They say that there is no problem. But they do not want people buying 85 and then reselling them in the US. They said that 10 would be fine. Another thing is that Britania is not available unless you want to pay 500-1200 dollars in the UK and US. Regular retailers in UK are taking advantage of it and selling it at very high prices. This is wrong. My mom collects Enesco figurines, and wherever she buys them on the 1st. market (direct retailers) the price is the same everywhere even if it is retired, or a special liminted piece. Why isn't Ty doing this.
• I am disgusted by the "authorized retailers" who either sell the "hot" beanies for way more than $5.00 or divert their stock to secondary marketers to split the profit. I understand the secondary market is necessary to increase the value of our beanies, but the authorized dealers are expected to make the beanies available to everyone, especially the children!
• I dislike the fact that Ty Warner retired every single beanie, even the new ones and has not come out with any new ones. I also dislike the fact that Ty doesn't keep very close tabs on their retailers. Quite a few in my area are or were selling the beanies that were currents and will when new come out,for way more than $5. It is more like $250!
• At a store this morning they were selling Princess's for $5.50. I heard that at 6 o'clock this morning that 100 adults were there. And some children. I think it's because of the adults that the beanies are costing so much, after all they are supposed to be for the children.
• I think Ty should do something about keeping prices down so kids can afford to collect beanie babies.
• I dislike it when the retailers sell Princess & Erin for high dollars!!!
• I wish all the stores were honest and would put the beanies out when the receive them and if your'e there you get first choice. Keep the prices where kids can afford them.
• I like that my kids can buy them themselves with their allowance money. I can't stand when retailers pull out certain ones for favorite customers or resellers. I am looking forward to the next McD's teenies. They are the perfect size for my toddler... and yes, I let her play with her beanies. :o)
• I would like to know Mr. Ty Warner's personal e-mail address. I have some ideas for new BB's that I would like to submit to him. Thanks!
• I think that the Ty inc. sucks. They just played that nasty trick on on us with Daisy in he Internet Diary. Someone is sabotaging their guestbook, so i, and thousands of other people can't, adn they're doing nothing about, even though i wrote to ty@webmaster.com. They say on the beanie pictures that all teddies are retired except brown. They haven't seen out that sheet on pricing philosophy to any reatilers. They are doing nothing about the secondary market and how greedy it is. Etc. etc. etc.
• Chocolate will retire soon
• It is a novel marketing approach. Retiring items clears the retail decks for new stock without leaving large quantities of old stock in the stores. The greed of the secondary markets will eventually hurt the small collectors as it has in other collectible markets. ie: Barbie, Hot Wheels, Coins, Stamps, Sports related items, etc. The high market values placed on some items restricts the less advantaged colletor and eventually drives them from the market. When a collector eventually has to buy all i ems from a secondary market, that hobby becomes unreachable to most.
• I think that Princes should be retired because, to many people are making money from her that should'nt be.
• I have heard that they are making a peach bear and it is going to be realesed on mothers day! I am dying for it! I think that it is rediciolous that in Delaware I cannot find an Erin for lest than $125
• I think that Princes should be retired because, to many people are making money from her that should'nt be.
• I think that some people are paying WAY too much for beanies. I mean I know you like them and all but it's a little rediculas to buy a little stuffed animal for like thousands of dollars. I mean some people are buying a beanie babie for enough to buy a computer!!!!!!
• I love my Beanies and wouldn't sell them for anything in the world. My friends at school are always telling me to sell my Beanies and my answer is always NO!
• The secondary market adults are grabbing up all the BBs before the kids can even get to them. All stores should limit beanies per paying customer.
• I love BEANIE BABIES!
• I HATE IT WHEN STORES SELL BEANIES FOR MORE THAN $7
• I think that the beanie craze is way to big. The prices shouldn't be so high for retired ones and there should be special times when dealers get retired ones to sell to customers.
• I don't like pushie collectors who want to buy more then 2 of each style..I like retailers who are polite and answer my Questions about deliverys.
• I don't like pushie collectors who want to buy more then 2 of each style..I like retailers who are polite and answer my Questions about deliverys.
• I think that the craze for beanies is wonderful. This is something all people can enjoy. It can get frustrating when you can't find ones that you need, but other than that i think that it is great.
• I'VE ALWAYS LOVED STUFFED ANIMALS - AS AN ADULT, THIS IS THE FIRST EXCUSE I'VE HAD TO BUY THEM FOR MYSELF! IT'S JUST BEEN GREAT FUN! ALSO, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A FEW PEOPLE HAPPY WITH A $5 OR $6 BEANNIE BABY! THAT'S GREAT FUN, TOO !
• I don't think that direct distributors should jack up the prices on their shipments or if they get a shipment of newly retireds.
• I feel the official ty retailers who jack up the prices should be reported to ty and loose business. Wasn't this meant for children to be able to purchase beanies.
• I hope I can find beanie bears if I do I'm probably to small to pay for them!
• I hope I can find beanie bears if I do I'm probably to small to pay for them!
• If you are a ty dealer then sell the beanies for the price of $5 - $7. They all cost you the same amount of money. Don't be greedy. The Princess and Erin bears cost you the same as any of the others. Put these out so everyone can purchase them. Not everyone is out to sell them but would like one for their collection. These bears are no different then a hot wheel at chain store (K-mart). You don't see them selling them at the secondary price but at a retail price of 89 to 99 cents.
• i think you should do something about the greedyness of the secondary market
• I love all my beanie babies , I wished I had started my collection sooner than 1998 . I hope the price tag on princess stablelizes.
• WHAT I DON'T LIKE ARE TY'S METHODS OF MANIPULATION. ALSO RETAILERS WHO SELL AT INFLATED PRICES.
• I am retailer who sells at a fair price ($6, new; $12 newly-retired). I was a bit disheartened recently by Ty's letter to retailers which was too vague and has made some local retailers---the same ones which have gouged customers forever---drop down below keystone ($4.95) on even retireds---for fear of losing their accounts. I keep a customer list and have even purchased two computers....one older model for the store and a pentium for at home to track this list. I call customers when Beanies have come i ...and even hold for up to three days! There is a cost for a service like this (phone bill, manpower, computer, etc.) and I have had to defend myself recently for my pricing policy. To top it off....the "boy who cried wolf" on Beanie announcements is getting tiresome... and may actually be a turn-off to collectors. (Example recent Daisy Diary on May 8th). It's getting that way for some of us retailers...other than that, I am grateful for Beanies and the things they have allowed me, a single mom, to acco plish in my shop. For that, I thank my lucky stars on a daily basis.
• Ilove to collect beanie babies.I started to buy them for my daugher and got caught up in it myself.
• I think this is a fun adventure- hunting these beanies! I enjoy the people we meet and the sharring of stories of finding favorites. I think there is something more addicting in those beans than nicotine, but much healthier for us and the environment! It is grand fun following the sagas of all these little critters.
• Predictions to retire: Curly, Valentino, Chocolate. Need another butterfly and fish.
• While visiting England a few weeks ago, I found myself frantically searching for Britannia bears EVERYWHERE. I must have visited at least 50 shops and stores from Stoke-on-Trent to Salisbury, to no avail. Lots of them had not even seen the bear. Who got them, and where are they? That market is just sky-high and somebody is really cutting a "fat hog" there. I find that very offensive when Europe is the only place you can purchase that particular item, and there are none to be had.
• I wish ty. would increase the supply of the bears so the prices won't be so high. I hear that they don't ship them all to the stores on the same order, then complain about the dealers prices. I doesn't make sense.
• i think more stores should sell bb's they would do better if that happens....... i think bb's are THE BEST TOYS and COLECTABLES in the world i try to get as many as possible thanks for the survey i hope it made a difference
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• I dislike the fact when I go into an authorized Ty retailer and beanies are $6.99 one night, and the next day I go in and just because they are retire they are raised to $24.99, and the owner tries to tell me she doesn't like this "retired" bit forcing her to raise her prices. What a bunch of bunk!!! No one forced her to raise her prices, certainly not Ty.
• I think the original idea of making an inexpensive toy that children could collect was a great idea, but adults and collectors have taken things too far and they no longer are a kids collectible.
• It's hard to tell if I have an Original. I have two of "Spike" one has a Style # the other does not. Is the other one a counterfeit?
• Prices are so different in the stores. Should be the same price everywhere. And should beable to find the new ones easier.
• I think it's terrible that people stand in line EVERYDAY outside of stores waiting for the delivery trunk to come. People do this not knowing if beanies are on the trunk. What a waste of time!!!! Also, why bother going to these stores because you will never get the new beanies for your children because of these greedy people!
• I have a hard time understanding why retailers are so rude when I ask them "where" their beanies are and "Do they have...". Collecting beanies is a fun adventure for me. terri
• I thnk Beanie Babies are awesome, Meanie Babies should be dropped. I think Delano Johnson, class Beanie-hater, should be arrested if there was a law against mutilating Beanie Babies.
• I think Ty needs to allow more retailers so the market can be more Fair.
• no comments
• Many of your dealers are selling out the back door, which includes employees. Some are having raffles, and I wonder what charity they are sponsoring, since there are no signs and you get a different answer every time
• I think that stores should sell beanies for 5-7 dollars unless they are selling on the secondary market which is o.k. to sell them for as much as you want.
• would like to down load all retired beanies list
• Retailers have spoiled the fun, they've gotten greedy;especially those who say they are a "collectible store" so they are "allowed " to charge high prices! At one time I was obcessed with waiting in lines for hours to buy beanies, just for the thrill of seeing which ones would be on the shelf and which ones I could find that I didn't have yet(even for a duplicate bear), but now you never find any new releases, or hard to find beanies for less than $15 dollars THE THRILL IS GONE. At least with seconda y dealers you know where they are at , but retailers???? They are like celebrities who don't like to give autographs...they forget how they got where they are!!! I wished I had saved the newspaper article where Ty Warner stated that he would make sure that his retailers would not be allowed to sell above the suggested retail value!!!!The Home Shopping Networks better wake up to a reality check. With the prices they say are "retail" they must be on drugs and anybody who believes what they say about the " arket Value" (not the secondary market value, mind you) AND BUYS from them, must be on stronger drugs or be brain dead! Techinically they could be and should be sued for misrepresentation. BUT THEY STILL ARE CUTE AND I HAVE AT LEAST ONE OF EVERY STYLE . But nothing beats the bears . I don't have a Brattania( and probably never will at the prices they are asking) but I do have 2 of each bears, because they are my favorite out of all beanies, except for Erin, I only have one, and I had to trade many retireds for him. (and wouldn't you know green is my FAVORITE color!!!!! ) Thanks for letting me vent, even though I know it will probaly get worse until the public wakes up and the bottom falls o t for all those greedy retailers. And to Ty Warner.. thankyou for the short year I spent enjoying the hunt , but you didn't keep your word.
• why have exclusives in other countries that only drives the prices up and makes finding them nest to impossible
• They are difficult to obtain in our city.
• I feel that unathorized dealers are jacking up the beanie prices way to much and not making it possible to purchase ones you'd like.I collect them for my 3 year old son,and it is hard for me to say No,you can't get that Peking Panda beanie because he costs $1000 and we cannot afford it.I feel that the people who buy and sell beanies are ruining it for those of us who just buy one,and collect them for our children. Thanks for my chance to give my opinion :)
• I dislike the fact that retailers raised their prices almost 50% in this last retirement of Beanie Babies.
• I am just totally amazed by the bb phenomenon. I am not happy with the new custom regulations allowing only one bb per person per 30 days goign in to the US.I don'tt hink they should confiscate bb's from kids.
• I am just totally amazed by the bb phenomenon. I am not happy with the new custom regulations allowing only one bb per person per 30 days goign in to the US.I don'tt hink they should confiscate bb's from kids.
• I wish Princess, Erin and Peace were easier to get...not for only myself, but my girls want them too.
• i would like to see some more dinosaurs and new bears. i love to collect beanie babies but i do not want to go bankrupt over them either. i will more than likely sell several of mine in the future but at the moment they look too adorable in my living room. i am amazed at the sudden outcry for these small atuffed animals but i certainly can understand it. thank you very much for allowing me to enter in this survey and goodluck on your quest for more beanie babies.
• dixie doo the shihzu all black with white paws.
• I THINK TY WARNER SHOULD BE AGHAST EACH MORNING WHEN HE LOOKS HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR. HE HAS COMPLETE CONTROL OVER EVERY ASPECT OF HIS BUSINESS TO IN INCLUDE ALL SUPPLY RELATED FUNCTIONS. HE DOES NOT APPEAR TO EVEN HAVE THE OVERHEAD CHARGES OF ADVERTISING- WE THE STUPID CONSUMERS OF HIS PRODUCTS- DO THAT RATHER WELL. IF HE SINCERELY WANTED TO PROVIDE A PRODUCT THAT A CHILD COULD BUY WITH THEIR ALLOWANCE (WHICH HE PROFOUNDLY CLAIMS) HE COULD; HE SIMPLY HAS NO DESIRE TO DO THAT. WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO R CTIFY THE GRIEVOUS TRANSGRESSIONS OF CONVERTING A CHILD'S TOY INTO A VERY COMPETITIVE ADULT COLLECTOR'S MARKET? I BELIEVE TY WARNER SHOULD ENACT ON HIS COMMITMENT TO STOP THE SECONDARY BEANIE BABY MARKET BY PRODUCING ENOUGH BEANIE BABIES TO NO LONGER MAKE IT A PROFITABLE ENDEAVOR. THE CONSUMER WILL PURCHASE BEANIES BABIES BECAUSE OF THE CHARACTERS DEPICTED AND NOT AS A COLLECTOR'S ITEM. MATEL CORPORATION HAS BEEN ABLE TO KEEP BARBIE A TOP SELLING TOY FOR OVER 30 YEARS BY PRODUCING ENOUGH BARBIES SO THAT ANY CHILD COULD PURCHASE THEM. ADDITIONALLY, TY WARNER SHOULD DISCONTINUE THE PRACTICE OF RETIRING BEANIE BABIES UNTIL THE MARKET STABILIZES IN ORDER TO STOP THE FRENZY OF ACQUIRING RETIRED BEANIE BABIES. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN MY CHILD NO LONGER FINDS BEANIE BABIES DESIRABLE AND I CAN DELETE THEM FROM MY SHOPPING LIST.
• Please tell me how all these people get the special beanie babieslike Princess and i can not find a single store in cincinnati that sells beanie babies
• I started collecting in Feb. of 1998 for a cousin that is quite ill. It's fun for me and it puts a a little sunshine in her life and a smile on her face. You meet some very intresting people on Beanie Hunts. Can't wait for the new ones to come out.
• I think what is going to happen with the beanie baby trend is that it is going to go away in a few years and everyone that has been buying them and putting them away will take them out and give them to their children/grandchildren/dog etc. because they will think they aren't worth anything and that they wasted their money so they might as well get some kind of use out of them. Then, in about 20-30 years the beanies will make a comeback and be worth tons especially since all those collectors from the 1 90's started playing with them and now they aren't mint or don't exist anymore. Look at what happened with the Cabbage Patch Kids. Don't you think that a Cabbage Patch Kid mint with a mint box is worth something now?
• I LOVE BEANIES
• I am new to this and what scares me is not being able to spot the fakes and keep from buying them. I would love to see a lot of pictures of what to watch out for and what to do if I accidently buy one.
• I don't like it that we can't find the bears to buy such as Peace well not any of them unless we want to pay a lot of money cause the only ones out there are not from the ty dealers
• I think that the retailers should have restrictions placed on them for selling any b.b. above the normal retail price. When you can find a store selling Erin the price is above $150.00. He is a current b.b. and should be priced accordingly until that changes.
• I have yet to see a Princess or Erin on an actual shelf in any store! Searching can get very frustrating at times! I have never had so much fun with a collectible! and I have been an avid collector of all sorts, i.e. Dept. 56 snowbabies, snowbunnies, Cherished Teddies, Hallmark ornaments, Barbies! I have put all of those on hold since my daughter and I discovered Beanie Babies! I have even invented a pattern for a beanie baby carrier out of the cutest animal prints. It is a drawstring duffel bag- ype, fully-lined and holds 25 beanies inside and has 8 clear pockets on the outside around the bottom. I have sewn 200 of them so far. I had spoken with a Ty rep last fall in regards to Ty using my pattern, but was told Ty does not manufacture items of this nature. Would love for Ty Warner to see them sometime though! They really are cute! I get lots of compliments on them. THANK YOU TY WARNER FOR GIVING MYSELF AND MANY OTHERS SUCH AN ENJOYABLE PAST-TIME!!!
• I don't think it's right that the price in my area for Beanies has gone up to $7.99 instead of $5.99 as it was in the past I understand supply and demand is good but the retailers should keep the price the way it was so children can afford to buy them. Also I would like to see more current Beanies available, it sometimes retires before my area stores even recieve them!
• I have yet to see a Princess or Erin on an actual shelf in any store! Searching can get very frustrating at times! I have never had so much fun with a collectible! and I have been an avid collector of all sorts, i.e. Dept. 56 snowbabies, snowbunnies, Cherished Teddies, Hallmark ornaments, Barbies! I have put all of those on hold since my daughter and I discovered Beanie Babies! I have even invented a pattern for a beanie baby carrier out of the cutest animal prints. It is a drawstring duffel bag- ype, fully-lined and holds 25 beanies inside and has 8 clear pockets on the outside around the bottom. I have sewn 200 of them so far. I had spoken with a Ty rep last fall in regards to Ty using my pattern, but was told Ty does not manufacture items of this nature. Would love for Ty Warner to see them sometime though! They really are cute! I get lots of compliments on them. THANK YOU TY WARNER FOR GIVING MYSELF AND MANY OTHERS SUCH AN ENJOYABLE PAST-TIME!!!
• I wish it was easier to get Princess and Erin. They are not easy to find,let alone fine them at a reasonable price.
• My children and I have alot of fun running around town trying to find Beanies. We have had a really great time collecting the ones that we have. We have also met some really nice people.
• My brother got me into Beanie Babies but he has been in them for a year, what shocks me the most is the greed of people associated with collecting and selling them.
• I wish Brittania and Maple were available in the US. Also I wish Erin were more attainable
• Around here they sell beanies for really good prices! I'm thankful for that.
• LIKE THE PRICES AT $5 - 6 -- MAKES IT EASIER FOR KIDS TO BUY THEM. ALSO LIKE THE QUALITY OF FABRIC USED AND THE CUTENESS OF THE BEANIES.
• I like collecting the beanies.I'm tired of hearing about the secondary market.If it weren't for them I wouldn't be able to have as many as I do.They are next to impossible to find in the stores.
• Ithink Beanie Babies are cute and my kids love them. I think they should remain affordable for the kids.
• A little more timely information fro TY on new and retireing beanies would be nice. A good clearing house on counterfiet beanies would be VERY nice with descriptions of what to look for. Beany Mom does a good job.
• i wish you would make more dinosuars and sell them cheaper.
• I feel the quoted value will drop soon, just like other toys ei cabbage patch, elmo etc. this is due to the greed of secondary dealers and the seemingly unablity of TY to supply the demand. This market is contrived by TY and manipulated by dealers, both retail and secondary.
• I dislike that I can't get my hands on a Erin bear. I wish they would have retired at least one of the current bears. I also wish Ty would make a gecko.
• I dislike that I can't get my hands on a Erin bear. I wish they would have retired at least one of the current bears. I also wish Ty would make a gecko.
• I just collect the cats because I collect cats. I have no information on trends or opinions on trends. I enjoy looking at all Beanie Babies while shopping for the cats.
• I think that Beanie Babies are wonderful, but the prices get a little out of hand. As Ty said, he doesn't set any of those crazy prices like the ones for Erin, Princess and others like Royal Blue Peanut. But I will never give up on Beanie Babies, I love then to much. (I am not a greedy person like I seem to be from my survey)
• I do not like the lottery system that some retailers are using with regard to Princess. One retailer is doing a lottery...if yopu win, you can buy Princess for $99.00. This is absurd.
• I LOVE BEANIES!!!
• I work for a store that sells BBs--not secondary! I find the greed disgusting and the attitudes of some of the 'collectors' are rude and obnoxious. When we get BBs, some people swarm in as if we were selling a cure for cancer! When we run out, people don't believe us and try to get into our stock rooms. If only the whole thing would calm down a bit and give the children a chance at some fun instead of being taken over by so-called adults! We had a drawing for a chance to purchase Princess for $4.9 . Ten names were drawn and one was a young girl about 8 years old. When she got the phone call, she and her sister ran outside to their dad screaming at the top of their lungs that they had to go to town. When they got to our store, the winner was almost speechless; her sister had to do some of the talking. The dad stood there with an amused, affectionate look on his face through the whole thing. This is the way it should be--for the kids!
• I work for a store that sells BBs--not secondary! I find the greed disgusting and the attitudes of some of the 'collectors' are rude and obnoxious. When we get BBs, some people swarm in as if we were selling a cure for cancer! When we run out, people don't believe us and try to get into our stock rooms. If only the whole thing would calm down a bit and give the children a chance at some fun instead of being taken over by so-called adults! We had a drawing for a chance to purchase Princess for $4.9 . Ten names were drawn and one was a young girl about 8 years old. When she got the phone call, she and her sister ran outside to their dad screaming at the top of their lungs that they had to go to town. When they got to our store, the winner was almost speechless; her sister had to do some of the talking. The dad stood there with an amused, affectionate look on his face through the whole thing. This is the way it should be--for the kids!
• People that are collecting best stop complaining and just stop paying over 10-15 for a beanie. These are the people that have fed the greed. Lets keep it fun folks.
• I have a prized beanie. An old faced violet Teddy. I love him very much.
• no.I WANT PRINCESS & ERIN!!!
• I think that the price should be $4.99 just like it use to be. You should keep them out for longer-like a lot of my friends had never heard or seen humphry the camel, sting the ray, the snake, etc.
• my husband and father of my 3 kids died x-mas day this collecting has been therapy for us do not like GREEDY 2cd market Ty should discourage them from being allowed on the guestbook. Reasonable trading and selling is ok.,
• I wanted to get a Bones at a Mr. Bulky. I asked how much it was, and they said maximum: 19.99 dollars!!!!! I was so mad! People sould make beanie babies more affordable. Everyone should be able to own at least 1!!! I am sick of people selling Erins and Princesses for over 200 dollars! It's sick!
• I think that it is CRAZY what people do just for a little bean bag animal! Some of the prices are out of this world! I really want Peace, but of course, it's more than $30! I wish people could make them more affordable.
• wish I had better access to them. I collect mainly for my daughter. We use them for her speech class. They have helped immensly
• I love beanie babies!
• I love beanies I think they're great, I wish I could get them all.
• I just love Beanie Babies! They are so cute!
• I love beanies I think they're great, I wish I could get them all.
• I wish that beanie baby prices could not go over 50 dollars. That way I would be able to obtain more beanies
• I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD MAKE A RED ANT NAMED ANTIE.
• I've been enjoying the beanie baby hobby since mid 1997 and will continue to collect them. Knowing that my collection will be treasured by my children - when they're grown - adds to my enjoyment of the hobby. Thank you
• I think all the people that get up-in-arms about the prices of beanies are the worst of all. The only "REAL" they complain about the prices is because they know that there are some out there that they will never be able to afford, and that bothers them. I think everyone should not get mad at the secondary market people, it is not them that made the beanies collectible, it is TY. TY claims that the beanies are intended as a $5.00 toy so "EVERY" child has a shot at getting one, but they make beanies like the 97 Teddy and Snowball, and ONLY produce them for 2 Months....That's 72 TOTAL to all TY dealers....then RETIRE them, somebody tell me how EVERY child had a shot at that beanie. They did'nt. My word to the grumpy people out there is this...keep your comments to yourself, because when you come in our stores and have a fit, you are only making yourself look bad. I'm sure you don't go into the 1 local grocery store and complain that a certain product is a different price elsewhere, do you? Then again, seeing mo t of you, you probably do!!
• Beanies are the first thing I ever started collecting, but you have to be careful, sometimes, you waste a ton of money on them and then you think, I could have bought a whole bunch of clothes with ALL of that money I spent. I bought close to 40 in a month, and now I wish that I had slowed down, if you know what I mean. I really enjoy how Ty talks to us through the info beanies. That is a clever idea, although sometimes a teeny bit corny if you know what I mean
• I think that the large retirement this time will put a little kink into the secondary market because the ones retired have been out for quite awhile and alot more people have had the chance to get them. Also anyone wanting to start the collection know don't have so many current ones to get going. KEEP THE BEARS COMINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I dislike the fact that it is very hard to get an assortment of Beanies.TY always releases the same old ones over and over. The newer ones are very hard to find. If you don't have some kind of conections then you just don't get a chance to get the new ones. I haven't seen a Princess for under $100.00. Ty had said that anyone who wanted one would be able to get one at the normal price-yea right! And newly released Erin is impossible to find and already selling for $100.00. Collecting them used to be fun Greedy people are ruining a hobby that normal people used to be able to afford. Too bad there wasn't a place to call to turn in retailers hoarding and price gorging. Bust a few and maybe people will be wary and comply. Also in my opinion, TY is controlling the market by only releasing a few, creating a frenzy and helping to let greedy retailers control the price market.
• I Want for ty to come out with a ferret. My name is CORNHOLIO?
• ratailers hick prices to high and are unfair to customers
• I absolutely ADORE beanie babies! I can't pass by a store without checking if they have beanies!
• I beleive everyone should have the same oppertunity to aquire beanies, at the same price. My children would like princess and erin for the collection, but I cannot afford to pay the outragous prices being asked. It is not fair to the mo children, and isn't this what they were designed for?
• Ty's email address is: Webmaster@TY.com
• I think that if the money for Princess is going to charity why doesn't TY make millions of them? I know that all of my friends agree with me and I'm sure that a lot of you do too
• Dear Beanie People, I desire beanies a lot. I have Princess, Erin and the retireds and currents that I purches in stores. I absolutely love beanies but when the Ty site says that theyare retiring beanies Ib feel theybsgould do it right away.
• Beanie Collecting is a fun, harmless hobby. It has become a challenge with my friends to see who gets what (and we buy for each other when we find something needed. I dislike the secondary market greedies who make it hard for those of us who are just collecting for the fun, and for children.
• I'm tired of places like crafters village uping their prices just because they have a bear or retired beanies. How do I let Ty know about these places? It's getting to the point where they are too expensive for me to buy and I'm gonna stop if these places don't stop selling all the beanies they receive for the same price. I love collecting them they are so cute. I'm 9 months pregnant and I'm still out there going from store to store. I just got squealer for the baby crib and he is the most lovable one et. I hope Ty takes care of these places so I can keep enjoying these wonderful beanie babies.
• I want a Princess for $5.00 not $150.00-200.00 from retailers!!
• The grey market, why do people have to charge so much, gee, it's for the kids
• I live in Wisconsin they sell beanies for really high prices. Except for a few stores.
• I think it's terrible when the adults go in and purchase all the beanies and then try to make a large profit from them. If it's supposed to be for the children, there are alot of disappointed children out there.
• Ty not cracking down on retailers that sell $4.99 HTF beanies for $300
• Doesn't it just bewilder you that these... toys... have gotten so incredibly valuble?!?
• Beanies are great!
• I just think its terrible people are charging so much and asking people to pay high prices for a $2.25 toy
• I like the survey. I think that derby, daisy, peace, doby, and wrinkles will be retired
• Beanie babies RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• It is fun, but I refuse to buy second market.
