The Resource The great Beanie Baby bubble : mass delusion and the dark side of cute, Zac Bissonnette
The great Beanie Baby bubble : mass delusion and the dark side of cute, Zac Bissonnette
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- Summary
- " 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. 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. 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. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reported a personal income of $662 million-more than Hasbro and Mattel combined. The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with "rare" Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they'd once been deemed priceless. Bissonnette draws on hundreds of interviews (including a visit to a man who lives with his 40,000 Ty products and an in-prison interview with a guy who killed a coworker over a Beanie Baby debt) for the first book on the strangest speculative mania of all time. "--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 260 pages, 8 pages of plates
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 247-250) and index
- Isbn
- 9781591846024
- Label
- The great Beanie Baby bubble : mass delusion and the dark side of cute
- Title
- The great Beanie Baby bubble
- Title remainder
- mass delusion and the dark side of cute
- Statement of responsibility
- Zac Bissonnette
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " 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. 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. 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. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reported a personal income of $662 million-more than Hasbro and Mattel combined. The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with "rare" Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they'd once been deemed priceless. Bissonnette draws on hundreds of interviews (including a visit to a man who lives with his 40,000 Ty products and an in-prison interview with a guy who killed a coworker over a Beanie Baby debt) for the first book on the strangest speculative mania of all time. "--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bissonnette, Zac
- Dewey number
- 338.7/688724
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD9993.T694
- LC item number
- T923 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Warner, Ty
- Ty, Inc.
- Beanie Babies (Trademark)
- Toy industry
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing
- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Toy Animals
- Label
- The great Beanie Baby bubble : mass delusion and the dark side of cute, Zac Bissonnette
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 247-250) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1581686
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 260 pages, 8 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781591846024
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014038639
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1581686
- (OCoLC)892304877
- Label
- The great Beanie Baby bubble : mass delusion and the dark side of cute, Zac Bissonnette
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 247-250) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1581686
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 260 pages, 8 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781591846024
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014038639
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1581686
- (OCoLC)892304877
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