Beanie Baby with tag error

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A friend of mine asked if I knew anything about what this may be worth & I know when I posted about my own Beanie Baby, the other day, some of you had a little knowledge.  More than me anyway :-).  

He has the baby Kicks which is a soccer bear & it has a tag error, where the tush tag date doesn't match the other tag.  I've told him to research, but I was just looking at solds & even with the tag error, I only see a few low priced solds.  Does anyone know of a good guide or anything like that to help him figure out what it's really worth?  He's a great guy & a single dad, so I'd love to see him get some $$ if he can, but solds don't look good.  Maybe there's a different marketplace that's better for BB's than Ebay?  

Any info would be appreciated.  He is going to do his own research, but if anyone knows of some resources to point him in the right direction, I'd love to help him, as I just don't know anything abt BB's. 

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I have a ton of beanie babies and many of them have tag errors. Some on Ebay are crazy high end prices and some are dirt cheap. I have no idea what makes the difference because they look exactly the same to me. Seems like the only ones that sold high in the ones I looked at were officially certified or something. I'm not going through that. I'm tempted to redonate all of them. The tag year/generation makes a big difference to.

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Thanks Peek, yeah I did read that to even be rare, they pretty have to have come before 1998. I found a few good articles to print for him. Was just hoping someone might know abt tag errors. Pantlandia , seemed to know a bit about BB's. From what I read, it even sounds like date tag errors, are not necessarily considered errors. I don't he paid anything for it, so I think it'll all be gravy, but he was saying that even if he made $100 he thought it'd be great & sadly, I think he might make $6.99. Oh well, at least he's not out money. I think I'll give him the one I bought as inventory for his little girl to play with LOL.