I actually have been selling Bratz from childhood this week, and was commenting here trying to find out if I am one of those douchebags people here talk about. I sat the price of Ooh La La Cloe with her shirt, jacket, shoes, handbag and hat at 35. It sold today after 4 days on Ebay and Facebook :) I think the problem with Ebay is that they seem to push the high prices. I am very interested in collector items and rare stuff, so I would have loved it if there was very rare Bratz. Heard something about a collectors line coming out this year, but I am usually most interested in old collectibles. Actually, I had an auction on Pixiez Cloe, with ALL her clothes AND Wings AND unicorn, and it ended at 10 dollars 🤣 And I had set the shipping 2 dollars under what it cost me to send, so made 8 dollars. I am just saying that to say there are absolutely possible to find good deals :)) I found a 1st edition Cloe in a bin at a SECOND HAND shop a few weeks ago, and the lady working there laughed at me when I asked how much. She said «She dont even have legs. 3 dollars»
@@StyggaLife I’d recommend not only thinking about the money, but thinking about the people who want the doll, cause you could really make someone’s day 😊
And most were not even in good condition! I saw a first edition Bratz doll going for 100 on eBay that looked like it had been through every war including a 3rd one of it's own obviously some parent saw the mark up and thought it'd be ok lol. This was a couple of years ago. I've come across some horrendous 60s barbies on there weren't even going for that that much. Shit was insane.
Bratz aren’t even as rare as some of the oldest Barbies can’t tell you spend like 50 or $60 instead of over 100 or are they pricing them over $100 just because you’re desperate to get a lot of money
@@willrich5858 I am one of the collectors who keeps my dolls still in boxes unopened. Imagine how many could existed like mine being minted - untouched? I cringed at the thoughts seeing most collectors have been unboxing them. I hate to lose their clothes, accessories, etc being out of box making it incomplete.
Totally Hair Barbie is a great example of the whole supply and demand thing. She is THE bestselling Barbie of all time (over 10 MILLION sold) and yet she still goes for over $100 new in box purely because collectors are willing to pay it.
ikr, recently my parents accidently threw out my old dolls in the garage about 50-60 of them. and now i cant buy back my collection because of the ridiculous prices. pls i just want my elissa bat doll TT.
Many dolls whatever made over 20 years ago still in boxes intact....never played with is becoming rare - many don’t existed comparing to these already out of boxes. How can you find any dolls that never been touched by hand? I am a collector...that were keep in box. Only I am keeping them were my favorite is the earliest first version. That’s my sentimental feelings. I couldn’t let it go even for more than 1,500.00 dollars.
I agree but because these are mainly tor kids a lot of them are damaged, cut hair, missing pieces, have different clothes on, so it is hard to find them all in one piece, but still the prices are outrages!
They honestly don't care. They'll either insult you by saying you're jealous you can't afford it or would say that you don't have to buy it... If they don't just ignore you
exactly and i love ur voice, Bratz and MH aren’t rare at all. Monster High sold 150M dolls and dividing that by the number of dolls, There’s like over 100k of each doll, not rare just scalpers scalping ig.
@@DiamondpaintingwithKady no, not at all. like i said there are millions on millions of these dolls out there, they’re really not that hatd to find at all. people just think they are cause bratz and monster high are “trending” and in “high demand” right now. think of any bratz and monster high doll right now and look for them on ebay, you’ll see atleast 10 listings at a time
I’m very late for this video but it’s so heart breaking, I’m black and I can never find any Sashas or any other black dolls. Only if it’s 1000$ dollars
you gotta check often and good prices pop up from time to time. also make sure to check the bid section on ebay, i see some great prices on there sometimes.
Theres this antique shop in my area that was selling crusty musty used Bratz dolls for $50 each. The sign said they were the original 2001 Bratz which they were absolutely not .One of them was a 2007 Bratz kidz doll I had as a kid. Appalling,
I'm sorry but I *hate* when local thrift and antique shops sell items for Ebay prices. Like, your shop is NOT ebay. People go to ebay to find the item that they want because its readily available. People go to thrift shops to look around and find a deal. If they sell the dolls for Ebay prices whats stopping me from just shopping at ebay.
antique shops operate by renting out booths to people, the owners often doesn't actually care that what the renter is selling is actually vintage or antique, so I am not that surprised.
Thank You for saying this, I had saved up to buy the Bratz Twiins Phoebe and Roxii. When I first saw the price it was around $60 for them. A few days ago I was going to buy them but now the are almost $300. Like that's a whole ass bill, I'm not trying to pay that for a doll. Also I found it so funny that people were selling the First Edition for such a high price. Only for MGA to come out with a re-release of them for the 20th anniversary
True. They re-released them with variations….different color of its lip or its eyes. It’s noticeable when you look at it upclose…but I am glad that first edition brand remains collectible item making it in rare status…but I am happy that MGA gave others have a chance to get reproduction first edition Bratz. Good move MGA!
This is literally all so true. I lost my mind when you talked about people buying their own listing!! So shady! It has been wild to see how much they’ve gone up since even pre quarantine I remember getting first edition cloe complete for just a few dollars 😩 hopefully in a few years it goes back to normal because I can’t take this 💀
AMEN! The same thing happened with Beanie Babies... people are still trying to sell their 'ultra rare' Princess beanies (one of Ty's best-selling bears of all time) for a fortune because they read something on Facebook. 🤣 I can't wait for the Bratz sellers to give up on becoming millionaires and let us finish our collections, haha.
Love this video! People need to really educate themselves on what is rare. If i see one more person spend over 100 on Felicia im gonna have a meltdown.
Finally someone said it- As someone who has been lurking around on ebay for a few barbie dolls, it's ridiculous that these sellers expect me to fork over $100+ for a deboxed poor condition doll with ratty hair and missing accessories smh.
This is such a problem with 90s furbies as well. Just because it’s new in box and retro doesn’t mean it’s worth a fortune!! It’s not rare if there are like a hundred other listings of the same item!
A few people have mentioned furbies too. I imagine the "long furby" fad and a lot of new collectors being introduced to them really drove that too recently.
For real! Furbys are honestly worth about 30-40 at their highest and the rise in prices that occurred in recent years causes me to start seeing stars whenever I check eBay
literally!!! I've been collecting furbies since I was young and it's so infuriating seeing furbies priced at like $99+ for a common one out of box! heck, I've gotten rarer furbies for much cheaper, in box, at garage sales! it's quite sad
I collect toys for memory, they bring happiness in my life. I honestly don’t care about how rare, expensive and less likely I’ll make money in them. I think if you’re buying it for you than it should be just for you, I’m not planning to sell my toys any day. I bought a few because they were collectors items but totally regret it. Only getting what I like and that’s it and to create a timeline of what I think is memorable.
I do the same thing!! I toy collect ones specifically for my childhood and also for the artistic appreciation for how beautiful they are. Sure it’s weird to some people but who isn’t a little weird?
i always have people telling me that i shouldn’t take my dolls out of their boxes cause they’ll be worth more in the future! but i don’t buy my dolls to sell later on. None of my collections are ever being sold no matter what, i love them all and they make me happy
Omg great video! I’m so glad I held off getting my Met Gala Moschino Black Barbie until I was able to purchase her 🙌🏾 She goes for $600-$1000 😩 I offered a seller a deal for $350 and they accepted 💖💖💖
i think another thing to consider w value disparity w collector dolls such as holiday barbies and highly sought after playline dolls like princess and the pauper barbies is that since holiday barbies r collector there is a huge supply of them in box whereas the movie barbies are playline meaning most of the dolls will be out of box and most likely in horrible condition since they would have been played with by small children. therefore in some cases it might actually be more difficult to find a good condition playline doll than it would be to find good condition collector dolls
I totally agreed. I am one of the collectors that has them in box untouched. I only buy them when it first came out showing variations of these Bratz with no details and details clothing that released on its first year. You can noticed the variations of these boxes also. It only do that when they were first came out as new line. That’s how I learned from it’s rarity from Ty beanies I used to collected during their limit production run on its first released by 199/1994.
