The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette

The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with 'rare' Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they'd once been deemed priceless. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reported a personal income of $662 million-more than Hasbro and Mattel combined. Beanie Babies were ten percent of eBay's sales in its early days, with an average selling price of $30-six times the retail price. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire-without advertising or big-box distribution. Read more US 5.97 Add to cart FreeEconomy Shipping.

Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. 'In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute 1 watched in the last 24 hours Be the first to write a review. Bissonnette draws on hundreds of interviews (including a visit to a man who lives with his 40,000 Ty products and an in-prison interview with a guy who killed a coworker over a Beanie Baby debt) for the first book on the strangest speculative mania of all time'.

In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. 'A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s. Also, the few, really valuable Beanies are not the ones people typically have in their attics, says Zac Bissonnette, the author of The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side.

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette