Found an interesting item for sale on ebay.
Who is the world would buy this?
Looks like something you would find in the trash.
Is there a market for these?
inhawaii
Posted 10 months ago · Edited 10 months ago·Last reply 10 months ago
57 comments
Who is the world would buy this?
Looks like something you would find in the trash.
Is there a market for these?
stephenmorgan
·10 months agohttps://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Kellogg%27s+Pop+Tarts&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_sop=16
https://www.ebay.com/sh/research?marketplace=EBAY-US&keywords=pop+tart&dayRange=1095&endDate=1763510721749&startDate=1668902721749&categoryId=0&offset=0&limit=50&sorting=-avgsalesprice&tabName=SOLD&tz=America%2FDenver
onlinecentral
·10 months agoThe smell of a Pop Tart toasting in a toaster is far better than the taste of the tart.
asset_liquidators
·10 months agoPeople will buy them but this one is priced way too high for the condition it is in.
gloryglorygifts
·10 months agoThat would have been in the recycling bin the moment it was emptied.
aeparts1
·10 months agoWho in the world would someone buy this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/336091645864?_skw=baseball+card&itmmeta=01KABXRYTZNYN859XM80B3F3CY&hash=item4e409f87a8:g:wpYAAeSwtjhohNwP&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eQF%2Byx3wjxDVgBuUbti2NodS0D2llRB5twNmpCncBCavMG4fXfHdNfKhvLVVZR008EOHEVU758UKYwRkbOYiDRGe%2BSWBtbd7Cqihlfw%2FySYD4wsBh%2BLtc9dtWeBqFhpR%2BfRmui0lauDE%2FSWgAnzVxxmlPgllbw3qOoYiGlSi9bE5PhSvCuZ3ww7nM9V6dmupleLiefl6ROOIm%2BAJn8nixjHlkeiAKniOq0j3VId42F7zwffsq019f2fx9UauFSe6U%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-zt4_3SZg
Cheap pieces of cardboard with a picture of people playing a game on it.
bennotbill
·10 months agoOld trash that many would throw out does seem to have some value.
I found some "trash" when I changed a carpet. Under the old lino was half a dozen girls comics from the sixties. I suppose due to being in the dark and dry they were in surprisingly good condition, and sold for a decent price.
Sadly most of my trash is trash and ends up at the tip.
I'm envious of those farmers that have a "spare" barn where all their old cars and other things are dumped/stored. Then you read in the papers that someone has opened the barn and told them just how much money their trash is now worth.
duffy4444
·10 months agoIn the early 90s, after the Iron Curtain fell, I was in Moscow (Russia, not Idaho). Finally wanting some American food, I went to their 3-level McDonalds, which was packed with Russian customers chowing down on anything but borscht. Seeing them as something more than novel, I saved the wrappers from a Quarter Pounder and Big Mac, just like the ones we have here, but with Cyrillic characters "Квартал Паундер и Биг Мак".
This was a few years before eBay even got its start. I should have kept them... who knows how much I could have listed them for... sigh...
Cheers, Duffy
steve_stuff
·10 months agoWe have listed lot's of weird, strange items that will never sell that wound up selling, including a 'food box'
Years ago sold a sealed box of 'seasoned tomato flavored jello' to jello - really general mills or foods, They won the auction [$183.00] and then sent us a photo of it in the display case.
mantle1951
·10 months agoThat's why Ebay is so great, this is a collectible to some people, can't find on Etsy or Amazon.
I have a couple of Burger King bags from the 1990s, maybe I will list one day LOL.
johnrj1226
·10 months agoPT Barnum famous tag line "There's A Sucker Is Born Every Minute"
On the brighter side, the seller has a 14 day return policy.
Never found a Pop Tart to be to my liking - even the frosted ones.
chapeau-noir
·10 months agoEspecially the frosted ones, for me. They work pretty well, though, for ultramarathon bike rides - have a few pre-toasted at the 120 mile mark - they pack easily and by then we're so hungry that we're ready to chew off our left arm.
fm2000
·10 months agoVintage packages are not "trash" and do sell, I have sold many vintage packages on eBay over the years for decent money. Some were even sold to prop houses for use in movies etc. It is often much cheaper to buy vintage packages like that on eBay, than to pay people in a studio art department to create fake packages for props.
The missing top and bottom flaps really hurt the item though. It might still be sellable, but probably for a small fraction of what they are asking. Someone might put it over an existing box to use it as a prop, or create a craft with/out of it.
adamcartwright
·10 months ago@inhawaii
That's vintage 1971 packaging/advertising.
Yes, there's a market for that stuff.
