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I had the, um, pleasure (ha) of working in a Hallmark store during the Beanie Baby craze. Before it hit we had tons of them and thought they were very cute but we didn't sell very many. Then one day we got a phone call from a lady in Maine (all the way across the country from our store) asking if we had Beanie Babies. We asked her which one she wanted and she said it didn't matter, she would buy any and all we had. We thought she was kidding but no, we actually shipped her a box of about 400 of them.
After that it was Beanie Baby hell. We even had a three ring binder with a page for each animal and a waiting list of people who wanted that one. When one came in we would put in on hold for three days and call the customer to come pick it up. The worst problem we had was with people who would show up on the 4th day only to find that we had sold it to someone else because their hold expired. There's nothing worse than seeing professional women like lawyers and bankers (our store was in the financial district) bitching and crying because they couldn't get a $4 tie dyed teddy bear.
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