My dad found a Dynasty doll and he wanted me to find out it's value. Her name is Sweetie.
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The asking price of this one is $3.20. www.ebay.com/
If I remember right, there were multiple versions of Dynasty dolls named Sweetie or Sweety and they were released over a few years in the mid to late 1980s.
When I go to eBay, they are showing 3 versions...which are different from my memory. My memory said there was one doll in a white dress with a blonde, brown, and red haired version.
So this could be my bad memory or sellers that are confused or both.
One of the challenges in researching and valuing the more modern dolls TODAY is the companies often recycled names and had dolls that looked alike but maybe with a different feature like hair color or eye color or a slightly different dress.
So if these sellers are correct, they say there is a 12 inch brown hair version in a white dress, a 14 inch blonde in a pink dress, and a baby version. That does not jive with my memory. Additionally, not seeing yours it is hard to say exactly who you have an her value.
Another challenge now in valuing dolls is coming to fruition from what we used to see at the Hallmark store was where people switched boxes on dolls putting more expensive dolls in cheaper doll boxes thinking we clerk's wouldn't notice trying to get a high price doll for a low price. If a clerk missed it, a doll got sold that way. Now, people are trying to value dolls that aren't even who the box says they are because years ago, someone did a switcheroo.
The flip side of what we saw was sometimes these same crooks would put cheaper dolls in more expensive doll boxes, trying to pass them off as the expensive doll to fetch more money. UGH...it used to get bad!
Then and now, a true collector would know the difference, but back when dolls were hot, people were hoarding them like they were gold and would some day increase in value, which did not happen some people took the seller's word and didn't realize the difference because they were only buying for investment, not for love.
My suggestion is to look at this eBay link and see if any match your version of Sweetie and when/if one sells, that will give you today's current market value:
www.ebay.com/
None of the other sites I frequent can either confirm or deny what I am seeing on eBay, which is surprising. It could be user error (me).
To sum it all up, sadly, generally, most of the Dynasty dolls did not hold their value over the years, so you may be able to fetch a few dollars for one in resale, but it will not be a windfall.
Please post back a photo if you have one so we can be sure which lovely you have! Thanks!
There are over 3,000 similar dolls listed on eBay at any given time and most will never sell even at very low prices. These are dolls that many people thought would be a collector's item and be worth much more than the original price.
Sad but even beautiful dolls, still in boxes (with all papers) are rarely sold for more than $25 - if they sell at all.
Companies liked to use names over and over so you will probably find several dolls named "Sweetie" as that has always been a cute name for a doll.
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If you do any research you can narrow your search by also using the size of the doll (inches tall) as they were made in several different sizes..
If you have no use for the doll it would be nice to give it to someone that would like to have sweet little doll or donate it to one of the non-profit thrift stores.
You can search on eBay.
This one is named Sweetie - it is going for $15 with free shipping.
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