Collectibles that are totally worthless - Page 2

insomniac · ‎03-09-2010

I'm hoping only a small minority of people have bought stuff like this as an ""investment."" Pathetic.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

i have a friend who has boxes and boxes of beanie babies that he had been collecting since they first came out......LOL they were going to make him a rich man. we joked about him when he started doing it and we are still joking about it now.

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sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

i do collect happy meal toys but not to sell them.....i send them overseas when i get a bag together.

i do go to some nostalgia and collectibles festivals and people are selling some of these items, including the happy meal toys and people do buy them.

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kittymomNC · ‎08-09-2012

My son just went to an estate sale last weekend, and it turned out to be a woman I worked with many years ago who had passed away. I remember when she was buying the Hummel figurines, which never appealed to me. She also had a fairly large collection of Precious Moments. He talked to the person who bought most of them, and one or two are worth quite a bit, but most not much of anything. She also had some Beanie Babies. This was a woman who never married, never had children, so not sure why she bought the things she did.

A friend of mine years ago gave me Boyd's bears for Christmas several years, and I never had the heart to ask her why? ${#emotions_dlg.blink}$ She lived out of town so didn't see that I had them on the top shelf of my closet. I recently looked on eBay and they're only worth a few dollars.

I do have several Lenox Porcelain Owls from the Owls of America series, which I paid right much for, and have seen sold on eBay for half what I paid for them. I bought them because I've always loved owls, but I'm really not "into" them any more so I might sell them, except for one, which is a large white snowy owl with its wings outstretched and is quite lovely.

Qwackertoo · ‎03-11-2010

I remember when I was pregnant with my son and we stopped at the mall on our way to Texas . . . and we were in the Hallmark shop and my 3 1/2 year old daughter and my husband bought me the Beanie Baby Leftie, the Donkey, cuz I'm left handed and they say I'm a little stubborn . . . so then I found out there was a Righty an elephant so I bought it later on . . . and there might have been a Bear named Liberty or something . .. and a cute tie-dyed bear Garcia . . . had the chance to sell them a few short months later for a little over 1K. C-R-A-Z-Y.

You can add Cherished Teddies, Dept 56 Villages & while not worthless they are not what they use to be, some Hallmark items but again not all . . . certainly not what they were when they had secondary shows around and about the country before eBay came on the scene.

Ditto on the Longaberger. Have some that I enjoy, signed on as a consultant for the discount, only customer's I ever had were myself and my sister.

An older lady at one of my collector clubs told me . . . when things are HOT, if you come across extras to sell . . . sell 'em fast while they're HOT . . . don't wait for value to go up & up . . . and for a good part of her advice is true these days with eBay.

typo

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

On 1/26/2015 kittymomNC said:
My son just went to an estate sale last weekend, and it turned out to be a woman I worked with many years ago who had passed away. I remember when she was buying the Hummel figurines, which never appealed to me. She also had a fairly large collection of Precious Moments. He talked to the person who bought most of them, and one or two are worth quite a bit, but most not much of anything. She also had some Beanie Babies. This was a woman who never married, never had children, so not sure why she bought the things she did.

A friend of mine years ago gave me Boyd's bears for Christmas several years, and I never had the heart to ask her why? ${#emotions_dlg.blink}$ She lived out of town so didn't see that I had them on the top shelf of my closet. I recently looked on eBay and they're only worth a few dollars.

I do have several Lenox Porcelain Owls from the Owls of America series, which I paid right much for, and have seen sold on eBay for half what I paid for them. I bought them because I've always loved owls, but I'm really not "into" them any more so I might sell them, except for one, which is a large white snowy owl with its wings outstretched and is quite lovely.

Ooh, your owls sound lovely! I love Lenox and birdies are my passion. I have lots of small Lenox pieces that I really like. Probably not worth much, though, but I don't care. I can only imagine how beautiful the owls are.

CatsyCline · ‎07-24-2013

i have some McDonalds beanie babies i collected in 1998 i think. only a few. i have two mini barbies from McD. never planned to sell them!

i know a man who used to collect Franklin Mint stuff. he would buy a new ""collectible"" every few weeks and show it off to family members. it was sad because he thought these things would be worth a lot in the future.

Kalli · ‎03-11-2010

Sometimes I think the internet and eBay are why some of these collectibles have drastically fallen in worth. Used to be, if you were looking for a specific piece in a collection, you had to look far and wide and if you were lucky enough to find it, you got it without hesitation.

Now, you see more than one on eBay. If you miss out on one, you just wait and bid on the next, and on and on until you find one in your price range.

BeckiWV · ‎04-12-2011

I don't collect things like that.

I do have a few pieces of Fenton that I got as gifts. We also got a few pieces from my husband's grandmother when she died.

I live near where Fenton was made, so I want to keep my pieces for the local sentimental value, not for resale. The pieces I do have are not things like carnival glass or milk glass from decades ago.

Other than the Fenton, I just don't like a lot of things sitting around.

About the only I collect are makeup concealers, LOL. I have a ton of those.

BeckiWV · ‎04-12-2011

On 1/26/2015 Kalli said:
Sometimes I think the internet and eBay are why some of these collectibles have drastically fallen in worth. Used to be, if you were looking for a specific piece in a collection, you had to look far and wide and if you were lucky enough to find it, you got it without hesitation.

Now, you see more than one on eBay. If you miss out on one, you just wait and bid on the next, and on and on until you find one in your price range.

I always think all those pawn shop and picker shows also make people think every little thing must be worth something and the market is glutted with a bunch of old stuff.