One of the ways that I have been able to support my family as a single stay-at-home-mom is by reselling things that I know are worth good money.
Some of the most profitable items to sell on eBay are Littlest Pet Shops (LPS).
Before I started blogging, I was one of the top sellers of LPS on eBay on any given day. I made the most money out of all my competitors for each pet sold.
It’s not uncommon for you to be able to get $50-$200 for ONE Littlest Pet Shop toy. These little 2″ toys are very valuable, and most people don’t know it!
Rare Littlest Pet Shop List
The most expensive pet by far is the Comic Con Cat. I have sold this one several times over for no less than $200 brand new in the box.
So, you may be asking why LPS toys sell for so much money. The answer is that Hasbro only releases so many of one particular pet. There are well over 3,000 different Littlest Pets now and that number grows what seems like daily. After they are gone in the stores, they are gone, and that is NOT guaranteeing you that you can find the one you want in your store. LPS releases different ones to different parts of the states. In fact, there are a few rarer ones that have ONLY been released in the U.K. making them even harder to find.
LPS are highly sought after. Kids of all ages and adults collect them. They have parties with them. They play with them day and night. They bring them to school. LPS life is very much a hot topic in the kid world. Anyone who’s anyone has them.
Okay, so they are popular, but aren’t they just a fad?
NO! LPS have been around since the 90’s! They have been popular a really long time and I don’t foresee them ever losing momentum. Hasbro is constantly coming out with new and popular ideas. Glow in the dark pets, Blythe dolls, TV shows, teeniest tiniest pets to name a few.
On the saving money standpoint, this is something to invest your hard-earned money in. Kids play with these toys from the time they are around 2 years old to 12 years old. Once kids start hitting the teen years, they usually drop off, but most kids will play with these toys for a very long time.
Many more kids (and adults) collect them. Our favorite thing to do with LPS is to dress them up. You can make a killing selling LPS clothes on eBay. When I sold them, I made about $24.95 for each set of about 7 pieces. At one point, I had over 200 of these lots. For those of you who are good at math, that’s $5,000 in just the clothes for these toys. There is money to be made for sure.
There are many pets to be on the lookout that are worth $30 or more on eBay. Now keep in mind, pricing on eBay changes daily, so if you have any of these pets and they are not getting at least $30, hold onto them. LPS on eBay is an ebb and flow type of thing. One minute one pet will be $80, the next it’ll be $30. You want to sell them when they are at their most expensive price.
There are 3 LPS pets that are very well known for being expensive, meaning most people know these are worth money, so you’ll have a much harder time scoring them.
And the rest of the pets are my favorites. They are not as well-known for being expensive online and so you can find them easier and make a killing. In one instance, the Chihuaua is worth $75 on eBay, yet not many know that. Another white cat goes for around the same amount, again, not many know, so it’s easier to snag it.
If you want to make money on LPS, get to know this list really well. Most Great Danes, Cocker Spaniels, and Collies are worth money. Always look for those. Because I’ve been selling pets for so long, I can literally look at a picture of pets and tell you which ones are worth money and which ones aren’t within 30 seconds. I know almost all of the more than 3,000 of them. This is why I was so good at eBay.
It’s all in the details
One thing you want to be super careful of is the smallest of details. This particular great dane (LPS #817) are BOTH numbered 817, and yet, there is a BIG difference when you know the pets. It’s in the eyes. One pupil is circle shaped, the other is starred. These little details when selling LPS on eBay can sometimes mean huge rewards. Usually one is rarer than the other and therefore will fetch you more money! So, be sure to pay attention to the small details.
What site is best for selling the LPS (eBay, Amazon, others?)
ebay. Definitely ebay! OR your own Shopify store would work too. 🙂
So many of them include free shipping, so how is it best to ship them so that your profit is eaten up by shipping?
They do free shipping and include the shipping cost in the price. Basically, to get an item to sell, they up the price of the toy to reflect the shipping cost and offer free shipping. Long, drawn out story short, they sell much better that way. So the shipping is actually just included in the price.