So true, I went to look for the sugarplum princess barbie in nutcracker and it was mostly lesser quality ones bc of the amount of playhours it probably had. Which is a shame bc I find that line so cute!
Great vid! I'd argue that a doll being expensive doesn't even make it sought after or in demand eithet because people can pay and sell for whatever they want and it doesnt mean anybody else actually wants it 😂 the bratz market rn is driving me insane because I also collect vintage barbies and seeing people tell me to my face that dolls produced during the height of bratz popularity only 20 years ago are more rare and expensive than a christie from the 60s is maddening 😫
That's true. I probably should have mentioned that all it really takes is one instance of someone overpaying to drive up the prices regardless of how popular the doll really is. The Bratz market especially is just so fragile and too dependent on extremes right now.
I collect American Girls and while there are some genuinely rare dolls and items that only come on the market once every couple years, I’m going to skewer my eyeballs if I see one more Samantha or Kanani listed as rare. Samantha is probably the best selling AG of all time, and unless you have a rare variant of her (signed, “white body,” Pleasant Company New In Box, Costco exclusive release, rare defects, etc etc…) she’s probably only worth around $60-$85 (if she’s in good condition). Kanani was one of the best selling modern characters, and while she’s incredibly unique in terms of her design, THERES SO MANY OF HER, and yet she’s a holy grail item for a lot of collectors. Recently the AG collecting community decided to latch onto Ivy (a 1970s historical doll) and suddenly she’s going for 200-500 dollars second hand?? She is rather hard to find, but I also wouldn’t call her rare in comparison to some of the ACTUALLY rare AG dolls, and a couple months ago you could find her for $50-$120 dollars.
I saw a Bratz doll a few months ago at a thrift store for the price you would expect for a used doll. It's not entirely gone now, but I'm sure someone might have bought it to sell to collectors
It's so true. I sold a couple of my old bratz to thin out my collection a little. They were only listed for like ten minutes because I had lower prices. I probably could have sold them at three times what I listed them for and still sold them, it's ridiculous.
great vid! this is the reason i've shifted my focus towards dolls still coming out today-- bratz anniversary, na na na surprise, rainbow high, OMGs, etc... there's so much quality to choose from while we wait for the bratz/MH craze to simmer down!
Absolutely appreciate this commentary and yes I am 32 years and a collector, unfortunately my surroundings are not very open and understanding. It was my biggest secret for years but I am again grateful for you and others alike, I’m very happy I discover many people like myself and your self brought the full set of Bratz 20th anniversary even the 2018 launch with one of my favorite illustrators Hayden Williams designs .
ever since bratz/mh blew up over quarantine prices for ALL dolls have been outrageous, coming from a doll collector of 5 years; ive never seen anything this horrendous
i see the exact same issue with furbies. as a newer collector, it's so frustrating to see non working, common furbies go for over $100 on ebay when people who actually collect sell them for maybe 40-50 tops for the same furby but it actually works
So glad to have found your channel and this particular video. I got into collecting Bratz last year right before covid hit. Nabbed myself 2018 Sasha and Yasmin and even a couple Tokyo boyz, a Punk Dylan, and a Funk Out Sasha and Yasmin. I recently decided to look back into it because I regret not adding Jade's to my collection and there's a couple Sasha's that I still want and giiiirrrrrllll. I'm like "where did all the Sasha's go!?" I remember seeing one ebay listing fr the first edition set for 3,500 dollhairs. The insanity of it all, the clownery of it all. I'm also super weirded out by how you can still easily get Cameron, Cloe, and Yasmin's 2018 collector dolls on Amazon with prime shipping but the pages for Jade and Sasha are long gone and dead. Like, is MGAE pulling the same shit from before where Jade and Sasha were the least included in collections so now they just get made in lower quantities? It makes me sad.
Clownery. Truly there is no other word for it. I don't know if it was ever confirmed that Jade and Sasha were produced in lower quantities, but it's suspected. They went out of stock way before Cloe and Yasmin did, and I just doubt it was because they were THAT much more popular.
@@DarlingDollz It's so odd that have to wonder if MGAE is still running Bratz with the mindset they used to have but it's all speculation for now. Thank you for replying btw! I was watching another video of yours where you mentioned moving so hopefully that's going well.
Wow I remember being given one of those holiday Barbies and my parents did exactly that, told me not to play with it because it was a collectible and kept it on the top shelf. I wanted to play with it so badly! This was a really interesting and well edited video, I subscribed!
And the lots(multiple dolls/doll accessories being sold in a bundle) are even worse, I seen tons of MH doll lots being sold for $100-$1K and the dolls are always in bad condition, missing things or it’s like 3 dolls being sold for $100.
What I can’t stand even more is when this happens with dolls that are still in store, Rainbow High is a good example, an in box Rainbow High’s original price is like 23 dollars but on EBay it’s a good 60-100
I bought my first doll again as an adult a few months ago after realllly wanting the first Bratz dolli got as a child. I spent $185 Aud, came from Greece. I then went on a frenzy and spent $90-150 Aud on other boxed dolls and I already regret it! I’d actually rather them unboxed. And they weren’t reallly even ones I wanted, I just saw them, got excited, and bought them. I’m not sure I’ll sell yet, but now I’m FAR less likely to spend over $70 on a doll.
I totally agree!! As a newer bratz collector I find it extremely hard to find decent prized lots. Like I’m not going to pay $50 for 3 nude dolls that look like they’ve been thrifted.
I'm just seeing this video today, but thank you for clearing up and honestly saying the facts about the prices that people are selling dolls which can be so ridiculously insane, especially used...I agree completely what you said!
These are the few times that I can be happy that my mom was super bad at money because I own like, hundreds of these dolls and my mom never got rid of anything, and neither did I, so I still have them. I also thank mini me for not destroying their dolls like a little gremlin. So mine are in pretty good condition, too.
I love your dry sense of humor... I'm not an avid doll collector, just a lover of Bratz and currently nostalgic enough to buy the entire 20th anniversary line all at once... but I really loved this video..lol. Keep up the good work!
I had so many dolls from Nutcracker and swan lake(also had almost the entire happy family series). and I am still angry at my mother's ex who threw them out, because he thought I was to old for it. but jokes on him I have more dolls now than I had back then.
Thank you for this. I wanted the Bratz Rodeo doll, and the description said it was a rare wave, but this video convinced me it'll still be out there, even if it's not the same page I bookmarked.
I can't even find dolls at thrift stores for cheap anymore bc most thrift store chains (like goodwill) use ebay pricing to price the dolls. so unless you want them naked, chewed limbs, and shoved in a plastic bag with three other dolls, you'll have to shell out a pretty penny to buy a nice doll from the thrift store.
I dont get how Sasha Bratz Dolls are so expensive when shes so underrated on Some commercials,posters,Dolls. etc Like give me a Sasha doll for 27 dollars not 599 the hell
Loved this video, love your sarcasm and all is so true! I myaelf started looking into less known doll brands which are accessible for all, rather than ruining myself running after the "rare" ones. Great vid!!
I collect vintage Barbie dolls and for the last year many prices increased. Like I sold my #3 ponytail dolls two years ago for ~800$cad and now I always see them for 1000-1400$ I think that's because of covid with people losing their jobs and trying to sell their collections. For Bratz and monster high dolls I feel that can be normal the prices jump, because they are becoming older and older, and people love old items, because the value is also in the "old" factor. That's still annoying when people list dolls they don't know about, and think it worth a lot because it's older. eBay is flooded with vintage Barbie with horrible condition with too high prices. I always see that as "anyways nobody will buy it, who want to spend 60$ on a doll with green ears, haircut and necksplit".