• i dont really mind if the retailers were only selling for a reasonable amount but when you start going into the hundreds of dollars for NON-RETIREDS then it makes it so everyone can not complete a collection ...there is not one authorized dealer in the bergen and hudson counties besides chains like zany brainy and noodle kadoodle who are selling princess and erin for less than 100$ and i do go to many stores hunting for them This type of market will bring beanie collecting to an end because it is discouraging to those who do not have hundreds of $ to spend on them I hope the next Hot Beanie to come out can be gotten for less than 100 ONe question: I have never seen a princess or Erin at Nordstroms (Paramus says they donate to charity) Noodle Kaddodle (I have gone every shipment day since January) Why doesnt TY give the GOOD GUYS like noodle kadoodle more BEARS
• I really wish that secondary market retailers would not grab all of the beanies, I have a hard time finding them and I can not afford high prices. I have looked for Erin, Princess and Peace for my 3 daughters but the market value on them are high. My girls receive beanies when I can find them so they can play with them, it gives me great joy to see their happy faces when they make games and sleep with them at night. I will not buy any beanie to just sit on a shelf. Have you given any thought to a H spital Beanie or Red Cross Beanie? My daughter had surgery in April and I thought that would be a neat idea for children staying in the hospital. Thank you for listening!
• I think that you should pay regualar price for current beanies.
• I need to know if there is a address where I can report vendors for selling beanie babies for outrages prices. A florist in my area is charging $14.95 for the newly retired beanies. I think this is outrageous. Before they retired they charged $5.95. Is there anyone I can complain to or write to. Another florist in my area received 4 Princess bears, they raffled 1 off each week. The raffle was $1.00 and all procedes when to 4 local charities. This was such a good idea. Other places are charging $5.00 a ticket and nothing is going to charity. This one shop said it was to cover there cost. What cost?
• I think Ty should bring out beanie babies in groups of what animal they are- like ine time bring out all bears, next bunnies, and so on.
• So much of what you can get seems to depend on luck--getting to the right place at the right time. While that is part of the fun, it also takes quite a commitment to keep checking to see what new things are in.
• Although I buy for my 2 children (that's why there are so many in the collection) I think I'm more hooked on the "hunt" than they are. I scan the internet and have found some wonderful people to do business with and I even got a Princess for $6!! My children and I share her.
• I DISLIKE THE IDEA THAT STORES ONLY GET AT LEAST 10 PRINCESSES AND ALWAYS SELL THEM FOR SO MUCH. I THINK THAT TY SOULD MAKE MORE PRINCESS BEARS AND ONLY ALOW THEM TO BE SOLD AT THE REGULAR PRICE $5.00-$10.00 {O: {O: {O: THANK YOU: KRISTEN SMITH :O} :O} :O}
• i think in canada they should sell beanies cheaper
• I'd like to have the bears a little more accessible. Right now, they're almost impossible to find. I'd also like more mythical creatures.
• I would like to be able to buy special collector beanie babies, much like some of the established collectible clubs do like hummels, lladros, swarouski crystal, etc. They would be like a series your were able to add to each year, perhaps a small series.
• I really would like to be able to collect all the Beanie Babies that were first out, I just started collecting for my children and the boys want all the weird onew, dinosaurs, fishes, bats, lizards and I just can no afford the prices they want. Will I ever be able to purchase all of them for just $5.99 each? Desparate mom for her boys
• I like beanie babies-- but people are getting way too greedy. I will only trade beanies over the internet, not buy over the internet. A lot of people don't want to trade beanies, and if they do they want too much for their beanies. If the secondary market continues to be greedy with the prices and supplies of certain beanies, collector will eventually stop collecting. Authorized dealers should not be able to charge over $10 for beanies. When I first started collecting, I could get Curly, Peace and Valentino for $5.99 from a authorized dealer in my town. Now, the sell them for $15.99. I think that is unfair to younger collectors. The dealer in the secondary markets can still buy at these prices and charge $50 for Peace and some people will actualy pay it. It is very annoying!
• Princess bear and Erin bear are way too hard to find and Ty has allowed the price to escalate so high that people are unable to acquire the bears. My eight year old wants Princess and Erin for her may birthday and we are unable to pay in the hundreds to purchase them.
• The BB are adorable, and I love to collect them. I do feel,however, that the animalistic behavior is getting a little ridiculous. The toys were ultimately designed for children to enjoy. The stories I've heard about people lining up for hours and underhanded selling are verging on obscene.
• I don't like that retailers only receive limited supplies of beanies making it very difficult to complete your collection.
• Beanie Babies are the best!!!!!!
• I hate the fact that Princess and Erin are priced way over market and that they are very difficult to find.
• I like the limited availability to some extent. I do not feel that whole dozens should be sold to individuals. I have yet to see a hard to find bear at any retail outlet. No matter what time I get there.
• Beanie Baby collecting is a fun and exciting hobby, I've had a blast meeting other collectors and learning about the Ty product. Hopefully my chidren can gain from this in the future. At the next retirement, look for a ton of bears to go!
• I'm really sick of seeing Princess and Erin being sold for $100 and up. Why can't they be regular priced Beanie Babies so that everyone can afford to purchase them? I understand that profits from the sale of Princess go to charity, yet I cannot help but feel that the high price of this Beanie is due to the greed of many retailers. There is no reason Erin should be as expensive, either. We all love collecting Beanie Babies, but we must remember that this toy was intended to be an affordable toy for CHIL REN. $100 per beanie is not affordable for a child!
• I appreciate retailers that sell ALL beanies at $5-6. I dislike retailers that increase their price the day retireds are announced.
• I don't appreciate it when the tags on the beanies, both swing and tush, are mismarked. I also don't like seeing stores sell beanies for more than the recommended $5.00. I don't understand why Ty seems to hold back on distributing for a month or so, and then all of the sudden, they release them when they feel like it. If there is such a high demand for beanies, why don't they make more of them?
• what I dislike is the fact that some retailers mark up the new beanies to a out of this world price. There is one store named Fraser Frames in Fairburn GA; and they sale them for $5.00 plus tax. I would like to thank them and you for staying affordable. Thank you
• I think ty will come out with a peacock and I wish those cart stands in the malls, selling beanies for $$$, were gone. Then my children wouldn't have to see them and ask for one(cause mom refuses to pay that much for one). Have a nice day=o)
• I think adults should butt out and let kids enjoy their collecting. Most kids don't have 50-100 dollars to buy 1 beanie.
• I think the most frustrating thing about collecting BB's is the lack of availability of some and over abundunce of others. I also think that the retailers charging excessive prices for new ones (especially Princess) as well as requiring customers to buy an old one in order to purchase a new one are ruining the excitement and challenge of collecting beanie babies. I have three daughters and we have had a blast searching for the next one we need. The quality time together has been wonderful. But some retailers and other indviduals have left a bad impression on children who love the product and enjoy the anticipation of what will be next. My daughters have lost interest lately and quite honestly so have I. Depressed in DePere, WI
• I think stores are way too greedy! At a restaurant called DZ Akins, they had Princesss and Erin... for 150 and 200! And then when I called them to see when they're next shipment would be and if they were getting Princess and Erin... They said the Princesses and Erins and been lost in the order so people would put they're name on a list and then when they came in they'd get it for a "special" price... 129! i love collecting beanies babies, I have 101 and I am still hoping to add more, but, I think that this innocent hobby for kids has turned into an all adult hobby! At Nordstrums one day there was a woman who was grabbing all the Doodles out of everyones hands and trying to buy them. I am 10 3/4 old and I have never been more disgusted with people like this... also at the prices! When the January releases came outs I had just purchased the last of the ones I needed... Stretch and then I saw a stand selling all the releases for 50 bucks a pop! Saying they just arrived! And they are still selling them at that price! I love collecting beanie but a word of advice... don't encourage greedy people by buying they're beanies. The ess you show intrest the lower they drop they're prices.
• I dislike it when they retire new beanies. I don't like the amount of control Ty has over the number of Beanies made to make them more popular due to demand.
• Personally, I think they are wonderful little creatures, inexpensive, and delightful to give to friends and children to cheer them up. I enjoy them for their symbolic value. I have a friend who is into Polar bears and I gave her Chilly - she has two. I have only discovered this craze in the last 3 weeks, and find it absolutely incredible. I am very annoyed at the retailers who hold back stock for the retirement, and then put it out at twice the price! We have one store here NOT doing that. If I had a Beanie worth money I would sell it to finance a trip for my daughter to visit her friends in Prince Edward Island, Canada. But mostly, I think they should just be enjoyed for their cuteness and sentimental value. have succumbed to the degree that I leave the tags on now. As my daughter says, I am attached to my little Beanies, whereas, she thinks they are just cute little animals and would have no sense of loss in selling them. It might be a little less crazy in Canada but not by much. I am appalled at Customs taking little children's Beanies away! What happened to free trade?? -- it only applies to huge corporations, and not children and grandmas?? People are very hard on the clerks in the stores, blaming them for the bent tags, and they come packed 24 to a bag from the factory. Some stores are considering not carrying them anymore -- the stress level is too high and the the phone calls interfere with normal work levels. Others state the only reason they are still in business is the sale of the Beanies. There are two sides to this whole phenomenon, one good, one horrible. Greed and children's toys should not come together. Darlene
• I PURCHASE A FEW FOR MY CHILDREN IF I HAPPEN TO SEE THEM. BUT WHEN THEY WENT OVER $7.00 I DREW THE LINE. NOW IF THEY GET ONE IT'S FROM A FREIND OR GRANDMA. IT'S SAD THAT SUCH A GREAT CONCEPT - AFFORDABLE, QUALITY TOYS FOR KIDS HAS BECOME SUCH A BUSINESS OF GREED. YES, THEY ARE CUTE, BUT NOT WORTH SO MUCH. WHEN I SEE PEOPLE AT MALLS AND STORES STANDING IN LINE FOR HOURS I WANT TO GO UP TO THEM AND SAY - GET A LIFE!! IT'S JUST A TOY!! MY CHILDRENA ARE CONTENT TO PLAY WITH WHAT THEY HAVE. I'VE SEEN OTHERS TAKE KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL, AND WAIT FOR HOURS, DRIVE ALL OVER THE PLACE. WHAT DOES THAT TEACH OUR CHILDREN? AND THE RETIRED PRICES. THAT SOMEONE WOULD SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON A LITTLE STUFFED TOY IS A SAD REFLECTION OF THE TIMES. HOW LONG WILL IT BEFORE SOME OTHER NEW HOT ITEM TAKES THEIR PLACE? WHY CAN'T WE LEAVE CHILDREN'S THINGS FOR THE CHILDREN!?!
• I sell beanies as a volunteer in a hospital gift shop. We are overwhelmed when a shipmenr arrives, but we never sell over $5.50 each. We auctioned off to charity 12 Princess Dianas and raised thousands for several charities of their choice.
• Authorized Resellers should be prevented from "setting aside" BB's for employees, etc, EXCEPT for raffles. This is the most unfair practice I've seen by Authorized resellers - and must be stopped!
• I have a problem with the prices on the secondary market where one can purchase the retireds, it is rediculous.
• I think Curly, Crunch, and the monkeys will retire next.
• It is impossible to get Erin Or Princess for under 100 - 150. That is not right.
• I think that more Princess Bears should be made available. The general public cannot afford $200 plus.
• I was disappointed that none of the bers were retired on May 1. Hoping that there will be a surprise "bear" retirement soon.
• I just simply love the Ty beanie babies--hope they are around forever.Hope they stay at around the $6.0 price for currents so children and new collectors can have the opportunity to purchase and love them as I do. As far as prices on the secondary market, they have the right to ask whatever--as we have the right to either purchase them or not--that should let them get the message if their beanies don't sell.
• I feel that a secondary market for beanies is fine. I am in the secondary market, buying and selling. The only thing I don't agree with is greedy secondary market people. I think at stores the kids should get first pick and then the adults. It shouldn't be first sell out the back door, then to the adults, then to the kids.
• I just wish that I could have them all for myself as well as my fiance
• I don't like that the Beanies I really want badly, ( wich is trap,colored teddies,oldies , dino trio, and others) I can't get because of prices, demand , and that it is very rare or very valuable. Also , I am scared when I find a Beanie that someone is offering at a reasonable price, and know that it is probably a counterfiet or just that person won't send you your merchendise. There are some terrible people who lie and rip people off. I think that it is scary to be dealing with one of them. You neve know.
• I like the original quality designs that Ty coes up with. I don't like the swxondary market.
• i love beanie babies and i can't wait til they come out with some new ones. my name is ashley ginn.
• I get really angry at selfish people who buy up all the beanies for the secondary market, causing casual collectors to give up,and deny children. Beanies became popular because they were origionally reasonably priced gifts, now they are so valuable I hate to let my kids play with them. I also get mad at the people who jack the prices up on new or recently retired beanies.
• I get really angry at selfish people who buy up all the beanies for the secondary market, causing casual collectors to give up,and deny children. Beanies became popular because they were origionally reasonably priced gifts, now they are so valuable I hate to let my kids play with them. I also get mad at the people who jack the prices up on new or recently retired beanies.
• Like to see cute prehistorical animals, bugs (like butterflies) and fish.
• I dislike the way that the price goes up because someone holds a few and make them hard to get. Now that the May retired ones have been announced, the last new ones are all over. Before the announcement you couldn't find them anywhere. I don't think Peace, Maple, Erin, Brittany or Princess should be retired until they start showing up, so we don't have to pay a arm and a leg for them. Somewhere these are being held so that someone makes money. They are a childs toy, not a money maker for the greedy.
• they are so cute and the quality is a-1 for the price
• I think beanie babies are great! I just wish there weren't so many greedy store owners trying to make a big profit on beanies that are not retired and still on the market(i.e. princess and erin) I have never seen them in the retail stores in my area for less than $150. The other day however I found a store taking orders for both those beanies for $6.oo each I just don't understand.
• the beanie babies are a very fun collectible and are fun looking for.
• I wish people who sell beanies on the internet realize that no one is going to buy any common currents for 10 dollars when they can go buy one for 6!
• These are great
• I first bought Mystic because I thought she was so sweet and I had a white horse, myself. From there it has blossomed and even my husband is buying now. It's fun.
• I Love Beanies !!!!
• I think beanies are very cute and fun to collect. I have met a lot of very nice people collecting.
• We love the Beanies!! Keep them coming!! Thanks.
• I don't like retailers who are buying BB's at cost and sell them at inflated prices.
• I think, it is stupid that people are soooooooo obsessed with Beanie Babies!! I admitt, that I love them but, only because they are cute. Another thing I would like to add Ty Warner is such a JERK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yea he really wants kids to be able to aford them!!! HE IS JUST SELFISH AND GREEDY!!!!!! HE IS IN IT FOR THE $$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I believe that retailer owners are out to make more money when they get a shipment in and instantly put it on the secondary market, they forget that people do really love these little critters. My grandsons play with them and how can I tell them you can't play with that because grandma paid $60, they do not comprehend that, it is a lovable toy.
• I am a teacher using beanies for educational purposes as well as for family/children's presents. Refuse to buy from secondary if prices over ten dollars. It is a ripoff for all families and children. Ty should refuse to send orders to retailers with overpricing policies.
• since i was infected with the bb flu i also infected 6 others
• I have had a really good time collecting the Beani babies. An really like all of them. They are part of my family now. What I don't like is the people ripping comsumers off. Prices should be set and anyone caught changing prices should be punished. Secondary market should have rules as well, but how does a person control them. If they got caught selling for extremly high prices retailers should not allow them to buy form them any more. My husband & I are Beanie Baby Beginner Lovers Thank you Pam & Mark Wagner
• Make more promotional beanies around chicagoland
• I THINK THE TY DEALERS WHO SELL ONLY TO PERSONAL FRIENDS AND EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE DROPPED. THIS IS NOT FAIR TO THE PEOPLE THAT WORK EVERY DAY AND CAN NOT SIT IN THE PARKING LOTS WAITING ON THE UPSGUY.
• First with the Princess phenomenon, and then with the Erin phenomenon, I sometimes feel that Ty is jerking the consumer around. That the Princess Bear would be in short supply and limited in number is understandable. She's a special bear. But Erin...? Not in the same league with Princess, certainly, but there has been a dearth of Erins since the toy was "born." This seems to be a Ty gimmick -- only a few per dealer -- and I don't like it. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth about buying future beani s.
• I like Beanie Babies alot but I hope they can make more of them faster which would hopefully make them a little cheaper and easier to get. I also think TY shold have a couple contests to make beanies i.e. Children Design a Beanie. I really hope that Beanies will be eaasier to get like they were before they became popular like when i started collecting.
• I hope beanies never stop selling! I really want to collect them all!!! They are so cute! The price should go back to 5.00 though
• I,m an old woman that loves these little darlings. I wish I had my own beanie shop, then everyone around my town could afford one.I dislike the attitude of some merchants, in my town,that treat customers like they are doing us a favor by selling b.b. in there shop. Some of these shops wouldn,y have much bussiness if it weren,t for the sale of beanies..thanks for asking...
• Was shocked at the high number of retireds May 1 98. I despise how the authorized Ty dealers are gouging people on the Princess Bear.
• I have never visited your website until now and you can be sure that I will be on it everyday now!!! It is so awseome!! Thanks!!
• I feel kids don't get a fair shot in the industry to purchase beanie babies at a fair market value. I collect beanies with my daughters so they can learn a "childs stock market", also the Princess bear and Erin was handled poorly, most children will never own one. Brenda Hallman
• I LOVE THEM ALL
• I love beanie's!they are so cute.My fav. beanie's are princess,garcia,peace,rainbow,iggy,and flash!
• I,m an old woman that loves these little darlings. I wish I had my own beanie shop, then everyone around my town could afford one.I dislike the attitude of some merchants, in my town,that treat customers like they are doing us a favor by selling b.b. in there shop. Some of these shops wouldn,y have much bussiness if it weren,t for the sale of beanies..thanks for asking...
• I like to collect beanie babys but sometimes the newly retired ones are very expensive. You should also bring Erin, and Princess down to $5.99 or less like Ty Warner says. Sincerly Broy Klein
• I predict Blackie will retire.
• All beanie babies should be sold for 5.99-10 dollars. The secondary market is rediculous. I also don't think it is fair that stores are only able to order a limited amount. I wish there was a way to order them through the mail at a regular price.
• I JUST WISH THAT THESE RUDE RETAILERS WOULD REALIZE THAT THEY BRING MOST OF THIER PROBLEMS UPON THEMSELVES, AND WE PAY THIER SALARY!!!!!
• I enjoy collecting them and hope it continues. I dislike the fact that you can't buy any rare ones at the normal price even in a retail store. There is always a way they make you spend more money.
• Ithink that all the fake TY BB's the makers shold be sued
• I think the secondary market is WAY too greedy. I have seen Princess for $450, Erin for $250 and so on. I just want some Beanies!
• There should be more bears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I hate that Princess and Erin are usually only found in secondary markets for huge prices. I really like them and want them. I think it would be cool if they introduced a new one each month and retired them that way too. I don't like 10 at a time coming out.
• I think Beanie Babies are for children. Not for money-hungry dealers.
• Beanie Babies, are fun to collect. I buy them for my children, I use them as a form of reward when my kids, do good. It's really a phenomenon, which I believe will only get bigger. I try and buy only what I can afford, some beanies, are just out of reach. I can't see myself paying,200.00, for a princess bear. There is too much greed out there. Some of the distributors, are worst than secondary market. They hike up the prices, for no reason at all. TY's customer complaint, what are they going too do---- ot sell to the merchants, that are making money for them----NOT. Overall it's a nice hobby, but I feel TY, should do something about the way merchants price--their product.
• I think it's rridicolous to selll a bag of beans for $5,200
• I do not like the way they make special addition beanies so hard to get. If you do not work at or know someone that works at a store that carries them you may never complete your collection.
• I THINK THIS HAS GONE WAY TO FAR I COLLECT FOR THE KIDS AND YOU CANT EVER FIND THEM AND IF THEY DO HAVE THEM THEY COST AN ARM AND A LEG NOT ALL PEOPLE ARE MADE OF MONEY AND THE CHILDREN JUST DONT UNDERSTAND I THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE IT SO THEY CANT CHARGE ANY PRICE THEY WANT ANY WAY HAPPY BEANIE HUNTTING
• My son and I love all the beanies. We have a Schnauzer named Ladybug and would love to see a Schnauzer beanie. We would also like to see a Woodpecker, Cardinal and Bluejay. I would like to see stores in our area STOP allowing beanie baby purchase only with a set dollar amount purchase of other items in the store. The Cottage in Lubbock , Texas will not allow a beanie purchase without another purchase, to me it's beanie blackmail, especially when children so desperately want them.
• I have two beanie babies that just retired resently! I was so amazed when I read the Beanie Mom Netletter! I was hoping that my collection would be worth something!
• I would love to see a German Shepard beanie; they are my favorite dog suezq@niu.edu
• just to say that I disagree on the secondary markets prices for current BB.
• I dislike the unscrupulous dealers. As soon as a Beanie is difficult to find, they "up" their price. (Even if it's not retired). I believe in private enterprise, but this is too much.
• I think that TY has a good thing going, but if he isn't careful, he is going to get too many people angry at him and the whole market will cave....like what happened with the Cabbage Patch Kids. Ty Warner is himself, getting a bit too greedy and controlling.
• Really like. . .the Beanies, which are all adorable! Really dislike. . .the obsessive/compulsive behavior exhibited by way too many of the *adult* collectors (under the guise of collecting for their children, most of whom couldn't care less about this passing fad).
• It seems the lowest price beanies on the secondary market retire first.
• If you have a mailing list I would like to be added. Please E-mail Me at: DaleTiedemann@PWSB33.ab.ca
• I hope Ty does something about the slowing down of the BB market. He needs to make more types of BBs and have more harder to find. At the current rate everyone will have all the currents and need nothing. I want BBs to stay a collectables. If Ty dosen't do anything this BB thing will only be a fade. A fade not long lived.
• I wonder why pinky didn't retire on may 1st.HMMMMMMMM, was it because she was popular?
• My 11 year old daughter and I LOVE Beanie Baby Shopping and Collecting and don't mind spending up to $10 for them. We consider it exciting to finally the one we have been searching for in a store! But I get furious with dealer's who hide the most wanted Beanies in the back for their special friends and employees, or the ones, like TEDDY BEAR TOWNE in Mesquite, Texas that routinely jacks up the price so that no child could afford to buy them! I don't believe TY is doing a good enough job watching ove the business practices of their distributors and I sometimes believe they are helping to create the problem by not sending out mass quantities of the Bears to all the stores at once. But I still love it!!!!!!
• I think Beanie Babies are the cutest toys ever. My son {14} daughters {10&11} love them. Even my husband approves of our collection. I just wish people would be more honest and fair. There has to be a secondary market to handle the older beanies but I wish there was some way to watch them.
• The secondary markets should definitely be dropped and TY should really increase the amount of beanies it produces, they take advantage of people by making limited Erins, princesses, Brittania to be sold ONLY in Britian is crap, if u collect beanies, u want them all-PERIOD!!!
• It would be nice to see some kind of control on pricing. We have one store that sells for 4.99 and another 5.99 for the same beanie than around the corner you have the same beanie going for 8.00. I realize that I am a older collector but my niece is only little and she has to really save up her allowance to purchase a beanie. Not to mention the fact that I've come across hoarders of beanies. One day they don't have one and the next day they have 10. While I'm sure this pra ctice is everywhere, the e are children who are trying to keep up collecting. The smile on a childs face when they come across one they have been looking for is so enjoyable. I just hope the serious collectors don't take that from them. After all this was a childs toy first.
• I wish that claude and tuffy would reitre someday soon.
• It has to be a very bad addiction and my daughter and I suffer from it in the worst way. We eagerly await the next new arrivals and retiree's. With both of us having all currents and some retires the chase is more interesting to find the retiree's we need.
• The whole "todo" over Princess and Erin is a bother. To hard to get from retailers. Even retailers were/are selling them for outlandish prices. Ty made it difficult to purchase because of the limited amount avaliable to the retailers.
• I thought the latest retirement was very well done. Way to go ty. Also I appreciate that ty is trying to keep the beanies affordable despite the fact that they could ask as much as they want to for them.
• The standard retailers who are selling Erin in excess of the regular price (5.99 to 8.00 range) should be dropped from the Ty list of authorized resellers.
• i wish i could find more for $7 or less
• I would like to see TY make a peacock, buffalo, or goat.
• Just like baseball cards, everyone wants to be a dealer and the collecting of beanies by kids will be lost.
• It would be nice if the local stores in our area (Ohio) would put out their inventory sometimes in the evenings instead of always in the mornings or afternoons. It makes it hard on us working moms to purchase hard to find beanies by continuing this practice. The same people are getting the hard to aquire beanies. Come on...please give us working moms a chance too!!!
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• have heard that people in my area can get erin & princess for $6. but i don't know where. I've only seen them for in the hundreds, that's tooooo expensive for me.
• I am very unhappy with the retailer that are back door selling of the erin bear... they are selling to second market places or to friends only...or they say they didn't come in... how can a store never recieve any erin bears???
• Hi! I am from Canada. I hate the prices for Beanie Babies here. The Cheapest I can get them is $10.49!
• I wish people who give us kids a chance to get the better beanies we want them just to play with they wait until they go retired and sell it really expensive.
• I dislike the "Short Term Greed" of the retailers. I still do not have Erin!!! I am still looking for the $5 Peace! I produce a monthly show and very much enjoy all aspects of the Beanie Phenomenon! I have three favs, though I said Princess. I am British and Irish and I love my Brit! I am always looking for the ones I do not have so anyone could be my next purchase.
• The markets seem to be flooded now, which makes me lose my interest. Last fall, I found a store which had bins of them. Since then, I lost my interest and buy occasionally Thanks!
• My children and i love beanies, we started collecting before the hit big, now are starting to get disgusted because of having a hard time getting, and touble getting the most popular...Princess, Peace..Erin, we have collected for almost 2 years, have searched now for almost a year for peace..at the normal going price and can't get our hand on one unless i want to spend my life saving, its beginning to make us NOT want to collect anymore. Thank you
• My daughter is an animal lover and LOVES her beanie babies! They're inexpensive and cute. I don't like the fact that on current releases retailers try and sell them for at least twice what TY had meant them to be sold, the children who love and cherish their beanies are the ones who are suffering. M y daughter has slither the snake (paid $5) and I wouldn't get rid of it for anything! She would be devistated!
• I like them due to the fact that I can have a set for myself and at the same time save a set for my son to help towards his college fund. I dislike the people whom go to the dealers and are allowed to buy at 5.99 and then sell in their stores for an astronomical amount of money.
• i enjoy collecting Beanies for myself and family. I get rather angered when I am unable to buy a new beanie at a reasonable price, but see tons of people selling many of that same Beaniea at such a ridiculously high price. It just doesn't seem very fair.
• I mostly collect the ones I think are cute. I have three retired beanies, but only have bought one when it was retired (weenie-$10) I am only 13 years old, but love these creatures. They should make a wolf or coyote beanie baby. Beanies rule!!!!
• I would love to see a TY rep come to Northern Philly and drop retailers that are charging an arm and leg for their meant to be cheap BBabies!! Lots are going out the back door too. I search by foot and phone daily, Have NEVER seen a princess under 75, NEVER, ever seen an ERIN. One retailer, Fredericks Gifts, did sell princess for 5.95 but waited until near closing to put out and convieniently sold out before closing, PLANNED?? and then bragged they sold her for 5.99, scammers in Bucks, Montgomery co. Would like to mention School House Sweets and the Pansy Shops for a GOOD JOB!!!! Lisa
• I think that Twigs will retire soon and ty should make a snail called slimy.
• Some adults should learn manners when dealing with their fellow collectors and just have fun in the hunt for the beanies, not the kill.
• Every one I know has heard of Beanies, even some of the men I work with collect them although they have a tough time admitting it, but they know which one I mean when I name one. And on when they know that I'll be out on a Beanie Quest they say "pick one up for me, I mean my daughter is collecting them and since your going anyway". They can't fool me, Beanie Babies have captured the hearts of everyone. I don't like the way the secondary is trying to make such large profits on them, I realize that everyone has to make a living, but come on, charging $10 and up is way out of line. I collect them because I like them and my grandchildren adore them, I don't want to be ripped off. I hope they last a long time. I'd hate to see them go the way of the Cabbage Patch. But, I guess that this too shall pass.
• I like that this popular toy is a non-violent, non- sexist one that everyone enjoys (e.g., boys, girls, kids, adults). It's well-made, well-designed, and inexpensive. I like that they appreciate in value, but I don't like how quickly they appreciate--it makes for some crazy-acting people!
