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E49 - Beanie Babies

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Beany Babies - The Story of the Auction Web

Auction web was started in 19 95, right in at the height of this m a, beany baby craze. At one point there was a hundred million dollars worth of excess beany babies left in a factory that were later destroyed because he tid have these kind of like, random no one would know, except for him and maybe the lady who was running the web site,. And part of what they used the website for was that they would give, like, their dedicated fans little hints, like, maybe that something might be retired. So you can see how it really lent itself to this beany baby extersion soon after. Around 19 96 was when ti started to retire be

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