Get yourself some wedding organza bags at a craft store or on ebay and put the pet in there. Then bubble wrap the pet in the organza bag and put it in a small bubble envelope. It’s less than 3 oz and your cost to ship is less than $2.
If the sales price of the pet is over $30, you will definitely want to insure the package.
How do you set the prices of the pets? Many the figurines have a variety of prices so just pick something in the middle?
Depends if you’re making a business out of it, how fast you want to sell, and what your feedback rate is at.
If your feedback rate is 100% positive feedback and you have at least 100 feedbacks, you can sell about 50¢ higher than the most expensive other seller or the same price as another 100% positive feedback seller.
If you want to make a business out of it, you’ll want to start cheap to establish yourself and work your way up.
If you want to sell it faster, list lower. If you don’t mind waiting for a sale, list higher.
Some pets can take even a year to sell, but they do. And listing fees are so cheap, in some cases, it’s worth it to wait.
Carrie says
March 9 at 12:09 amWe have a ridiculous amount of LPS. where can I find a legimate source to get their value to sell?
Jayleen says
March 13 at 2:51 pmIf only I had known you when I was selling my daughter’s collection. I was amazed at how much they sold for but didn’t get near the price you are. Do you purchase on eBay and then resell?
The other toy that got ridiculous amounts were GeoTrax. I was stunned at the prices they went for!
Sarah says
March 13 at 4:21 pmSelling children’s toys is always a hot commodity on eBay, however, I’ve found LPS and Lalaloopsy’s to be SUPER profitable. 🙂
Alexandria Brady says
March 13 at 4:05 pmI had no idea people collected these things! I have a ton in the attic from when I was younger and collecting them, are the new ones worth anything or is it mostly the old ones?
Sarah says
March 13 at 4:20 pmAll of them are worth something. Some of the most expensive ones are the older ones! 🙂
Anonymous says
June 1 at 5:57 amDo the original ones without the enlarged heads go for as much as the “newer” styled ones?
Sarah Titus says
June 1 at 10:20 amThe older ones generally go for more than the newer ones. They are more rare and therefore, more collectible.
gina says
June 7 at 12:53 pmcan you give me a link that show good PHOT0S and a parts list of ALL the olderish lps playsets? For example I would like to know what EXACTLY came with the Biggest Littlest Pet Shop or the Round and Round Pet Town. Thank you!!
Sarah Titus says
June 7 at 6:45 pmThere is no such site unfortunately. The best option is searching Google photo’s, but most of the time, they are very blurry to see the little pieces.
kathy kleinerman says
June 25 at 7:03 pmHi Sarah!
In your experienced opinion, is it better to sell Geo Trax and LPS on Ebay or another forum/way?
I have hundreds and hundreds of pets from 2004 and up ( from when our daughter was 2 ish) and the same amount (approx) of Geo Trax…. Some of them of both are still NIB!
My husband passed away and since then everything LPS and GT have been boxed up…. too much going on here!!
Any other advice for selling these would be appreciated!!
Just found your site and love it!
kathy
Sarah Titus says
June 25 at 7:40 pmGreat question Kathy. I’m not too familiar with Geo Trax. I mostly stayed with girl toys as they seem to do better. I would start with one, LPS, and move on to Geo Trax when the LPS are sold. Or if you have time, both at the same time, but it’ll take a lot to set everything up. Be sure to list the LPS as BIN (don’t mess around with offers). State if they have no initials, writing, on them and if they are rust free on their necks. Those are the two major questions. BIN is how most people purchase LPS and how you get more money. Sometimes they can sit on there for even 6 months, I’ve had some sit on there for a year and sell. You do have to end the item and relist it manually every 3 months to keep the ads fresh and at the top of search results. DON’T click the relist button. Use the same template and use the “sell similar item” button NOT the relist button to make it count as a new ad for search results. 🙂 This was a trick I used that my competition didn’t know about at the time and how I was able to scoop up a lot of sales. 😉
Aurora says
July 4 at 10:01 amHi Sarah, Thanks for this, one question however; regarding the great dane, you say to pay attention to details like for example the round pupil as opposed to the star pupil and that one is worth more than the other, but you don\’t state which one is worth more. It would help if you did. Many thanks.