• Unfortunately these cute child toys have brought out the ugly greedy side of people. Also I don't think much of ty limiting the Princess and others ... they definately add fuel to the fire.
• I FIND IT VERY HARD TO GET BEANIES AT LOCAL BUSINESSES BECAUSE THEY START SELLING THEM AT 10:00 AM DURING THE WEEK AND ARE SOLD OUT BY THE TIME I GET OUT OF WORK SO I ONLY HAVE THE LEFT OVERS TO BUY IF I DONT ALREADY HAVE THEM.
• I'm concerned about the counterfeiting. How about mor bugs? Preying mantis, beetle, dragonfly, moth.
• Insane. How can something that has 60K + made of it before retirement be worth anything in the future if everyone is keeping them mint?
• I think that it is completely ridiculous for beanie babies to sell for more than 10 dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are just tiny stuffed animals with beans in them! They are NOT worth thousands, or hundreds of dollars!!!
• after i purchased princess from a florist for $125.00 and then 2 weeks later i bought 2 from zany brainy for 4.95 each i realized then that i would never pay more than 6.00 for any beanie that isn't retired.
• The beanie baby craze is GREAT!
• I love my Beanies, but it is so hard to get all the ones you want. I have purchased them for my grandchildren and daughters and for myself and it was very hard to get the ones needed for each collection. I really love them all, but like the tie-dyed versions best, like Peace, Garcia, Claude and Iggy. I enjoy all the pretty colored fabrics that they are made out of and their cute faces. I do wish they were somewhat easier to get! What I don't like is the way some stores display these lovely Beanies. You see them in heaps on the floor and thrown in piles on shelves. They can't stay in good condition handled like that. I think the phenomenon will last as long as the company keeps making the pretty, little animals. We need to be able to buy the new ones a bit more easier. Thanks for listening!
• I need more money. This hobby is too expensive! I saved up $2300 for the jade bear.......!!!!!1
• I wish all beanies even old retierds were $5.00!!!
• I think Mr. Ty should stop trying to control the retailers, and the secondary market... He has a good thing going and he is going to end up messing it up. So people are making money, so is he. Most important everyone is having Fun. Without the secondary market Mr. Ty would not be as popular..... the main plush line is not that great, except the attic colection. Ty locked me out of the guest book because I listed Erin and Princess for $85.00. I also answered back to 11 postings where kids were asking fo the bears and sold 9 of them for $6.00 ea. Sure I make a buck on the secondary market, but I also give in return. I have fun, and everyone involved in this for the most part is havng fun...... Thanks
• Other than gifts I have to earn money to buy beanie babies and I can't afford to pay high prices.
• I would like to see Ty release some new Beanie Babies soon, especially dinosaurs.
• I really wish that every store that selld Beanie Babies would sell them for only $4.99. In California, at the local malls people are selling them for around $20.00. I think that is crazy. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that that is a good deal. Also, I would like to know what TY is going to make next. But, even with all of the people out there who are trying to get every nickel out of people, collecting is fun.
• Buying ones that you don't like. You buy for the heck of it!!!
• I haven't had this much fun in years. Having two small children this is something the whole family can enjoy.
• Secondary market prices are way to high.
• I think Beanie Babies are cute and they are cuddly and fun to collect!
• Where are my dentures?
• I am sad to say this, but I think that the secondary market is hurting the value of newer Beanies. They sell the new ones for outragous prices and then the value goes down within the month. The new Jan. Beanies were being sold for $30-$50. Now they are being sold for $10. This kind of price gouging is ruining the Beanie experience for collectors. I can't even imangine the chaos that McDonalds will be.
• i think ty should ship what the retailers order in a timly fashion
• I LOVE TO COLLECT BEANIE BABIES THEY ARE SO CUTE AND IT IS LIKE A GAME WHO CAN GET THEM BEFORE THEY RETIRE BUT FOR ME SINCE I STARTED LATE IT IS HARD TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I NEED .....
• I traded my libearty for princess and rainbow. beanies are cute and i am going to get clubby
• IAM VERY DISAPOINTED THAT TY HAS NOT MADE PRINCESS MORE AVAILABLE AS I UNDERSTOOD IN THE BEGINNING. ALSO, ERIN. EVERYONE CAN'T PAY LARGE SUMS FOR THESE.
• They need a seagull named Gullie
• I wish beanies like Princess and Erin would be more availabel at the$5- $6 range for those who would like one just to collect not for resale - especilly since the Princess is to be for charity - the high prices for those on small budgets that would like to contribute to a worthwhile charity is crazy.
• I think that the whole beanie craze will die down very soon. They will only be as popular as the demand- and the demand is slowly-but-shurly going down. I think that the TY company is retiring more and more because they want to make the collection smaller and easier to find. I also think it is dumb how people are paying over $1,000 for a beanie. Beanies were designed for kids, and I think that adults are taking all the fun and excitement out of them. And adults are more crazed about these things then c ildren.
• I don't think retailers should be alowed to sell beanies that are not retired for any more that $5.99
• How long can this possibly last. A lot of people are going to get stuck. Retailers selling Princess & Erin for exponential amounts is disgusting when they only pay 2.50 like all the others. There should be some limit for them.
• I love the Beanie Babies, because they are cute, cheap and hard to find. I love the fact that there are magazines and web sites explaining them.
• Would love to see retailers lose their account with TY for selling their stock (especially Princess and Erin) by the BAG on e-bay. Surely these could be sold locally. I have been in line to buy beanies as the store owner is selling CASES of beanies to a well known secondary dealer. The public was limited to 6 beanies total... the secondary dealer walked out with cases. I have not done business with that dealer again, and never will.
• Ilike the fact that there is such a cute toy at a reasonable price {In most places}. I enjoy collecting them as gifts for family, friends, and children who need a toy {Toys for Tots, etc.}
• I think that the Ty authorized dealers should be restricted as to what they can charge customers for the beanies.
• Retailers should have their accounts discontinued if they are selling BB's for more than the suggested retail price. No one should be selling Erin or Princess for more than the regular price. This does not include the secondary market. I wonder if packing slips could be posted? I have knowledge of some retailers who are holding back the hard to find bears and claiming they don't have them, when they do. I had a retailer tell me straight out, that every Peace Bear he gets he sells to a trader/buyer in South Carolina, that gives him $20.00 per bear. That is why he never has the bears. And on a final note, I hope the MacDonald's promotion this May, goes better than the last one!!
• I am getting tired of hearing about all the pressure on retailers. Since the secondary market is driving the values, the retailers can price accordingly.
• I don't like when small retailers sell new beanies at outragous prices which are suppose to be $5.00 and $6.00 dollars,
• Really disappointing that a child's toy (my kids do play with them) has turned into a circus (a shame someone has to always make a buck). It seem TY encourges this ... just look at their website.
• I collect BB's for my self ,but I think their priced way too high if children like to play with them.They should think of children too.
• I REALIZE THAT TY IS A FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS, HOWEVER, ONCE THEY DECIDED TO MAKE THE PRINCESS BEAR, THE SHOULD HAVE REALIZED IT WOULD BE A BIG SELLER. IT SEEMS THAT THE ONLY WAY TO PURCHASE IT NOW IS THROUGH THE SECONDARY MARKET, AND NONE OF THIS OUTRAGEOUS MONEY IS MAKING ITS WAY TO CHARITY, FOR SURE!!!!!! IF TY WAS GOING TO DO IT, DO IT IN A BIG WAY--THAT'S A REAL CHARITABLE EFFORT, AND CUSTOMERS WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO BUY AT A MODEST PRICE, OR EVEN A REASONABLE $10-20, KNOWING THAT THE PRINCESS DI HARITIES WOULD PROFIT, AND NOT THE SECONDARY MARKET VULTURES!!!!!
• Some people don't like adults buying Beanies, but if it wasn't for my mom I wouldn't have gotten Erin and Princess. If adults buy beanies and don't resell them i think it's fine.
• My daughter got her first beanie baby several years ago - who knew they would become such a hot item!! Now I enjoy the hunt for those we need, however I really don't look for them as much as many others do, but we are having fun with it!! We'll be watching for new ones (as well as the ones we don't have yet - we had 26 of the may 98 retires!) =-)
• Dislike not being able to find Princess or Erin for retail. Drives me CRAZY!!!!
• Wish beanies weren't so hard to find. Hallmark's now not allowed to tell anything other than if they have any beanies. People complain too much. Be happy and don't be greedy.
• Their are 2 things I hate 1 I hate it when grown-ups will push children out of the way just to get the beanie they want. and 2 I hate it when stores will charge outrages prices for different beanies I mean all they are is a bag of beans.
• I hate seeing current beanies in our local newspapers for 3 or 4 times what they are worth! It's sick to think some people go stand in line with all these little kids around them, who are so excited to get a new beanie and these people get in before the kids and buy bags full of beanies and then go and sell them and the poor kids are left with nothing. It's just sad. Then to make it worst other people beleive the only way to get any beanies is to buy them for the outragious prices, and that isn't nessa y. I've been collecting since December of 1996, the most I've paid is about $10 (and $4 of that went to a charity) The oldest one I have is Tabasco (and the rest of that group that retired with it) I also got a Peace and Princess bear for $6 during the time they were in the paper for $75 to $200. Now all I need is Erin and I plan to just wait like I did with Peace and Princess and I will get one for the normal price!
• I am sick of being made to feel belittled by store owners when I ask them if they have beanies. I am also sick of people who are trying to cash in on Ty Warner's success by hoarding all of the beanie babies sold in stores for reasonable prices and then reselling them for many times their value. This makes it nearly impossible for a working woman like me to find beanies and purchase them at a reasonable price.
• I love all the beanies. My problem is not finding out in enough time to 1. go buy them; 2. my local stores being out of what I want; and 3. not being able to get enough timely information. I rarely have time to log onto this site.
• We have met so many new friends and good people!
• I think it is awful what collectors have done with the Princess Bear. I should have been an item to remember Princess Diana and not be sold at the ridiculous price. My grand-daughter would like one because it represented Princess Diana, not because of the value. She is 11 years old and really liked Princess Diana. She is not a big collector. She just gets them when they are available (which is not very often because of the collectors). Thank You Marian Wisbar
• When we stop having fun it is time to stop.
• I love collecting them. I really hate the the distributors are selling their whole stock to the secondary market. Leaving none on the shelves for my 8 year old daughter to buy with her own allowance money.
• I don't like the secondary market or the authorized dealers that sell the beanies for an increased price. They also use the hard to find beanies,Erin,Princess, Peace, as a prize for buying alot of stuff from their stores. it makes it hard for us kids to get the ones we want or need to complete our collection.
• I feel that only the new Erin and Princess bears have really been too high priced. They have NEVER been available at retail stores - the employees take them or they are sold to secondary dealers before even being put on the shelf. I don't mind if dealers buy them... but they should have to stand in line just like everyone else! If stores are not going to offer Erin and Princess to the general public, only those who can pay upwards of $100 will ever get one. Everyone should be given the same chance to s and in line to buy Erin and Princess
• I do not like the stores just dumping the bears in a bin and letting people buy as many as they want. It should be one to a customer. Also here in Canada, some place make you buy 10 new beanies in order to purchase Princess, Erin, Maple or Peace. Just a way of making money, especially to those of us who just would like to have one for our collection. Also I found it to be a great way to make get to know people, what an ice braker when shopping.
• I think they should recreate the "old" retirees just for six months that everyone would get a chance to own their very or Flutter or Web.
• I love how cute these little guys are, but I hate to see all the greediness they spawn. They ARE toys, kids can't really afford them!
• I would hope that all retailers would commit to fair practices & put out all the beanies, my daughter who is 4 wants "the purple bear" & she doesn't understand why I can't get her one!! And she DOES NOT let me keep the tags on hers either, so I guess they will remain her toys forever!
• The only disappointment to the Beanie Craze is that the kids who like to purchase them with their allowance money infrequently get to the one's they want because the adults have scoffed them up. It relegates me to going and joining the mob at Hallmark's etc. to try to grab one (many times this is the limit) and I have three kids. I wouldn't pay more than $5-6 for one and I think that the retailer's who have a Beanie Acct and mark them way above the going rate should be dropped.
• The secondary market is fine, but when retailers are selling directly into the secondary market, there is no chance for children or private collectors. I keep saying that I will sell some of mine, but I can't ever part with them. It seems unfair that the ONLY way to purchase Princess and Erin is for hundreds. I went into a store that put their Erins on sale for $200 each. That isn't right.
• The Princes bear is not being sold as intended. I don't understand how retailers are getting away with selling her for so much money. I also don't understand how Erin increased in value even before he was shipped. My son has not been able to purchase any bears and I won't purchase any bears because they are too expensive and that includes Peace. The fun of collecting beanie babies for children and children collecting beanie babies for themselves is that they were at one time an affordable collectab e. The kids used their allowance to get the beanie baby they wanted. That's not always true today. My son and I get the biggest thrill looking for beanie babies for $5.00. That is our goal on beanie runs. We pay more only for retireds and never more than $25.00. That is a challenge but it's a great lesson in scavenging for thrift for my son
• My only complaint is when the secondary market get new beanies before they ever get to the regular retailer. Seems backwards to me! Thanks
• I collect Beanies for myself and 5 children,and can no longer purchase Beanies at a reasonable price.I have got to the counter to check out only to be told the cost was 10.00 or more and had to have the children to put them back!WHAT A BUMMER.
• I collect Beanies for myself and 5 children,and can no longer purchase Beanies at a reasonable price.I have got to the counter to check out only to be told the cost was 10.00 or more and had to have the children to put them back!WHAT A BUMMER.
• I collect Beanies for myself and 5 children,and can no longer purchase Beanies at a reasonable price.I have got to the counter to check out only to be told the cost was 10.00 or more and had to have the children to put them back!WHAT A BUMMER.
• I think that TY shold have a limit on how much the retailers can sell the beanies for! I have tried to get certain ones and it is sicking on the prices on the stuffed animals.
• I think retailers should limit the amount people can purchase to give everyone a chance to get the new beanies when they start coming out.
• I think Beanie Babies should be affordable to the children that they were originally intended for and when I see secondary marketers price gauging and articles published encouraging this same tactic it makes me angry.
• The hunt for the beanies has been a great fun! It is frustrating that newly released beanies are sooo expensive.
• I am a college student and don't think that it is very fair for authorized dealers to sell to raise the prices of beanies an outragous amounts nor to make special deals with secondary market dealers. This makes it very difficult to get ahold of certain beanies. It makes it difficult for those of us who collect beanies for fun and not for profit. I don't have to money to spend a hundred dollars on beanies, and neither do little kids whom may I remind everyone that there were originally for.
• I collect coins too but Beanie Babies are so darn cute!!
• Prices are way out of reach!!! Dealers are squeezing way to much money out of us. I hope people start protesting so TY will make tighter restrictions on those dealers who are stealing up blind.
• I think it's sad when people buy Beanies at Ty prices then turn around and try and steal money from those who are honestly trying to collect for their children's future..it reminds me of a ticket scallper..they should be penalized not us!!!
• I started buying Beanies as special treats for my children,but kids cannot afford to buy them now. I wish that people weren't so greedy when selling new Beanies, children don't have a chance to buy them and it's disappointing to them.
• Ty Warner is a genius...The next Bill Gates
• Although I tell myself I am buying them as an investment, I have not yet sold or traded one and don't imagine I will. I have always had a slew of teddy bears and always felt they were too darn expensive. Now I buy beanies (all execpt 3, I paid under $10 for). It seems like a natural progression. My favorite thing to do though is to talk my friends and family into buying them. My boyfriend says I won't be happy until every one I know is hooked (I even got him to buy 2)!
• I love collecting beanies. They are the cuites thing going. I don't like the retailers who require you to purchase their merchandise before they will allow you to purchase a beanie. Especially when the purchase amount must be in the 125 to 200 dollar range.
• I hope it continues, it's an affordable collection for anyone. I dislike not being able to get Maple and Britannia. I dislike the long lines at stores when a shipment arrives.
• I feel a bit silly for putting down the stuffed phenomenon for the last 2 years, only to have been caught up in the adorable craze myself. I'm a very practical woman, never buying into hype. Look at me now, i'm one of many, and don't see myself slowing down until you've put an end to it. I even have my husband hooked and he loves it. Thank you and think of a Seahorse for the future. maria diaz(pemboke pines, fla.)
• I don't like the fact that this phenomenon has gotten so big that Ty has closed accounts of some of it's best retailors. There is a store in Lafayette, In. where I used to shop for Beanies regularly, and all of the sudden, Ty stopped shipping to them. It was a shame because Golstone Jewelry was probably the best retailoe fo Ty in the whole city. There are more than 20 businesses that sell Ty products, and no one did more about promoting ty products than Goldstone. They were always well informed, an never did anything unethical. They were very upset whan they called Ty to see why they hadn't recieved a shipment in about 6 weeks, when ty told them that their account had been cancelled. Ty never even told them until they called. That was Wrong!
• I get real aggrivated when retail stores charge more than $6.00.
• Would like to see them made more available to the general public. I hate to go places where you have to wait in line for a number. This is usually when stores announce the will have beanies available on certain days. I'd rather see stores put them out just as they do other merchandise.
• Make Beanies more excessable to children,stop TY Retailers from starting Beanies out at more than there value.
• I love Beanies!!!! Ty Warner needs to make MORE CAT BEANIES!!!!!!
• I think Ty has created a monster by playing games with the retailers on how the bb's are sold!! Therefore the after market has just gone nuts!!!
• I love Beanie Babies an I hope they stay forever!
• I truly enjoy collecting beanies, it is as much fun for me as it is for my kids. We love to go shopping and find ones we don't have to add to our collection! We are very excited about the new retireds, we have almost all of them! We are anxiously awaiting the new teenies at McDonald's.
• There is nothing that I don't like about Beanie Babies. I think that there should be a wolf and a pegasus Beanie Baby. I'll buy them.
• I do feel that many retailers have taken advantage of the situation. unfortunatly ty has put many retailers in a bad financial situation by requiring payment by credit card. We personally have had thousands of dollars on hold for up tp six months just to purchase our supply. The perception of the profit on some stores, not all stores, has been well out of proportion. Although some retailers are taking advantage of the situation,a few are still honest and that includes us. It would be nice if custom rs would realize that and not be so unhappy in every store they walk into.
• I wish we could find princess and erin and peace bear more readily and at the price we should pay for it. Also would be nice if the children could buy them without getting trampled by the greedy secondary market people who scoop them all up when they are put on the shelves. Thank you Phyllis Thompson
• I think the secondary market of current beanie babies should not be allowed. I do not have a problem with the retired ones for ty himself said the price on retire he has no control over and thats the beauty of collecting them you should not be paying high prices for current!!!! Retire ok.
• THIS is so much FUN! I've throughly enjoyed collecting, sharing and meeting new friends through Beanie collecting!
• it drives me crazy that it takes so long for some resellers to get shipments.
• Their needs to be a apricot poodle,it's name should be Missy because she's prissy!
• I love beanies.
• I especially like the natural colored ones--Ears I love, but I have a hard time with pink, purple, and green bunnies, even though I bought all 4 for my grandchildren for Easter. At first I was only buying for them, but now I have 13, and will probably stop with less than 20. The dogs plus Stretch, Pinky, Gobble, Pouch, Chocolate, Ears, and Twigs (even though he's a funny color), caught my fancy, so I bought those for myself. I still need Scottie and a couple of the other dogs,, although I don't real y like Burny (spelling?) I'll probably get all but Rover--again don't like funny color. My daughter and 3 granddaughters have almost all of the current plus newly retired, but have several of older retireds, including Tobasco, Libearty, Garcia, Lizzy, 97 Teddy, and others. It's been fun for all of us! My granddaughters compete in gymnastics, and from my "backstock" of ones that I haven't given them yet, if they score a 9 or better in a meet, they get a new BB!
• I don't like how much they charge for Princess and Erin. I don't like having to worry about checking for fakes either.
• I think beanies have brought out the worst in people. i wish they would go away.
• I would like the retailers to be fair and limit the rare, or less common beanies to buyers. I recently went to a sale, and arrived early to witness a family purchacing 10 out of 11 of the Princess Beanies. I would like to see the beanie phenomenon continue, and worry that Ty Warner will soon stop producing new beanies. I am worried that the beanies that I buy today will not go up in value as much, especially since they are retiring so many now. I do not really understand the craze behind a beanie baby, but I have caught it!!! It is fun.
• My only complaint is the frequency that hard to find beanies seem to be going out the backdoors of some retailers. It is hard enough to find some of the more rare beanies. You really have to know someone who is a retailer to have a chance at some of them.
• I think too many were retired and it has hurt the secondary market.
• I think that ty wanted these toys to sell at a low cost, and I think people are getting carried away with making a fast buck,I think people should not be able to resell them,esp. on the internet. They are making money without having to pay taxes on it.
• I wuold just like to now why beanies are worth so much?! I personaly think that they are a waste of time, but if people buy them for a lot of money, I am out there selling them to upsesive people.
• I love 'em! I just wish people would play by the rules, those who don't (the greedy, you know who you are! And should be ashamed!!) should play elsewhere.
• TY needs to come out with new ones. Some are getting "old".
• I often stop to think about "where is it going? When will it slow down or when are prices going to remain steady?" Meanwhile, I just keep buying my little beanies which I began buying for my granddaughters, but which they cannot touch! Onen tanon nia:wen. So long and thank-you!
• I wish that when TY says that it wil lmake a beanie pleantiful after the initial release, that they would have the production to back their claim. I am still waiting to see Erin arrive at my favorite store...A very reputable one..and they have not yet recieved shipment. Why are they so plentiful elsewhere? Something is fishy! How do the seconarries get the beanies before the reputable dealers? PS this part was written by Mom who gets my beanies for me. We do pick up others for friends, so we do resell. But so far never for a profit.
• some of them are just so hard to find. There should be more retailers.
• I have come up with a new beanie to be produced, his name is bandit the ferret, I even have a poem and a birthdate! I would like to submit this idea to ty
• I have come up with a new beanie to be produced, his name is bandit the ferret, I even have a poem and a birthdate! I would like to submit this idea to ty
• I love BB!!!!!!!
• I think that the secondary market should sell the current beanies for $5-6 dolars, and the retires for $7 and up(but not too much.)
• no
• I really like beanie babies, but I think that they should be more of a kids thing. Some adults are obsessed with them, I mean they are just little fake animals made of cloth and pellets.
• I've never really had a steady hobby: Now I'm getting on the band-wagon and following the trends to a new and exciting hobby. I've even gotten my family stuck on them!! Thanx-Blondee
• I dislike dealers who put aside popular beanies for a select few. They should go out and be on a fist come basis.
• I wish I could find a place to purchase more beanines. Can't find them and when I find a store they are always out!
• I have every single beanie from the 1st one-to that latest and I have all the tag and tush tag generations and have never paid more than $20
• It annoys me that people jack up the prices on beanies. A local drug store chain sells them for $5/each when new shipments come in, and they put them out for comsumption. On something that costs Ty $2.50 to make, the profit some dealers and Ty is making is outrageous.
• I love collecting Beanie Babies and wish the releases of new Beanies were more frequent.
• would appreciate more forthcoming information from Ty. Why all the mystic surrounding delivery to retailers--dates,which beanie, etc.etc.
• i love beanies
• I don't think it's fair to the general public that retailers have the chance of getting hard-to-gets(Erin, Princess, Peace,etc.). They should receive ample supply, as they do all the other types.
• SOLUTION TO FIND GREEDY RETAILERS: Send "spies" to check on the stores and see if company policies are being followed. This is very common in the fast food industry, where everything is checked from the bathrooms to the number of pickles on a hamburger. The TY company can easily access UPS online and find out exactly when shipments should arrive, then send a representative into the stores and check to see if stock is on the shelves, and at what price. How many of you would volunteer to do this for free If the TY Company wants to do this - they easily can. If they don't do it, well, then the "NEWS FLASH" is all flash and no substance.
• I think that they need to make them quicker and ship them out quicker because sometimes I have to wait months for them to come in.
• I love beanie babies!!! They are so much fun to collect!!
• i think it is terrible that retailers are hiding beanies and only selling to certain people. that's why beanies are hard to find. it's a
• I don't like how they (ty) are not giving any warning when shipments will arive at the retailer.
• Beanies Rock!!!!!! I bought one beanie for $2.50, and it is worth along 500$ now!!!!
• I never thought stuffed beans could become so popular and vaulble!!!!
• PLEASE HAVE THE RETAIL STORES SELL AT DECENT PRICES--NOT INFLATED BECAUSE THE BEANIE IS RETIRED
• they are cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I never thought when I started collecting these little bean bag toys that I would have gotten so wrapped up that its become an avocation just going out and running here and there to find those pieces that I really want to have. To date I have 125 of these lovable little creatures including several dups and of coarse Princess Di and Erin.
• I think Maple and Britannia should be available in the US because children and young people who are collecting cannot get over there and I thought BBs were kid friendly.
• I think Ty will retire all of them in the next few times, but maybe Erin and only bring out those special ones. This will make beanies rare. After they become more even more popular, he will bring out a line of new ones. This will make beanies e
• I find the collectors are very avid. I don't consider myself a collector. I have quite a few because I just can't seem to resist them. I only buy the ones that really do something for me. They have to call to something in me - like Pounce the cat. It is so precious, with its big eyes. Princess, of course, because I adored Princess Diana. I have 3 and plan to give one to the Mother-in law because she is from England - with the stipulation of course that it gets returned to me. It is a fun, inexpensive thing to do. I don't even have any of my beanies covered, except Princess. They surround me while I am at the computer and will be hanging on a chain from my bedroom ceiling. I bought thenm to ENJOY not to bag up somewhere!! What's the point of having something if you can't enjoy it?
• I enjoy collecting beanies. They are cute and easy to find (and reasonably priced) in my area.
• Princess should not be sold on the secondary market, unless the money is given to charity as it was intended. I am glad that stores put limits on the BB's so that people can't get there hands on so many to turn around and resell them. The whole secondary market has gotten out of hand.
• they shoud make one called Sandy born on 09 18
• I LOVE THE TY-DYE BEANIES, AND I THINK THAT TY SHOULD MAKE A WHOLE BUNCH MORE!
• I often wonder how inflated the figures given in "bb price lists" are. On my Beanie runs, I can easily find 4 or 5 authorized stores selling them at each of the larger malls as well as other shops in my community--with so many Beanie Babies out there, can the secondary market values be accurate (primarily with the more recent "retireds"). I've never tried to sell any in my collection nor have I ever purchased a Beanie from a secondary source, so maybe I'm just naive.
• these beanie babies may wind me up in divorce court....(not really)...they are so cute and something mother/daughters/grandma can do together.......
• I always have ideas and love to share them with TY and always will. Collecting every BB is I'm sure every collectors dream, but it is get- ting harder and harder to do that. Almost impossible.I just wish that the retired ones could make one more come back. I'm sure some might think, well that would take the fun out of it. And I respect that, but others who would enjoy that think it would be fun to try to get retired ones one more time. Half of the retired ones I couldn't find even when they weren't yet retired. Thank you for your time. Sicerely, Liz sweetypie21@juno.com
• We need more good books and sites like Beanie Mom to help keep everything in check and prespective.
• They are cool. I like the McDonald babies too.
• Am having a such hard time acquiring Garcia which is for personal keeps along other treasured set of Magic,Goldie,Inky,Seaweed,Peace, and Valentino...I am deaf. I cannot afford many many beanies so I sell those extras to hope to be able to acquire Garcia. but as I sell a few beanies. Garcia value goes higher and higher Its like chasing a comet which goes further out of reach!! Isnt there some people who would be willing to let me have one not to be resold please
• This is the most fun I have in years Keep up the good work
• The prices the retailers are selling them for are way way way too high.
• someday we will all look back and laugh
• The prices the retailers are selling them for are way way way too high.
• Stores selling TY Beanie Babies should keep these as a child's toy not a collectible and inflate the prices so kids can not purchase them.