Noticed this year the price went way down to 200-300 or less! Some even in the 150 range new in box. They tried their shot but no one was willing to buy a 1k dollar Bratz twins! 😆
I'm not a collector, but do buy some dolls for nostalgia and of course, childhood memories. I'm very glad that I've seen this video, thank you so much! Bratz is a very huge part of my childhood. I had 3 dolls given to me by my mother, but nowadays I wanted to buy more Bratz dolls that I wanted just to expand that group.
Omg, i swear EVERY second hand toy market has suffered since the pandemic started. Like, all these bored rich people decided to go crazy 😭😭😭 I collect American Girl (primarily Kirsten) and I can’t believe how much the prices inflated! Things I bought just a few years ago are going for triple what I paid. What you said about rarity is so, so true. AG has been around for decades and people think that since their doll dress from the 90s is worth triple the retail price???
Naw man I got new in fever Yamin off of hibid on an auction for just $30! And I won a flashback fever off of let go app. $25! She was in OK condition in a lot there’s some parent was selling to clean out. I restarted collecting in 2020. Yes, the prices be going up.
yes! this is what I mean when I say people need to be diligent in chasing those deals. I got Kina for like $40 off of aliexpress. Lower priced grail dolls are definitely out there.
Great video! You are so right in all the points you made. I have been very patient as a collector of Living Dead Dolls a line that has never been widely available on toy shelves like the dolls you mentioned. On Ebay they have also gone up in prices because that line, though not officially announced, is pretty much done after 20 years (though the movie characters such as Silent Hill Nurse and Elvira have kept Living Dead Dolls under Presents). I have been interested in Monster High and it is ridiculous how expensive the first run dolls are since I know they were more mass produced than LDD. I have held out and again I agree with you, patience is key to getting what you want as a collector for the price you want to pay for. This video I feel should be watched by everyone who collects toys, no matter if the toy is an action figure or doll. Thanks for making this video, it had to be said.
when i was 15 or 16 i still had a couple of bratz bc i had always taken rlly good care of them and since they were released the year i was born, i pretty much had a doll or two from most of the collections but i ended up just wanting to save the pretty ones i rlly liked. my mom ended up donating them all so seeing some of them in this video threw me off guard but even i knew they were not and will never be worth a months worth of rent
I laugh whenever I see the Ribbon Something-or-Other Holiday Barbie because I swear I have seen one in EVERY antique mall I have ever visited and they're always $20+. Also, I lived in my previous city for nearly five years and a local antique store had one in the exact same spot for I think $30 for FIVE FREAKING YEARS. Some doll collectors just can't take the L and sell things for what they're actually worth.
I feel you so much. When I go antiquing and see like, a bunch of vintage Barbies from afar I always get SO excited even though 90% of the time it's just a bunch of Holiday Barbies selling for at least 3x their actual value.
I think a major reason these dolls have inflated so badly is that nostalgia sells. Not just with toys, but nostalgia in general makes things trend and sell again decades later. One person talks about the Barbie movies, everyone remembers them, and suddenly the demand for Barbie movies dolls skyrockets because *everyone* wants to experience their childhood.
I’m from an adjacent toy collector community, Furby, and I see a lot of overlap with what you talked about here, especially once the long furby craze started and the cost of Furby Buddies skyrocketed. Also everyone is always trying to sell the most common Furbies for over hundreds of dollars but no one in their right mind is going to buy an original new in box black and white Furby for $650 (Facebook marketplace listing I saw last week lol). I’d pay $40 for that at most if I was feeling generous. but yea do some research before buying any toy for your collection especially if you’re new to collecting a specific type so you don’t end up paying unreasonable amounts!
I collect dolls and furbies too and its so hard to find fairly priced furbies since they had a little resurgence in popularity a few years ago. But i found its a lot cheaper to buy from other fans, I've gotten furbies for $20-$30 from other collectors on tumblr. Dolls on the other hand are usually much harder to find for cheap because most collectors are looking to expand their collection and won't sell, I've even seen people with multiple NIB of the same dolls. People can do whatever they want but when collectors hoard dolls like that it incentivizes sellers to up the price even more because they're seen as rare even when they're not
I found an original furby for 10-20 quid in carboots Lots of furbies are really cheap in carboots If your in the UK there's a high chance you'll only find one in each carboots They are cheap for all furbies, original to furby connect
The thing with Felicia is that she will be rare if you live in a country where stores concentrate on selling Cloe and Yasmin, sometimes Jade already harder to find a Sasha... because they go by the old fashioned idea that dark skintone dolls don't sell well.
I loveeee Barbies & Bratz but It’s insane on how expensive they are.I’m just going to wait until they start making more or prices start dropping. Hopefully things chill out a bit after this hype. 🤞🏻
This is crazy. I Pay like 10 dollars for these dolls here in Norway 😮 I have found new in box monster high, ever after high and bratz for a maximum of like 30 dollars, had no idea it was so expensive in the US
this video caught my attention because i used to collect bratz dolls as a kid and i'm currently a kpop photocard collector and well... watching this i can say i notice a lot of things in common! as some people in the comments have said i think quarantine has highly affected the amount of money people are willing to spend on collectibles and so many collectors in general seem to be struggling with sellers manipulating market prices and it's sad to see :/ i'd much rather wait until these things inevitably lose value over time, it's all made up after all and so is the supposed "rarity" of certain items that are still being highly circulated
This is such an amazing video. I've recently gotten back into Novi Stars and I was interested in getting some since I only had one when they were new and they go for such ridiculous prices because they're supposedly "rare". I saw a listing for one of the core 4 dolls in box going for over $100. And someone was trying to sell a Tula Toned for almost $100 even though one of her legs had leaked and the seller had taken her out of the box to fix it themself and then put her back in the box??? Like.... She is literally BROKEN and NOT new in box. I really don't think she should be that much.
Due to those high prices, I am not being able to get dolls like Girlz Really Rock Sasha (the one I need to finish the four girls), Live In Concert Jade and Forever Diamondz Sasha (also to complete the main line). Like, I get that those dolls aren't made anymore... but to ask that much for a doll? The highest I have ever paid, was $175 for Sweet Dreamz Kumi. Kumi was hard to find for me, since I live in Europe and many sellers didn't ship her to Europe. But I am so glad you brought this out, as it also is a pain in the ass
Back here because (as a non-Bratz collector) bc one specific release caught my attention. Started the digging in a realized the absurd barrier to entry for collecting Bratz in the form of gauging.
with the 20th anniversary dolls that just released, i thought it would be fun to buy a bratz doll second-hand and the moment i saw the prices my heart dropped. people will deadass price nude dolls at $200 just because it has specific makeup from a line or even if it has BADLY chipped skin/paint or a missing limb. i also find it funny how much the price depends on whether the doll is wearing its corresponding outfits like... i can either buy rock angelz cloe at a ridiculous price or just find the clothes for maybe $15. at that point, resellers shouldn't even bother with their prices. luckily i found xpress it yasmin for $11, even though she's usually $25, in my eyes these dolls shouldn't even be over $15
Bratz just hit a 20th Aniversary - and the original 1st set is back mass-produced and up for sale in toy stores for around 24$ you can buy a brand new release doll and that is happening in every brand of dolls that had an iconic doll, it will be reproduced and released on an anniversary
@@DarlingDollz exactly! they are not "special" - as high-value rare dolls, every brand doll that still exists - that has not been bankrupt, or sold off to other companies, can release a reproduction or a retro line, those dolls are not gonna become high value retro realizes do bring hope to people who missed out on a toy they always wanted to own, but not for resell
yea even with just everything dolls such as I collect tru and foreign cabbage patch kids and prices have never been higher highly soughtafter such as foreign exclusive outfits or the early 2002 times square exclusive bright violet eyes used to sell for around 100$ only a little over a year ago and then that was a hefty price and now people are buying them very fast for 300+!!! prices have skyrocketed and it just brings the fun out since people will buy them just to sell to people for 2x more :(
Similliar thing happened with ''pop'' LPS, every other figurine is cheap, but these specific shapes are so expensive. Some people attach name ''pop'' to any dog or cat... there is so many of them, but all descriptions market them as rare or uniqe - and the only ''pop'' that really is rare is Superhero Cat. People are making good quality fake figurines so some of collectors can have a less expensive ''pop'' but they're still more than avarge figurine of other shape. What worse some people sell them secondhanded for the same price as original. These figurines are everywhere, but some of them are listed for more than un-opened figures in box (production of generation I'm talking about was cancelled around 2012, in it's place came gen 3). It's really frustraiting for me, since it became a thing on such a big scale. The only ''pops'' I could find for resonable prices are in bigger sets made by the seller, with like house, a few figures and accesories - which is still pretty expensive but can cost not much more than avarge ''pop''.