Sarah Titus says
July 5 at 6:43 pmGreat question Aurora. On that particular Great Dane, it varies. At one time, eBay will be flooded with one particular type of pet and it’ll be cheaper and the other will be more expensive. They flip flop back and forth. Best to sell one at a time at it’s highest value. There’s a real art to knowing how to get the most money from each pet and most of that ‘art’ is waiting it out. I had pets on there for 6 months and have 11 of the same exact one, not one sale, then all the sudden, all 11 would sell within a day. It’s just weird like that.
Alexia Birchmeier says
July 15 at 5:17 pmHey I have a whole bunch of old and newer types of pet shops but I don\’t know what there all worth and I need to get rid of them. Could you help me?
Ava harrison says
July 22 at 2:25 amI have some LPS toys and playsets and wondered what the playsets are worth are you able to give me a basic idea,please?
Sarah Titus says
July 22 at 2:55 amYou’ll want to search the playsets on eBay, but for the most part, none of them are worth too much money. I always used the Craigslist those out. The emergency doctor set is worth good money, everything else is not really worth your time.
Margaret grieser says
October 13 at 3:18 pmI bought a lot of lps at a rummage sale, in great shape and am trying to sell them on eBay, you said use bin. But how do I know what to say for them? Is it better to sell them one at a time or in a lot?
Sarah Titus says
October 13 at 4:36 pmIt depends if you have any worth money in there and how much time you want to invest in selling them. I’d start with the list on this page and see if you have any rare and valuable ones. You can also search them on eBay and see how much they are going for.
Janet says
October 25 at 4:53 pmHello. Was cleaning my attic and unearthed my daughters Littlest Pet Shop. It is the pet store, 12 inches in height and about 18 inches in width when it is open, with a handle on the top. Contains at least a dozen animals, including all the furniture for the store, etc. Purchased about 27 years ago. Any idea what it is worth?
tansy says
November 2 at 2:10 pmHi sarah i have a few lps im stuck on. Could u help me out?
vicki frederick says
November 23 at 6:00 pmI have a little dog with both a pink and blue magnet. Do you know the history on that & it’s value?
Sarah Titus says
November 23 at 6:49 pmIt really would depend on which dog it is. There are so many of them.
Ashley says
December 18 at 9:36 pmI really just want to get these lps for my daughter to play with. She sees them on YouTube and of course wants her own. With her birthday in February I am sure I will be shelling out 5x the original price for these tiny toys. Here’s my question, the pets that are available now…..will they eventually be worth more money? Or is it just the older lps that have value? Just wondering if I should be snagging extra lps to hold onto for later….Also, where did you FIND your collectibles? Again….I really just wanna make my 5 year old happy.
Sarah says
December 20 at 5:56 pmI was just reading your article and had no idea these were worth money. We have about 60 plus accessories. Would you be able to look at a pic and let me know value?
Thank you in advance.
Daniela GM says
January 8 at 1:21 amThanks for the really informative article. I have a bunch of LPS bought about 6 years ago. How can I find out their value or even what number they are?
Sarah Titus says
January 8 at 4:19 amThere’s a couple great sites listed in this post here. This will show you the numbers, then just plug in the numbers on eBay to see how much they go for. 🙂
Sierra says
February 4 at 9:23 pmHow much is the open mouthed collie dog with one paw raised
Tanja says
February 5 at 4:47 amHi Sarah,
I am from the Netherlands. Great to read your blog, especially about the Littlest Pet Shop. My daughter collected lots of them (including houses and so) of them but the dutch marketplace does not seem to be favorable to sell them. Is ebay the only place to start selling and do you think american collectors would be interested in buying from a country abroad? Especially since shipping costs can be high.
Sarah Titus says
February 5 at 9:04 amThere may be other places, but eBay would be the best bet with the largest audience. 🙂
jaime says
February 18 at 7:36 pmThanks for the list. I have pretty much all of them. Even the Chihuahua that when I looked it up it was numbered as number one. And my only question is whether that’s true and how much would it sell for?
