How to Price your Barbie Doll Collection

Video Transcript

"One other thing about collecting Barbie dolls is you need to understand that there is a book value and a market value. In a book value of the Barbie doll is what Mattel thinks what it's worth at that specific point of purchase. Where as the market value is what is actually going for at the market so if there is a limited edition to some Barbie doll out there and nobody can get there hands on it, some Barbie dolls can go for $2,000 at a convention if somebody wants it bad enough. So you need to find those people who want those Barbie's cause you can make a lot of money in the market. When collecting Barbie's there's so many like I said collecting and buying you don't even now where to start some of the areas that can actually tell you where to start. It's first off books I bought a quit of few books I've gotten toy books that just basically shows toys and prices which Barbie dolls are listed in here. I've actually gotten information about just Barbie in general to learn about the Barbie doll and what the differences are about the Barbie's and I've also got a couple other collector edition books. These books all tell you specifically what the Barbie's are worth and how much it is. So for example, one Barbie that I have is the Caroling Fun Barbie I just recently bought this Barbie from the one lady that I was mentioning earlier, that had gotten rid of all almost of her Barbie's. This is the Caroling fun Barbie I really want to know how much Barbie is all I need to do is look in the identification book. So what I do is look it up by the actual name I can also look it up by year they done it both ways in the book. What I do is go and scroll down until I found Caroling fun Barbie which happens to be the last one on the line here. You'll see Caroling fun in it'll show you the market value of that Barbie doll or what it is worth right now according to Mattel it's $20 so it shows that it was sold in the supermarket. It will actually list all the different areas that these Barbie's are sold or specifically they're targeted at, so this is a good way to tell how much your Barbie doll are worth."