Do you know how many kids read that box during breakfast?
oldwestgold
·10 months agoWhen I first started on eBay 26 years ago, I saw a shoebox of dryer lint go for $36. WHAT?!?!? I later learned that birders use it for nests. Go figure.
Isn't it about time for someone to find a religious figure on a piece of toast? (No disrespect meant. Peace.)
adamcartwright
·10 months agoHuell Howser once profiled an artist who made really beautiful "paintings" out of dryer lint.
People sent it to her from all over the country.
Not sure about the safety of dryer lint for birds, given the chemicals in our detergents.
broto_64
·10 months agoHeck, people buy (and sell) Used $0 NO Value gift cards on ebay... We're not talking particularly uncommon brand ones either, just your everyday cards from stores that are still in business DANG!!! OMG!!! I should start selling my expired / NO Value gift cards omg I can be stupid!
(running sounds are heard going off in the distance)
the_fancy_fox
·10 months agoSometimes movie Studios buy the stuff or some real eclectic collector.
jdbelt1960
·10 months agoI think by clicking on your link other similar items is showing up on my sites. I just seen one with the buyer asking $249.99! WoW! Who knew Pop Tarts could be so valuable.
1786davycrockett
·10 months agoHmmm. . ..
With the increase in coffee prices, due to the new tariffs on imports front Brazil, I'm going to encourage my wife to stop tossing her used coffee grounds into the garbage.
It's still in the planning stage; but brace yourselves for my latest eBay listing -- "Coffee Grounds (Like New)."
I'll be a gazillionaire in no time.
chapeau-noir
·10 months agoThey make excellent compost. Gussie them up in various sized Country Lifestyle burlap bags and market that angle.
1786davycrockett
·10 months ago@chapeau-noir
"Gussie them up in various sized Country Lifestyle burlap bags and market that angle."
Or -- even better idea for the holidays! -- wrap them up in used Christmas wrapping before listing!
Solves two garbage issues simultaneously!
Oooo -- the possibilities are endless!
bubble_of_rubble
·10 months ago@1786davycrockett
Or make coffee body scrub from the used grinds, pop into a jar or vamped up plastic bag. My daughter uses coffee body scrub, and it costs a fortune! 😒
adamcartwright
·10 months ago@1786davycrockett
Many Starbucks locations give those coffee grounds away for free.
Mine always has a bin of them bagged up to take.
richard1rst
·10 months agoIn my previous life I might have - but not at $67+
I was a kitchen and bath remodeller. I had a showroom with several full sized kitchens, and some abbreviated kitchens, set up to display the workings of various design features.
It was common in the industry (and also at manufacture's trade shows) to take a pantry
cabinet (24" wide x 24" deep x 80" tall) with rotating shelves and load them up with empty food packages. It was a quick and easy IN YOUR FACE example of just how much you could put into just one of these cabinets. And how easy it was to find anything. But we never bought any empty packages. We would buy the food and then save the empty packages when we had eaten the last serving.
More to the point of your question - who are these people buying 163 similar from $1000.00 to $5.29 for similar types of items (but different supposedly "rarer" boxes.
carip17
·10 months agoAnd?
If he wants to sell it, let him.
That's his business, not yours.
inhawaii
OP10 months agoI just found it interesting and thought I would share.
Why so snippy?
chapeau-noir
·10 months agoMaybe they can find a sense of humour for sale on eBay.
@1786davycrockett Local coffee shops sometimes dump their coffee grounds into a box near the counter - take what you want for gardening. I live in an area of crazy gardeners and some people actually have small farms crammed onto their property, and they throw the grounds into those big black compost barrels. It's tough to drink enough coffee to generate large amounts of grounds...not that we don't try, given that we drink so much coffee that caffeine has been detected in our ground water.
christworks
·10 months agoThis is exactly the kind of stuff I love to pick up. My estate sales people laugh at me. Old product boxes, shopping bags from stores no longer in business, and other odd stuff like this definitely have a market. Sometimes it is collectors, sometimes it is set decorators/art department of production companies. The real thing is far better than them having to recreate it.
I don't want to leave out the hoarders. I often get to privately pick hoarder houses. I tell my connection that I am the middle man moving things from one hoarder to another. lol
ten_o_nine
·10 months agopickapaper
·10 months agoI don't know if it would be considered that weird but I remember years ago, someone in western Kansas sold tumbleweeds on eBay. Those big, round weeds you see rolling across the prairie in western movies. I think it started out as a joke and turned out to be a big money maker for the seller. Movie studios bought them and people bought them to decorate with.
toomuchstuffagain35
·10 months agoRe the kidney stone. I thought the normal practice in the US was that patients don't get to take 'pieces' home with them?
