Even PMI hasn't been immune, as it was forced to scale back its Precious Moments Chapel theme park in Carthage, Mo., three years ago after "increases in gas prices and the general decline in tour bus activity" and a "reduction in paid admissions to the park." Kahn places the pricing of Beanie Babies and their ilk on par with the resale value of collectible plates containing Norman Rockwell illustrations, but that's still more than the return on the pastel, pink-and-purple Precious Moments figurines. PMI's former business partner Enesco discovered as much the hard way in 2004, when it severed the relationship due to faltering sales.
PMI also partners with Bank of America on a Precious Moments MasterCard for the cutest debt imaginable and Precious Moments checking and savings accounts, so accountholders always remember where their expendable income is going.
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For $36 to $39 a year, PMI offers collectors access to its "Collectors Club," with benefits including the opportunity to buy "collectors only" statuettes, a "member's kit" and a free figurine thrown in for good measure. It's bad enough that Precious Moments collectors have to watch as figurines they paid $45 for at retail sell on eBay for 99 cents to $5 apiece, but Precious Moments Incorporated (PMI - yes, it's a corporate entity based on figurines) has no problem making fans bank accounts depreciate as quickly as their collectibles. Wide-eyed, innocence-embodying Precious Moments porcelain figurines have no such qualms about their greed.
Few collectibles milk their rabid followers with such impunity that they almost insure fans will lose money with each passing year.
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