• I wish Ty would release and retire certain number of BBs in certain timely manner like quarterly or semi-annanlly.
• I can not stand that it has become who you know in order to get Some of them especially Princess
• I hate retailers who claim that they do not have Beanie Babies, when in fact they do, and are selling them out the backdoor. I do like the fact that Ty retailers are gift, flower, and other small stores, not big retail chains.
• I think that Ty Retailer's that are taking advantage of selling their current Beanies at higher prices than suggested by Ty should be dropped from selling beanies altogether. They are allowed to buy them for $2.75 each and them are selling them from $10 to upwards of $150.
• I dislike that people are hurting other people to get BB's. I think that is wrong!
• Once a beanie is retired, its a shame retailers can still order it.
• I wish that the retailers would put the bbs out when they get them and not play games with the customer.
• mr. warner started this craze as a cheep thing for kids. why do we have to be so greedy and petty, telling lies to children and adults about why erin has to cost 300 dollars or that princess is 200!!!! they should be avalible to everyone and if that ruins the thrill of the hunt for some, im sorry but i see little kids who want that purple bear , maybe just for cuddling purposes and i think that a person should be able to get it for the retail price for just once!!!!!
• Ty to make the new bears more accessible to those of us who have full time jobs and can't be out there everyday buying them in hords!!
• I hate that so many people are on the Beanie Baby bandwagon strictly to make money. I can't go into a craft mall without finding booth after booth full of Beanies...at outrageous prices! My children save their allowances to buy Beanies. It is so hard for an 8 year old child to save $7 to buy a Beanie. I personally think that re-salers are stealing pennies from the pockets of children! I wish something could be done!
• I dislike the fact that us regular collectors can't find Erin or Princess for our kids.It seems the only way to get on is to stake out stores waiting for a shippment.There should be a better way!
• How can I become a Ty retailer? Please reply to RepoPatty@aol.com
• There are retailers in out area who pull retired beanies and also curly and valentino and charge $20. each for them. I am sure they don't pay any more for them, yet they are charging us 4 times the amount. Also I sould like to compliment another retailer. they keep their prices at $5.00 each. They are very fair to all consumers and believe they deserve a pat on the back. The Book Store in Homer Alaska.
• I think Ty has been too greedy! They have started this craze by not making the beanies available! I don't think they should come out with beanies like Princess and Erin unless they are going to make enough of them for everyone! Who cares about the secondary market? Let those people get a REAL job instead of taking toys away from children!! I collect them but if a child need one I gave it to them and found me another one! Except of course for the hard to find ones! Only sneaks and rich people hav those!! I am real close to getting out of the collecting business! I don't like to have to fight for them!! I won't!
• TY WARNER drives me nuts, he's so unpredictable. But then again this makes collecting all the more fun!!!!
• I like the challenge of finding certain ones, but sometimes get frustrated by people acting like lunatics. My mother says that Beanie Babies in a few years won't be worth anything!! Who knows!?
• As a BBOC member, I would just like to know how we are going to be given the opportunity to purchase Clubby. Thank you. Love your page
• I had predicted 20 out of the 28 that retired on May 1st!!!!!
• When retailers control who is going to get certain Beanies like holding drawings, making you spend $50, or more on other things to get a particular Beanie, holding back on putting shipments out until a certain day or time. I have been trying to get Princess and Erin for a long time, but even though I check with places and they tell me they don't have them, other people have bought them a few minutes later. It is very frustrating. I wish we could order direct and put these nasty retailers out of the oop. There are a few really nice and fair retailers, but very few. I can think of only one in the Omaha area that is always nice and fair and that is the Village Toymaker.
• I REALY THINK ITS TERRABLE WHEN STORES MAKE YOU BUY 5 OLD BEANIES TO GET A NEW ONE, OR BUY AN EASTER BASKET OR SOME DUMB GIMMICK. EITHER SELL THE BEANIE BABIE OR DONT. I THINK THIS MAKES COLECTING NOT FUN AND MAKES PEOPLE STOP IF ITS TOO HARD.
• I hate authorized stores that select certain beanies (like new, hard to find, or retireds they get in) at secondary prices. I love Dancing Bears Toy Store - they charge 4.95 regardless.
• My children love their beanie babies. I have 3 complete sets, starting with Jan 97 retires - some very old ones. It is sad to tell them that I can't afford to pay top $'s for Erin or Princess and to buy 3 of each! Maybe one day a nice retailer will sell for a reasonalble price. This is definitly not a child's toy anymore !
• Would like to see Ty Inc. reproduce earlier retired Beanies (1993 - 1996)randomly so that children can complete their collections. I think it would be great if Ty were to offer Beanies by mail order or the internet, that way the greed in the seconday would be controlled.
• I hope the fever stays high for a long time. I also hope Ty comes out with more new Beanies this month.
• i really like all the beanies, but if i had 2 choose, it would most definately be seamore.
• I think beanie will stay pretty long. My whole household loves beanies. We re-sell to get money for our personal collections and to get some extra cash.
• I think Maple should retire
• I really wish people would see this as a fun hobby. Also that the secondary market would quit hogging all the good beanies and then trying to take advantage of the rest of us. This is suppose to be fun, not greed and rip offs. I love beanie babies but refuse to pay over retail for them no matter what. This is also the time when adults can really make an impression on kids by not fighting and trying to knock people over to get a $5 stuffed animal...lets show kids that things can be fun without violence or confusion over what is right or wrong. God bless you!
• I think the people who buy up all the Beanies and resell them are horrid. They are children's toys, and they should be available for them. The only time I've paid more than $5 for a Beanie is when I had a friend from Canada send me Maple, and I reimbursed him for the postage. I understand adults liking them, I think they're very cute, but they shouldn't be abused by greedy adults.
• I love to collect these cute things. The kids adore them and it helps them to learn how commerce works, the good and bad. I can see two problems. One is the retailors make it impossible, for even the most accomplished child, to buy their favorite beanie if it is in high demand. I am not rich, I am Irish. My family's only wish is to acquire an Erin bear. We can't aford the secondary market, and most retailers keep or auction their bears. We will probably never get one. Second, some people buy out stores Kids, and working people, don't have a chance. I realize this is how a free market works, I just felt like venting :) Bye
• I love collecting bb's. It is fun to see which ones I will find next.
• I believe that Ty should equally send BB's to merchants. I have been to small towns that think when they have 6 or 7 types they are doing well, only because they do not sell the volume larger retailers do. This makes it almost impossible for the people in these areas to collect them without traveling great distances.
• I am trying to purchase either Princess or Erin and I resent retailers that have bags of these or other beanies, that might bring them a little more money put away. They then either auction them off by making you purchase a certain item so you can get a raffle ticket or if it is a particular beanie in demand they put them in a case and double the price. You think the rarity justifies the higher price but they pull these so called "rare" ones from a bag they have hidden. under their counter. This leaves a sour taste in your mouth. Or going from authorized dealer to authorized dealer you can pay as much as a $5.00 difference in price for the same beanie. If I didn't love collecting beanie babies and the attic collection I would say forget it. I usually buy two so that I can trade with my friends if they get one that I can't find that way we all share in the fun of shopping but everyone gets one of each kind.
• I hope the trend of beanie collecting continues for years to come. Like Barbies.
• Lets let the kids have these toys and stop paying high prices. These are not meant to be hoarded and then sold at extremely high prices. The new ones cannot even be gotten anymore by a child collecting for the love of them and not the money.
• i think the INVESTMENT trend in buying beanies for long term value is long since over, more dealers are selling for a quick 20% or so profit and doing it over and over, where before you could hold a beanie in order to get top dollar (and you could) i still think the craze is on and strong, but show attendence is down and a new crop of 15 is in order, due to the fact that the last ten were less-than-superior design, ty needs to go back to that great design emulated by dinosaurs, peking, manny,coral, et al. There is still s strong collector base, but beanie value will nevere again be 10% a week as realized a through 6 months. There is plenty of room to profit off beanies, and still keep the hobby going. Supply and Demand balance are a key. Recently i have noted a drop off in values, esp for no tag beanies, as more and more people are finding them in closets and attics and places and taking around 20% of retial value,which causes prices to drop, I DISLIKE: the continuation of the basic feline design 4th and 5th gen tags (3rd was best ever) too many commons overproduction
• I do not like the fact that some of the authorized dealers (like some Hallmark's) are selling the beanies at a secondary price. Do you know what its like to be with your 9 yr old, seeing her spot a beanie that she has been looking for, really wants, only to find out that its over $100. come on, what 9 yr old is walking around with that much cash? And no, I didn't pay it for her. We made a deal when she started this, we would only spend up to $10, and only if she did good in school.
• I feel that the secondary market is a good thing for Beanie Babies, but there are some secondary retailers that are extremely greedy. Especially when it comes to Erin or Princess. I know these are much sought after but some retailers are way out of line charging ridiculous prices. I am only trying to collect a complete set and with some of the prices ou there it is virtually impossible. I do not sell my Beanies nor do I ever really plan to. I only collect for my personal collection.
• Beanie Babies are great. Tighter controls aren't necessary, this is America right, land of the free.....Supply and demand.....This is something that our entire family enjoys doing together.
• I think the secondary market is going to cause collectors to stop buying BB's because they are buying up all the retailers' stock and boosting the prices. The fad will come to an end alot sooner if the retailers don't stop selling large quantities to the people who are going to sell them on trhe secondary market. I think it's a shame that the secondary market ruined the purpose of the Princess Di Bear. The retailers were supposed to collect the money and donate the money to one of Princess Di's charities. But instead, the secondary market bought them all up and the money will never get to the charities because the secondary market is too greedy and keeps the price too high for anyone to afford.
• I dislike the scarcity of new Beanies!
• I think the secondary market is going to cause collectors to stop buying BB's because they are buying up all the retailers' stock and boosting the prices. The fad will come to an end alot sooner if the retailers don't stop selling large quantities to the people who are going to sell them on trhe secondary market. I think it's a shame that the secondary market ruined the purpose of the Princess Di Bear. The retailers were supposed to collect the money and donate the money to one of Princess Di's charities. But instead, the secondary market bought them all up and the money will never get to the charities because the secondary market is too greedy and keeps the price too high for anyone to afford.
• I dislike the fact that they are so hard to find. also I DONT LIKE THE IDEA OF SOME RETAILERS SELLING TO THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ONLY.
• I dislike the fact that they are so hard to find. also I DONT LIKE THE IDEA OF SOME RETAILERS SELLING TO THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ONLY.
• Need more frogs! Need better access and prices on bears. I can't afford $100 and up for Erin!
• Beanies are totally addictive, I wish there were places were I could find Aaron or Princess for less than $125, especially at the retail stores where they carry other Beanies for $6!!!
• I think the beanie babies are cute and I am collecting them for my daughter. She loves them. I have a few "put away" for her for special occasions. I did pay $210. for a Maple, but I would love to get her a Princess. I look for them all the time. I think I need help! LOL
• Yes I would like to add a few comments, first of all how about sending a train load of ty products to Florida! Sebring that is, you can't hardly find any ty products here the shipments are months apart rediculous! Also I think the Princess Bear should be sold at regular price same as Erin. They are just Beannies let us all be able to get one for our collection... It's about time ty retired some beannies...
• Idon't have the time needed to really beanie shop. I get disgusted when storys don't have the current beanies. I started collecting in Jan.1998 and was unable to find a scottie, inky or seaweed. They just retired in May and all the stores I went to from Jan-May and I couldn't find them. Sometimes it makes me want to stop this collecting and I am not greedy. I don't want to make any money. I just would like one of each type for my children.
• The secondary market takes all the fun out of collecting because of the prices that they charge. and because they gobble them all up from retailers and that is not fair.
• Ty should stop making beanie babies that aren't sold in the US (Brittania,Maple/Pride)
• I wish that there was a way that Ty could monitor its retailers better. I know of a incident where the retailer took a shipment of Erins and sold them over the internet instead of over the counter to regular customers for $5. When things like this happen it isn't fair to those of us who just want to buy the toy because we like, not because of what its value is or is going to be. The same goes for Princess. The sad part about the sales of Princess on the secondary market is that the $5, let alone th extra $150-200, is not going to the Diana, Princess of Wales memorial fund. I like the bears most of all as I am an avid teddy bear collector. Luckily I have gotten several of the beanie baby bears at $5, including Peace and '97 Teddy. Is there any way that Ty can produce more bears so they are not so hard to get?
• I HAVE ENJOYED THE "HUNT" FOR BEANIES BUT I DO GET ANGRY WHEN STORES PRICE THEIR BEANIES FOR MORE THAN THE SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE, ESPECIALLY SINCE I UNDERSTAND THERE IS A LAW THAT SAYS YOU CAN'T OVER PRICE ABOVE SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE JUST BECAUSE THE DEMAND IS GREATER THAN THE SUPPLY. ROSE C.(DES MOINES, IOWA)
• Though everyone is surprised by the large May retirement, Ty neesd to retire more and get the number smaller to increase availablity as shown with the Princess and Erin nightmare. The stores in Key West Florida are buying over 200 Princess bears on the Internet for $96 a bear and reselling at 100 or 125 dollars. Ty needs to locate the holes in his market and stop it up for good. Dishonest dealers need to be found and their licenses pulled. It is really a pain for honest dealers, children and collectors dfiday@kiwi.dep.anl.gov
• Make Midnight the black lab. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• The retailers are charging too much money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I think the whole Princess and Erin thing has gotten way out of hand. I am afraid to go to McDonalds when they release the teenies!
• I think they will come out with a few more bears for holidays. Like Forth of July. ect.
• I think Beanies are adorable but Ty® shouldn't retire ANY of them
• I Think Blackie is going to retire because he is the only one of the first four orignals left.
• Beanie babies should be worshiped!
• I have alot of retireds, I'll probably never sell my beanies, keep them for when I have my kids, they give them to their kids, well, you get the picture. Then, maybe they an sell them...if they want to!
• I find it disgusting that retailers are not even putting certain beanies, like bears, on their shelves... and now you see people on the internet buying and selling by the dozen only! I think far too many people have so very much invested in them that they will have to stay popular.
• The only problem I have is that it's so hard to find a beanie baby (especially the bears) at a reasonable price. It's nearly impossible to find hard-to-get beanies like the bears around $5. I am especially grateful to have at least one store in my area that sells the beanies at $4.99 no matter what beanie it is. The y at the store believe that the prices out for Erin and other hard-to-finds is rediculous. Its so great to find a store like that. We need more stores like them.
• I collect beanies for a totally different reason. I buy my daughters whatever I can find that they would like. I purchase them for myself to use in my school library. The beanies are matched up with books that have the same character - peace bear with _The Children's Book of Peace_ bongo with _Monkey Soup_ etc. The children can in their spare time take the book to read with the beanie. They see books and try to match a character or the other way around. We research the beanies, who is the oldest, who is worth more and so on. I have a very hard time with the prices that are charged and the way they are being sold and delivered to ty dealers. It is a shame that something that is so enjoyable to children has gotten out of hand.
• I wish everyone would realize that these are just kids toys, not get rich quick schemes. And quit being so GREEDY!
• I hate how people are selling Erin and Princess for way over $100!!!
• It was really run.....sorry to say, the market has changed this.
• I re-sell beanies but try to keep my prices low and accommodate trades. Authorized dealers are my pet peeve when they sell to secondary markets without putting their product on the shelf. Some aren't even unpacking their beanies, they just relabel their boxes to ship to whoever purchased them. I predict more bears will come out - like a 4th of July bear as well as some new colored teddys. They're just too popular. I really enjoy meeting true beanie enthusiasts! The "real" ones are friendly and warm and eager to help you in return! Nothing gets strangers talking like beanie babies!
• I really enjoy beanie babies, they are really cute, but I hate going through all the crud the ty retailers put you through. Very few of the retailers in my area are honest with their prices and with selling their beanies. And when you complain to Ty they want you to send it in writing and get business cards with the owners name and as much info. as you can, which is rediculous. Since they know all the retailers all we as consumers should have to do is give the name of the place that sells them and T should take over from there and look up the owner since they have all that info. anyway. I think it is a ploy to stop the complaining so they will not have to deal with it. I have really been ready to stop collecting because of it. In my area I know of 2 places that adhere to all the regulations Ty puts forth, including the $5.00 to $6.00 range in selling the beanies. When the May 1st retirees came out I went to purchase them and almost every retailer that had the retireds for $15.00 or more. One pla e, Alexandria's Garden in Knoxville, Tennessee told me that in order to buy the retireds I wanted for $6.99 I had to buy a current at the same price for every one retired or I had to pay $15.00 for just the retired and when I said "we'll see what Ty, Inc. has to say about this" she just laughed. So you see, they know they won't get into trouble so they don't care. It is awful that a supposed child's toy has brought out the absolute worst behavior in people even to the point of one woman pushing a child down and taking the beanie from him. As you can see I am very upset about all this but I do appreciate you letting me say all this and if it helps people to open their eyes to theirs or others behavior then it was well worth it. Thank you.
• Beanie Babies have given me & my daughter something to do together that we both enjoy. Thanks Ty! And thanks to all on the net who support us with information & Beanie entertainment.
• I dislike all this talk about the secondary market lately. If it continues like I think it will, beanie babies will no longer be. If you get my drift...
• I believe that Ty Warner should make a chinchilla beanie baby because not very many people are familiar with them. If Mr. Warner made a chinchilla, he would be helping pet stores around the world. I also believe he should remanufacture another crow, only with a different name than Caw.
• I'm disappointed, not only for myself but for kids that like to collect, that Beanies like Princess and Erin are so highly priced. The most I've paid is $25 and I think that's too much! I really want Princess and Erin but am afraid that unless I get lucky and win a drawing, I will never own them. That's that I'm a grown woman with a job. It's sad that it has gotten so out of hand price wise. What happened to a $5 toy any child could afford? Greed.
• To protect our investment, TY needs to crack down on flea market vendors and discontinue selling to those who are selling at flea markets, thru newpaper garage sales.
• I would like to see the price of the beanies come down. I can't see paying more than $5.00 per beanie. They conly cost someone else $2.50, why should I have to pay $100.00 for a princess?
• I think it is sad how terribly high the secondary market is...the american way, i guess, but a sad commentary on greed. Retailers are right in there with them..No one has access to dozens that show up on net unless retailers are selling their that way rather than regular price at the stores... I know of many places that never put out their beanies...they say they didnt get any, but other people will say they sold them in their back room to select consumers at extremely high prices. It is almost impo sisble to collect these things and have fun when they market seems to be so cut-throat. I love the beanies and looking for them....I can't stand the greed.
• Lowere the prices of princes and erin. tstpf@AOL.COM
• The supply needs to be restricted in order to keep up the demand .
• CYRK - great stock! Hallmark stores (and others) stop ripping us off! Ty retires a BB and the stores raise it's price! BEWARE OF THE BEANIE BABY PRICE PATROL!!!!!
• Greedy retailers really irrate me and the retailers that keep their prices fair are much appreciated especially for me as I usually purchase about seven of each Beanie to keep myself and grandchildren collecting.
• I DO NOT APPRECIATE THE WAY THAT RETAILERS SELL CERTAIN BB'S FOR OUTRAGEUOS PRICES, CLAIMING THAT THE MONEY GOES TO CHARITY ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THE ONLY MONEY GOING TO THE CHARITIES IS WHAT THEY PAY FOR THE BB TO THE TY CORP. AND THE REST GOES INTO THEIR POCKET. I ALSO FEEL THAT IT IS WRONG TO LIMIT 12 PER SHIPMENT AND THEN THOSE 12 FINALLY COME IN AND THEY GO TO THE EMPLOYEES WITH THE RETAILER STATING "WELL, THERE HAS TO BE A PAYOFF FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE DEAL WITH THAT WANT BB'S". I THINK THAT THIS IS UNFAIR AND I ALSO FEEL THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GET A BB AT A GOOD DECENT PRICE IS TO GET TO QUIT MY JOB AND WORK FOR SOMEONE THAT SELLS BB'S AND GET PAID MINIMUM WAGE!!!
• cool site!!! I'm glad McDonalsds is redoing teenie beanies! I was shocked when ten of my seventeen beanies retired! I hope that Curly, Scoop and bongo retire soon!
• Every Thing is pretty cool!
• As a retailer, I think that the TY Company need to take a real hard look at adding more new accounts to help with the demand of new collectors. I have tried for several months to get a Direct Account and have been told that they are not taking new accounts at this time. I also find that the direct accounts in our area can not keep up with the demand and some are getting very upset with collectors. I do understand that there is a fine line between to much and not enought but I don't think TY is really in touch with the market in all areas of the county.
• would like a black /white faced donkey
• There are a couple of authorized Ty dealers here who are gouging the public for more money.Ex.-$200 for Erin and $150 for Princess
• I like the idea of investing a little for something cute anyway. The secondary market is interesting. If it's too high I forget it, if it's reasonable, I'll buy it. Only wish I had started sooner - with the dinosaurs!!! Oh well. . .
• I think Princess and Erin should be available in large numbers at regular prices.
• i really do not like the dealers that have the latest new ones, they charge extremely too much just because they are new, they call them hard to finds, there not hard to find they are just new. i try to collect all of them, but refuse to buy a new one for 15 to 20 dollors just because they are new, i will wait a few weeks and the price will drop because everyonen in town will then have them. i just feel this is wrong. my daughter saves her allowance for these new ones and i have to explaine to her t at she will have to wait until the price goes back down to normal. of course she is sad but i just can't see paying extreme money for a bb that will be flooded into the market in a few weeks. lisa tiner
• I would love to see Ty Warner create a Gerbil Beanie Baby that is Light Brown on his back and White on his Tummy and his name would be Buddie. My very first Gerbil and best friend in the world who I lost to a stroke last year. I love Beanie Babies and I always will. I love Ty Warner for creating them, if it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't have all the friends in my room staring back at me daily. They are my prize,pride, and joy. I think that the Bears: Curly, Valentino, and Peace will be the next to retire, at least I hope so!!
• I hope that TY continues with this fantastic marketing strategy, the beanies are hard to find, but what a "rush" when you do! I hopemarket remains this way and is not flooded, making my collection less valuable. I bought my treasured princess @ $130, it now sells for $75,I could only buy it on the 2ndry mrkt. As a collector, I'm now going to wait before buying if values keep dropping. I want to pass my collection to my daughter, and I'd LIKE for it to remain valuable!
• My 12 year-old son & I have a collection together. I get discouraged at how much even the current beanies can cost and approve of Ty trying to control this. Get a grip guys! Let the kids get a shot! I predict that Princess and Erin will hit the shelves pretty strongly and drive down the secondary market. I hope so, I can't afford either one of those for what I've seen them go for!
• No comment.
• I wish that every collector had the opportunity to buy the favorites like princess, maple and erin at retail price. The stores where I live rarely get a supply of these beanies. The last time a store here got either one of these was before Christmas.
• My daughter and I love collecting. We both think all Beanies should be put on the shelf for everyone to buy. Princess and Erin still cannot find. All Beanies should be the same price, because we understand all shops are invoiced the same by TY,INC. Only fair to the regular collectors who are not in this collecting to make money. TY,INC should also make sure there are ample shipments to meet demand.
• My daughter and I love collecting. We both think all Beanies should be put on the shelf for everyone to buy. Princess and Erin still cannot find. All Beanies should be the same price, because we understand all shops are invoiced the same by TY,INC. Only fair to the regular collectors who are not in this collecting to make money. TY,INC should also make sure there are ample shipments to meet demand.
• The prices on the beanie babies are insane. They are supposed to be purchased for $7, not $100. They are for the enjoyment of children and adults alike.
• I like beanies!
• Grown up peoplez should not fight over a childs toy. For gosh sakes it is a piece of material with pieces of plastic in it. Can't you people get the clue, and why is it worth so much? People these dayz.
• if there is any one out there that is not asking for alot for princess and arin let me know
• I hate counterfiet beanie babies. I wish people would just let TY make their beanies and other people can come up with their own kind. I wish that buyers would not trick kids out of expensive beanies. I got cheated out of a dino trio. The dealer only paid me $50, when they were worth $3,000.
• It's nice to have beanies out there that are hard to find therefore worth more when they retire, but it's also not very fun to not be able to afford current beanies like Princess or Erin that are being sold for around $100.00. I did finally buy a Princess at a local gift shop for $5.95, but will I ever be lucky enough to walk in a store that has Erin for $5.95? Whenever I see these beanies they are always for raffle. I don't think that was Ty's intention. Thanks.
• This is a REALLY GREAT survay & site !!!!
• I LIKE BEANIES.
• I really enjoy collecting the Beanie Babies. Although, its really frustrating when the new ones come out like: Princess, Erin & Brittania and you can't touch them for a descent price and the fact that Ty puts such a small limit on how many their dealers can order. It almost makes me want to give up.
• I plan to keep collecting until the phase dies down and at that time I will sell the beanies I don't really care for at the right price...after all I do need to go to college.
• after waiting for ever i finially bought princess $5.50, a lucky drawing.
• I love beanie babies!!! I wish I had all of them.
• THE STORES ARE WAY OVER PRICED ON PRINCESS AND ERIN.EVEN WITH BIRTHDAY MONEY I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD ONE. $150.00 FROM HALLMARKK STORES AND TY DOESNNT EVEN CARE. THE GROWNUPS ARE PUSHY TO US.
• I think they should make more princesses thats really all
• beanie babies are so hard to find for fair prices, if you get more dealers and advertise them at five dollars a peice then they will be sold more often at fair prices, I can barely find beanies for under ten dollars anymore. if you adver tise and have beanies sold at five dollars a peice then your profits will go up because more people will be buying more beanies. try a popular national chain like jcpenny's or filenes, or something at a mall especially.
• I think that Ty Warner shouldn't be so strict on ordering beanies. Everyone deserves a chance to buy beanies.... I also think he shouldn't have retireds a such an enormous price. He should remember, they're supposed to be for kids (or those who can afford them). Why don't they just make another Dark Blue Peanut, it's not hard. :)Ted Kleriotis
• need to send more erin, brittannia, and princess to longwood, florida and cleveland, ohio PLEASE
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• I wish new items would be a little more available when they first come out. I could never buy an Erin or Princess because they were never available through retailers in my area. Only secondary market sellers seemed to be able to get them. Many of the local retailers also seem to call their "friends" first when they get new items in.
• As much as I enjoy my Beanies, and the thrill of the chase, I do feel that this is a sickness, like alcohol addiction! And I am very embarrassed each time I stand in a line waiting for a store to open!!!!
• I hate people who buy beanies and then jack up the price!!!
• My two favorite beanies are Garcia and Erin. I have neither though. I like Garcia because sometimes I like to listen to the Grateful Dead. I like Erin because we have the same name. I really want to try and find both. Especially Erin because I think she could retire soon even though she is new.
• Retailers should sell all beanies at their regular price ($10 and below) and not increase the retireds they receive from Ty.
• i love the BBs, they are so cute and comforting!
• i would like it if they came out with a deer and an elk a wolf a peacok
• I really dislike adults who have gotten into this & keep raising the prices on the secondary market!! My children really love these Beanie Babies, & I find them harder & harder to come by. When I do find them, the prices are ridiculous. I drove 40 miles one time to wait in line for some Beanies, only to have the lady ahead of me buy nearly all the Valentinos!! She tossed 2 back...guess she felt guilty! She even bragged how she was going to resale them for 2 x the price, 50 miles farther down the r ad! She did not make any friends that day!
• Well I justr get really mad when I see stores selling beanie babies for tons of money. Kids should be buying them for what they are worth, not be spending all their money on Beanie Babies
• Dislike No. NJ Dealers! All the greedy dealers that demand $300 for Princess. "Give me a high enough bid and you will get one." Dealer that run a lottery to give everyone a chance but the alos charge $10 for the beanie in addition to their lottery $$$ collected! Hallmarks that charge $15 for newbies and retired BB's. Difficulty with Princess and Erin-- shops do not shelve-- give to employees or go out the back door. No chance of the average consumer finding at a........ suggested price of near $5+.