Ramona says
March 11 at 1:07 amI have a lot of the Littlest pet shops my daughter collected. She is now 22 years old. Was thinking about selling on Facebook buy/sell. How can I find out the value?
Sarah Titus says
March 11 at 2:49 amYou’ll want to search them on eBay to find out the value.
Meg h says
March 22 at 1:59 pmDo the older ones not have LPS written on them? I bought a bunch for my daughter used be she plays with them and doesn’t like the holes in them… Lol. But she likes them to be authentic LPS. Many didn’t have LPS but they are hasbro. Wondering if it wore off or if the older version didn’t have it written on.
Sarah Titus says
March 22 at 2:06 pmThat’s correct. The older ones didn’t have the LPS written on them like the new ones do.
Karen says
April 15 at 11:00 pmI have been going through a collection of LPS and have been able to find all of them on ebay except for one. I’ve googled it as well and can’t find it. It’s #478 butterfly. Mine is blue with purple wings and antenna. The wings have a design in orange. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sarah Titus says
April 16 at 1:50 pmIf you’re looking to make money on it, usually butterflies aren’t worth too much.
Sue says
April 17 at 11:17 pmHi Sarah,
I am a mom who around 6 weeks ago started pulling out my daughters LPS’s and other items to list on eBay. I have been putting this off for some time. But, after seeing your website, I took the time to look up each pet and match up all play centers to list. I pulled out the ones you mentioned as valuable and lookup them up on eBay to compare, along with all the others. Your information was invaluable and I appreciate all you taught me. Thank You! However, as is my nature they are set boxed up ready to list and I haven’t! Big surprise. So, tonight I am again preparing to list taking pictures and so on. I looked up the 339 Race About Ranch Cat to see how people were photographing it and was stunned to see one closed out tonight at $2,025.00. I thought maybe there was a mistake but, upon looking it did start at $10.00 and there was another bidder involved to close at 17 bids. So, I am going crazy trying to detect what is the difference with this cat. After hours of reviewing I thought I would turn to the professional for help or thoughts. I never email or ask questions but, this seems amazing. And I am sure mine is not special but would love to solve this mystery. Thank you again in advance for you time, energy and advice it is being heard!!
Sarah Titus says
April 18 at 2:46 pmLPS #339 the ranch cat is not worth $2k. Sometimes it’s a scam or some secret thing going on or a mean bidder. The reason that one is popular is because it’s involved in the LPS show on YouTube. Those characters are more popular/sought after, so worth more.
Shaun says
May 8 at 5:37 amHi
Not sure if you can help, but our daughter has approx 60 littlest pet shop figures. We had advertised them locally(in UK), and we had a reply saying that some were worth more than we thought. I appreciate you can’t reply to everyone that contacts you, but are there any pictures anywhere which highlights the rare ones and their worth?
Emily says
June 6 at 11:40 pmHi, I absolutely love LPS. And I love clothes for them, especially the bows from my ad baby packs so ….. I was wondering what your eBay store was called. So maybe I could buy some clothes.
Sarah Titus says
June 7 at 1:37 amGreat question Emily. I had to give up the eBay store after I got established blogging. Couldn’t work both at the same time (two full-time jobs). Sorry!
Gina Stack says
July 15 at 10:17 pmI’ve been spending all day gathering info and posting bids for my daughter’s upcoming 8th birthday. She immediately dropped her SHOPKINS (I was personally shocked), LEGO SETS, princesses, everything else! She has a mini tablet for her games and she literally sent me, “I want some of the toys…LPS. and some new summer clothes!” Lol! Your article makes me feel better about my “wasted” day. I’m going to keep my eyes peeled if I see the rare ones. Someone had a TON of dogs for sale, grouped by breed. They were already pretty highly bid so I need to see if we could find ‘gold,’ and use the money we make from the valuable ones to fund her new LPS Life! Thank you! -Gina from Texas
Sarah Titus says
July 15 at 10:57 pmAbsolutely Gina…be sure to check Craigslist and local Facebook groups as well. Often times you can find treasures there. 🙂
Sandra says
September 13 at 10:40 pmI have a huge unopened collection I bought for the kids..but they didn’t want them…how can I tell they’re value so I can make the money I need for existence.
