When collecting dolls it's important to decide if you are collecting them solely for your own pleasure, or if you are trying to make an investment.

Surprisingly you might bo far better investing in dolls if you buy today's popular childrens dolls, as opposed to more expensive "collectors edition" dolls. What makes a doll, or anything, valulable is it's rarity. Most childerens' toys are badly abused and destroyed, though people take extra care of their "Collectors Edition" dolls. In 20 years there will still be thousands of collectors dolls in mint condition and very few of todays childeren's toys. When that time comes today's children will be adults, who long for the toys of their childhood. By this time those inexpensive toys in mint condition will be worth many times what was paid for them, and the collectors dolls will be essentially worthless.

Buying childeren's dolls at a toy store on clearence, then maintaining them in mint unopened condition might be the best investment you can make in dolls. You can get the dolls for very little money, and the clearance dolls have usually already been discontinued, which is the beginning of the rarity that will eventually drive the price of those dolls way, way up!