• it upsets me when store's keep Erin, Princess and Peace for themselves and not put them on the shelves.
• i saw on the ty.com newsflash that the PRINCESS and ERIN was to be sold at regular price. i know of only two stores that i go to that are honest, but the demand is so great, they hold raffles and just luck of the draw (selling at $6.00). i know of a hallmark store that holds a raffle and sells princess for $29.95, with $5.95 goes towards the hallmark store and the rest goes to a chosen charity. but the rest of the many stores that i check, they are selling PRINCESS and ERIN for an outrageous price! what is ty doing about this? also, i have gone to a garage sale and they are asking for an outrageous price even for those not retired! is there an address where we can report these stores? frustration and unhappiness... unfortunately, we don't have that kind of money to spend on one toy. and this does not do well on the children that are the "true collectors". i think with greed coming into place, adults are missing the point, which is for children to be able to enjoy these beanie babies!
• I think that ty warner released the official beanie babie club before they were ready. the web site is a waste of time. I wish that we hadn't opened our kit,except my son enjoys the poster
• I do not enjoy being considered a secondary seller but I'm hamstrung by TY's refusal to open their merchandise to new acounts. I would love to sell all my beanies for 5.00, but when that is my purchase price I have to set a reasonable mark up. I'm just trying to compete in an extremely competitive marketplace. I don't gouge prices and I don't rip people off.
• no
• Collecting Beanies is something I cannot explain. When the urge comes you just have to go.
• Getting out of hand
• I'm a little mad that Canadians don't get the same treatment as Americans!
• Fun survey! Thanks for the opportunity to voice my opinion.
• I wish they were easier to find, my children sometimes are very dis- appointed when maybe 2 of 5 friends can find beannies.
• I'd have to say that it was terrific marketing skills that produced this phenomenon. Beanies have been around for a long time, why are people so crazy about them now. I love them but I only buy the ones my three year old daughter or I think are cute and cuddily not because I think they are going to be retired next. The only benefit I see to this craze is the amount of money that is donated to charities. Perhaps someday soon the everyday consumer will be able to enter a store to purchase a beanie th y really like not just the left overs.
• I wish retailers would sell at retail prices. I cannot afford most of the beanies my children would like to have in their collection.
• Over the past couple of days I have been totally disgusted by the primary retailors. In my area I believe ty should investigate all primary dealers and take dealerships away. Two primary dealers in my area are selling erin and princess both for over $150. Two primary dealers are selling beanies directly to secondary market dealers. One dealer in the area would not sell my 18 month year old nephew a peace bear for $6 because she said this is for adults only. Ty should investigate all its dealers in Effingham, mattoon, and charleston ILLinois. If ty does not crack down on its primary dealers, then it will be its downfall. I have already seen several kids losing interest in ty products. Disney beanies are going to give ty a run for its money in the next couple of years, and that is one reason I think ty is switching its strategy. I hope you pass on this information to ty about effingham, charleston, and mattoon Illinois. I am not a dealer but a large collector that makes trades and sells beanies t friends that need them. Thank you very much for your time.
• I would like to add Princess and Erin to my collection and my grandchildren's but with the price being so high it's is impossible. Will the rest of us ever get a chance to buy them at the normal price? It's nice that the money goes to a good cause but give us a chance too.
• beanie retailers have gotten crazy. they are setting such crazy prices. I have been taking copies of ty's new flash and leaving it at these retailers. ty should have a hot line or e-mail link to turn these people in or they should have testers to see how things are being done. this is something done in my business and should be considered for others.
• I don't like the price of Erin and Princess. They are not attainable by the common person. The retailers are getting to greaty. I'd rather see them sold in larger stores than a selected few people being able to make exorbatant profits.
• I would like to see seashells like Shelly the Scallop.
• It upsets me when dealers paid the $2.50 prices and sell them for hundreds of dollors. Only the rich are able to get them or they sell to dealers and share the profits. The hard to find babies are even hard for us regular folks to get because dealers spend thier time doing nothing else but hunt babies. We have to work for a living and can 't stalk the stores. I've been pushed and knocked down standing in lines by dealers and their family and friends to get them to sell. I just want them for myself and children. I wish they would start a club like Humbel where people can paid a small fee and get first choice and club editions.
• I collect beanie babies because I like them. They're hard to find at a decent price anymore because a lot of people are trying to make a lot of money by increasing prices. It's not fair to people who can't afford to pay a lot of money for one beanie baby.
• I would like to be a Ty dealer, so I could sell to people that can't afford the Secondary Market prices. It would be nice to go to a shop and not get beat up over a Beanie. Thanks!
• I was a little carried away and had almost all of them. I sold most and now am collecting the bears only
• If Ty can't "fix" retail prices, maybe the size of the shipments going to retailers who gouge the public could be reduced. The "good retailers" should get more! There are some in this area who charge the same for ALL including Erin and Princess.
• My Beanies share a bedroom with my husband and me. We all sleep quite contentedly together. Seriously, I just love these little guys. They are the sweetest and most huggable dears. They make me happy ... when I look and then and when I hold them. Thank God for an understanding husband!!
• Beanie Babies Rock!!!!!
• I like everything!
• I would like to see people who do nothing but wait for a store to receive Beanies.(Especially seniors) Hogging them. Especially at the Brookfield Zoo. Where you can buy 6 of each type. So anything new gets bought out real fast. The people who are only in it for the money. Aren't we all? But not the true collector. Its making it difficult to find them. I finally found a new place that stocks them from Ty. This place is not well known yet. So happy hunting. \
• I hope my newest beenie(hissy) comes to be retired soon..And my favorite beenie is nanook the husky.
• Some are relatively easy to get, yet others like Erin are next to impossible. When you find out about them being sold for a reasonable price, they are all gone. I feel there should be some way to purchase special beanies, such as Erin, direct from TY or order them through a reputable distributor. I mention Erin because I wanted it for my mom's birthday and could not afford to pay the prices it was being "scalped" for.
• Economic demand and supply will continue to dictate the BB prices. Retailers can set the higher prices, however, these prices will be regulated in the consumer marketplace. Right now, it appears consumers are willing to pay the higher prices. I liked the collection of BB's far more when it was a little less crazy. Supply was more plentiful and the prices were closer to what TY intended. I am not into BB's for resale and investment. I thought they were a relatively cheap and cute gift for children and coworkers. I am less likely to simply give away BB's like I used to. They have become a bit pricey to purchase and one is always mindful that the BB you now give away may be considerably more valuable in the future. I guess the collector mentality sets in. I still give away quite a few as gifts. I have given many BB's away that are now quite valuable on the secondary market. I am not sure which BB will next retire. There was evidently a large group of new retireds just recently. I do feel the T organization has marketed these toys very effectively. The lack of supply and higher prices we experience here in my area and the rest of the Southwest has put a damper on my enthusiasm. I only buy occasionally and I am more selective. I told myself I wouldn't participate in the overblown craziness and stopped buying for awhile. I buy once in awhile. There are a few children I buy for and I normally buy some duplicates, if possible, for myself. I always intended to give all of them away as gifts but as I said it now becomes harder to part with them.
• I wish the authorized dealers would not sell so many to the secondary market. People are showing up at shows with bags of beanie. I also am sad that some dealers are dishonest with kids and will try and pay them next to nothing for their beanies. I hope this doesn't get killed off like the baseball card industry and Ty can help to prevent this from happening. I would like to know if Mr. Bulky is indeed a house account as I have heard from several sellers at shows. They do abuse the pricing policy nd I have asked Ty about this, with no reply.
• I wish the authorized dealers would not sell so many to the secondary market. People are showing up at shows with bags of beanie. I also am sad that some dealers are dishonest with kids and will try and pay them next to nothing for their beanies. I hope this doesn't get killed off like the baseball card industry and Ty can help to prevent this from happening. I would like to know if Mr. Bulky is indeed a house account as I have heard from several sellers at shows. They do abuse the pricing policy nd I have asked Ty about this, with no reply.
• i think ty should limit the price retailers can sell for & should drop any retailer selling out the back door...these folk are leaving a bad taste in many collectors mouths.....i started my beanie business out of frustration w/ retailers in my area...after a lot of hard work, i can now offer my friends & family that work regular hours a place to come for any current beanie at a fair price and convenient hours - no more standing in line during bad weather or with small children....,just let me know wha you need & what price range...i am happy to sell most currents for $10 and under...many of us provide a more honest service than do so called "retailers".....thanks for listening...cathi
• I never got Flutter but really love butterflies. I really like The Bears too. I am always so excited about collecting and I am 19 1/2 years old. Too old for collecting? No. I am just beginning. Love Always, Marisa K.
• I think that retailers shouldn't be allowed to sell at secondary market prices. Considering they paid only about 2.50 for them!!!
• it really sucks when one gets stolen out of your car!!!!!
• I really dislike the high secondary market prices. They are charging outrageous prices for the bears. I can get the bears for $6.48 at a local dealer. This is what I like to see
• ty should not limit the vendors to 12 bears at a time. it inflates the price of the bears (erin bear) even before it is retired.
• I think collecting it's fun to go on a beanie hunt. I was wondering if they ever gave thought of having bears that represent states in the U.S.A.
• For me has been hard to get my beanies since I don't live in the USA. My twin sister and my older sister started our collection last Christmas when we were in Colorado. We inmediatly felt in love with them. Now, since my father travels a lot to USA we ask him for the beanies we want the most. He often brings us 2 or 3 beanies each trip. But my mom is the best ! When she travels she buys as much as she finds, she goes to every store that might sell them in the city she is visiting, usually she takes the "yellow pages" and call the store before to make sure they have beanies on stock and wich ones they have. She is nuts! She got hocked on this beaniemania and buys every magazine o book she finds. Of course we are pleased but my father thinks this is crazy. The only thing that makes us sad is not being able to get the "seasonal" bears, like Erin the Bear because we live so far away and sometimes they are sold out by the time my parents travel. By the way , my name is Valentina and my twin sister is Valeria, we are 12 years old , and we live in Caracas, Venezuela (South America). You can write us to our E-mail: candiales@cantv.net (The cities were we have bought our beanie babies are: Colorado Springs, CO; Denver,CO; New York City ; Miami; Dallas at the Airport, San Francisco, CA; Chicago; Los Angeles. But since Miami is the most visited by us we would like more information about the stores that sale beanie babies. Thanks!.)
• For me has been hard to get my beanies since I don't live in the USA. My twin sister and my older sister started our collection last Christmas when we were in Colorado. We inmediatly felt in love with them. Now, since my father travels a lot to USA we ask him for the beanies we want the most. He often brings us 2 or 3 beanies each trip. But my mom is the best ! When she travels she buys as much as she finds, she goes to every store that might sell them in the city she is visiting, usually she takes the "yellow pages" and call the store before to make sure they have beanies on stock and wich ones they have. She is nuts! She got hocked on this beaniemania and buys every magazine o book she finds. Of course we are pleased but my father thinks this is crazy. The only thing that makes us sad is not being able to get the "seasonal" bears, like Erin the Bear because we live so far away and sometimes they are sold out by the time my parents travel. By the way , my name is Valentina and my twin sister is Valeria, we are 12 years old , and we live in Caracas, Venezuela (South America). You can write us to our E-mail: candiales@cantv.net (The cities were we have bought our beanie babies are: Colorado Springs, CO; Denver,CO; New York City ; Miami; Dallas at the Airport, San Francisco, CA; Chicago; Los Angeles. But since Miami is the most visited by us we would like more information about the stores that sale beanie babies. Thanks!.)
• I love my Beanies !! My brother and I started collecting beanies in January 1996. We had gone to Florida to visit our mother. We each got bit at the same time. At first we were just going to get the cute ones but then we decided to get them all. That same day he purchased 63 and I had 62. He got to the Crunch first. Needless to say we went big time. We each have a complete collection except for the Erin bear. I'm hoping to find one reasonably priced soon. All the stores are really taking adva tage of the new ones around here. My daughter - in - law has begun a collection of her own now too. We have some really fun stories on where we have found the good buys. I recently sold an "American Trio" for $750.00. Not bad for a $15.00 investment. I had an extra set or I would've gone hungary first. The beanies paid for my spring break trip back to Florida with our daughter.
• i can mot find ty beanie babys any where. can some 1 please e-mail me a Mysty@aol.com..and tell me where to find them
• I really like The Erin bear but I can't find him anywhere. Do you have any suggestions on where to find him? Nbradley@seidata.com
• Beanies are the best!
• I dislike the psycho women (usually older) that spend all their time buying up shipments. This prevents working moms from finding new and HTF's for their kids!! I have never seen a Peace or Princess and still haven't got all of the last new issue.
• I use to think those people who were crazy about beanies were nuts. Then somehow I got bit by the beanie bug and I'm one of those now, although not as crazy as some.
• I think that beanie babies are great, I like them and my daughters like them. but it makes me mad to see people fighting over them or people asking so much money for them. I think that everyone should be able to purchase the ones that they want at a reasonable price.
• Wish Princess and Erin were more readily available.
• I hope it continues but I'll be surprised if it continues at the same pace that I've seen in the last 9 months...everyone in my family seems to be collecting them...
• no comment
• I think fun and innocuous toys like the beanies are a great alternative to the common weapons and grotesque super-hero(villain) role models for boys and the self-esteem damaging perfect-model figurine dolls for girls. Way to go TY!
• I hope it continues but I'll be surprised if it continues at the same pace that I've seen in the last 9 months...everyone in my family seems to be collecting them...
• I think retailers should be able to charge what they want, but sell only one of each style to each customer. If some were not hard to find, they would lose value as collectibles. I support the secondary market as the reason value has increased, but retailers should be band who sell their whole shipment of Erins, Princesses, etc. to the secondary market. Secondary market should have to get them one or two at a time.
• I like BB alot, but it is very difficult to keep tags mint the way they are sold. I think TY should make better tags, sell with tag protecter or sell in sealed bags.
• BETTER MARKET PRICES
• i predict the princess bear the peace bear &the erin bear will be in the next retirement.
• As a collector and a purchesor for family, I can't stand it when the "sellers" drag 10 people with them to Authorized stores do they can clean out stock. I have been collecting since May of 1997 and have a good collection. I am dying to get a Princess and especially an ERIN but I refuse to pay the hundreds of dollars that the secondary market is asking. I just don't understand how they can get everything and the authorized stores don't ever get them in. I guess I'll be waiting a long time for thos 2 or I'll never see them in my collection. Thanks for letting me blow some Beanie steam...
• I love beanie babies and they are the greatest toy. I hate to admit it but...I'm almost addicted.
• people that buy 15-20 at a time.you know that they are just forresale,and make it harder to collect for the kids
• I realize that sales and raffles of Princess and Erin have allegedly made money for charities, but who checks to make sure the money is donated? And does anyone at TY care that little girls who dream of owning Princess and Erin have no chance of getting one? I have several granddaughters who treasure all their Beanie Babies and take wonderful care of them. Whenever I ask them what they would like next, their answer is always one of these special bears. It makes me feel bad that I can't buy them for the girls. But I know of at least one dealer who sold them for several hundred dollars for her own profit. SAD!!
• Not being able to get Erin, or Princess
• Would like to be able to get some of the retired ones - the ones that retired in 1997 - before I started collecting them. But will not pay the current asking prices by the secondary market. Would love it if Ty would reissue some of them for RURAL areas of the US where we're not close to any big cities.
• I like collecting beanies much more than playing the stock market - at least I have something cute to look at, and hopefully can make a few $$$'s with my fun!
• The Beanie Baby craze seems to be dying down a little bit compared to mid-1997. Secondary merchants seem to be spoiling it for collectors that are just in it for fun with their outrageous prices. BBs were made for children to collects because of the resonable prices, not for crazed adults and others who pay very high prices for Beanies.
• We hunt for beanies as a family, even including my 18 year old brother. It is very frustrating to hunt for princess & Erin when the retailers don't put them on the shelves, keeping them for themselves or selling them on the secondary market. We like all the beanies, all I need are the old retireds.
• The thing thatmakes me mad is when you know that retailers are selling all the new beanies like Erin, princess, etc. to their employees and the employees are also saving them back for their friends.
• It's become an experience trying to find who sells BB's.
• It's become an experience trying to find who sells BB's.
• Beanie babies are the bomb!
• I like the secondary market but they should sell for a lower price so kids can buy them. After all wasn't this all started for the children?
• our family,kids and grandkids really enjoy all the beanie babies. we dislike dealers that hike up the prices!!!!we love retired zulu.xo
• I dislike it when so many adults get so much of the Beanie Babies and kids can never find them because all of the adults are too GREEDY to even think of how this will effect kids.
• I would like to see a "Selena Bear" in black. Also, my complaint is, it is too hard to get beanie babies from primary stores. They are horded by the owners and employees first. If they have any left over they sale them at much higher rates.
• All Beanies should be sold for $4.99 only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• nWo 4 life
• I LOVE THE TY PHENOMENON, BUT FEEL THAT SOME RETAILORS AND CONSUMERS HAVE BECOME TOO GREEDY. CHILDREN SHOULD COME FIRST.
• They need to make nWo beanies
• I am 7 years old and my Mom started buying me Beanies when I did good work in school. Now it is so hard to find them and some are really expensive. I still love my Beanies very much but it is not as much fun as when we good stop into a store a find a "surprise". I don't like having to grab them whenever I see one. I like to be able to choose a new one here and there.
• The main problem that I have is that my daughter would like to have princess and Erin, and I can't find them for under $100.00 each. I realize that the scarcity of them will drive up the amount that they are worth, but a seven year old does not have that kind of money. If they were retired, I could see them costing that amount.
• The only comment I want to make is I get very upset w/ the greed of some of the retailers who are authorized to sell BBs, but sell new ones for $10, one's possibly getting ready to retire at $15, endangered $19, and Valentino or any bear at $25-$50. It is pure GREED. Is Ty doing anything about this?
• HI, I love beanies and they are at resanable prices for us the kids . I they would put more on the market. hey but what can i say everybody loves them from kids to high schoolers to parents.
• I hate how some BB merchants raffle off all of the good beanies! It's not fair, and the merchants are way to greedy!
• I hate how some BB merchants raffle off all of the good beanies! It's not fair, and the merchants are way to greedy!
• I am addicted to Beanies....I freak out when I see them and don't have enough money to buy them...once I begged a dealer to give me Doby for free so much that he got tired of it and gave it to me!!!...I have 24 retired Beanies, like, Lizzy, Cubby, Magic, Twigs, Mystic, Hippity, Hoppity, Floppity, Ears, etc. I think Twigs is SO adorable - he's got a pretty short neck for a giraffe - how cute is that?!?! Beanies rule the world and Twigs is king!
• I think ty should come out with a new beanie and it should be a Hamste it's name should be Xenar
• WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE BUTTERFLIES!!!
• Beanie Babies are great, I only wish we would have started sooner so that I could afford the great ones life Lefty, Righty and Libearty without spending more money than my new Mercedes cost per month. dlruffin@bayou.com
• i did this before but it is so much fun to do it, make me fell good to check myself i am hooked on beanie babie i
• Dislike prices on Princess and Erin
• hi
• I have 2 complete set from the oct 97 retired to present (except Erin) including 11 from the Jan & May 1997 retireds, I also own 2 Pekings. Wouldn't it be great if I could eventually sell one of my sets to help pay for my son's college education and still have a set to keep?!
• i did this before but it is so much fun to do it, make me fell good to check myself i am hooked on beanie babie i
• i did this before but it is so much fun to do it, make me fell good to check myself i am hooked on beanie babie i
• i did this before but it is so much fun to do it, make me fell good to check myself i am hooked on beanie babie i
• none right now....just wish the old ones were easier to acquire, if not for me, then for my children who really, really, really want them. :)
• They are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! {;~)
• BEANIES ARE MY LIFE!!!!!!!!
• TY, I think beanies are very in.
• Yes of course, Beanies are cute, Beanies are sweet. Beanies are a good investment...but $100 for a Princess??? I'm only 11, a Beanie lover, i admit. But when my grandma bought a Princess for me for $100...I was surprised!
• I think TY should make a Golden Retreiver named Fetch, A dove named Cupcake! Thanks for your terrific site!
• The only issue that I have is that the more popular BB IE Peace, Erin, Princess never get to the end user. In most cases the store workers are the first and only people that have the opportunity to but those BB. I guess one would assume that sooner or later all the workers will have what they want or maybe that they wont sell them the secondary market..
• i think beanie babies are great and they should make more new ones so there are more fopeople to collect
• Beanies have been wonderful charity fundraisers. I collect them to use to raise funds for an educational scholarship.
• Beanie babies are cool
• people are just too greedy . i am gald ty put the lease like beanie babies on retirement
• I get very frustrated with retailers who sell beanies for significantly more than retail.
• I Love Beanies! It's interesting how some beanies like SLy the Fox have been around for so long and still have yet to retire or new beanies like the Holiday Teddy retired right after it was released.
• I think McDonalds should give 1 per customer. McDonalds should only give beanies with kids- last time a pushy and greedy adult shoved my mom and me out of line! Beanies are for kids, many adults get so carried away and are ill mannered, showing kids their worst behaviors.
• I think beanies should be more common for children
• I THINK TY NEEDS TO CHECK UP ON SOME OF THEIR REPS, AS I KNOW FOR SURE THAT THERE IS ONE THAT TELLS THE DEALERS TO RAISE THEIR PRICES AS SHE GETS A COMMISION ON THE SALES. THIS IS WRONG !!!!! THERE ARE OTHER PRACTICES GOING ON THAT NEED TO BE CHECKED IN TO ALSO. I WOULD LOVE TO BE A DEALER, AND SELL FOR THE PRICE THAT TY HAS SAID THEY WANT THEM SOLD FOR BUT THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT DOING ANY MORE DEALERSHIPS FOR AWHILE. THIS REP IS ALSO TELLING THE DEALERS NOT TO SELL THEIR PRINCESSES AND ERIN'S, THAT "T " WANTS THEM TO BE RAFFLED OFF ONLY!
• I don't like it that there is very few beanie babies where I live.
• I don't like it that there is very few beanie babies where I live.
• Beamies are cool
• I think they might make a couple new beanies soon: Poofy the poodle Lily the tydyed cat Goldie the golden retrever 98' Teddy Birthday bear I realy don't like secondary market. They are selling Erin for 275!! It recks collecting. It is not about money! I would please like you to write back to bug1010101@aol.com
• Sometimes I see a beanie, and I don't buy it and them it comes and retires and it is worth 1,000. I put back Slither to buy Squealer once!
• i just wish that stores would lower there prices becaue me and my little sister don't have 100 dollars to spend on princess yet that my sisters favorite they should think of the kids trying to buy them not the adults
• I dislike that the retailers can purchase the Beanies for very little and sell them for a whole lot.
• I think dealers should be able to set lower prices- but, nowhere near what they do with "the bears and company"
• I think it is great, but all current beanie babies including Priness and Erin should be sold at $5.00-$10.00.
• Ty should shut down "authorized dealers" immediately that do not conform to Ty's recent announcement on pricing.
• Adults are way to greedy. They don't allow children to get the beanies that they would like to have. Its just not right.
• TY NEEDS TO ASSERT MORE CONTROL OVER THERE DEALERS. I'M APPALLED THAT A HALLMARK CARD SHOP CAN CHARGE $125.OO FOR THE PRINCESS BEAR AND ONLY $5 IS DONATED TO THE PRINCESS DI FUND.
• I don't like how people sell beanie over what they are worth!
• i think this whole craze has been fun. i hope it lasts until i get my money out!!!!
• I bought these for my daughter for XMAS and then the addiction hit me -- in no time I had purschased 70. XMAS of 1997 I sold a few...April of 1998....I sold a few......I bought a few in ireland April of 1998.....
• I really want Kiwi!!!!!!!!
• I would very much like it if TY would make more non-animal Beanie Babies.
• I wish Ty Warner would do something to help the retailers, aren't they his bread & butter? The secondary market people are the ones making the big dollars. I feel bad for the retailers. I'm talking about the retailers that follow the rules and sell the beanies for the correct retail price. The folks that sell out of the back end of semi's should be put out of business.
• I personally don't understand why so many people are willing to spend so much money on something that is sure to fade out of the spotlight in the future. I hate to think about it, but I'm sure there are people who are taking out of their childrens' college funds/savings to buy these as investments for the future, and I just hope they make that money back before the hype dies down for good and nobody's willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a Beanie. Sure, I collect a few Beanies, too, but only if the have special meaning to me, or I find them too cute to resist (or a friend gives it to me). I don't collect them for the possible monetary gain in the future, I collect them because I like them. There are people I know who save up their money just to buy the Beanies missing from their collections, and frankly, it disgusts me and disturbs me to see little kids spending their well earned money on them, and parents buying them franticly for their children, as well. I don't understand why people do it. The parents buy them for their kids, but then won't let them play with them, or even touch them. That's not what stuffed animals are for! They're for sleeping with, and for playing with, not for sitting on a shelf and never being touched by youthful hands! But, you can't stop these people from doing what their doing. If I had children and I got them a Beanie, I would let them hold it and play with it and sleep with it to their hearts' content. That's what Beanies should be for, and shame on those parents o are depriving their children of the joy of playing with these adorable stuffed animals.
• I'm a working mother with 3 small children (8,5,3) and finding beanies is extremely difficult when my hours of work start at 6:00 am and I don't get home until 6:00 pm. By then any beanies that have come into stores during the day are already gone. Store employees are not allowed to "hold some" for you, understandably, but finding them is difficult at best. My children love the beanies - it's just a shame that another format for distributing them couldn't be conceived.
• I love Beanie Babies!
• I DON'T THINK ANY BEANIE SHOULD SELL FOR MORE THAN $20.00. IT SHOULD BE KEPT AT A PRICE WHERE KIDS AND EVERYONE CAN AFFORD THEM. ANY RETAILER SELLING THEM FOR MORE THAN $20 SHOULD BE DROPED FROM TY. SOME OF THE STORES ARE SELLING THEM OUT THE BACK DOOR AND NOT EVEN PUTTING THEM OUT FOR THE CUSTOMERS. TY SHOULD NOT HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS SO THEY CAN FLLOD THE MARKET WITH ONES LIKE PRINCESS AND ERIN SO THE STORES WON'T CHARGE SO MUCH FOR THEM. AND EVERYONE CAN HAVE THEM.
• I think it's lots of fun and everyone I know has been at least somewhat intrigued by this phenomenon. I am kind of worried that this will all end up getting so out of control that Beanies will not be worth anything, except for some of the very old, rare ones. Ty retired too many on May 1 and will probably come out with too many and soon there will be nothing really different or special about them. Plus the market is already beginning to flood with the Jan 98 releases. I remember a few months ago thinki g how Special they all were now they seem a dime a dozen.
• Wish dealers would put all items on shelves for sale instead of putting rare beanies aside for special customers or special drawings.
• I understand why the secondary market retailers sell at the prices they do. What upsets me is the retailers that are purchasing directly from TY and marking the beanies WAY out of range for children. My children, ages 10 &12 also collect and it really upsets them when they have saved their allouance money to buy beanies only to find the one they want is out of their price range simply because it is concidered "hard to find". There are 2 stores in Indianapolis that i purchase most of my beanies from, si ply because their prices are 5-5.50 regardless of what beanie they get in, even princess and Erin. If your interested in starting a list of "honest" retailers, please e-mail me at moburne@aol.com. Thank you
• I think that the Beanie Baby phenomenon is great for kids who sometimes sit around and do nothing, except for watching t.v. and fooling around on the computer(like myself), because it gives them a chance to go out with their parents(or alone) to join in on the fun (or frustration) of Beanie hunting, and give the ol' computer and boob tube a rest once in a while. Also, maybe once in a while the children's parents would not pay for the plush toys, and say that the kids have to *gasp* work for the money t buy them *gasp* themselves. I do not think that authorized TY retailers should be selling Beanie Babies for up to $200+! It just is not right! Ty Warner began producing these toys as a fun thing for children to collect. I do not think that even for a second did he think that retailers would be selling these for outrageous prices when they really should be paying more attention to what kids can pay for them. They are, after all, centered more to children than anyone else. Also, I think that it is just pla n RIDICULOUS that 'collectors' are selling these Beanies for $1000+! Once again, I do not think that this is right. After all, they are just cloth sewn together and stuffed with beans, right?! WRONG!! To most children and adults alike, they are more than just Bean Bags. They are their play mates, people they can tell secrets to, play fantasy games with them, or even just collect them. I personally have 95+ Beanie Babies in my collection currently. I first started collecting in January of '97 when a local candy store in the mall had TONS of Beanies. GOSH, how I could KICK myself now! They had so many of them, but I only bought one! ONE! It was Fleece, the white napped lamb. One of my most cherished Beanies of all time. You see, I DEFINITLEY believe in LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT! I absoulutley fell in love with her! Well, thank you all for taking the time to read my likes & gripes about the current Beanie Baby phenomenon. Thanks again, Kara B. drheart@swbell.net =O) & =0)
• no
• I do not like the fact that I cant get a erin for my son who has the same name for $5.99 they all want $150.00 & with kids I cant afford to buy him erin!!! I like beanies & they need to be afforable to everyone.
