Fidget Spinner Most Popular Toy on Amazon

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Fidget Spinner Most Popular Toy on Amazon

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More evidence that the fidget spinner sales explosion has continued is the presence of several versions of the toy at the top of Amazon’s best-selling toys and games list. These toys have been marketed as stress relievers. However, the success of the product is apparently based on the fact that it is just fun.

Many of the fidget spinner products cost less than $10, and they come in a number of versions. According to Popular Mechanics:

At its core, a spinner is simple. It is, as you can likely guess, a little widget that spins. Usually the mechanism for this is a single bearing with a larger balanced structure that extends out around it. So, when you place the bearing on your finger, you can spin it freely—all balanced with help from the gyroscopic action. Of course if you want to keep things simple, just pinch the bearing and spin with ease. It keeps your hands busy, and it’s wonderful.

There are also lots of them because of its simple design, so there are spinners made of almost every metal in every shape you can imagine. You can also find some cheaper, plastic ones built with extra weights—often additional bearings—to help lend them some heft.

The leading sellers at Amazon include:

D-JOY Tri-Spinner Fidget Toy Hand Spinner Camouflage, Stress Reducer Relieve Anxiety and Boredom Camo which sells for $3.99 plus $1 shipping

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Also:

 AMILIFE EDC Fidget Spinner High Speed Stainless Steel Bearing ADHD Focus Anxiety Relief Toys which sells for $2.70

And finally:

ATESSON Fidget Spinner Toy Ultra Durable Stainless Steel Bearing High Speed 1-5 Min Spins Precision Metal Material Hand spinner EDC ADHD Focus Anxiety Stress Relief Boredom Killing Time Toys which sells for $4.45

If the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) best-selling toys and games list is a good measure, the fidget spinner market is still on fire.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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