12345jamesstamps
·10 months agoSeller sold a lot of old boxes of cereal....and is making some good money.
Remember when you were selling gummy pickles and making some good money?
pickapaper
·10 months agoMany years ago, I collected a certain food product brand. I had the usual collectibles of that brand but I also had all kinds of unusual papergoods, empty vintage boxes, booklets, things that people normally threw away. Those were the things that were hard to find so I was always on the lookout for them. Estate sales were a good source to find things. More than once I was told "they almost threw that away but thought someone might be interested in it". And I bought a lot of weird stuff out of The Antique Trader newspaper. (You have to be old to remember what that is.)
That Pop Tart box may look like trash, but to a person who collects that type of thing, it could be just what they are looking for.
marnotom!
·10 months agoThe "similar" and "related" listings below the listing page seem to suggest so.
redstarrobot_vintage_toys
·10 months ago17 watchers too. WOW
toomuchstuffagain35
·10 months agoOf course the thing is, because they're MEANT to be discarded, few remain.
meme6253
·10 months agoI guess what they say is True, One man's trash is another man's treasure!!
powell-collectibles
·10 months agoI thought it was “one woman’s junk is another man’s treasure.â€
richard1rst
·10 months agoI thought it was “one woman’s junk is another woman’s man.â€
bashort
·10 months agoYes, there is a market for them, this one is priced high but it looks like they sell for $17 or so.
a_c_green
·10 months agoOh, heck, yes. It's already fifty years old. Ephemera collectors go for any everyday item from past years. There are a lot of cereal box collectors, for example, and this would be right up their alley. I don't know how that seller settled on a price of $67.50, but I think that may sell sooner or later (perhaps for a bit less).
Back when I was selling anything I could find at estate sales, I would always check out corners and crevices in the basement, and anywhere in workshops, looking for oddball discarded stuff, or things that got pushed to the back of storage shelves. Once I looked up overhead in a basement workshop and found a neat little lineup of empty 7-Up soda cans from... I forget now, maybe late 1950s or so, all with the same batch number. I got a nice price for them here on eBay.
sakic92710
·10 months agoHere is an answer to your question. 😛 1999 Kellogg's Pop Tarts Wild Magicburst Blue Raspberry Striped Empty Box | eBay
onlinecentral
·10 months agoKellogg's Blueberry Pop Tarts are in production today. The missing box flaps is a deal breaker for me. The listing displays IN 1 CART.
I will eventually list one of the most rare items ever offered for sale on eBay. A factory sealed package of Archway Pecan Ice Box cookies UPC: 027500020406 with an expiration date of December 22, 2008. This was purchased just after the Archway bankruptcy was announced. A few other flavors appear around Christmas manufactured under license by other bakery companies. Pecan Ice Box, my favorite, has never been available in past years.
inhawaii
OP10 months agoI know what I want for xmas...
www.ebay.com/itm/336232963306
44012
·10 months agoI hope I get you for Secret Santa.
doc-holmes
·10 months agoI miss Frankenberry. Do you guys still have it in the US?
ten_o_nine
·10 months agoThey have it, look at this bargain, I hope to have enough money next week to buy before someone steals it.
eoma689485
·10 months agodoc-holmes,
Yes, Frankenberry is still made, but is now a seasonal product only available around Halloween (September and October).
gwenscupboard
·10 months agoYes, we do still have Count Chocula, Frankenberry and BooBerry cereal here in the US.
It's only around for about a month at Halloween time.
mr.emk
·10 months agoNow that's even funnier than the Pop-Tarts box. Thanks for the laughs.
gator08041971
·10 months agoIts a 1970s pop-tart box. Copyright is the same year I was born. lol
Granted, its condition is pretty poor, but old boxes can be collectible.
44012
·10 months agoGreat for movie sets.....
duffy4444
·10 months ago@44012:
I agree. My 45-year career was in the Hollywood arena of film & video production. You'd be surprised how much producers and set designers will pay for authentic period props, even without flaps that can still be made and attached.
Cheers, Duffy
44012
·10 months ago@duffy4444
So interesting - a side note from food items, I have sold a lot of different items, frames, photos, and hair clips to places in NYC that deem a studio as an address over the year. I am not sure if they have been used for plays and such. Back to food products - it's like if they had to do a Seinfeld remake they would be looking for cereal boxes for over his sink in the cabinet.....😊
Unavailable member
·10 months agoI wouldn’t be nuts enough to pay $67 for something that may have been found in a land fill. Or a hoarders house.
tinsoldierunderground
·10 months agoI would have flattened that out for the recycle bin!
albertabrightalberta
·10 months agoI always wonder about why people buy trash! Sheesh, I'm selling (or trying to sell) the wrong items!