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How's the market for Beanie Babies these days?

• stonemetal 13y ago
  Ty hasn't gone out of business, and the sole owner of the company is worth 2.5 billion. I would say pretty good.
• vrotaru 13y ago
  Now that's fanboyism at its worst. I mean, equating A with something X when it is not clear, how even remotely similar those are, but where X conveniently failed some time ago. But to reply in kind, how are greenbacks these days?
  • bumbledraven 13y ago
    Greenbacks are doing great, comparatively speaking - the US government continues to demand tax payments exclusively in dollars and jails those who don't pay. Only in another branch of the multiverse would the govt. ever allow tax payments in beanie babies or bitcoin.
    • vrotaru 13y ago
      First let me explain, what I was replaying to. The OC argument to seems to be, bitcoin and beany babes are expression of the same idea and beanie babes flopped. Ergo bitcoin will fail. Hence the question about greenbacks, which are now not worth a continental. Yes, you can say that greenbacks are doing great, comparatively speaking, but than if greenbacks ~= dollars and beanie babies ~= bitcoins, than you are bound to say that.. beanie babies are at least moderately successful Which if I understood the OC correctly it is exactly the opposite of what was implying. Cheers
• pyre 13y ago
  Egads! You've definitively proven that Bitcoin will go the way of the Dodo! Congratulations! See the receptionist on your way out to receive your prize. </sarcasm> On a more serious note, you've really contributed nothing here. The parent post is saying that a crash does not necessarily imply that something is useless and going away, giving examples of where crashes haven't affected whether or not people still value something. You're anecdote doesn't even work. Like tulips there was a market bubble for Beanie Babies which burst, but Ty still sells them.