Audrey says
September 27 at 7:18 pmDid you know? The rarest ones, that you showed bring back so many memories! They are actually from an old YouTube show called ‘Lps popular” probably one of the most recognizable shows about LPS. Each episode almost got over 5,000,000 views. Those three are the main characters of the show! Please reply, I want to know your thoughts! Also, are magnet pets worth more than non? And are the pink more valuable than the blue/gray? And when do you think the market will drop? Kind of like when the beanie babies were worth so much and now they’re worth barely anything.
Sarah Titus says
September 28 at 7:17 amI do not believe the market for LPS will ever drop. It’s been going on for decades. That’s WHY those particular pets are popular and expensive: LPS Popular…very familiar. 🙂
Emma says
October 2 at 3:03 amHi Sarah!
I used to love lps when I was younger, but now that I am older I feel like some other people will appreciate them more. I have 287 animals, 8 of which are rare. I also have about 4 big houses and alot of small ones. I wonder how much I can sell the for. Is it possible for me to send some pictures to you so that you can tell me how much they worth?
Thank you!
shylee says
October 27 at 12:06 amI have a lot of LPs, and I’m wanting to know the price of each one.. Some have different eye symbols then others, so I’m confused on pricing them appropriately. If I could message you them or show you pics of them, could you help? I would love help lol.
Dulce alconedo says
November 5 at 6:49 pmHi my name is Dulce Alconedo. My daughter has became interested in LPS and I’ve been buying them. So far I have more than 200 little pets and looking to see their worth. Just if one day I do sell I know their worth! I just need help in getting to know them.
Jennifer says
November 15 at 10:56 pmThank You!
I am just getting ready to list my daughter’s collection of Littlest Pet Shop pets. I was going to do so in lots…but as I’ve noticed they tend to sell better separatly. This list of top sellers will be very useful.
I also have a ton of Monster High dolls that she also collected, over 300 dolls, and too soon outgrew….Now, I wanna just get all of this listed before Thanksgiving!!!
Thanks again,
Jennifer
Sarah Titus says
November 16 at 12:43 amAbsolutely Jennifer. It’s a perfect time to list with Christmas coming up! 🙂
Tiffany says
November 18 at 2:57 amHi Sarah, I had no idea that people were buying Littlest Pet Shops at such high prices. I have kept mine for a while, because I never had the heart to get rid of them, but I’m going to now. My only problem is one of my rare Littlest Pet Shops isn’t in perfect condition. I’m wondering how much I would sell it for since it looks used? Or should I try to make it look better, then sell, or just sell it with how it looks?
Debbie says
December 24 at 9:01 pmI have a bunch that my niece brought over for me to sell on Ebay for her. As I was looking through them I found 2 that have movable tongues and silver disks like magnets on the bottom. What are they? Thanks!
Casey says
January 31 at 10:18 amAll – I stumbled across this article looking for how to identify a lot of LPS that I bought. It will not be possible for Sarah to help personally identify every person’s collection (unless she charged for it 😉 )
1. Go to ebay – type in descriptors of the pet – “dog”, “blue” (for the eyes), “brown” (for the color), maybe even try “diamond” or “clover” for the shapes in the eyes. Then it’s a matching game, scroll through and look very closely at all the details until you find a match. I had over 70, and yes it was a tedious process, but it took me about 2 hours to identify them all.
2. Once you find out the number, use the search feature for that specifically “littlest pet shop #817”
3. In ebay there is a button or checkbox (depending if you’re on mobile or desktop) to click on the “sold” items. You can see there what each has sold for individually or as a lot. Use this to gauge how much to list your items for. You can use additional search features to see if the seller had those items as Buy It Now or as an auction.
4. Hopefully make lots of money selling! Good luck – use the resources available to you!
Thanks for the article Sarah!
Sarah Titus says
January 31 at 6:24 pmThank you for taking the time to describe the process Casey. <3 This is absolutely correct and the more you do it, the more you learn them over time. :) There are also a couple websites you can look them up on. You can find them here.