"Bunch of adults who just spend their afternoon dipping the heads of little plastic women into boiling water" - it's the best definition of doll community that I've ever heard😆
I think you nailed it with this video. The points you made are really something i can see as a problem in the doll community. Personally I am a collector of Winx dolls and the whole community of Winx collectors seems to be gushing over the dolls that got produced by Mattel (since they had dolls produced by Jakks Pacific and some other european doll manufacturers) and I get why that is, those dolls were one of the first Winx dolls ever made and were practically everywhere in stores and people might feel some kind of nostalgia when it comes to them, but please, the dolls that once were on clearance now are being sold for at least 600-700 dollars and just like Felicia from Bratz there is one doll that everyone seeks and is by no means rare, she is literally from on of the main lines of the whole franchise and i don't know why people suddenly decide that they can sell it for close to 2k dollars. And the worst part is that people are condoning this behaviour by buying the dolls for that amount of money. That's why i haven't bought any dolls for a long time. Because money doesn't grow on trees.
Yeah, I've noticed it's a HUGE problem in the Winx doll community as well. I only have two Mattel dolls (Flora and Stella) in their casual outfits because that was pretty much all I could afford to get at the time, and since then they've gotten even more expensive. And these dolls aren't rare at all! There's new listings for them on ebay and mercari every day!!
Haha it's so sad that I just know you're talking about GME Musa. I really regret not finishing my GME collection years ago, when I got my NIB Stella for 25 euros :') I've just accepted by now that I'll probably never get Flora and Musa, even though Flora in particular is not rare at all. Same goes for the Ballgown dolls.
@@Iroh12345 I feel you so much, I regret it to this day that i never bought the Flora GME when I saw her in stores and when she cost about 18€ or smth like that (not the stores in the city where I live in having only Flora GME and not anyone else from this line for some strange reason).
@@okanhashim7328 That sucks so much :c I'm actually kinda happy I don't recall ever seeing them in stores. I think it was a combination of me being a bit too young and not really into doll collecting yet (more so just playing with Barbies and Bratz dolls). It's bad enough knowing that you could've purchased them second hand online for a low price, but actually having seen them in stores for retail? Oof.
I sign under every word! The world is just going crazy with that ridiculous prices.. I wanted Bratz Dresden so bad but 500-700$ for her is insane. And I got her for about 20$ at advertisement website. But I want several Sashas & all of them are and will be overprised so I'm happy with dolls I already have, after all U can't buy them all:)
A good example of rare dolls are the Tomy Get along Gang dress up kids. The six dolls in wave one are easy to come by but the three dolls in wave 2 are near impossible to find loose( if you want them mint in box, you’re gonna be a while). Although they’re not worth much because they’re not in high demand
There is another thing too. Playline dolls when they are first bought, are often bought so that the child plays with the doll, thus often ruining the doll, thus making less good condition dolls for the second hand market. I dont know how that fact puts itself in what you said, but I think its a piece of info rather important ....
I'm not a doll collector but now you got me thinking about the pricing of photocards in kpop. I love watching your videos, they are entertaining and interesting.
I’m glad that I recently brought all my old dolls home and as much as I would like to fill in my collection, I’m not paying these dumb prices. I’ll wait til bratz are either rereleased or the hype dies down.
In general collectibles have been going for more. Once people realized they could make money they did scummy thing like what was mentioned in the video. Add to that many people are home with nothing to do but start a new hobby and stimulus checks on the way. I'm a manga collector and oop titles where so much cheaper march before the pandemic but prices are already starting to fall from their peak because life is starting to go back to normal.
PLEAS TELL THEM THAT! I’m tired of people selling their out of box dusty crusty musty Bratz dolls for over $100
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Hi! :) What do you think is a right price for let say a Rock Angelz Yasmin? Or a Ooh La La Cloe with all her accesories and clothes?
@@StyggaLife the most I would pay is $60 in box, out of box, probably $30-$40 but we both know that’s never gonna happen...
I actually have been selling Bratz from childhood this week, and was commenting here trying to find out if I am one of those douchebags people here talk about. I sat the price of Ooh La La Cloe with her shirt, jacket, shoes, handbag and hat at 35. It sold today after 4 days on Ebay and Facebook :) I think the problem with Ebay is that they seem to push the high prices. I am very interested in collector items and rare stuff, so I would have loved it if there was very rare Bratz. Heard something about a collectors line coming out this year, but I am usually most interested in old collectibles. Actually, I had an auction on Pixiez Cloe, with ALL her clothes AND Wings AND unicorn, and it ended at 10 dollars 🤣 And I had set the shipping 2 dollars under what it cost me to send, so made 8 dollars. I am just saying that to say there are absolutely possible to find good deals :)) I found a 1st edition Cloe in a bin at a SECOND HAND shop a few weeks ago, and the lady working there laughed at me when I asked how much. She said «She dont even have legs. 3 dollars»
@@StyggaLife I’d recommend not only thinking about the money, but thinking about the people who want the doll, cause you could really make someone’s day 😊
Bratz are going for more than 1960s and 1950s barbies is insane!!
And most were not even in good condition! I saw a first edition Bratz doll going for 100 on eBay that looked like it had been through every war including a 3rd one of it's own obviously some parent saw the mark up and thought it'd be ok lol. This was a couple of years ago. I've come across some horrendous 60s barbies on there weren't even going for that that much. Shit was insane.
Bratz aren’t even as rare as some of the oldest Barbies can’t tell you spend like 50 or $60 instead of over 100 or are they pricing them over $100 just because you’re desperate to get a lot of money
not that insane.. when it's rare people will try to sell it
@@lamb9642 the point in the video is...... bratz aren't rare at all even NIB
@@willrich5858 I am one of the collectors who keeps my dolls still in boxes unopened. Imagine how many could existed like mine being minted - untouched? I cringed at the thoughts seeing most collectors have been unboxing them. I hate to lose their clothes, accessories, etc being out of box making it incomplete.
Totally Hair Barbie is a great example of the whole supply and demand thing. She is THE bestselling Barbie of all time (over 10 MILLION sold) and yet she still goes for over $100 new in box purely because collectors are willing to pay it.
The worst part about collecting monster high dolls is finding a reasonably priced doll and then seeing its cause shes missing pieces! Like wtf!?
ikr, recently my parents accidently threw out my old dolls in the garage about 50-60 of them. and now i cant buy back my collection because of the ridiculous prices. pls i just want my elissa bat doll TT.
@@caffeineaddict. they just threw them away? Yikes! I would have at least donated them if they weren’t broken!
@@caffeineaddict. I had like 50+ also and had to give them away because of a sudden move were we had to leave basically everything at the house 😩
@@drawingfandome it was by accident during a garage clean out :(
@@vinny2501 damnn, rip. im starting to collect rainbow high dolls but its just not the same.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS YOU ARE DOING GODS WORK.
yes hunty
Chbratz 🥺🥺
LITERALLY , this dolls are not one of a kind , nor limited to 100 , these were produced in stupid amounts , Very few of these dolls are truly rare
Many dolls whatever made over 20 years ago still in boxes intact....never played with is becoming rare - many don’t existed comparing to these already out of boxes. How can you find any dolls that never been touched by hand? I am a collector...that were keep in box. Only I am keeping them were my favorite is the earliest first version. That’s my sentimental feelings. I couldn’t let it go even for more than 1,500.00 dollars.
