Remember your mom's get-rich-quick Beanie Baby scheme? She'd buy up all the "rare" Beanie Babies and then sell them one day and make millions of dollars? Yeah, that didn't work out for my mom either. She now has a basement filled with plush toys that not even her dog is interested in.
However, according to Pix 11, that isn't the case for one Great Britain couple, who bought a Beanie Baby at a flea market for $15 (which, honestly, sounds like quite a bit of money to spend on a flea market Beanie Baby?) and then found out the thing is worth almost $100,000. (Your mom's) dreams do come true!
From Pix 11:
Leah Rogers and Ryan Flanagan were selling a range of toys in Bude, Cornwall, when they noticed a particular purple bear at a nearby seller's stall, the Daily Mail reported.
Flanagan, 22, used to collect the bears and recognized that it was the limited edition Princess Diana Di Beanie Baby, but he didn't realize just how limited it was.
Only 100 first edition bears were made around the world in 1997 to raise money for the Princess of Wales Memorial Trust after the former future queen died in a tragic paparazzi-fueled car accident in Paris.
It is now listed on eBay for the starting bid about $29,890. I guess time will tell whether or not someone will pay almost $100,000 for a purple plush toy.
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[via Pix 11