• I wish there was NO seconary market!!!!!!!!!!!
• I HAVE TO SAY THAT IT IS TO HARD TO FIND PRINCESS & ERIN. SOMEBODY SHOULD MAKE IT EASIER. THEY ARE ALSO PRICED TOO HIGH. PLEASE THINK ABOUT WHAT COLLECTORS ARE SAYING
• hate trying to find HTF beanies like princess or Erin...Ty should fill thier orders better so retailers have the beanie we all want!
• i have steg and am curious as to his rarity.
• I really like what Ty is trying to do with issuing the Newsflash. I just wish retailers would start doing it. I still can't find Princess or Erin on the shelf for sell except for 200.00. Love the BBOC. I think it is a wonderful idea. Can't wait for the new Clubby.
• i feel some retailers are very greedy and will not put the beanies out to buy. they go to beanie shows and sell them for $20 and up. i think this practise should stop.
• I sure hope when Mc Donald's teenie beanies come out, we'll be able to get one this time without them being sold out everywhere we go.
• Beanies are totally AWESOME and I want 'em all!
• Changes other than "stars" on the heads.
• I THINK TY SHOULD NOT DO BUSINESS WITH AUTHORIZED DEALERS THAT MARK UP THE PRICES OF BEANIES. THEY SHOULD FOLLOW TY'S PRICING PHILOSOPY!!!
• I whole heartedly find it outrageous that you can't buy certain beanies like Maple,Princess or Erin or Peace that are current but you can't find them anywhere at a fair (5-8 dollars) price.
• beanies rule
• I think too many people are taking advantage of many people. I am only 15 and would like to collect currents at retail price but many dealers are selling beanies for a lot more. I feel TY should put a control on the price beanies are sold for. I am very upset that Princess and Erin are selling for $100's in stores not to mention what people want on the secondary market.
• I really think that Ty needs to control the retail shops sellilng them for $10 and up. I wish he would stop delivering to them and ship to new stores that don't yet sell them, under the understanding of what they should sell them for. I also think he needs to put in end to the greed by placing more Erin's, Princess, Peace, ect.. I circulation.
• I love Beanie Babies so much that my fiancee' and I are passing out the Sly and Roary as favors at our wedding in June this year. Our handles on the internet and e-mail are Cyberfox (Sly) and Bigcat (Roary).
• I love Beanie Babies so much that my fiancee' and I are passing out the Sly and Roary as favors at our wedding in June this year. Our handles on the internet and e-mail are Cyberfox (Sly) and Bigcat (Roary).
• BEANIE BABIES KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• they cost too much
• Unlike most people who prefer the bear, cat and dog beanies, I like the more unusual designs better, such as the iguana. I feel that a lot of the ones I'd be interested in buying are retired, such as the armadillo, lobster, and the stingray. Since Ty has just retired a whole 28 beanies I hope they will produce some new (unique and unusual) designs soon. I wouldn't pay more than $7 for any of them. (Hey, I'm a poor college student! =) ) I have seen large stuffed animals (larger than 1 foot in leng h) for sale resembling beanie babies and they have the Ty tag on them too; I wonder why I haven't heard anything else about them? My favorite beanie in my collection is Stretch the Ostrich; the longer fur around her neck makes her feel silkier than the others. My oldest beanie is Coral the Fish, which I recieved as an Xmas present before it was retired. Because of its nostalgic value (and the fact that I *stupidly* removed its heart tag before I knew about how valuable the tag was...all my others have t eir tags) I wouldn't sell Coral. I don't think people will keep buying these things forever, but the more the merrier! They are darling and extremely collectible.
• I don't mind paying a little more for beanies I'm trying hard to get (ex. $10 or so) but resent having to pay $25 just because they have it and I don't! I think secondary sellers would probably sell more volume if their prices were more reasonable. I love beanies because they are so adorable and my kids love them. They are proud of their collections as they get them for rewards for good behavior at school and at home. They've been a wonderful incentive!
• Do not the greedy retailers who will sell current beanies for up to $10 a piece and even try to sell beanies that are not retired as retired beanies........
• I don't like dealers that won't sell Princess the bear at a normal price so that the kids can buy them! They are suposed to be for the KIDS!
• I enjoy seeing all the old retired at the flea markets, but I don't want to have to pay over $100 just to get the ones I want. I have all currents except Erin, but I can't find it for less than $200--why are these people getting them when the average collector can't. No one around here even will sell Princess yet either. Then you go to the flea market and find a person who has 36 of them. I know they are trying to make money, but why should they get to sell them at such a high price.
• I am not happy with Ty for telling us that they will come out with new beanies on a certain date and then they don't follow through.
• I love BEANIE BABIES!
• Beanie Babies are so cute!!! I just wish that I could get every Beanie Baby for five dollars. I also wish I had five of every last single Beanie. That way I had two to sell and three to keep. One of those three would always be on display so I could play with it and look at them all the time. Also, I've noticed with every retirement; they retire a cat. Then, two retirements in a row they retired a bear then they skip a retirement for a bear. What I dislike, is that it is hard to find a ton of the Beani Babies for an affordable price.
• I think that people are selling beanie babies for too high prices!! this should stop!
• I love beanie babies, and I work at a store that sells them, which is where most of my beanies have come from, but sometimes I get so sick of them. There are so many adults who go insane with them. For example: yesterday, we got Peace in and some woman totally flipped out on my co-worker and even turned her in to our boss because she had taken the last peace for herself. I just wish some adults would calm down and stop being so selfish.
• I am appalled at the extremely high prices that Princess and Erin are going for. For the average Joe-collector, I doubt I will ever get one of these without paying outlandish prices for them. I have never seen them in the stores for anyway near regular prices (i.e. < $20). All authorized dealers either auction them off or take them to the secondary market themselves. What a rip.
• I think Mr. Ty should make appearences at some of these beanie shows and "overturn the tables". These were made as a fun toy for kids to buy with their allowences and adults have turned it into some sort of "antique" craze. It's ridiculous!!! E-mail for response: JanisWalter@sd14.k12.il.us
• KEEP EM' COMIN'
• I would like to see Valentino retire.
• Ty warner should make enough of the Princess Beanies to be able to send 200 to each retailer. That would stop the secondary market and keep the cost down. Everyone would be able to get a Princess without spending a lot. Ty should also show up at retailers that they send beanies to (ty knows what and when they shipped) to make sure the are selling them in the store not out the back. If they catch them, they should not send anymore beanie baby shipments. These are kids toys not investments.
• I have traded over the internet several times and I think it is okay to do as long as you remember to check references of others. Beanies are a lot of fun to collect and I think it is terrible that people sell them for so much! I am in college and pay for my own school so I can't afford to pay the ungodly amounts for princess and erin. I wish there could be some fair way to buy and sell beanies. Thanks for the survey. Oh, I was surprised that TY didn't retire Snort and Chocolate. Aren't they pret y old?
• I am currently looking for an Erin bear and having no luck. I enjoy hunting and look forward to retirement dates and new introductions. When I was teaching, I would encourage my students to bring in their beanies and many times used them and mine as teaching tools. They were great.
• I dislike retail stores selling to outside dealers when you can't find the items regularly; retail stores that inflate current prices; retail stores that let buyers act like animals and empty shelves so others can't get the "just one" they might like to buy.
• I think that beanies are cool
• The 1996 b.b. emerging market was delightfully composed of fun-seekers and passionate collectors. The 1998 b.b. market seems more a mix of passionate collectors and investors. Hope the Lotsa-fun-for-only-five-dollars crowd doesn't go away. Some beanie babies new and old are works of art. Some very expensive b.b.'s were never works of art.
• I just hope that the secondary market settles down a bit. I can understand why old and scarce beanies cost a small fortune, but newly released Beanies should never be sold at $15 dollars and higher. There are folks out there that are not collectors, as I am, but purchase these little critters for the enjoyment of their children, and the price should remain affordable for that reason. Retireds are an other story, the longer they have been retired the more the price increases, BUT not newly released Beani s!
• I like beanie babies, but I feel that some of the current prices are too high. I think also that some stores are giving themselves to much mark up. They could sell them for $5-$6 and make a profit but some still sell normal currents for $9 or $10.
• My first Beanie Baby was Derby given to me by my daughter for my 45th birthday. Since then, my daughter, my husband, my mother, and I have been loyal Beanie hunters. We adore them!
• Hopefully, with the current retirement over things will quietdown, but then again with new releases coming soon, I doubt.
• Hi Beanie mom, I would like to share my special story about beanie babies with you. A few months before I was to be married to my wonderful husband, he had brought me lunch to work, while listening to Paul Harvey while we ate I heard him talk about the Beanie Baby craze of the McDonalds TBB. We looked at each other and laughed, and was saying what CRAZY people these were for invading McDonalds for these toys. So months passed and we were married on a beautiful day in September 27th. Our honeymoon was to be in Florida and go to Walt Disney World. While we was in Orlando we stayed with his Aunt for a few days. One night when we all went out to eat his cousin gave us a Velvet, the cat, and said it retired that same day, for our wedding present. I fell in love with that beanie, and since then the rest is history. And my wonderful husband still stands in line with me for the opening of the doors to Hallmark for beanie babies. And he never says no to any I want. Jessica Hargis E-mail jeffandjess@tnaccess.com
• IT DOES'NT MATTER HOW MUCH IT RAIN IN SEATTLE, BEANIE BABIES WILL BRIGHTEN UP ANY DAY. :-)
• this is an obsession. forget ADD and AD/HD, nope, Beanie mania is creating OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)!!! it is maddening....
• Beanie Babies were created for children. And should be easy to obtain and at a low price, so children are not saving their allowance for weeks before being able to buy their favorite stuffed animals.
• I think yhere is going to be a Rosie O'Donnald chairty bear with all proceeds going to breast canser pink tie dye with buttons down the front, i can see it plain as day must havebeen in a dream.
• I'm 29 and got caught up in the trend. I feel that the ty dealers take advantage of the cousumer and take the fun out of just getting one of each.
• I collect beanie babys because they are cute and worth lots of money I dont like that stores sell the good ones and make you buy 50 dollars of there merchandise then you can buy the beanie for the regular price.
• I am very surprised that I was so attracted to these animals so quickly. I just started collecting about 2 weeks ago and I am hooked.
• GGGGGreat page!>^.^<
• beanies should be shipped worldwide
• It's relaxing to me to talk to my students about BBs. The boys think it's "cool" that a teacher knows the names. I bring mine to school every now and then. I want to start a club at my school next year.
• I love Beanie Babies! My daughters (ages 9 and 11) and I are having fun collecting together.
• Tired of some dealers ripping off customers by overcharging for BB.
• i don't like that all the stores in my area get the same beanies, no variety
• I started buying Beanies for my two children, and them my husband got involved with buying them for the kids and us. We do not go to extremes to buy large quantities, but we buy extras when we see them, to possibly sell or trade at a later date for retireds we don't have. We like collecting Beanies because it is a very fun hobby, not terribly expensive, and something the whole family can share in. I do wonder how some of the secondary sellers get whole dozens to auction off in one shot. I know ther is very little to be done to control this, but it does make it all the sweeter when we come across a hard to find when we've been looking for a long time.
• Question #7-add for the fun of it! zmy husband and I have really have a ball looking for these "toys"! #15- add the holiday colections that Ty does from time to time. We really love those to decorate our house with. Spinner and Batty in Oct., the bunnies at easter, Gobbles at Thanksgiving. Snowball in Dec. I really dislike the reatilers that cheat little kids, having a secondary market set up right in the store where they are selling currents (Erin, Princess) they NEVER recieve from Ty!
• I enjoy collecting them they are cutes it is fun looking for them wait for the new ones to come out and see which ones retaire
• it really upsets me when I go into an authorized dealer and see them selling Princess for $125.00. If these people bought them at cost they should sell them at suggested retail.
• Luv em!! Would like to see "Fifi" the white/silver poodle.
• I really wish I had the whole collection but those old retierds are way too much!
• I enjoy collecting beanies for myself- and i think it's a shame that people have become so greedy with these things. In a while the market will crash on these fellas and I will finally get my pick of beanies to complete my collection- i'm patiently waiting! Hahahaha!
• I dislike Ty's use of customs at the borders to intercept Beanies. I think the Customs should be used to locate drugs & not to enforce the idiosyncracies of one corporation
• I dislike adults being greedie and cheating children out of the opportunity to get the teenie beanies at McDonald's. I hope this next promotion goes better than the last one.
• i am very upset with the stores and how they are hiding merchandise in their back rooms and waiting for people who will pay 100.00 for princess bear
• None at this time, thank you.
• I am having a lot of fun with this mania! I don't like the fact that most dealers sell the beanies for what they want. The new 98 beanies are being marked up to $7.99 at local Ty dealers.
• I hate the fact that "Special" beanies are practically unavailable to people like me...I'm not going to spend a fortune for Princess or Erin, even though I'd love to have either one or both....I buy beanies because I like them...Not for resale...Or for future value...just because they're cute...I also like the idea of the Princess Di Fund...It's nice that someone will benefit from the proceeds, what a shame that the huge prices people will pay for one of these bears just ends up in someone's pocket instead of helping someone as originally intended.
• I think BB's are to much money and they should decrese the amount
• I think they are sooo cute, and would die for a chance to get Splash, Bubbles, and Bumble for less than $15!
• My stongest objection are Ty vendors (primary), who sell currents at unaffordable prices.
• I like when emblems are on certain beanies, such as a heart, rose, flag, clover, peace sign,etc......
• I hate that some people have come greedy over collecting beanies. I have heard horror stories from retailers about how some collectors "bug" them about when they are going to get in another shipment and what is going to be in that shipment. I also feel that some retailers have become greedy in the price that they set on the more popular ones. I have heard of one retailer pulling some from his shipment of beanies and not putting them out for customers to buy. Ovrall, I feel that it is a shame that people have become rude and will almost do anything to get beanies.
• I think that a cute children's toy is being misused by very greedy people, and I not longer collect them. What a shame for th children.
• MORE BEANIE BABYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I hate smokers who stand in line and blow smoke/spit near the rest of us!!! Rude people should be banned from our hobby!!
• It's too bad that the very old beanies are being sold for thousands of dollars. I would love to complete a set, but I am a mother of three children under the age of 8 and work full time just to support them. I love my beanies but I sure as heck won't let my kids miss out on our weekend family outing for the sake of having "Bronte" or "Steg". I wish that the secondary dealers would really consider this in their pricing plans.
• I THINK GREEDY ADULTS SHOULD BE BANED FROM BUYING BEANIES TO SELL OVERLY PRICED. THEY RUIN IT FOR ALL US KIDS.
• make princess and erin more available
• They shouldn't just retire them when ever they feel like it. Ty or whomever should give an exact date on which they are going to stop making it so people know. The ones that just retired made me mad. I had a lot of them but it upset me that it would now take the joy out of finding beanies for $5-$6. When kids want to go buy these they can't always because only the nicest people sell them for $5.00.
• I really think they should do something about dealers that sell to the secondary market without any concerns for their regular customers.
• When I heard that today was the day that beanies were to be retired, I rushed home so fast to get on the computor, that I forgot that I could have just used my computor at work!
• Beanies ROCK!
• I think everyone will be able to purchase princess in the coming year. I also think that we will see more erins since they didn't retire her. They will definitely have some new beanies on the market soon.
• i think there should be universal pricing. some of these shop owners are so greedy. i guess money does mean everything to some people.
• I love my beanie babies--just keep them coming!!!!!!!!!
• i live for beanie's. there my favorite thing in the world. i have nothing else better to do except buy and play with my beanie babies
• The secondary market is way out of control (so are some first market dealers!). I am buying this as a fun hobby for my children and myself and get discouraged when I find prices above $6 (which happens quite often). I realize that this is a huge phenomenon (I myself have become swept up in it). However, I feel that the future value of these cute little critters is highly exaggerated since it seems as if EVERYONE is collecting them, thus making their future resale value very limited (with the excepti n of some of the very first beanies issued).
• Hi! This is Matthew Brody, from Baywatch. (just kidding) That is my undercover name because I am TY's new secretary. I just read what Maria Wilderbewe wrote and I am really upset. So all you beanie lovers feel more faith in us here at TY, I will tell you the new beanies. Andy the Aardvark Bluebell the cow Cloud the dark blue teddy bear Colors the peacock Creepy the scorpion Dip the cat Muddy the fish Peach the bear Prickles the hedgehog Sailor the sea lion and Yankee the pony I hope this has helped you out. You can reachme at mb@baywatch/tv~show.com.
• I think that this is way out of hand. I don,t like looking in the paper for Beanies over $30. I think that we kids as a whole should have the chnce to get beanies. These were made for kids as something to buy as a item of fun at a reasonable price. the world Just isn't fair
• Hi! This is Maria Wilderbee. I am TY's secretary, and he fired me so I'm going to let you in on some news. On May 22, 32 new beanies and tennie's are coming out. The teenies will include the jade teddy and Peace. have fun!!!
• The only thing I would like to say about the whole beanie baby phenomenon is that, I still need Erin and every time I go to one of these beanie baby shows, the dealers have 20 or 30 of them for $150 or more, and I cannot even get one from a regular store at a regular price. I would like to know how they are able to get their hands on so many when Ty is limiting the amount of them to their retailers?????? I can see paying higher prices for retired beanies, but I cannot understand why we have to pay those prices for unretired ones!!!! If Ty does not let up on the restictions, my daughter will probably be without an Erin. And that would be a shame!
• It drives me crazy when people jack up the prices.
• Hi! This is Ty Warner. I am filling out this survey beacause I like it. It is 2 hours before I will post the retirements, but I will help you figure out the next 28 retirements. They are Twigs, Peanut, Quakers, Scottie, Weenie, Bones, Zip, Inch, Pinchers, Inky, Ziggy, Rover, Squealer, Lucky, Patti, Gracie, Waves, Stripes, Hippity, Ears, Blizzard, Baldy, Echo, Happy, Hoppity, Jolly, Waddle, and Floppity. Later on May 1, I will post new ones. If you want to know what they are e-mail me at tywarner@bb.com
• I really enjoy how easy it is to get envolved in the business. The unbelievable secondary market can work both for and against us. Greed often tends bring such enjoyable times to an end.
• Hi! This is Ty Warner. I am filling out this survey beacause I like it. It is 2 hours before I will post the retirements, but I will help you figure out the next 28 retirements. They are Twigs, Peanut, Quakers, Scottie, Weenie, Bones, Zip, Inch, Pinchers, Inky, Ziggy, Rover, Squealer, Lucky, Patti, Gracie, Waves, Stripes, Hippity, Ears, Blizzard, Baldy, Echo, Happy, Hoppity, Jolly, Waddle, and Floppity. Later on May 1, I will post new ones. If you want to know what they are e-mail me at tywarner@bb.com
• Very good
• I Love Beanies!
• I love beanie babies, they're so cute! The thing that's best about them is they're affordable. The thing I don't like is retailers who sell beanie babies for ridiculous prices that are a total rip off.
• I feel that TY is the biggest problem. They are the one who are making it difficult to purchase BB. By limiting the number of BB they send to retails is what is driving the cost up, for example the ERIN bear. It was suppose to be a St. Patrick's Day bear and they are allmost none existant. Retailers should not sell the product for more they what they are suppose so to secondary market dealers.
• I love beanies!!
• I feel retailers or secondary sellers should be able to charge what they can get ( and I am not a retailer). America is a capitalistic society and these vendors are living the American dream!
• I would hope that TY continue with their quality products, and hope to see more retailers carring them in the future.
• I hate that Princess is like, always not availible. I think that the retailers find the and then sell them at a crazy price.. I think that Maple is gonna retired soon, God forbid.
• I started collecting for my 3 year old son and we have all the currents and a few retireds, I simply refuse to pay these ridiculous secondary market prices. I think if everyone would do the same the prices would not be so high.
• I just hope the bottom does't drop out of the market and that Ty does not keep on producing mass quantities
• I think that Ty Warner should make alot more Princess and Erin bears because if you want to get them off the internet, they are way outta my budget.
• the unpredictable and long time between deliveries and then when deliveries are received the supply from Ty, to gift stores, is very small of each design.
• I think they should make enough Princess Bears for everyone,and at the $5 to $7 dollar price range.
• I LOVE BEANIE BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I think people should only be able to buy one of each kind of beanie. Also, the price should be under $10 each.
• I really think that it is unfair to those of us that buy beanies from secondary dealers that we end up paying sometimes $120 more than the beanie is worth (in the case of a Princess we bought). Ty should put better restrictions on how much secondary dealers can sell beanies for. Some people don't like having to pay a ton more than that special beanie is worth just so they can complete their collection, and I am one of those people!
• I love beanies! I especially enjoy trading and am not in it for the money, just to get them all. Happy Hunting!
• Hi My name is Cassie and I want to add that people(mostly adults want to collect them for the money and they get to shovey. That is mean to us little kids.
• WOW!!!! I love this thing we've got goin' on!!!
• I think the prices on beanie babies on fine. You people complaining about expensive beanies and "kid's toys" need to realize that just because they are not ceramic they are COLLECTIBLES. Baseball cards started out as being little boy's toys, some sell for thousands and millions now. Why don't you caomplain about too? And why are you criticizing people with money? Just because you don't have any? Again, you put down people better than you. I have met some very good people in the beanie baby area, but 90 of them have been dumb and immature, I bought Garcia, Flash, Digger, Coral, Chops, Lefty, Sting and Kiwi after they retired. I also got Princess. You stupid people would never even see the retireds let alone buy them if it wasn't for the secondary market. But wait, I think you want to the Royal Blue Peanut sitting there in a Hallmark for $5 right? If you don't like the prices, go collect something else and stop whining. DominoKat@aol.com
• I wish they would flood the market with ERIN and PRINCESS, both much wanted and soooo hard to find.
• I love beanie babies!!!!! i could not live without them.
• I have all the ones in my collection except the peace bear, di bear, erin bear. I am having a heck of a time finding them at a resonable price. When they did show up at my Hallmark store they made everybody take a number because there were only 36 of each shipped out. I dont think such popular bears should be so limited because then it becomes a circus to get one. I am not in it for money I just want one of each for my personal collection. I dont feel they should be so hard to come by when they are not yet retired. i am a relativly new collector and am getting discouraged at the
• I dislike the prices that people are charging, especially for Princess, Erin, and not being able to find Britannia!!
• I think Beanie Babies should all cost $5
• i do think beanies should be for the children... the adults buying loads of one kind is not fair for the little one... they r for the children. right?
• Its very hard when the secondary market is selling them for so much money. Its almost like scalping beanie babies
• I believe that Beanie Babies can be fun and profitable for everyone. Some of the retailers are taking the fun and oportunity out of Beanie collecting, by adding obstacles to the Beanie Hunt. It's difficult to find certain Beanies already, and then they add to the difficulty by keeping certain Beanies from the public and holding those Beanies for friends, family and choice customers. The games that us Beanie collectors have to play with some of the retailers is very frustrating Just one more thing, I'm tired of hearing all the complaining the retailers do, because of the Beaniemania. I suggest, if you can't handle the Beaniemania, call Ty and have them cancel your Ty account. I don't think they want that, because the Beanies are the existence of alot of shops. Thank you, for letting me share my opinion.
• I think TY is great and should keep up the good work.Collecting keeps me busy and happy Thank You TY WARNER
• I do not mind having to search for the beanies but I want to have a chance to get them for around $5. I do not deal with the secondary market and believe the only value they have is for the retireds. I was pleased with the ty pricing position and have sent them e-mail when the retailers in my area are not in compliance. I have sent the name and address to the ty e-mail address which is --yourfriends@ty.com--. I think we should all do the same as the feedback I am getting from the retailers is that y does not care what they do and only put out that position to pacify the public. I enjoy beanie hunting and have met wonderful people while on my quests. I have taken a stand, however, I will not buy another beanie unless it is erin or the princess for around $5. If I do not find that ty is cutting off the greedy retailers I will have no choice but to sell what I have and forget the whole thing. I resent the fact that my money is good enough to buy all the other beanies but not these two and who knows what the next bear will cost.
• The collecting of beanies gives my grand-daughters and I someting we enjoy together. We check out all the flea markets, the beanie shows and the internet togeather. We love it. The girls are always so excited when I surprise them with a great find,
• I wish they would make beanie babies more available. It's so hard to find them!!! They're so cute, I wish I could have them all.
• Beanie Babies are really cool, but i think some store owners and secondary market are way to greedy. All beanies including Erin & Princess are made to sell for five dollars (at least that's what Ty says). So why aren't marketers doing that? They're to greedy and makes me mad, but I still like Beanies and continue collecting, although I won't be able to add PRINCESS and ERIN to my list. I'm also glad that Disney is not buying out Ty. They would totally distroy the Beanie Baby industry! Thank you Bea ie Mom for conducting this survey. It feels good to voice my opinios about greed retailers.
• keep it up!
• Dealers never give good deals they are so mean.i want to collect beanies becuse they are cute
• Don West has revelutionized the Beanie trade on his Shop at Home show. They are little cute PVC stuffed heaven sent honies. I wish they would stuff them with PCP so I could get all messed up and forget I spent 5000 bucks on a toy
• I think that there should be special days when every store selling beanies gets a shipment of retired ones and each person gets 1. I don't think that not so many beanies should retire at one time.
• Would like to see a beanie made in the appearence of my own cat (phleaoh) thats flea-o. Or maybe one of my dogs-their part coyote
• I collect beanies for my mom (age 60). She would NEVER spend more than $15 on them, but I can't resist her excitement when she sees one of the pricier ones my husband or I buy for her. She truly is a beanieholic, and it takes the pressure to have kids off of us, so everyone's happy!
• I hope this trend carries on for a long,long time!
• I love BBs they are soooooooo cool and cute too
• In order for the price of the beanie baby bears to come back to $5.00, and to prevent the retailers price-gouging and/or putting stipulations on the purchases of the bears, then we (the ones complaining) must not give in to these prices and/or stipulations, no matter how desperately we want the bears. Also, we should continually complain, in writing, to Ty about the retailers' methods of sale, and we should write to the dishonest retailers vowing to never ever step foot in their stores again, remindin them that they have turned their backs on their once loyal customers. After all, a retailer who price-gouges and/or expects the customer to purchase many other beanies (beanies which we already have purchased in the past and don't require duplicates) in order to buy one bear, does not fit into my book of friendly accommodating retailers, and certainly does not provide an incentive for me to shop at their stores. I don't need Ty and certain retailers punishing me for my past loyal business, the hundreds f dollars I have spent on Ty products! IT'S TIME TO WRITE TO TY AND THE GREEDY DISHONEST RETAILERS!
• It really ticks me off that Ty claims to discourage the secondary market and then they allow authorized dealers 12 of something. That just encourages the secondary market because it is next to impossible to get something there is 12 of.