I agree but because these are mainly tor kids a lot of them are damaged, cut hair, missing pieces, have different clothes on, so it is hard to find them all in one piece, but still the prices are outrages!
We need to start messaging these sellers and telling them their dolls aren’t worth that amount of money
They honestly don't care. They'll either insult you by saying you're jealous you can't afford it or would say that you don't have to buy it... If they don't just ignore you
@Aziza Hussein pissed off and not care, therefore they won’t stop. Some people are like this and it makes me sad
well said one day someone was seilling a barbie for 5000 $ I said to that person I could buy two car with that money
Agreed
True dat
exactly and i love ur voice, Bratz and MH aren’t rare at all. Monster High sold 150M dolls and dividing that by the number of dolls, There’s like over 100k of each doll, not rare just scalpers scalping ig.
Actually bratz and monster high are rare, this person doesn't understand, sorry no hate to you but i hate people like you these dolls Are rare
@@DiamondpaintingwithKady no, not at all. like i said there are millions on millions of these dolls out there, they’re really not that hatd to find at all. people just think they are cause bratz and monster high are “trending” and in “high demand” right now. think of any bratz and monster high doll right now and look for them on ebay, you’ll see atleast 10 listings at a time
@@DiamondpaintingwithKady did you even watch the video.
@@DiamondpaintingwithKady lemme guess your one of the people who sell thier busted up dolls for a lot😟
@@nicholasbarajas8966 No i save my old dolls
I’m very late for this video but it’s so heart breaking, I’m black and I can never find any Sashas or any other black dolls. Only if it’s 1000$ dollars
Look on mercari, etsy, ebay.
@@kaydencemyers7212 I usually buy on there and it’s the same
you gotta check often and good prices pop up from time to time. also make sure to check the bid section on ebay, i see some great prices on there sometimes.
check fb market place local or thrift store I found few sasha there but if you want with all their accessories it will be very expensive
Fb usually have affordable lots
Theres this antique shop in my area that was selling crusty musty used Bratz dolls for $50 each. The sign said they were the original 2001 Bratz which they were absolutely not .One of them was a 2007 Bratz kidz doll I had as a kid. Appalling,
I'm sorry but I *hate* when local thrift and antique shops sell items for Ebay prices. Like, your shop is NOT ebay. People go to ebay to find the item that they want because its readily available. People go to thrift shops to look around and find a deal. If they sell the dolls for Ebay prices whats stopping me from just shopping at ebay.
@@DH-gq7bm not to mention on E-bay you dont usually shop there to find it crusty musty but NiB or AT LEAST good condition🤨🤣🤷♀️
I have noticed. They have no experiences to know what they have in their hands. 😂😂
antique shops operate by renting out booths to people, the owners often doesn't actually care that what the renter is selling is actually vintage or antique, so I am not that surprised.
Thank You for saying this, I had saved up to buy the Bratz Twiins Phoebe and Roxii. When I first saw the price it was around $60 for them. A few days ago I was going to buy them but now the are almost $300. Like that's a whole ass bill, I'm not trying to pay that for a doll. Also I found it so funny that people were selling the First Edition for such a high price. Only for MGA to come out with a re-release of them for the 20th anniversary
True. They re-released them with variations….different color of its lip or its eyes. It’s noticeable when you look at it upclose…but I am glad that first edition brand remains collectible item making it in rare status…but I am happy that MGA gave others have a chance to get reproduction first edition Bratz. Good move MGA!
I’m honestly just waiting to see the Bratz back in stores
Me too, it’s practically impossible to get bratz dolls of my own. :/
@@doodlejone6546 don’t fret, well get our hands on them soon enough! Trick might just be to keep an eye out for them! Xx
They were...but only in hot topic.
@@thenamesallex oh I had no idea, I imagine the were pricey?
Same
This is literally all so true. I lost my mind when you talked about people buying their own listing!! So shady! It has been wild to see how much they’ve gone up since even pre quarantine I remember getting first edition cloe complete for just a few dollars 😩 hopefully in a few years it goes back to normal because I can’t take this 💀
same
AMEN! The same thing happened with Beanie Babies... people are still trying to sell their 'ultra rare' Princess beanies (one of Ty's best-selling bears of all time) for a fortune because they read something on Facebook. 🤣 I can't wait for the Bratz sellers to give up on becoming millionaires and let us finish our collections, haha.
I've seen insanely high bratz listings that have been on ebay like five years!! are they not tired already LMAO
I seen one for 50,000 on eBay the princes beanie baby
@@Itssaimi Yes, people try to sell them for silly money - but they'll never actually sell, because you can buy them for $2 instead! 😆
Love this video! People need to really educate themselves on what is rare. If i see one more person spend over 100 on Felicia im gonna have a meltdown.
I'm in love with that Yasmin in the pink dress from your channel banner! Do you know what line she's from?
@@teeheetummytums5609 Passion 4
Fashion Wave 4
why do u have a lot of felicias
@@girlybrunette bc i found her for cheap? less than $50 for each one.
@@dollweeb5536 can u send them to a nice girl that lives in new south wales called fleur
Finally someone said it- As someone who has been lurking around on ebay for a few barbie dolls, it's ridiculous that these sellers expect me to fork over $100+ for a deboxed poor condition doll with ratty hair and missing accessories smh.
This is such a problem with 90s furbies as well. Just because it’s new in box and retro doesn’t mean it’s worth a fortune!! It’s not rare if there are like a hundred other listings of the same item!
A few people have mentioned furbies too. I imagine the "long furby" fad and a lot of new collectors being introduced to them really drove that too recently.
For real! Furbys are honestly worth about 30-40 at their highest and the rise in prices that occurred in recent years causes me to start seeing stars whenever I check eBay
Also 2005 furbies!!
literally!!! I've been collecting furbies since I was young and it's so infuriating seeing furbies priced at like $99+ for a common one out of box! heck, I've gotten rarer furbies for much cheaper, in box, at garage sales! it's quite sad
I collect toys for memory, they bring happiness in my life. I honestly don’t care about how rare, expensive and less likely I’ll make money in them. I think if you’re buying it for you than it should be just for you, I’m not planning to sell my toys any day. I bought a few because they were collectors items but totally regret it. Only getting what I like and that’s it and to create a timeline of what I think is memorable.
I do the same thing!! I toy collect ones specifically for my childhood and also for the artistic appreciation for how beautiful they are. Sure it’s weird to some people but who isn’t a little weird?
@@jade4025 yeah everyone is a little weird and if they aren’t they are boring 😋
I'm the same! "Rarity" means nothing to me
i always have people telling me that i shouldn’t take my dolls out of their boxes cause they’ll be worth more in the future! but i don’t buy my dolls to sell later on. None of my collections are ever being sold no matter what, i love them all and they make me happy
Omg great video! I’m so glad I held off getting my Met Gala Moschino Black Barbie until I was able to purchase her 🙌🏾 She goes for $600-$1000 😩 I offered a seller a deal for $350 and they accepted 💖💖💖
Woot go you! 🙂🥰
i think another thing to consider w value disparity w collector dolls such as holiday barbies and highly sought after playline dolls like princess and the pauper barbies is that since holiday barbies r collector there is a huge supply of them in box whereas the movie barbies are playline meaning most of the dolls will be out of box and most likely in horrible condition since they would have been played with by small children. therefore in some cases it might actually be more difficult to find a good condition playline doll than it would be to find good condition collector dolls
Oh yeah, that's a really good point!
I totally agreed. I am one of the collectors that has them in box untouched. I only buy them when it first came out showing variations of these Bratz with no details and details clothing that released on its first year. You can noticed the variations of these boxes also. It only do that when they were first came out as new line. That’s how I learned from it’s rarity from Ty beanies I used to collected during their limit production run on its first released by 199/1994.
