The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591846021 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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He writes fluently and has structured his tale artfully…. Most impressive of all, Mr. " -- TILAR MAZZEO, author of The Widow Cliquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It“Enlightening…. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble will leave you shaking your head and wistfully remembering the wild, wild ride that was the late 1990s. COHAN, author of Money and Power “The amazing story of the time the world lost its mind over little beanbag c
T-Rex 5 said Excellent Research on Beanie Babies and Collecting. This is an excellently researched book detailing the history of Beanie Babies, the unique events that led to the Beanie Baby craze, and the inevitable bust as beanie babies worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars became worthless in a span of a few weeks. The author interviews many important players. The book gives an extensive biography on Ty Warner, the man who created Be. If You Ever Wondered About the Beanie Craze I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Zac Bissonette put in the time and research to make this a engaging and thoroughly engrossing book on the rise and fall of Ty Warner's widely successful line of "Beanie Products." Complete with many personal interviews of those close to Ty and those greatly affected by it (Collector's, Small Specialty Owners, and more), it makes very interesting . Furry Greed-Fueled Delusion Witnessing the mania during its heyday was confusing to me. Adults buying cute little stuffed toys as an investment strategy made no sense. I could understand a few rare items being of value but we're talking millions of these suckers being horded by people. Mr. Bissonnette's 'The Great Beanie Baby Bubble' does a very good job of explaining how the toy became a fad then turned
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. The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with "rare" Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they'd once been deemed priceless. A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reporte
He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Bloomberg, among others. Zac Bissonnette wrote two acclaimed bestsellers before his twenty-fourth birthday: Debt-Free U and How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents. . He lives in New