• I became interested in the animals with my children. It still seems very disturbing to me that the secondary market has become so predominant that my children can not afford to purchase the animals that come out do to limited quanities being shipped to local stores. They have taken alot of pride in saving a portion of thier allowance and purchasing the BB's on their own. It's difficult to watch them get so discouraged at the inflated prices of the new releases.
• In order for the price of the beanie baby bears to come back to $5.00, and to prevent the retailers price-gouging and/or putting stipulations on the purchases of the bears, then we (the ones complaining) must not give in to these prices and/or stipulations, no matter how desperately we want the bears. Also, we should continually complain, in writing, to Ty about the retailers' methods of sale, and we should write to the dishonest retailers vowing to never ever step foot in their stores again, remindin them that they have turned their backs on their once loyal customers. After all, a retailer who price-gouges and/or expects the customer to purchase many other beanies (beanies which we already have purchased in the past and don't require duplicates) in order to buy one bear, does not fit into my book of friendly accommodating retailers, and certainly does not provide an incentive for me to shop at their stores. I don't need Ty and certain retailers punishing me for my past loyal business, the hundreds f dollars I have spent on Ty products! IT'S TIME TO WRITE TO TY AND THE GREEDY DISHONEST RETAILERS!
• It is a shame that the retailers mark up the prices on the bears like Princess, Erin and the brown teddy for examples. If they agree to sell the beanie babies, they should sell them all for the suggested retail price.
• although i am amazed at how out of control i see that the market has gotten, i still purchase - within a limit - beanies for my children. maybe, if they stay a good investment, i will sell to finance college!
• I also buy Beanies for my three children--I hate it when stores limit to one of each style. I always have a war on my hands as to which child gets which Beanie!!!
• I really dislike the retailers who jack up the prices of htf's and retired BB's. I feel they are taking advantage of their customers.
• I wish beanie babies weren't so expensive. I'm only 11 and don't have much money to buy them with.
• I think these are fantastic collectable and great toys for all; kids to old folks. It is just too bad that there are always those who will capitalize on such an innocent venture and cause so much discomfort and aggravation not only for the consumer but also the retailer. I wish there were a better way to control the 'greediness' of the secondary market. However, I have found many very nice retailers who are willing to sell the beanies at your suggested prices and hope that customers will shop in the r businesses for other items as well as the beanies. Also feel that Ty should be more selective in their methods of establishing retailers; this might stop so much of the secondary market. Too many are buying under the guise of a retail outlet; they should have to have a 'store front' to be a dealer; not just renting a space within the confines of another retailer or setting up within their homes, garages, etc. However, the beanies are great; hope they keep coming for many years. Thanx for the opport nity to express an opinion.
• Princess and Erin are becoming so hard to get that prices have gone through the roof. Maple and Britannia have gone through the planet.
• I think that beanies are going to be around for a while. I do think prices will eventally drop.
• I just adore my granddaughters BB, They are so cute and refreshing! I enjoy watching them play with them. My 3 year old granddaughter was going on vacation and she lined them up and covered them up and ask me to babysit. So cute! A majic moment.
• I hope that Erin becomes more readily available, my b'days on St. Patricks day and my two boys wanted to get her for me, but of course they did not have hundreds of dollars! I heard that they mey be more availaable after this retirement.
• dislike that TY does not supply enough to stores.
• I do enjoy the little creatures
• I like the fact that they TY wants a $5-6$6 price on them. This makes them affordable to younger kids and those of us who buy them because they are cute and like collecting them. I DO NOT like the fact that there are some AUTHORIZED TY dealers that jack up prices for their own profit, sell out to the secondary market, hoard their shipments, or put ridiculous limits on their Beanies, such as requiring you to buy so many dollars worth of other merchandise in their store before you can buy some of the h rder-to-get Beanies at a still-higher price. To me, that is unethical and they should lose their TY dealership because they are too greedy.
• dislike that TY does not supply enough to stores.
• it is wild and crazy, but a ton of fun. just wish i could acquire princess garcia and erin reasonably. it is too hard to get any of the specialty bears, it doesn't seem right.
• I have been disappointed in the fact that greed has taken over so many people involved with BB's. I know of several retailers who do not charge current price for selected beanies and who keep items in the back room to selectively take out. I feel this is really unfair to the average collector. My children, ages 5 and 7, are the collectors in our home and they should have just as much opportunity to collect as adults and dealers in the secondary market. They are using their allowance to collect and hey cannot afford the higher prices that are being charged. They have a day dream that they will find a shop that is just selling to children and that has all the retireds for $1.00 each!!
• hopefully peace is going to retire. also princess.
• nothing
• I don't like the inflated prices retailers are trying to charge, there needs to be some control, this was meant for the children. I liked when my daughter first started collecting the beanies, how she'd save her allowance money & go up to the drug store & pick out a new friend. She was always so excited, that ended about 16 months ago. I miss that!
• I sometimes get discouraged when I see the frenzy and the lengths people go to collect Beanies. I like collecting Beanie Babies. In fact my whole family participates in collecting them.
• I don't like the lack of availability of Princess and Erin. I don't like retailers that are selling them for $200 apiece or not putting them out at all because they don't want to deal with the demand, therefore they won't sell them. I would rather take my chance getting to the store on the day they are put out. There is not one store in my area that will put these out so it's impossible to get them. I buy these for my kids to play with and do not have any with hang tags left on them. They are bein used as toys not as collectables.
• I was surprised that Ty didn't introduce any new ones today when they retired the 28. I expect they will soon. They retired a lot more than I thought they would! What I DON'T like is people who go on the guestbooks and complain about the Ty company and about secondary markets, etc. If they don't like it, they should just not participate, instead of belly-aching and complaining.
• If people would just learn to be more patient and stop paying such crazy amounts for these $5 toys maybe the prices would come down a bit. It would be nice to put these money grubbing secondary market people out of business!
• I love beanies. I have them all except for the old retireds, Maple, Erin, and Brittania. Beanies are DA BOMB!
• I buy my beanies from two different stores-each of which charge $5.00 no matter what beanie it is. That is how it should be. When I see people paying $7.00 or more for a beanie in a retail store it makes me understand why they raise the prices: people seem to buy them anyway. I refuse to pay more than $5.00 and I think if more people were like me the sellers who charge more would be forced to charge less. I think TY needs to enforce their policies more strictly and get rid of a lot of dealers. In he mall where I live there is a store called TY Beanies and they sell their beanies WAY over price (Stretch was $17 before his retirement!) and yet they are using TY's name...I don't see how TY can allow them to do that.
• Beanie Babies are great gifts for kids! They are becoming easier to find, also. I don't like when retailers make a big profit on hard-to-find beanies like princess or erin.
• i have been a teddy bear collector for many years and felt i had "scored" when i purchased princess for $25.00 - feel sorry for people who have paid much more. this was supposed to be FUN - not discouraging. beanie hunting holds no appeal for me and don't find ty's marketing strategies increasing my need for beanies. i have given up on purchasing them due to being disgusted.
• i think ty is extremely cruel in making people stay up late just to find out the retireds.
• I am a retailer and have never received Peace or Erin. Why?
• hi,I'd like to make a complaint about the secondary market.It is such a shame it exists,when I first started collecting it was possible to get a rare beenie now because of them it is impossible.Also many store owners are jacking up the prices of the sought after beenies,it's just not right.I'm worried soon it will be impossible to purchase them at the normal price.
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• I think this is a wonderful way to collect with the grandchildren. Only now it seems it has become a adult toy. It is hard to get the Bears for the children. I think they are going to retire the orginial 9. Wish they would make it Easier to get Princess and Erin so all of us have a chance to get them.
• The beanies are very cute and will not break. Children of all ages can enjoy them. What I don't like is all children aren't able to purchase the beanie they don't have because of unscrupulous dealers and the secondary market. Hopefully Ty will do something about the Dealers.
• I truely love beanie babies and hope that the craze continues. I love the hunt for them. I am collecting for myself now-and my 3 y/o later. I buy hoping that they continue to go up in price, but I don't believe I will ever sell any of them. I am very attached to all my babies! I am a bit fanatical about these adorable things-but if you must fall for something, it should be as innocent as beanies. I must say that ty makes a high quality product that we have purchased for some time now-I just hope the qu lity holds up in the future.
• Beanie babies are cool and I'm glad that my Mom and Dad and sisters all like to collect them or else I wouldn't have so many.
• i think retailers are charging too much for the new releases
• I hope at least 1 person starts a collection everyday, for as long as I live.
• I'm not sure why I have such a fasination with B.B.'s maybe because I didn't get to collect things when I was a young girl. I enjoy finding and also telling my friends about where they are and getting them for them if I can. I DON'T enjoy the run around I have recieved with the Erin bear. In my area, Ohio, the only way you can get one is to pay for a raffle or secondary market. That's not fair. I have stood in lines for up to 4hrs to get Beanies, I don't think I should be made to spend huge amounts of oney for the Erin Bear. Sincerely, K. Osorio
• my foremost thought on the craze is that people need to remember that they are toys....meant for children....seems to me that it is the adults making the problems where they exist.....
• it amazes me how these tiny babies have taken off..I look forward to new ones coming out it becomes a quest for me to get them... this is a great web site
• I live in Northeastern Ohio, many reatilers in the area sell "under the counter, out the back door". This makes me very angry! To those of us who continuosly call or go to stores often to check on Beanies this is very unfair. I do not purchase Beanies in this manner. I stop going to stores that do this. Pulling Beanies like Freda's Hallmark stores do is also unfair. How can a collector hope to get a reasonably priced Erin or Princess bear when the "management" pulls them out before they get to the floo ?
• My son would like to request Ty to make a "beagle" beanie babie.
• I'm seeing to many buy up all the stock of the bears and PRINCESS at one time and then seeing the newspapers the following day with ads for 300 to 400 dollars. This is rediculus. And authorized dealors seeling them for 275. Now how are kids suppose to collect. And yes not a chance of doing any business with half the stores when you can't get through the line thats been waiting 15 days to see what comes in so the first one in line can take everything they get. And resale them in the papers for an outra eous profit.
• I am discouraged by the parents and secondary market vendors. This was supposed to be a way for KIDS to collect an INEXPENSIVE toy for themselves. When the parents got all involved, it messed it all up. My kids - horror of horrors to all those out there - actually take off the tags (even some of the tush tags!) and PLAY WITH THEM!!! Isn't that what this was all about in the first place? Aren't these supposed to be TOYS? Maybe we are just not "with it", but it seem out of control to me. They are very cute and can be quite addicting...but still meant as toys. Thanks for the space to comment.
• I dislike retailers keep the Beanies behind the counter and then sell you the ones with bent tags. I got 7 out of 10 today bent. I was carrying a baby so I couldn't look at the tags and I thought I could trust the retailer. My mistake.
• I think it's unfair that prices for current beanie babies are so high. I was in a Hallmark today and saw Peace for $75, Holiday teddy $75, Lizzy $39.95, Gobbles $29.95, and the store right next door had the coroled bunnies for 29.00.
• I purchase Beanies for my girls and the "greed" on the market overwelms me. I purchase them in the beginning and still because of the economical price to me and as rewards to my girls for - good report cards, etc.... I can not even find a beanie out there anymore to reward the simple well deserved rewards in life!
• I Don't like people griping about the secondary market. Obviously this is what makes BB's so popular and makes TY more money (demand) Also, This is a free country, capitalistic and all that!
• This craze is amazing! Who would think that material stuffed with beans would be so great?! I can't stop!!! kathimc@prodigy.net
• My collection started because they are cute, but now I'm caught in the craze.
• If it were not for the secondary market, the craze would not exist. Ty creates this market by not flooding it. Also, I have a friend who is a direct dealer. She has given my princess and erin. There are good dealers out there.
• I DON`T THINK ITS FAIR THAT THE HALLMARK STORE IN CEDAR FALLS, IA IN BLACKHAWK VILLAGE WILL ONY SELL YOU A NEW BEANIE IF YOU BUY TWO COMMON ONES FIRST. THEN SHE WILL ONLY SELLPRINCESS AND ERIN ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE SHE SAYS SHE GETS MORE THAN SHE CAN IN HER STORE.
• I think they should make a contirbute to Mother Tereasa. She is a wonderful example to young children if they don't already know about her Thanks Danielle (di)
• Beanie Baby collecting is fun and the craze is likely to continue for several years. Beyond that it is hard to predict...only time will tell. I hate to see people spending $100s of dollars f r an item that retails for $5
• We love Beanies. We do not like the fact that retailers ARE selling "Erin" and "Princess" out the back door! We would rather pay a "serious collector" for "Bronty, Caw, or Coral, than purchase "Princess", "Erin", or "Maple" at the current retail price. They are not retired!
• Keep producing new ones and retiring old ones. I think they are cute and I will keep collecting them. I have bought over 400 for myself and my grandchildren.
• I think you should have Beanine Baby gift wrap, and cards, and maybe tee shirts.
• I think they should set aside one day a mounth for a single beanie to get retired insted of all at once this way you will always be waiting for a retirement to happen.also I would like to see a specail beanie made for the club members only !!
• it is a hobby that all can afford and enjoy, the young and old alike
• when you have a school age child and you go after school for him to pick-up beanies , it's real sad when he is told they all sold out that morning! Especially when this happens EVERYTIME!
• I do not like it when shops make you purchase their products to be able to purchased. I have wrote TY but it does little good and they are the ones that are allowed accounts with TY. I think TY should remove the store account.
• Tomorrow is the big day. Unfortunately, The secondary market will have dozens of the new ones at outrageous prices before they will ever hit the retail shelf. We will have to be patient and hope they will reach the shelves before
• I completely agree with other comments made on your survery listing. Ty should set up a web site for consumer complaints. I had been purchasing Ty products long before Beanie Babies arrived. Although I share in their excitement for the tremendous success they have enjoyed regarding the Beanie Babies I am disappointed in the fact that they have encouraged the feeding frenzy by not supplying enough of each beanie to meet the demand. Mattel accomplished this task by offering the Holiday Babies throug certificates thereby supplying each little girl that wanted one and had been collecting them the opportunity to bypass the tacky individuals which were preying on young girls and their parents to supply that much desired item. Ty could easily accomplish this task by meeting the demand and not retiring each of these beanies until sufficient demand had been met therby bypassing these secondary vendors. It would serve everyone of them right to reissue each retired beanie exactly replicated as before to all w the true Ty market (the children) the opportunity to purchase those much wanted retired babies with their allowance money. Wake up Ty! Your costing yourself countless local customers by allowing this by not meeting demand. Please supply us with an address or phone number or e-mail address, etc. so that proper and authentic complaints might be received and effectively handled. Don't continue to allow these scalpers of our precious children to get away with this theft. Reissue all of the beanies, you ertainly don't have a thing in the world to lose and look what all you have to gain$$$$$$$$$$$$$
• I think they should make a new flamingo named pinkette and a new bear named dAvId
• I think they should make people who do sell them have a lot of the newest current beanies out
• The only complaint I have is retailers, like Hallmark!!!, stocking up on beanies, and whenever there is a new retirement the company sells the retired ones for $30 or $40 dollars. Another thing is I wish they would go ahead and retire the remaining few of the original nine beanies.
• It's fun and i enjoy beanie hunting with my grand children. I heard the Disney bought out Ty. Is this true. I don't want to start another collection of beanies. One is enough. Not enough room in my house. I just hope Ty keeps up the good work of cute and affordable beanies.
• My favorite beanies that I actually have are two 4th gen. Maples w/out *'s on their tush!!
• The only thing I really find offensive, is when a store requires you to purchase something else in order to buy a beanie.
• They are extremely difficult to find in some areas. There is no bargain when you have to use 2 tanks of gas to purchase 1 BB, but I do it anyway.
• it's fun.
• It would be nice if Ty put a reporting email address on its web site. That way consumers can report unscrupulous primary vendors who either sell to the secondary market or price their beanies to match the secondary market.
• I feel that all current beanies should be sold at the $5-$7 price range until Ty retires them. Then at this time and only this time should the price change. The secondary market is not only making a killing on the retired ones but they are also jacking up the prices for current beanies. I'm just not sure that is what Ty intended when they made beanies.
• I would like to see more of newly released ones come out at one time. It seems as though the lack thereof creates an undesirable "frenzy" which seems to make the secondary market profit. For example, Peace, Princess and Erin were out of sight because people wanted to be the first ones to get them. I just wanted to get one, period! I do not want to have to pay $200 for a beanie that should sell for $5! The Princess phenomenon really angered me. That money could have made lots of profit for the Fou dation. Instead by making it so hard to get, secondary market sellers made all the money. I am still waiting to get an Erin because now I refuse to buy into that. I believe Ty should release lots of one kind so the frenzy would not happen. I would also like to see Britannia available in the United States without having to pay outrageous costs. After all, those countries still have our beanies too! Exclusivity only creates problems for those of us who have limited financial resources.
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• I love beanies and have been collecting them for 3 years! I think that beanies are probobly the best collectable items in the US! I love them and hope they keep making them! GO TY! YOUR AWESOME!- Hornet1015
• I would like Ty to make a yellow bunny called flippity. I don't like it when I get a BB that is mistagged. I would like to get an Erin or Princess but they're way too expensive for me or my parents. Why were they so limited by Ty and did the retailers pay the regular wholesale price for them? I think Bongo, Bones, Crunch, Lucky, and one of the cats have good chances for retiring.
• i think they should hold beanies for people that buy them because they want to collet them and not to sell them again
• I think on May 1st 25 beanies are going to retire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• i think ty shoud have an e-mail that consumers can use to contact them
• I think Ty should come out with another beanie baby panda and a beanie baby buffalo.I have never heard of there ever being a buffalo.L M.
• I think Ty should come out with another beanie baby panda and a beanie baby buffalo.I have never heard of there ever being a buffalo.L M.
• I dislike the fact that many retailers are selling retired beanies for outrages prices in the back rooms of their businesses.
• Thank you for making this test. I really enjoyed taking this test. Happy Beanie Hunting!
• I have a lot of fun just going out and looking for them in the stores and flea markets. I just went out today and picked up 7 more (duplicates of ones I already have) just because the prices were right.
• The prices are outrageous!
• i think the craze sux
• I think that the Princess Di Bear is being exploited and it needs to stop!
• I don't like when people sell non retired beanies for more then 599 it is not fair to kids who are trying to collect. Especially Erin, Princess, and Peace
• Well I was recently introduced to them by a friend. I had seen signs everywhere for them, but had never purchased one until a few days ago. I have to admit, the little bears are adorable, but my heart goes to the dogs. I love dogs, and the pug one is so realistic to me. They are contagious I'm afraid.
• I hope Beanie Babies stay very popular for about 20 more years and then they quite making them. Then, I will sell them for very high prices and people will want to buy them.
• My son would like new dinosaurs he said there are lots of them to choose from that were not made yet.
• I ONLY HOPE THAT TY DOES NOT PUT ALREADY RETIRED BB'S BACK ON THE OPEN MARKET. THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO PEOPLE WHO SPENT LOTS OF DOLLARS TO GET THE RETIRED ONE.
• I LOVE BEANIES! And they should make more, sell them cheaper, and only be for kids, like me!!!!!
• I REALLY LIKE BEANIES AND DON'T REALLY MIND THE HIGH PRICES BUT I THINK THE PRICES SHOULD BE LOWER.PAYING 1-2 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE BEANIE BABY IS A LITTLE CRAZY.I FOUND OUT THAT EVERY SINGLE BEANIE WAS SOLD FROM TY FOR $5.00.
• i hate how the hard to get ones( like britannia) cost a lot
• We enjoy the fun in trying to find the new beanies when they come out. Would love to see a peacock beanie!
• I hate how all they adults are crazy for them and how it's really hard to find the bears and retireds (Peace, Erin, Princess, 97Teddy) at a cheap price. I'm young and can't afford them.
• I think that it is a shame that somehow only secondary dealers are able to obtain Erin, Princess and Peace bears. Does everyone else find it strange theses are NEVER on the shelves, but dealers have p lenty!!!
• Because there is planned a major retirment tonight, I plan to stay on the Ty website almost the whole night!!!!
• I just wish that I could get Princess and that when the retaiers finally get them in they stop selling them (Princess and Erin) for such high prices!!!
• I like beanies but some are over priced for starting as children's toy's
• THE RETAILERS WHO HAVE RAFFLED OFF OR DONATED HARD TO FIND BEANIES TO CHARITIES NEED TO KEEP IT UP . ANY KID CAN AFFORD CANS OF FOOD FOR A CHANCE AT A RAFFLE BUT ASKING FOR A DONATION OF $150.00 FOR CHARITY IS PUTTING THE BEANIES OUT OF REACH OF THE CHILDREN , LETS NOT FORGET WHO THESE LITTLE CREATURES WERE ORIGINALLY MEANT TO PLEASE .
• At first I loved the beanie craze bought for kids and myself. I have no problerm with the secondary market. But feel this craze will stop if the retailers do not stop there greed and sell at legit price. Most people I speak to about are disgusted with the stores and there greed. I no longer buy like I use to do to this. Feel like in future more like a pyramid situation.
• Friends and I enjoy BB together. I have a real problem with retailers who are greedy, and those that have raffles. If they are retailers, merchandise should be handled consistently. One can't control the secondaryarket, but one can boycott. Animations is a small business in Manchester, CT that is a real snake in the grass. Their practices give BB's a bad name. Thanks for the opportunity to vent!!
• Like waiting for new beanies and speculating what they will be-- Dislike rude, selfish people waiting in "beanie lines".
• Friends and I enjoy BB together. I have a real problem with retailers who are greedy, and those that have raffles. If they are retailers, merchandise should be handled consistently. One can't control the secondaryarket, but one can boycott. Animations is a small business in Manchester, CT that is a real snake in the grass. Their practices give BB's a bad name. Thanks for the opportunity to vent!!
• Can't wait to see who will be retired. McDonald's here were come!
• It is sometimes frustrating on our "hunts" when we see the ones we want only at secondary market places/prices. However, I feel that this can be a good thing, and instrumental in teaching my daughter (and myself,occasionally) the value of patience, kindness and perserverance. You have a wonderful web site BeanieMom, keep up the great work.
• I am sick of beanie fakes I bought a Kiwi and he was fake later the person I bought it from was no where to be found
• Beanie babies are cute and i hate 2ndary store in the Woodland hills Mall in Tulsa,Ok(Hint:The beanie store and more )
• I Don't know what I did with my time before I started collecting beanies. Now there is always something to do. If I'm borde or lonesome, I go beanie hunting. If it's cold or rainy outside, I go to the mall and go beanie hunting. Now that I have all of the current ones that I like, I buy them for my neices and nephew. They love them. It's a great hobby ! And yes the trill of the hunt is part of it. I do not agree with retailers selling out the back door to the secondary market nor do I believe that currents should go for anything over $5-$10. If the beanie is retired, that is a whole different story. That is what the secondary market is for. I also know that some of these retailers have stumbled on to something they can make a lot of easy money on and it would be hard for me not to take advantage of that too. But could I look myself in the mirror, knowing I have ripped off innocent customers? NO ! If some people can, great but I am a firm believer that what comes around goes around... 3 fold.....I wouldn't want to be in their shoes when it's their turn to get their just deserts. If anyone needs any justification, just remember....it will come back to haunt them sooner or later.
• What I don't like is retailers who order directly from Ty sell Princess at $100.00 and it is not for charity. I happen to know a store now that has Princess bears running out of their ears and will not sell them at regular price, but waiting to sell them at $100.00. I collect beanies for fun. They are cute and gives me something to do that I like.
• I love all of the beanies, but some of the dealers have really become outrageously expensive, when we know how much they pay. Most of us,especially, those of us on a fixed income, cannot hope to compete with these prices. We will just enjoy seeing them on the internet!
• I ejoy collecting cute, little things that my children can actually benefit from some day.
• I think it's unfair that a lot of shop keepers in my area hold back the more popular and hard to find beanies for their staff and friends.
• I dislike it when you are waiting in line to get one of the bears and the line is full of obvious flea-market dealers (they're easy to spot!).
• I dislike it when you are waiting in line to get one of the bears and the line is full of obvious flea-market dealers (they're easy to spot!).
• I love the whole Beanie Phenom.- I think it sucks though that retailers sell the new ones for 10-100 dollars for a 4.99 product.
• If you don't want to pay dont pay the prices for princess and Erin, when you collect things you dont need to have them all, I do have both I won my Erin for free and my Princess was 155. Everyone yelling about price will not change any thing and I personnal am tired of everyone whinning about it!
• Some of the BBs are just too cute for words and others I'm not sure how they even came to be. But I love the ones I have.
• Fun, Fun, Fun
• I wish dealers would make the hard to find beanies avaibable to the general public, instead they seem to lie and only sell them to their friends or family. I personally have been told this by two Ty dealers, that their family and friends come first. I have every current beanie and a few retired ones. But am having a real hard time collecting the bears, and I check daily, on breaks and at lunch, and am very forunate to work close to several shops that carry beanies. I know I probably invest more time han a lot of people do and am still having a real hard time finding the bears, so I know why the people I talk to that don't have the time to invest are getting discouraged about collecting, because they feel they will NEVER even get a chance to get the bears. Thanks for listening .
• I really hate when Ty retailers force you to purchase other beanies to get the one you want. One store I went to made you purhcase $100 dollars worth of beanies in order to purchase Erin or Princess for another $100 (and no, you can't buy Princess to get Erin or vice versa). That is totally unfair and I think this practice shold be stopped. Unfortunatley, I did end up spending $200 for Erin... what can I say, the sight of him made me temporarily weak =) I also know of many smaller retailers who kept the money from the "so-called" charity auctions for Princess, or miraculously have friends and relatives win their rigged auctions. I never purchase raffle tickets unless it's from a larger chain of stores like Hallmark.
• A strict limit during sale of teenie beanies at McDonalds this year. Happy Meals a must purchase, Limit two! Then everyone can get some!
• I believe that the problem in the beanie market comes from the fact that TY does not keep up with it's shipping to retailers. It creates a market of deception and fraud. Secondary market people regularly have hot beanies before the Official Ty retailer obtains their first ones. I know of specific examples where Ty retailers were called and offered the option to purchase Erins( from secondary market people) weeks before they ever arrived at their store. It is also a fact that some Ty reps have relative in the beanie business who always seem to have beanies in their stores while other reputable dealers go months without receiving significant shipments. Care to explain Mr. Warner? All of this fraud causes the beanie customer to chase the ups truck in an effort to find beanies when Ty does ship out the front door. I also believe that there is a source at Ty that feeds the black market else how can we explain that flea market dealers have 100's of beanies in stock while the retailers have to buy on the secondary market just to have beanies in stock. I personally have noticed this in 4 states while traveling with my family. Ga, SC, NC,Tenn. If Ty cannot keep up with its shipping as it has proved in the past then I predict that another beanie will quickly take its place.....Welcome to the world of Puffkins !!!!!!!
• I love beanie babies but I think if there is only one and an adult and a child want it the adult should let the child get it. Most people don't do that but they should.
• More hard to finds available
• I LOVE THESE CUTE LITTLE GUYS SO MUCH. I WISH THAT TY WOULD NOT STUFF SO MANY IN ONE BAG, AS BOTH TAGS (TUSH AND HEART) ALWAYS LOOK AS IF THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL.
• I do not like retailers paying $2.57 per beanie and then selling that beanie for $90.00 or more to their customers. This hobby is being ruined by greed.
• Wish more Erin bears would be distributed, very hard to find in my area. VERY ANGRY at retailers who sell princess and erin for $5.50, but make you buy $80 worth of merchandise first.
• I think they ( TY) should make a black footed ferret beanie baby.
• I dislike the big price differences between Ty retailers
• i think they should be a little more available at the 5.00 price to kids.
• I don't understand the fact that new beanies are introduced when most areas can't even find the last group when introduced. Beanies such as Erin and Princess (were supposed to be available), I have never even seen Peace Bear in my area stores. I have had to rely on secondary markets for alot of the scarce beanies. I am retired and at some point the fun part of collecting these cute animals will be gone because I can't afford to pay the secondary prices and still maintain the full collection. I inte d to pass the collection on my grand daughter in Colorado who has never had access to any Beanies in that area.