EXACLY THANK YOU!!!!!
So true, I went to look for the sugarplum princess barbie in nutcracker and it was mostly lesser quality ones bc of the amount of playhours it probably had. Which is a shame bc I find that line so cute!
Great vid! I'd argue that a doll being expensive doesn't even make it sought after or in demand eithet because people can pay and sell for whatever they want and it doesnt mean anybody else actually wants it 😂 the bratz market rn is driving me insane because I also collect vintage barbies and seeing people tell me to my face that dolls produced during the height of bratz popularity only 20 years ago are more rare and expensive than a christie from the 60s is maddening 😫
That's true. I probably should have mentioned that all it really takes is one instance of someone overpaying to drive up the prices regardless of how popular the doll really is. The Bratz market especially is just so fragile and too dependent on extremes right now.
this is so well done i’m glad someone finally touched on this subject
One of my most vivid childhood memories is that my dream doll (wave 1 lagoons blue) was inaccessibly overpriced even just 2 years after its release.
God, I want a Felicia doll so bad but they're always expensive as hell and I'm jealous as hell at anybody who has them! >:'(
Lesson of the day , Only Buy the dolls you really want and enjoy what you have ! Don't over buy because of the cloud
Amen)
The only Bratz doll I want is Shrek Yasmin and I can't even get her because she's being sold for over 200 dollars.
I collect American Girls and while there are some genuinely rare dolls and items that only come on the market once every couple years, I’m going to skewer my eyeballs if I see one more Samantha or Kanani listed as rare. Samantha is probably the best selling AG of all time, and unless you have a rare variant of her (signed, “white body,” Pleasant Company New In Box, Costco exclusive release, rare defects, etc etc…) she’s probably only worth around $60-$85 (if she’s in good condition). Kanani was one of the best selling modern characters, and while she’s incredibly unique in terms of her design, THERES SO MANY OF HER, and yet she’s a holy grail item for a lot of collectors. Recently the AG collecting community decided to latch onto Ivy (a 1970s historical doll) and suddenly she’s going for 200-500 dollars second hand?? She is rather hard to find, but I also wouldn’t call her rare in comparison to some of the ACTUALLY rare AG dolls, and a couple months ago you could find her for $50-$120 dollars.
Feel this way about Z... Everyone is considering her "rare" yet I'm seeing AT LEAST one a week for sale in resale groups
I feel this. I really want jly 11 but she's super hard to find listings for
close to a decade ago I bought a lot of Bratz stuff on flea markets for almost no money.
I saw a Bratz doll a few months ago at a thrift store for the price you would expect for a used doll. It's not entirely gone now, but I'm sure someone might have bought it to sell to collectors
I love your dry sense of humor. "The abysmal state of the American healthcare system" next to a doctor Barbie just completely caught me off guard
It's so true. I sold a couple of my old bratz to thin out my collection a little. They were only listed for like ten minutes because I had lower prices. I probably could have sold them at three times what I listed them for and still sold them, it's ridiculous.
great vid! this is the reason i've shifted my focus towards dolls still coming out today-- bratz anniversary, na na na surprise, rainbow high, OMGs, etc... there's so much quality to choose from while we wait for the bratz/MH craze to simmer down!
Absolutely appreciate this commentary and yes I am 32 years and a collector, unfortunately my surroundings are not very open and understanding. It was my biggest secret for years but I am again grateful for you and others alike, I’m very happy I discover many people like myself and your self brought the full set of Bratz 20th anniversary even the 2018 launch with one of my favorite illustrators Hayden Williams designs .
ever since bratz/mh blew up over quarantine prices for ALL dolls have been outrageous, coming from a doll collector of 5 years; ive never seen anything this horrendous
i see the exact same issue with furbies. as a newer collector, it's so frustrating to see non working, common furbies go for over $100 on ebay when people who actually collect sell them for maybe 40-50 tops for the same furby but it actually works
So glad to have found your channel and this particular video. I got into collecting Bratz last year right before covid hit. Nabbed myself 2018 Sasha and Yasmin and even a couple Tokyo boyz, a Punk Dylan, and a Funk Out Sasha and Yasmin. I recently decided to look back into it because I regret not adding Jade's to my collection and there's a couple Sasha's that I still want and giiiirrrrrllll. I'm like "where did all the Sasha's go!?" I remember seeing one ebay listing fr the first edition set for 3,500 dollhairs. The insanity of it all, the clownery of it all.
I'm also super weirded out by how you can still easily get Cameron, Cloe, and Yasmin's 2018 collector dolls on Amazon with prime shipping but the pages for Jade and Sasha are long gone and dead. Like, is MGAE pulling the same shit from before where Jade and Sasha were the least included in collections so now they just get made in lower quantities? It makes me sad.
Clownery. Truly there is no other word for it.
I don't know if it was ever confirmed that Jade and Sasha were produced in lower quantities, but it's suspected. They went out of stock way before Cloe and Yasmin did, and I just doubt it was because they were THAT much more popular.
@@DarlingDollz It's so odd that have to wonder if MGAE is still running Bratz with the mindset they used to have but it's all speculation for now.
Thank you for replying btw! I was watching another video of yours where you mentioned moving so hopefully that's going well.
Wow I remember being given one of those holiday Barbies and my parents did exactly that, told me not to play with it because it was a collectible and kept it on the top shelf. I wanted to play with it so badly! This was a really interesting and well edited video, I subscribed!
And the lots(multiple dolls/doll accessories being sold in a bundle) are even worse, I seen tons of MH doll lots being sold for $100-$1K and the dolls are always in bad condition, missing things or it’s like 3 dolls being sold for $100.
What I can’t stand even more is when this happens with dolls that are still in store, Rainbow High is a good example, an in box Rainbow High’s original price is like 23 dollars but on EBay it’s a good 60-100
Doll community needed this video
Can't appreciate you enough
I bought my first doll again as an adult a few months ago after realllly wanting the first Bratz dolli got as a child. I spent $185 Aud, came from Greece.
I then went on a frenzy and spent $90-150 Aud on other boxed dolls and I already regret it!
I’d actually rather them unboxed.
And they weren’t reallly even ones I wanted, I just saw them, got excited, and bought them.
I’m not sure I’ll sell yet, but now I’m FAR less likely to spend over $70 on a doll.
eBay is overpriced af in general imo
literally, i just saw a listing of a single myscene doll for 200 dollars
It is
I totally agree!! As a newer bratz collector I find it extremely hard to find decent prized lots. Like I’m not going to pay $50 for 3 nude dolls that look like they’ve been thrifted.
I'm just seeing this video today, but thank you for clearing up and honestly saying the facts about the prices that people are selling dolls which can be so ridiculously insane, especially used...I agree completely what you said!
This is why I only buy reasonably priced dolls, I collect Monster High btw.
These are the few times that I can be happy that my mom was super bad at money because I own like, hundreds of these dolls and my mom never got rid of anything, and neither did I, so I still have them. I also thank mini me for not destroying their dolls like a little gremlin. So mine are in pretty good condition, too.
I love your dry sense of humor... I'm not an avid doll collector, just a lover of Bratz and currently nostalgic enough to buy the entire 20th anniversary line all at once... but I really loved this video..lol. Keep up the good work!
I just finished and want to say how intelligent and thoughtful your commentary is on this subject.
I had so many dolls from Nutcracker and swan lake(also had almost the entire happy family series). and I am still angry at my mother's ex who threw them out, because he thought I was to old for it.
but jokes on him I have more dolls now than I had back then.
the saddest part is that i still buy dolls with these prices because thats the only way i can get them 💀💀💀
I'm happy I live in Europe because the scalpers haven't reached here yet for the most part 😭
Thank you for this. I wanted the Bratz Rodeo doll, and the description said it was a rare wave, but this video convinced me it'll still be out there, even if it's not the same page I bookmarked.
