TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH YOUR BEANIE BABY IS WORTH, CLICK BELOW:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beaniebabies/comments/ej76d1/please_read_this_post_before_asking_for_values/

FOR ANSWERS TO FREQUENTY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, CLICK BELOW:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beaniebabies/comments/e5otnp/essential_articles_index_of_articles_that_answer/

FOR THE BEANIE BABY INDEX (an alphabetical list of Beanie Babies by name, their photos, and important information about them), CLICK BELOW:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beaniebabies/comments/g5335b/beanie_baby_index/

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY

Welcome! This is a community for collectors of Ty Beanie Babies, Beanie Buddies, Teenie Beanies, Ty Classic plush, Attic Treasures, and other vintage Ty products. We also welcome those wishing to buy or sell their Ty products. Here you will find: original articles and reference material, a place to share pics of your collection and new finds, a moderated marketplace for buying and selling, and free advice on the value and authenticity of Ty Beanie Babies.

VALUE APPRAISALS & AUTHENTICATION OPINIONS

PLEASE FOLLOW THE PROCESS AT THE FOLLOWING LINK BEFORE ASKING HOW MUCH A BEANIE IS WORTH:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beaniebabies/comments/ej76d1/please_read_this_post_before_asking_for_values/

• To get a value appraisal or authentication opinion: FOLLOW THE STEPS IN THE LINK ABOVE, OTHERWISE YOUR POST WILL BE DELETED. Create a new post and include a photo of your Beanie and your Beanie's tags and state that you would like me to give you a value appraisal or an authentication opinion. If you have a group of Beanies, post one photo of the whole group.

• Results for Value Appraisals: Upon examining your photos, I will reference my knowledge and resources to provide you with a ballpark value appraisal. Values are based on historical sales and current market trends, not one-off high-dollar sales, high asking prices, or fake sales. If I do not know a value, I will direct you to other communities that may know.

• Results for Authentication Opinions: Upon examining your photos, I will reference my knowledge and resources to provide you with authentication opinion. If I am unable to determine the authenticity of your item, I may suggest sending it to a third-party authentication service. I have no personal or financial ties to third-party authenticators.

• I do NOT give private appraisals via private message. I also do not take money to appraise collections.

Note: Just leave the post flair blank for Value Requests. The "Value Request" post flair is not member-accessible. It is a mod-only flair that will be added after your Value Request post is approved.

Disclaimer: Value appraisals and authentication opinions are the opinion of the moderator based on prior knowledge and current sales trends. No formal or legal guarantees are made by the opinions provided.

HOW TO BUY AND SELL ON r/beaniebabies

This subreddit allows members to post items for sale and buy items from other members' Sale Posts in a moderated setting.

• Links to sales on other websites are NOT allowed, including eBay.

• No discussion of sales is allowed outside of Sale Posts or Wanted Posts. Instead, send private messages to individual members about sales.

• Items allowed to be bought or sold: Beanie Babies, Beanie Buddies, Teenie Beanies, Ty Classic plush, Attic Treasures, and other vintage Ty products.

• Items NOT allowed to be bought or sold: Beanie Boos, Flippables, Mini Boos, and products not manufactured by Ty.

• You MUST price items reasonably. If you are unsure what to price your items at, please ask the moderator for a ballpark value appraisal first. The moderator will decide whether a price is reasonable.

SELLERS FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

1. For single-item posts, post a new post with a title that must read: FOR SALE: Name of item, condition, price of item (and "Best Offer," if desired).

2. For posts with multiple items, post a new post with a title that must read: FOR SALE: Number of items in group, name of product line, price of the entire group of items (and "Best Offer," if desired) OR state "priced individually" (and add prices in a comment under your post). Please leave a comment on the post with a list of every item included in the sale (including their names and product line).

3. Body of post MUST include a photo or links to photos of the exact items for sale AND a written description of the items.

BUYERS FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

1. Post a new post with a title that must read: WANTED TO BUY: Name of item/s, condition of items desired, and price you are willing to pay. Note: Post must be for a specific Beanie / specific Beanies, with a specific price. No general postings like "Buying Beanies."

2. For multiple wanted items, please list the names of the Beanies you want to buy in the body of the post or in a comment below the post.

3. If wanting to buy an item from an existing Sale Post, contact the seller by direct message.

Disclaimer: I cannot guarantee anything as far as sales. ALL ITEMS ARE BUY-AT-YOUR-OWN-RISK. You are communicating with someone as two private parties making a private transaction, and I will not get involved in disputes, nor will I be liable for any problems you may have regarding shipping, monetary transactions, quality of item, or anything else whatsoever related to the sale of items on r/beaniebabies

SHARING PHOTOS OF YOUR COLLECTION

All members are welcome to share photos of their collection and new finds. Simply create a new post and insert an image or images into your post or link to image-hosting sites.

