17 ways to determine if the Beanie Baby is Counterfeit

You should always buy Ty Beanie Babies from reputable dealers or from sellers you know how to contact them. These dealers and sellers should also have many references and / or comments from other people they did business with.

Most counterfeit Beanie Babies are easy to spot if you know what to look for. If you do not know what to look for then it is probably the most difficult to tell fake from genuine Ty Beanie Babies Beanie Babies.

Beanie Baby shows are a good place to check the face Beanie Babies. Try them if you can handle. Know the feeling of the fabric and general appearance.

Some counterfeits are excellent reproductions, but regardless of how well it looks fake, they usually have a lot of mistakes. It is never a single mistake.

If you are buying expensive Beanie Babies, you should educate false, or at least know where to find information when you need it.

Here are 17 ways to determine if a Beanie Baby is counterfeit:

•  Many of the counterfeits have spelling mistakes in the labels, but remember, as do some of the authentic  Ty Beanie Babies. So you usually look for other mistakes beside just that.
•  Check the tag dates and addresses to ensure they are correct. Many counterfeits have the wrong date on the label bottom.
•  Compare the tags of Beanie Baby with tags suspects on another Ty Beanie Baby you know, to be authentic.
• Is the type on the labels too light or too dark? The source is not it?
• Compare the labels of authentic Ty Beanie Baby tag and determine if the tags are smaller or larger than the tag authentic.
• Compare the color of the actions within the hang tag to another tag. Is it too white? Labels have a true off-white.
• They are the same color tags? Or red and yellow hang tag look muted or too light or too dark? Hang tag would be blue rather than red-orange red.
• The eighth yellow star on the hang tag must be a bright yellow sun, not a mustard color.
• Some of the counterfeit Beanie Babies have a yellow star on their hang tag that have points that are too "sharp". Fences objects hang tag stars are slightly rounded.
• Check the gold edge of the hang tags. You must have a very clean line and of a bright pale gold color. There should be copper.
• Check the size and shape of the Beanie. Some of the counterfeit Ty teddy bears have ears that are either too small or too large, or perhaps the legs or arms are too short or are shaped strangely.
• It's the teddy bear's head is too big or too filling?
• Check to see if the eyes are too close or too big or too small.
• Is eye color? Some Beanie Baby eyes are a solid color and some are not. Humphrey the camel has solid black eyes, but most of the false Humphrey has eyes that are two-tone.
• Check and see if the fabric is rough or if the color is too dark or too light.
• Does the fabric nap look right?  Is the fabric rough, hard or the wrong color?
• The most authentic tapas are pretty plush fabric that "flows" in all directions and not "wrinkle".

A place you should avoid buying expensive Beanie Babies that are not approved, online auctions like eBay. Chances are that if you buy enough of these expensive Beanie Babies that are not approved, you will eventually end up buying some that are false.