I literally remember seeing some of these dolls in Walmart. Ridiculous.
This is why it's so hard to make customs or do restorations once someone has exhausted the local thrift stores.
I can't even find dolls at thrift stores for cheap anymore bc most thrift store chains (like goodwill) use ebay pricing to price the dolls. so unless you want them naked, chewed limbs, and shoved in a plastic bag with three other dolls, you'll have to shell out a pretty penny to buy a nice doll from the thrift store.
im so glad you said this. Its so ridiculous. Ive been doll collecting for a while and most of my collection has come from ebay and its just outrageous
I dont get how Sasha Bratz Dolls are so expensive when shes so underrated on Some commercials,posters,Dolls. etc Like give me a Sasha doll for 27 dollars not 599 the hell
This is just a suggestion, but i would love to see a video talking about bratz dolls that are actually rare :⁰
That's actually a great idea!
imagine a 7 year old just wanting to play with dolls
Loved this video, love your sarcasm and all is so true! I myaelf started looking into less known doll brands which are accessible for all, rather than ruining myself running after the "rare" ones. Great vid!!
I should send this to every ebay seller trying to sell their incomplete, out of box, changed fashion, hair cut Jai My Scene dolls for $200+.
I collect vintage Barbie dolls and for the last year many prices increased. Like I sold my #3 ponytail dolls two years ago for ~800$cad and now I always see them for 1000-1400$ I think that's because of covid with people losing their jobs and trying to sell their collections. For Bratz and monster high dolls I feel that can be normal the prices jump, because they are becoming older and older, and people love old items, because the value is also in the "old" factor. That's still annoying when people list dolls they don't know about, and think it worth a lot because it's older. eBay is flooded with vintage Barbie with horrible condition with too high prices. I always see that as "anyways nobody will buy it, who want to spend 60$ on a doll with green ears, haircut and necksplit".
“Who just spent the afternoon dipping little plastic heads into boiling water” you’re so funny 🤣🤣💀💀💀
As a kid, I had the Swan Lake and Princess and the Pauper (Annalise) dolls. Now as an adult I wish I’d held on to them
Noticed this year the price went way down to 200-300 or less! Some even in the 150 range new in box. They tried their shot but no one was willing to buy a 1k dollar Bratz twins! 😆
I'm not a collector, but do buy some dolls for nostalgia and of course, childhood memories. I'm very glad that I've seen this video, thank you so much! Bratz is a very huge part of my childhood. I had 3 dolls given to me by my mother, but nowadays I wanted to buy more Bratz dolls that I wanted just to expand that group.
it really sucks that Felicia is being sold for so much because dark-skinned dolls were/are uncommon and this just makes it even more inaccessible!
1996 and 2002 holiday barbies ARE iconic, you're so right. they're my and my sister's birth years so i'm particularly attached to them lol
Omg, i swear EVERY second hand toy market has suffered since the pandemic started. Like, all these bored rich people decided to go crazy 😭😭😭 I collect American Girl (primarily Kirsten) and I can’t believe how much the prices inflated! Things I bought just a few years ago are going for triple what I paid. What you said about rarity is so, so true. AG has been around for decades and people think that since their doll dress from the 90s is worth triple the retail price???
Naw man I got new in fever Yamin off of hibid on an auction for just $30! And I won a flashback fever off of let go app. $25! She was in OK condition in a lot there’s some parent was selling to clean out. I restarted collecting in 2020. Yes, the prices be going up.
yes! this is what I mean when I say people need to be diligent in chasing those deals. I got Kina for like $40 off of aliexpress. Lower priced grail dolls are definitely out there.
@@DarlingDollz I need to warn you that Aliexpress sells counterfiet high sought after dolls. I don’t trust them. Do your homework. 👍👍
@@sonyasaville5042 I'm sure it happens. But that happens on ebay too. You just have to be careful who you buy from and do proper research.
Great video! You are so right in all the points you made. I have been very patient as a collector of Living Dead Dolls a line that has never been widely available on toy shelves like the dolls you mentioned. On Ebay they have also gone up in prices because that line, though not officially announced, is pretty much done after 20 years (though the movie characters such as Silent Hill Nurse and Elvira have kept Living Dead Dolls under Presents). I have been interested in Monster High and it is ridiculous how expensive the first run dolls are since I know they were more mass produced than LDD. I have held out and again I agree with you, patience is key to getting what you want as a collector for the price you want to pay for. This video I feel should be watched by everyone who collects toys, no matter if the toy is an action figure or doll. Thanks for making this video, it had to be said.
when i was 15 or 16 i still had a couple of bratz bc i had always taken rlly good care of them and since they were released the year i was born, i pretty much had a doll or two from most of the collections but i ended up just wanting to save the pretty ones i rlly liked. my mom ended up donating them all so seeing some of them in this video threw me off guard but even i knew they were not and will never be worth a months worth of rent
I laugh whenever I see the Ribbon Something-or-Other Holiday Barbie because I swear I have seen one in EVERY antique mall I have ever visited and they're always $20+. Also, I lived in my previous city for nearly five years and a local antique store had one in the exact same spot for I think $30 for FIVE FREAKING YEARS. Some doll collectors just can't take the L and sell things for what they're actually worth.
I feel you so much. When I go antiquing and see like, a bunch of vintage Barbies from afar I always get SO excited even though 90% of the time it's just a bunch of Holiday Barbies selling for at least 3x their actual value.
I think a major reason these dolls have inflated so badly is that nostalgia sells. Not just with toys, but nostalgia in general makes things trend and sell again decades later. One person talks about the Barbie movies, everyone remembers them, and suddenly the demand for Barbie movies dolls skyrockets because *everyone* wants to experience their childhood.
I’m from an adjacent toy collector community, Furby, and I see a lot of overlap with what you talked about here, especially once the long furby craze started and the cost of Furby Buddies skyrocketed. Also everyone is always trying to sell the most common Furbies for over hundreds of dollars but no one in their right mind is going to buy an original new in box black and white Furby for $650 (Facebook marketplace listing I saw last week lol). I’d pay $40 for that at most if I was feeling generous. but yea do some research before buying any toy for your collection especially if you’re new to collecting a specific type so you don’t end up paying unreasonable amounts!
I collect dolls and furbies too and its so hard to find fairly priced furbies since they had a little resurgence in popularity a few years ago. But i found its a lot cheaper to buy from other fans, I've gotten furbies for $20-$30 from other collectors on tumblr. Dolls on the other hand are usually much harder to find for cheap because most collectors are looking to expand their collection and won't sell, I've even seen people with multiple NIB of the same dolls. People can do whatever they want but when collectors hoard dolls like that it incentivizes sellers to up the price even more because they're seen as rare even when they're not
I found an original furby for 10-20 quid in carboots
Lots of furbies are really cheap in carboots
If your in the UK there's a high chance you'll only find one in each carboots
They are cheap for all furbies, original to furby connect
I got my favorite doll at a flea market. A Barbie Magic of Pegasus. All she's missing is her crown, but I still love her greatly
I’m just laughing at all your hilarious shade on all the drama in secondhand market! So good!
The thing with Felicia is that she will be rare if you live in a country where stores concentrate on selling Cloe and Yasmin, sometimes Jade already harder to find a Sasha... because they go by the old fashioned idea that dark skintone dolls don't sell well.
I loveeee Barbies & Bratz but It’s insane on how expensive they are.I’m just going to wait until they start making more or prices start dropping. Hopefully things chill out a bit after this hype. 🤞🏻
Please bc its so hard to get mh dolls for my collection because everyone wants $35 for a dance class doll😭
omg WHAT?! I got a Dance class Lagoona new in box for like 15€ on marketplace! What's wrong with people
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Gotta love a subtle dig at the completely off topic subject of America’s healthcare in a doll video
This is crazy. I Pay like 10 dollars for these dolls here in Norway 😮 I have found new in box monster high, ever after high and bratz for a maximum of like 30 dollars, had no idea it was so expensive in the US
I got back into collecting old My Little Pony dolls and I can't believe how insane the market can be
I know right? Even the G4 ones made around 2010-2013 are so high, it’s crazy!
