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ELI5: Whats the basis for thinking Beanie Babies would grow in value?
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They were a collectible item, like baseball cards. People though that when production stopped, the price would rise they would become rarer. As collectors kept them for collections and the number of beanie babies on the market would drop, causing prices to go up. However it ended up being a lot of people trying to sell them to collectors, and not a lot of collectors.