To think JellyCats cost a ridiculous amount..

What’s not to love 😃one of the cheaper ones, £20

They are rhe new beanie babies/ tulips / whatever
Sell your rare ones now amd cash in before it all goes tits up 😅

I don’t think they are overpriced. They are very well made and designed and branded.. you have to pay a price for that! Plenty of cheap cuddly toy alternatives. The expensive ones on sale 2nd hand are out of production and rare. They are collectors items. The same happens with Lego sets that are popular and then go out of stock.

Wow! Is that the 'really big' one?. I have a small Christmas tree...

No idea why anyone would pay more for second hand than new!

I have just joined a jellycat fb group. Some
People go mad for them. The peach seems to be the must have one of the moment which seems to result in a lot of fakes being sold on Vinted / dodgy websites.

We have a few of the food ones - going to the patisserie in Paris next month so my daughter wants one from there.

I also have a large octopus, it's just so soft and the legs are lovely!

There’s a huge community of collectors on TikTok, and obviously this drives up the cost of second hand jellycats.

They are the new beanies.
My daughter got one of the bunnies gor her birthday, at £25. She adores it.
Like anything if you just buy one you treasure it but if you buy loads they lose their. (emotional) value.

BlackFriYay · Yesterday 22:26

£1,000 for this one!
I'm sitting here slack jawed in amazement. I'd never heard of these things until today when DD announced wanting one for Christmas.

You what?! My daughter has one of those, I'm going to sell it!

... not really!

People buy them for children. We were gifted for a baby shower gift.

He chose the jellycat as his favourite. Which took around a year. By which point I then had track down a couple more in case something happens.

You do not want to know what I paid 🤣

I think originally it was an item less than £20.

£ per minute use they are probably still the best purchase ever made. Your looking at micro pennies

Meet Vera and Sid. Never dying from over or under watering and I love how their feet are dangling.

They are excellent quality and this dragon is utterly adorable. ❤️

Based on this thread I have just ordered a Jellycat ghost from the local independent gift shop. Supporting small businesses by wasting my cash on childish but incredibly cute tat 👻

I’m a 30 year old woman who has about 65+ of them 😂 I’m utterly obsessed, but I admit the price is insane! I’ve mostly had them as gifts. They brighten up the house and they’re mostly home decor. I have the smoothie bottles in the kitchen and the popcorn on the TV stand etc. They’re such a serotonin boost!

I have two Aliexpress ones, they're identical in every way to the real thing, just a different label. China or Vietnam, neither is putting money in British designers pockets

Jellycat is a British brand. When you buy that the profit from the design largely stays in the uk. When you buy a chinese knock off, the profit to the manufacturer is lower, yes, but it all stays in china and it damages the british brand who invest in designing, creating and marketing something.

How would you feel if you invented something great and someone immediately copied your work?

They have become super popular all of a sudden! By chance I bought the carrot one for my daughter early in the summer, she picked it out in a gift shop as a souvenir at the end of our holiday, super random but whatever. She became really attached to it and has taken it everywhere since, even cuddles it in bed at night! We call it her emotional support carrot 🤣

We love seeing Jellycats in shops, especially if they're in garden centres. We play, "guess the extortionate price tag" as a family. Winning one so far is this little (literally) beaut for £25.

They are so cute but i think they are pricey.

Facebook market place sometimes you can get one for less than half of what they go for on ebay.

I want a black cat one.

OMG are you me?? My DD has a similar ambition. @Needmorelego
We have about 12 mini bunnies
10 small ones and maybe 5 of the larger.
She loves the tiny ones really but they don’t make very many of them anymore.

DS was given one as a baby. He threw up blueberries over it. It washed it by hand and all the stains came out and it retained it was as good as new. Bath time (sometimes unavoidable) for other toys has resulted in the beloved teddy/animal not 'feeling' right.

I have two Aliexpress ones, they're identical in every way to the real thing, just a different label. China or Vietnam, neither is putting money in British designers pockets.

I don't like buying the cheap Chinese knock off versions off stuff because then the profit of british creativity just ends up in china. we are already too expensive a location to actually manufacture anything, all we have left is the "clever" bit like design

They are expensive but great quality and the fakes just aren’t the same. Kids know.
My teenager has asked for another one and I will get her one
If your budget will run to it get her what she has asked for. She will know the difference and so will her friends
They hold their value (and increase once discontinued) so you can always sell on again if she no longer likes it

There are a few gift shops we happen to go in regularly which stock them and my children have a good laugh at looking at the cost. They have one rabbit each which they had for one Christmas.
I have never quite understood what makes them so different to other brands to require that much of a price difference!!