• i collect for myself and my children(ages 9 and 4). I have no intention of selling my beanies as it is a hobby. i think it sucks that people are making it impossible to get certain beanies, such as princess and erin. i have been patient, but the prices are still to high! my daughter Victoria(the 4 yr. old) loved Princess Diana, and was upset by her death. Getting a princess bear would make her happy, and being the only child-like memorial to Diana, she should be able to obtain one without having to pa an arm and a leg. these are the only 2 beanies that we don't have(we can find them-just can't afford them).
• I collect Beanies for myself and my daughter. I refuse to pay more than $7.00 for any Beanie. It makes me sick to see current Beanies such as Erin and Princess going for such ridiculous prices. Stores such as Noodlekidoodle, where you have a shot at getting them at $5.99, are selling them out the back door. I've come to the concluson at this point that I won't be getting Princess or Erin because I refuse to spend what their asking for. I collect them becuase I relaly like them not because I'm tryi g to make any money off them. I's ashamed that my niece save up her babysitting money to get Erin at the price tag of $325.00.
• Dislike retailers that sell new ones at exhorbitant prices.
• I feel the speciality beanies should be accessible to everyone and also at a reasonable price.
• I do believe that secondary markets or "dealers" help to promote and sustain the market, but when TY retailers become the "secondary markets" it tends to push the prices just that much higher. I wish there was a way to solve this problem, so we could have both our cake and eat it too! *smiles*
• I think that some BBs which are not reteird are unfairly priced for example Erin for 250, princes for 200, Britannia for 600. Ty has a problem on there hands.
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• Erin, Princess being sold out back door or on the secondary market by retailers and their employees.
• It bothers me to the point of not shopping at certain stores when they sell beanie babies from secondary sources, and sell them for more than the price they paid to receive there profit. Retailers in stores should only sell at the price Ty has set --- between $5.00 and $8.00!
• My family has had a great time collecting beanies. We searched together, waited in line and got excited whenever we were able to get a new one. It's not as much fun anymore. Too many people are in to them, retailers won't put them out at regular prices. Some stores will only sell to children (mine are in school and I'm on my lunch break). The secondary market is the only way to finish collections because the retailers are selling them out the back door or on auctions like ebay. I don't like the f ct that Ty stops shipments from Canada, yet I don't like the idea of counterfeit beanies out there. I don't think the fad will go on that much longer because people here are tired of hunting only to find the beanie is marked up to $250 for a current, there's a raffle instead or a major purhase that must take place in order to be given the privilege of purchasing one. Kids still haven't been able to purchase Princess.
• I DO NOT LIKE THE FACT THAT SOME ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET!!!1
• It's very frustrating when retailers have saved the best Beanies for theirs family or friends. This has happened soo many times to me and others I know.
• I hate the secondary market, some of them get to carried away. I don't think that Ty makes enough of 1 beanie to go around. Retailers should put all beanies, special ones included on the shelf to be sold like any other beanie baby.
• The next beanie on my acquisition list is really Brittannia, but she wasn't a choice.
• I have collected beanie babies for only one month. Since then I have had several different feelings about collecting. Most retailers are very friendly but I did have one experience where the retailer asked me how many beanie babies I have bought from his store.I told him six and he replied that was not enough and that I would have to purchase at least 24 before I was able to place an offer on 2 bears from the secondary market.I was not even able to purchase tag protectors from this store because they w re saved for his regular customers. Most experiences when I find a retired or hard to find beanie baby are very elating, very much like a adrenalin rush. The most enjoyable thing of all is seeing my son's face when he sees the beanie babies that I have managed to find for him.What I do not like is the retailers jacking up the price for a hard to find beanie baby or stipulating that you must buy six other regular beanies before you can buy. Since I'm a new beanie collector I must say that I'm getting tired looking for them and it's amazing how others can do this for a long time.
• I think they should make more horse animal beanie babies!!
• need to do something about halmark the family stores selling beanies at a secondary market price
• it is very frustrating to search in vain for a new or current and see someone in a secondary market with a dozen of them marked up 1000% or more.
• As a dealer, it seems to be a slowing trend, I'm getting fewer daily calls from fanatics.
• it is very frustrating to search in vain for a new or current and see someone in a secondary market with a dozen of them marked up 1000% or more.
• I only hope to buy two of every thing so I can sell them after they retire and make a little extra money. I will be happy if I can get $15 or $20 dollars for a retired BB. I am hooked on the "thrill of the hunt". I wish people would be honest and not so greedy. I actually had to listen to two people cuss each other over their places in line this morning. I was just shocked! I was told that I shouldn't be and that it was actually a mild run in. Most shops in our area will only allow you to get one f everything until everyone has a gone through the line,and it just is disgusting to watch people bring children to the stores and lie and say that the BB's are for the children. I have seen people do this and I know they are lying because I saw them last week at other stores getting the same ones. (Like any bears they can get their grubby hands on.) Sorry for ranting. LaDena Johnson
• The regular retail stores that take the princess and erin bears out immediatly after recieving their shipment to sell them at shows are TERRIBLE. I am a kid (14) and I want princess for my own collection. Beanies were started for the kids. TY should crack down on them.
• I really hate the dealers who sell Erin or Princess for $200. They should not be allowed to sell beanies. Also, Ty should make more of these so that the dealers could not sell them for so much.
• Like: Price, well made product, adorable styles, great for kids Dislike: Greed.
• I buy Beanie Babies for my children's collections. They each have their own sets, and they also share sets. I like giving these lil guys to my kids for hollidays, as rewards, and occasionally "just because". I love seeing their happy lil faces, especially when I find one they had "really" wanted. Yes, I also like Beanies, who wouldn't..they're so "cute" ! I've always loved teddy bears, so my lil girl & I share a teddy bear set. And since my children take after their Mom as being animal lovers...we (mys lf, son, & daughter) all share a wild/zoo animal set. I wish that Ty would make (not necessarly "same" as the old) <-a lil different maybe, so the older ones (the 1st ones) can keep their values for the "intense" collectors <-hope that was an "ok" word to use !?! Anyway, I'd love to see a new panda, polar bear, a manatee, and some of the others we newer collectors missed out on. As I stated, I wouldn't want to "take" from the values of the oldies...it would just be nice to have 1 of each animals for our li sets. Example : My son has an Echo & a Waves & is just happy to have 1 whale & 1 dolphin <-I am glad Ty made another of each of those animals after retiring the old ones (Flash & Splash). I'm no expert (still learning, also trying to keep up), but if you'd like to talk about Beanies or have any good advise for a single Mom trying to keep up with them, please feel free to E-mail me at -> P_Roze@hotmail.com . Thanx all :)
• Ty should be asnamed of their Mothers day plush. They just recycled Romeo, how insulting to all of us Mom's! We deserve our own type of bear. Not the junk Ty couldn't sell from a previous promotion. Shame on you Ty.
• I do have to agree that retailers that sell at secondary prices should be shut down. I have a 5yr old that uses his allowance to buy beanies and he cant afford some of these prices.
• I've been very perturbed about the Princess and Erin's being priced so high from retailers. Both are so beautiful and I really want both, however, I'm sad because I can in no way pay $100-$150 to add to my collection. I can understand not being able to afford those which have retired, but the new ones should always be available to everyone within the 6 months following their introduction. I'm pretty particular in which I do buy, however I REALLY WANT (no NEED) Princess and Erin. Sometimes I wonder f the people who really seriously collect will be disgusted with the "unavailables" (new beanies that cost more than $10) and just give up collecting all together. If enough are missing from their collection and the collection is not complete, they'll just give up. Oh well, this is probably not what you wanted in this spot. Please pass on to TY that they need to add a hedgehog, a weasel, a mouse, a heron, a hermit crab (with the shell), a clam, a crow, a chipmunk, a beaver, a sandpiper. You might add t your survey a question which asks what type of beanie would they like to see next. Thanks for listening.
• There should be a page on BB's that are about to retire.
• I collect Beanie Babies kind of as a hobby and I have even stood in line once to get my fave beanie......Peace. While in line, some girls walked by and commented on how "pathetic" it all was and I felt like asking them "Why do you care that I am a big fan of little stuffed animals called Beanie Babies? Just walk on by and mind your own business." I think most people are just ignorant about how much fun it can be and, therefore, choose to be condescending to people they don't even know. Hey, we're ju t having fun...let us be.
• My first trip for bb I bought 6 and thought my husband was going to think I was crazy. He got so excited he wanted to go out on bb hunts! Now we are working on two of each so the nursury can be done in Noah's Arch. The collection will be for the child(ren). At work I am now the offical bb collector and co-workers ask me to find them bb's.
• I'm thinking of not collecting anymore new ones, just concentrating on getting more of the older ones, because it's such a bandwagon thing now. But I will probably not succeed in breaking myself of the habit real soon. Money is a definite issue. The only way I can get retireds is to buy new beanies early, trade them to those who can't wait, then hope I can get the new ones for myself again.
• Buffalo-Buffy
• I think it was better before they became so popular - when you could find lots of them and they were only 5$
• I really like the idea of beanie babies and I just think that it's amazing how they have grown. I mean now it's not anly beanies but it's furniture, tag prodertors, tags, pasters, kits everything!!
• Its really to bad that some retailers have to put such a mark up. My daughter would love to buy the Erin, but she doesnt make enough allowance to buy one at the age of 6. It use to be a good incentive for kids but the adults had to come and ruin it for them. I try not to fall in that catagory, and hope I never do.
• Predictions on retirements might be: Patti, Squealer, Pinchers, Erin, Princess, Peace
• I'm ten years old and I think it is wonderful that there is such a cute collection that I can have fun finding at a price that I can afford. I can't wait for the next new batch.
• I think if you are a authorized dealer, you SHOULD sell all beanies for the same price. Not mark up the ones you feel are in high demand. There are too many authorized dealers that are ripping customers off.
• I heard the following are to retire soon: Crunch, Bones, Valentino, gracie, squeler,twiggs,waddles,hoppity,floppity&hippity
• Beanies are great! I am a 14 year old girl and the one thing I don't like is when beanies like Princess and Erin came out there prices soared the day they hit the shelves and I don't know about you but I do not have the kind of money to purchase them at the prices I've seen. I wish currents where avaliable and cheap! I understand why retires are so expensive but currents? CoMe OnE!
• I really hate how I see moms buying their kids 80 thousand beanies. I wish my mom wold do that for me. When I go BB shopping I have to earn or already have cash to use and I usually have enough money for one. I think that the people who are buying so many for their kids are totally obsessed and are only buying them for their kids as a cover-up for themselves. *Ashley*
• Think it's fun, the kids enjoy it also.
• THE SECONDARY MARKET IS GETTING OUTRAGOUS, I TOTAL SUPPORT TYS POLICY TO THE RETAILERS SELLING THE BEANINES AT $5.00 EVEN PRINCESS & ERIN WHICH I DO NOT HAVE BECAUSE I CAN'T AFFORD THE SECONDARY MARKET VALUE AND LETS FACE IT THESE BEANIES ARE NOT NUMBER OR ANY SPECIAL EDITIONS. AND WITH ALL THESE FAKES YOU REALLY HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR BUYING AND THIS WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A CHILDS COLLECTION AND THE POOR KIDS/ADULTS ARE GETTING RIPPED OFF LEFT AND RIGHT BY GREEDY SCAMMY UNTRUSTING PEOPLE.
• I think poeple on the secondary market is way to high. I know some one in europe who is bringing me some brittanias and my theory is ask the people what price they would like to buy at and sell it to them for that price !!!! ( Of course I would not sell them for less than six plus shipping ! )
• people who are in the secondary business for making a profit should be ashamed of themselves. these were ment for children not the adults to go crazy with.
• I don't think people seeling them in stores should be over 10 dollars even princess and erin.
• stores selling new ones for more than they should and not being able to get the new ones. not coming out fast enough
• Ty should make it easy to report dealers by having a link on their page
• I think that the prices are getting rediculess and that no one should pay anymore than $6.99 for non-retired beanie babies(such as Princess and Erin). I started collecting beanie babies before the craze started, and will continue to collect them when the beanie baby phenomenon dies out. Beanies rule!
• I love collecting beanies, trading beanies, talking to other beanie collectors. I love seeing the value go up, but hate it when I see the stores, not secondary market, sell the hard to find beanies for high prices. There's no way most people can pay $50 for a beanie, much less the $150+ some Ty dealers are asking. If I buy a beanie and attempt to sell it or trade it on the internet, I'm taking a big risk of loosing my investment. They are not when they get the cash in hand in their stores. Beanies at $5 or $6 each is a big return for them when you consider what they pay and the fact that they get so many at a time and sell them out immediately. One dealer in town told me that beanies are her most profitable investement, and she sells ALL of them for $5.98, never holding any back nor jacking the prices up on hard to finds or retireds. I refuse to buy ANYTHING from those who do that.
• I think it is great that you have this survey.I think that Blizzard and Crunch will retire because of copyrighted names.
• I hate all that stupid clothing people are trying to sell. Its pointless and a waste of money.
• I think a lot of the problems with getting beanies and the secondary market issues would be cleared up if TY would simply sell the company to someone who can make the beanies so people can buy them at the $6 price they claim to want them sold at!!! That is why I am selling off as many of my beanies as I can. It is not worth collecting beanies if you have to even buy new released beanies on the secondary market for greatly inflated prices due to TY's inability to manufacture beanies. Ty should take a lesson on making and selling beanies from Disney or better yet let Disney buy them.
• NOT ENOUGH QUESTONS! NOT ENOUGH CHOICES!
• I do not like the greed of some people because this is suppose to be for children. but many people like to make money off unsuspecting children
• Since TY made their policy of suggesting a $5 charge for beanies, then why don't they just print the suggested retail price on the tag so we don't have to pay anywhere from $5.50 to $8 on a first hand market. Also I'm surprised that TY are the beanies that people are seeking because there are other beanie animals that are made much better quality and more realistic looking animals than what Ty produces. I also dislike the idea to have to pay to go to a beanie show (I've never went)..but after all who would pay $4 to go look at the same stuffed animals you could save your money and wait to buy one for that.
• There are a lot of beanies I think will retire including: chocolate, squealer, princess, fleece, the three bunnies, peace, curly, valentino, and many more
• My daughter got me hooked on beanie babies, they're too cute. I enjoy going on my beanie "hunts" especially when I'm able to find a certain beanie I have been looking for. The one thing I do dislike is certain Hallmark stores get the newest beanies in, but they charge $10-$15 a piece! I saw "Peace" bear in this Hallmark selling for $20, even at that price, they were all sold in an hour. It's a shame that these toys are now too expensive for most children to buy.
• I don't like the fact that certain Beanie Babies are only available if a premium is paid - Erin, Princess and Peace.
• I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE BEANIES
• I don't like that TY does not control their authorized dealers. These greedy people are selling Beanies like Princess and Erin for over $100.00 which is ridiculous considering the amount they purchase them from TY for. How many parents can afford to buy them for their children and grandchildren? TY has it in their power to do something about these dishonest dealers and doesn't do a thing. They may find out that the gravy train will dry up when enough customers get fed up with being ripped off!
• As an authoriazed Ty Dealer, I have found that the Beanie craze has been a phenominal addition to our business in the past year. It is especially fun when we get in a new shipment each month and the customers can't seem to buy them fast enough. We had a Beanie babie sign made to put out on our sidewalk. We are in a small rural community, with our business on a busy intersection. The sign is constantly pulling in people off the road to buy beanies. Business people, delivery people, travelers alike, will stop to buy beanies when they see the sign.
• Beanies are the best! I look for them ALL THE TIME!
• I wish that Ty would drop the retailers that "gouge" the public, and not just say they will, then do nothing.
• i am concerned that the lady di and errin bear are so expensive, due to this i will probably never own one......
• I love collecting beanies. It's very fun, but it is also very expensive and demanding(especially when your 13, and you don't have that much money)
• BEANIE BABIES RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• My daughter and I both love beanie babies. It's very hard though for a 9 year old to understand that she can't afford a princess or an erin because the price is too far out of our range. thanks for such a good survey
• My children and I adore Beanie Babies, but, I am truly tired of over pricing. I went into a Hallmark Store in Columbus, Ohio today only to find they wouldn't sell Peace for less than $25.00. I thought authorized dealers weren't supposed to do that? My son wants Humphrey more than any other Beanie - but I could not possible afford to pay $500 - $2,500. I just don't think the over pricing is fair and it really takes the fun out of collecting.
• what i dislike is that some stores are now selling Erin and Princess in a package with other items so they can get around the pricing policy. The package runs $60. If you want the bears, you pay the price. PLay co. is one of these stores.
• The Ty company needs to make more Beanies, and not retire brand new ones. This only makes the prices go crazy, and collectors frenzied. I would also like opportunities to purchase Maple, Britannia, and others not available here in the U.S. That also makes the prices higher. Most children cannot afford even $ 20 for a toy, let alone hundreds or thousands of dollars. CRKCS
• I like the way Ty keeps everyone guessing. No one knows better than I do who will retire, etc., because he's unpredictable.
• i don'tlike the fact that the retail market has no princessesor erins but the secondary market is flooded with them. this leads me to believe retailers are selling out of the "back door".
• it is fun, it is a challenge to find them, it is a conversation starter everywhere.
• Why are there only retireds on the next acquisition list?
• I would like to see retailers keep their prices at a level that children can afford, at least for the first Beanie of any kind purchased. Then if duplicates are desired, mark it up accordingly. I have seen sites on the web that indicate you can purchase as many as four of one kind at a time. Our local store will only allow one per person. I don't like that when I want to buy one for my daughter and then another of the same kind for a present for my nephew or my daughter's friends.
• I think they should replace "retired's" with similar styles and maybe just give them a different name. I also think this whole business of limited supplies is ridiculous. It appears that TY Inc is not at all concerned with the consumer. Limited stock means a jacked up price, not higher value. More people are going to be continuously disappointed and possibly stop collecting altogether after being so disgusted.
• I THINK THAT ALL CURRENT BEANIE STYLES SHOULD BE MASS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED SO THAT THE PRICES WILL STAY REASONABLE AND THE SECONDARY MARKET CAN NOT MONOPOLIZE CERTAIN STYLES. EG. PRINCESS,ERIN,BRITTANIA
• I think TY should flood the market with many of the non retired that are so hard to find. That way the secondary market can't mark them up so much. That really puts a damper on collecting when even the currents can't be found. Then when they are they have been jacked up so much. Like Peace, Erin, Princess, Zip, Scotty,
• I love the beanie babies, but it's almost crazy how greedy peolple are trying to get them. I bet the newer beanie babies will be retired soon, because people are in a craze trying to get as many as they can, firstly because they are so cute, and secondly because they will shoot up in prices soon.
• I would like to know how I can find out who is an autherized dealer in the Dayton,Ohio area? Leo24 E-mail trebork@erinet.com
• I like the fact that the beanies are between $5-7 so that all people can participate in collecting, not just the wealthy.
• I really wish people could have a chance to buy princess, Erin and Peace without having to pay $50 or more at primary retailers. In my area, purchasing one of these bears for less than that amount is impossible.
• I like beanies.
• They, each and every one of them, have their own personalities! There are a couple I'm not especially fond of, but even so...Since it's just before Ty's 5/1 announcements, people are going crazy here in Orange County. It's agreed that Squealer and Weenie are going to retire; no 5th gen tags have been seen. These, Scotty, Inky, Happy, Chocolate haven't been seen for three months at least in retail stores and they're not easy to find at secondary shows, either.
• My kids really enjoy collecting bb. The thing I really hate is when they want one and the price is above $10. They get disappointed and it makes me feel bad because I won't pay over $10 for one. I wish the price could be regulated to some extent. Out of the predictions I think the one for retirement is chocolate, or peanut
• I have never in my entire life had so much fun as Beanie Baby Collecting. As my grand-daughter says, "He's soooo cute"!
• I wish it was easier to sell to secondary dealers, rather than net auctions.mmSince I am interested in old retired beanies, I hesitate to buy or sell ON THE NET.
• I think chocolate and squealer will retire for sure. they have been around a long time. I would really like to purchase Humphrey but I can't afford him . I also love the Bears and I would like Princess, Erin, Britannia and Maple. Thanks for a great survey and wonderful web page. I visit often
• I think the vendor creates shortages and high demands for some items. This is almost a turn off for my daughter and I in continuing to collect beanies.
• Great for family closeness. Something that everyone in the family can come together and do, and enjoy it.
• From what I've seen on the secondary market, people are buying Valentino, Zip, Seaweed at ridiculously high prices, bet they retire next!
• It amazes me when I see one vendor selling a BB for $20 and another vendor, 5 feet away, selling the same BB for $10. I am appalled at the overcharging of legitimate vendors. It is a disgrace.
• Is it true that at events, such as baseball games, the beanie babies are only for children? Is there a list of broadway shows and special events where beanie babies are sold? Is it possible for a church to have a fundraiser with a special edition of a beanie baby, for example, Peace (since this is a value that should be spread)? Some stores are are charging $9.95+ for new beanie babies unless you buy one of the older beanie babies - should this be? I think you should make bears with the flags of countr es (using one of the colors in the flag. For example, issue Erin with an Irish flag, etc. Why not have a beanie day at a baseball or basketball game using a beanie with the state or city flag or the club insignia/patch, ex. Digger the (orange) Oriole crab? The jusrisdictions would love it.
• It has been thoroughly enjoyable both collecting and searching for beanies, at a relatively low cost for enjoyment!
• STOP THE GAMES RETAILERS PLAY WITH BEANIES, NON-RETIRED "ALL" SHOULD SELL FOR $5 TO $6. ALSO STOP "IF YOU WANTTHIS ONE", YOU HAVE TO BUY 5 OR 10 TO GET THE ONE YOU WANT. I LIKEDED IT BETTER IN 96,97 THANK YOU, A BEANIE COLLECTOR...
• My 2 children are looking to add to their collection The Princess Bear, I hope the marketing of this item comes down in price. So the average child can buy it.
• I like the anticipation of which ones are going to retire
• I LOVE BEANIE BABIES, BUT IN BOSTON YOU CAN'T GET PRINCESS OR ERIN UNLESS YOU PAY $5 PER RAFFLE TICKET. I FEEL THAT BEANIES SHOULD BE SOLD WHETHER NO MATTER WHAT THE HISTORY IS ON THE BEANIE FOR A DESCENT PRICE UP TO $10 EA. HOME SHOPPING NETWORK IS WAY TOO GREEDY
• I love them i started collecting for my 6 month old granddaughter Callie, then it sort of became my collection, so i had to start buying doubles. I have all but the old retireds. I really have no hope of obtaining them. They are beyond what i will pay, to bad. But i do love the hunt, and the fun of it. Everyday before i go to lunch at work i call my rounds to see if they are in, so if neccercary i make my lunch hour a beanie run. I Love them. Kathy Murray,,,constructionsuper@msn.com
• I hate greedy retailers. I hope Ty floods the market with Princess and Erins!
• I didn't think I would get hooked on these little critters, but they sneak up on you.
• Retailers who do not put VHTF beanies on their shelves for sale such as Erin and Princess. I believe Ty should moniter these dealers more closely. RAFFLES for Erin and the new Princess are all that has been offered at our stores which only fattens retailers purses since procedes are not for charity.
• I hope it continues they are cute. I dislike dealers who withhold hard to find beanies (not retired beanies) and charge excess prices for them. I have no objection to them selling retired beanies at a higher price IF they have not purposely withheld them. I also realize dealers have to be careful of unscrupulous secondary market people who buy out the stock of honest dealers and resell them at a huge profit.
• I hate the fact that I want to get Erin and am going to have to pay a fortune for it. From what I have seen on the auctions on the Internet, the retailers are keeping them for themselves and auctioning them off for big money. I collect them as toys for my daughter. She does not play with them, but loves collecting them with me. We just started late last year and have quite a few to get yet, but it will be a major investment. I just think it is unfair that the general public is not given the opport nity to purchase them. I did manage to get the Princess Bear, but had to buy an easter basket from Hallmark to get it, which cost me $109.00 and contained about $15.00 worth of junk and the Princess Bear First Edition. I love Beanie babies because they are so cute!!!
• About 30% of beanie baby collectors started collecting since late 1997. This suggests to me that these people have put a great strain on the availability of existing beanies. Retailers are quick to take advantage of increased demand. And many collectors are certain to hoard beanies making them difficult for newly introduced collectors to obtain. The question that comes to mind is: Are the conditions needed to burst the beanie bubble? Will the announcement of newly retired beanies exacerbate those condi ions? I'm guessing that sometime in the fall of 1998 there will be an across the board drop in market values. So is anyone interested in 24 pairs of recently released lizards at 35 dollars a pair..... A young lady offered a suggestion that Ty should introduce ERIN I I , a white teddy with a green shamrock. I would love to see that!
• Beanies are awesome. What's this with a blue quackers? Is $25 too much to pay for it?
• I lub dem berry muuch, amd i feeel dat dey are guud me like em loots
• It is frustrating that some Beanies never even make to regular dealers -- they immediately hit the secondary market for way more than their retail value (e.g. Erin, Princess)
• I would like to have an e-mail address to Ty to report retailers that sell beanies at different price levels.
• I hate it that the secondary market is so greedy. Beanie Babies are supposed to be affordable collectable. I figure that I was lucky to get a Princess bear for $100! This was right out of my pocket and I should have saved my money for a car or for college. I went to the mall and found Princess in a showcase for twice as much as mine. I'm also lucky that my friend is going to sell me an Erin for $20. One of my other friends was very lucky to buy an Erin for the correct price of $4.99. I've seen E in being sold for twice as much as Princess. This madness must be stopped! I also think that there should be a Labrador retriever Beanie Baby. I have two labs and they are so adorable. It's a shame that bull terrier beanies came before there was any talk of making a beanie out of one of the most popular and friendly dogs in America.
• I HOPE THE BEANIE BOOM IS HERE TO STAY!!!!!!!!!
• i'm tired of the way retailers push up the price on the beanies. i;m seriously thinking about not buying any more, the prices for princess and erin are absolutely ridiculous! this is a pain at times. i'll may buy them but i refuse to pay much over $6-$10 anymore. i will admit i paid too much,way too much for princess and erin but no more. i like them but the whole thing is out of control.
• I dislike stores that overcharge for BB's. I personally have never paid more than $10 but my boyfriend paid $15 each for the 1998 new ones.
• poeple who work in beanie stores shouldn't be able to take any of the valueable beanies. They always hog them all.
• I just like to collect them and keep them all around the house and give them to the grandchildren when they come over. I don't like the fact that these greedy dealers charge so much money for some of the beanies.
• I think that some of the beanie babies that are retired are priced way tooo high.
• I think the beanie baby phenomine is getting way out of hand and that the people who pay more than $5 for a beanie are crazy and same goes for the sellers. Beanies are so cheap to make!!!
• I think that Ty Beanie Babies are the best! I like the different animals they make like Iggy the Iguana and Rainbow. I dislike the people that sell the Beanies for $270.00 or $300.00 for Erin or Princess the bears. I think at the MOST they should sell them for $35.00 or $30.00 for each.
• I really do not like the way authorized Ty dealers have chosen to sell Princess and Erin. They make it almost impossible for the average person to purchase these and I think it is unfair.
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• I don't like it when stores announce when they are going to have them and then they have a big crowd and a mess!
• I believe retailers who are gouging the public - charging $150 for Erin/Peace/Curley should not be allowed to sell. Some dealers are also only putting out one/two new beanies at a time saying they are hard to get and are charging $15 apiece. They are spoiling the fun of collecting. Are they allowed to do this?
• I left the favorite questions blank because I love them all.
• I believe retailers who are gouging the public - charging $150 for Erin/Peace/Curley should not be allowed to sell. Some dealers are also only putting out one/two new beanies at a time saying they are hard to get and are charging $15 apiece. They are spoiling the fun of collecting. Are they allowed to do this?
• I LOVE COLLECTING BEANIE BABIES !
• Beanies are great! Everybody should have several.

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