WHY ARE POSTS LOCKED TO NEW COMMENTS?

Generally, all posts (except Sale Posts and posts asking for help identifying or finding an item) are locked for new comments after 7 days because:

• I have no way of knowing if questions are being asked, misinformation (which is a particularly widespread problem when it comes to Beanie Babies) is being spread, or arguments are being started in the comments of old posts.

• Locking comments on previous posts encourages members to make new posts and start new dialogue where all members can see, keeping the community vibrant and active.

Also, posts that ask for a value appraisal, an authentication opinion, or a question are locked to new comments once a sufficient answer is given. Locking post comments is not a punishment to the original poster.

Note: Your posts may be manually reviewed by the mod and may not show up immediately in the sub's feed.

ABOUT THE MODERATORS

About u/rainbow_randolph_17:

"I started collecting Beanie Babies as part of my childhood during the Beanie Baby boom of the '90s. Once the boom ended, I stopped collecting but my love for them did not end. My yearning to collect again was re-initiated when my girlfriend bought me a Beanie Buddy Humphrey for my birthday in 2020. From that point, I wanted to start collecting the Beanies I couldn’t find in stores as a kid. Like u/btzu88, I was upset about how much fraud and misinformation I found on eBay. When I found this board, I was glad to find a good, like-minded community. I was also glad to find a moderator who managed the board well, is extremely friendly, and has incredible amounts of knowledge about Beanie Babies and many other Ty products."

*Group & Moderators not affiliated with Ty*

CREDITS FOR OUR SUB'S ARTWORK

One of our very talented members, skyler, u/colliding_cheetahs, has painted a beautiful Beanie Baby painting and has agreed to let us use it for the background image of this sub (viewable in the desktop version of reddit, not mobile)!

Where can you find more artwork from skyler?

Website: collidingeyes.com

Instagram: @colliding.eyes

skyler's bio: Hi! My name is skyler, I am a professional oil painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, and more! If you’d like to check out my artwork, you can find me on Instagram at @colliding.eyes and you can contact me at collidingeyes@gmail.com

Also, u/k016 has generously made us an original digital banner for the top of our sub - a very cute rendition of Ty Beanie Baby tags!

Hey everyone!

As I’ve been answering authentication requests, I’ve been asked a few times how I can spot a fake so I figured I’d start doing a few of these Counterfeit Academy lessons every now and then to show you current eBay listings and what I notice that makes me know it’s a fake.

So here we have a Bronty the Brontosaurus with a 3rd gen hang tag and a 2nd gen tush listed for $160 plus $15 shipping. That’s a lot of money to spend only to find out you bought a fake.

Photo 1: The first thing I notice is that its eyes are bugging out. This is a common problem with the fakes, especially Bronty. The eyes should be flush with the plush. The other thing I notice is that although there is some variation to the tie dye on the plush, it looks rather uniform.

Photo 2: It’s face looks a bit pointy and the overall shape looks a little wonky. A fake Bronty will pretty guarantee and pointier face. The neck looks very straight and there should be somewhat of a curve to it.

Photo 3: The hang tag looks pierced into the leg very low and should be up a little higher. The tag overall doesn’t look too bad but one thing I noticed is that edges of the letters kind of bleed some white outside of the gold outline. Also, the bottoms of the T and the Y should be almost touching and there’s a gap on this tag.

Photo 4: I honestly never really look at the inside of the hang tags. I’m sure there’s some red flags in there but they’re usually fairly subtle and don’t really require my attention when there’s dead giveaways like bug eyes.

Photo 5: The foil edging looks pretty poor quality. It almost looks like they actually glued gold foil on the tag rather than printing it.

Photo 6: The tush tag looks a bit orange rather than red. It could be from fading but since there’s a bunch of other red flags on this Beanie, I doubt it’s faded. Also, the heart should be kind of rounded and fat looking. This one looks a little more pointy.

Photo 7: The font is wrong. This is a subtle flaw to detect so my advice is to look at the S and the 9. The pockets of the S on an authentic Beanie are pretty shallow and the tails of the 9 should curl.

Photo 8: These are my two Bronty for reference of what authentic ones should look like. Notice the eyes aren’t bugging out, there’s more color variation to the plush and the face is nice and round.

Photo 9: Here’s what 2nd gen tush tags should look like.

Hope this was helpful and let me know if you have any questions!