Yaaass to the song at the end of the video, jammin in Jamaica was my jam
this video caught my attention because i used to collect bratz dolls as a kid and i'm currently a kpop photocard collector and well... watching this i can say i notice a lot of things in common! as some people in the comments have said i think quarantine has highly affected the amount of money people are willing to spend on collectibles and so many collectors in general seem to be struggling with sellers manipulating market prices and it's sad to see :/ i'd much rather wait until these things inevitably lose value over time, it's all made up after all and so is the supposed "rarity" of certain items that are still being highly circulated
This is such an amazing video. I've recently gotten back into Novi Stars and I was interested in getting some since I only had one when they were new and they go for such ridiculous prices because they're supposedly "rare". I saw a listing for one of the core 4 dolls in box going for over $100. And someone was trying to sell a Tula Toned for almost $100 even though one of her legs had leaked and the seller had taken her out of the box to fix it themself and then put her back in the box??? Like.... She is literally BROKEN and NOT new in box. I really don't think she should be that much.
Due to those high prices, I am not being able to get dolls like Girlz Really Rock Sasha (the one I need to finish the four girls), Live In Concert Jade and Forever Diamondz Sasha (also to complete the main line). Like, I get that those dolls aren't made anymore... but to ask that much for a doll? The highest I have ever paid, was $175 for Sweet Dreamz Kumi. Kumi was hard to find for me, since I live in Europe and many sellers didn't ship her to Europe. But I am so glad you brought this out, as it also is a pain in the ass
Back here because (as a non-Bratz collector) bc one specific release caught my attention. Started the digging in a realized the absurd barrier to entry for collecting Bratz in the form of gauging.
with the 20th anniversary dolls that just released, i thought it would be fun to buy a bratz doll second-hand and the moment i saw the prices my heart dropped. people will deadass price nude dolls at $200 just because it has specific makeup from a line or even if it has BADLY chipped skin/paint or a missing limb. i also find it funny how much the price depends on whether the doll is wearing its corresponding outfits like... i can either buy rock angelz cloe at a ridiculous price or just find the clothes for maybe $15. at that point, resellers shouldn't even bother with their prices. luckily i found xpress it yasmin for $11, even though she's usually $25, in my eyes these dolls shouldn't even be over $15
Bratz just hit a 20th Aniversary - and the original 1st set is back mass-produced and up for sale in toy stores
for around 24$ you can buy a brand new release doll
and that is happening in every brand of dolls that had an iconic doll, it will be reproduced and released on an anniversary
And yet people are STILL scalping the 20th anniversary dolls. It's insane
@@DarlingDollz exactly! they are not "special" - as high-value rare dolls,
every brand doll that still exists - that has not been bankrupt, or sold off to other companies, can release a reproduction or a retro line,
those dolls are not gonna become high value
retro realizes do bring hope to people who missed out on a toy they always wanted to own, but not for resell
yea even with just everything dolls such as I collect tru and foreign cabbage patch kids and prices have never been higher highly soughtafter such as foreign exclusive outfits or the early 2002 times square exclusive bright violet eyes used to sell for around 100$ only a little over a year ago and then that was a hefty price and now people are buying them very fast for 300+!!! prices have skyrocketed and it just brings the fun out since people will buy them just to sell to people for 2x more :(
Similliar thing happened with ''pop'' LPS, every other figurine is cheap, but these specific shapes are so expensive. Some people attach name ''pop'' to any dog or cat... there is so many of them, but all descriptions market them as rare or uniqe - and the only ''pop'' that really is rare is Superhero Cat. People are making good quality fake figurines so some of collectors can have a less expensive ''pop'' but they're still more than avarge figurine of other shape. What worse some people sell them secondhanded for the same price as original. These figurines are everywhere, but some of them are listed for more than un-opened figures in box (production of generation I'm talking about was cancelled around 2012, in it's place came gen 3). It's really frustraiting for me, since it became a thing on such a big scale. The only ''pops'' I could find for resonable prices are in bigger sets made by the seller, with like house, a few figures and accesories - which is still pretty expensive but can cost not much more than avarge ''pop''.
"Bunch of adults who just spend their afternoon dipping the heads of little plastic women into boiling water" - it's the best definition of doll community that I've ever heard😆
Honey swamp is my dream doll but nib monster high prices are insane
I think you nailed it with this video. The points you made are really something i can see as a problem in the doll community. Personally I am a collector of Winx dolls and the whole community of Winx collectors seems to be gushing over the dolls that got produced by Mattel (since they had dolls produced by Jakks Pacific and some other european doll manufacturers) and I get why that is, those dolls were one of the first Winx dolls ever made and were practically everywhere in stores and people might feel some kind of nostalgia when it comes to them, but please, the dolls that once were on clearance now are being sold for at least 600-700 dollars and just like Felicia from Bratz there is one doll that everyone seeks and is by no means rare, she is literally from on of the main lines of the whole franchise and i don't know why people suddenly decide that they can sell it for close to 2k dollars. And the worst part is that people are condoning this behaviour by buying the dolls for that amount of money. That's why i haven't bought any dolls for a long time. Because money doesn't grow on trees.
Yeah, I've noticed it's a HUGE problem in the Winx doll community as well. I only have two Mattel dolls (Flora and Stella) in their casual outfits because that was pretty much all I could afford to get at the time, and since then they've gotten even more expensive. And these dolls aren't rare at all! There's new listings for them on ebay and mercari every day!!
Haha it's so sad that I just know you're talking about GME Musa. I really regret not finishing my GME collection years ago, when I got my NIB Stella for 25 euros :') I've just accepted by now that I'll probably never get Flora and Musa, even though Flora in particular is not rare at all. Same goes for the Ballgown dolls.
@@Iroh12345 I feel you so much, I regret it to this day that i never bought the Flora GME when I saw her in stores and when she cost about 18€ or smth like that (not the stores in the city where I live in having only Flora GME and not anyone else from this line for some strange reason).
@@okanhashim7328 That sucks so much :c I'm actually kinda happy I don't recall ever seeing them in stores. I think it was a combination of me being a bit too young and not really into doll collecting yet (more so just playing with Barbies and Bratz dolls). It's bad enough knowing that you could've purchased them second hand online for a low price, but actually having seen them in stores for retail? Oof.
I sign under every word! The world is just going crazy with that ridiculous prices.. I wanted Bratz Dresden so bad but 500-700$ for her is insane. And I got her for about 20$ at advertisement website. But I want several Sashas & all of them are and will be overprised so I'm happy with dolls I already have, after all U can't buy them all:)
A good example of rare dolls are the Tomy Get along Gang dress up kids. The six dolls in wave one are easy to come by but the three dolls in wave 2 are near impossible to find loose( if you want them mint in box, you’re gonna be a while). Although they’re not worth much because they’re not in high demand
There is another thing too. Playline dolls when they are first bought, are often bought so that the child plays with the doll, thus often ruining the doll, thus making less good condition dolls for the second hand market. I dont know how that fact puts itself in what you said, but I think its a piece of info rather important ....
I'm not a doll collector but now you got me thinking about the pricing of photocards in kpop. I love watching your videos, they are entertaining and interesting.
I’m glad that I recently brought all my old dolls home and as much as I would like to fill in my collection, I’m not paying these dumb prices. I’ll wait til bratz are either rereleased or the hype dies down.
In general collectibles have been going for more. Once people realized they could make money they did scummy thing like what was mentioned in the video. Add to that many people are home with nothing to do but start a new hobby and stimulus checks on the way. I'm a manga collector and oop titles where so much cheaper march before the pandemic but prices are already starting to fall from their peak because life is starting to go back to normal.
The Felicia doll doesn't surprise me at all because Black dolls are always resold at twice the amount of other dolls. 😫