I happened to see the back page of one of this Sunday’s pull-out magazines and what I saw caught my eye.
On this page was a full page advert for a limited edition Freddie Mercury teddy bear by popular German stuffed toy makers Steiff.
I don’t know much about the company other than they have been around for over 100 years and still hand make their teddies in a factory in Giegen, Germany.
As a direct response marketer and copywriter, I was drawn to the advert to see what they were selling, how the advert was written and presented and the actual price of the product.
I know that a full page advertisement placed in one of those Sunday supplements is not cheap.
This is not the first time for this kind of advert and so I can only assume that they are making money selling these teddy bears.
I can’t imagine that there are many buyers and so for them to be making a decent return on the ad spend; the bear must have been priced quite high.
At closer inspection I found that the price of the bear was £275 with a £9.80 post and handling charge.
That’s a teddy bear costing in total… £284.80!
A. TEDDY. BEAR!
Okay… now I know that on occasion, a rare teddy bear has sold for quite a lot of money and I know that there are people who buy limited edition bears as investments, but I am not seeing any signs that a newly bought Steiff bear is going to make you much money.
Apparently a Steiff bear made in 1909 was listed at Christie’s Auction House in London with an estimated value between £450 and £695.
A 1990 Alfonzo Steiff bear sold in 2004 for £574.
So it would seem that a teddy bear could possibly double your money, maybe triple it at the most after quite some time.
Let’s just say, I didn’t rush to get my credit card and order my own limited edition Freddie Mercury teddy bear.
Other than buying for an investment – which is not really worth it in my opinion – I don’t understand why anyone would actually want to own a teddy bear resembling a dead singer… no matter how iconic the singer was.
Being a limited edition would help keep the bears value and possibly increase it, but 5,000 is quite a large number.
From what I can see, Steiff generally produce a limited edition number of 2,000 for most bears so this Freddie Mercury bear is not as limited as many others.
As far as I’m concerned, when there are 2,000 or more of the same thing available, its value isn’t going to increase much.
It’s not like it’s the T206 Honus Wagner card which is the most valuable cigarette card ever.
Honus ‘Hans The Flying Dutchman’ Wagner is said to be the greatest baseball player of all time in the United States.
Wagner, a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, was a non-smoker and he wasn’t at all happy that an American tobacco company had used his photograph on a cigarette card.
He complained and ordered them to stop. They agreed and stopped printing the card. It is believed that only 60 of these cards ever existed.
In 2016, two of these ‘Jumbo’ Wagner cards were sold in the US, one for £2.35 million and the other for £2.62 million.
In 2010, a group of nuns in Baltimore US sold a similar card making them a cool £219,908.
In 2021, another T206 Honus Wagner card sold at auction for a massive £4.6 million. Well, £5.5 million once the auction house added its fees!
That’s what I call a collectable.
Rare and limited edition items are valuable and can be sold on to other people for a lot of money, but ultimately, the price is going to be more when ‘rare’ and ‘limited edition’ actually means just that.
It should mean no more than a handful.
5,000 of the same bear is not that rare and it isn’t much of a limited edition, but if there were 5,000 different bears, each one different to the other, then that would be a different story.
Okay, you may be wondering why I am telling you this.
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There are a couple of reasons really.
Firstly: Anyone who isn’t willing to spend a few hundred pounds on an information product that could teach them how to constantly make large amounts of money for life but is willing to spend £284.80 on a teddy bear, needs to re-evaluate their thinking.
Secondly: Spending £284.80 on a teddy bear which may double in value in ten or twenty years is madness when you could spend £10 buying a completely unique and rare collectable and earn £2,500 or more within 24 hours selling it to someone else.
It’s hard to believe, but there are people who will spend largish amounts of money on something which will give them nothing back in actual value but will not spend money on things which have the potential to make them a lot of money.
A lot of things people buy do nothing more for them than collect dust.
People like to collect and own things and because of that, they are willing to spend a lot of money acquiring them.
It’s even better if the thing they want to collect is unique and can also make them money when they time is right for them to sell it on.
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Kind regards
John Harrison
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