WescottF1 posted:

Toward the end of the Beanie Baby craze, about once a month there'd be an ad in the Sunday paper for one of the local hotels hosting a WE BUY BEANIE BABIES! event. My wife had a handful of the fairly sought-after ones that she bought for the original retail price so we figured we'd unload them for a small profit or at least to get a few bucks for something she didn't want anymore.

There was a family behind us in line that had a tote filled with a bunch of them. By then, the value of the things was nowhere near what they were about a year prior (I had a co-worker whose wife wanted the Princess Di one so bad he paid like $350 for it). You can probably imagine the reaction of these people when they were told their collection was worth a fraction of what they paid for it. 0 to super pissed in about a second and a half.