[yieldcrv]

until you find out that beanie babies weren't irrational either

there was a supply crunch with the manufacturer in China, it was rational to think it wouldn't be solved, creating a limited supply item that had more demand than the supply. the founder solved the issue and flooded the market with beanie babies, prices crashed at that point

[qingcharles]

As (probably) the world's largest reseller of Beanies at the time, this was 100% nothing to do with a Chinese supply crunch, as far as I was ever aware.

It was 100% to do with Ty corp's very clever handling of distribution, limiting where, who and how many Beanies could be sold.

There was a huge over-supply of the less rare Beanies and a huge under-production of the rarer ones. All done on purpose.