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Teddy Bear dropped from market
Daniel270:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20050203/ap_on_fe_st/teddy_bear
Looks like this'll be one bear that'll have a higher value since production's been stopped and sales halted....
Dartful Dodger:
Higher than the $69.95 they tried to sell it for. It's not too hard to put a long sleeve white shirt on a teddy bear, and tie it up like a straitjacket.
If anything there might be a beanie baby fiasco.
People will run to buy them up, and then they'll get stuck with them.
Daniel270:
Good idea!! Neat way to get rid of those teddy bears your gf/wife might have lying around and have spare funds for building MAME cabs! ;D
DaveMMR:
"Hey this teddy bear is awesome with this straitjacket! Hey that reminds me, I should make fun of the mentally handicapped!"
That was sarcasm of couse but political correctness is just an annoying disease that makes my midsection itch like crazy. And what did all the controversy do? It made a bear that would have came and went undetected the biggest seller for the company. It's exactly like the whole 2 Live Crew debacle - an album no one would have bought went gold.
DarkKobold:
You know what they say, whoever "they" are-
There is no bad publicity.
That said, this bear is now 200+ on ebay. If vermont teddy bear were smart, they'd continue making them and sell them as "discontinued" on ebay under a different seller name.