Well…there now appears to be a buyer willing to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars for that giant Illinois shaped corn flake on Ebay found by a Virginia girl in her box of Kellog’s Frosted Flakes. Two nights ago, there were ten bidders and the leader was at $56.00. Today, there are 31 people who are competing for the corn flake and the current winning bid is at a whopping $200,300.00. That’s “Two-Hundred-Thousand-and-Three-Hundred-Dollars.” Is this a joke? Let’s take another look at the goods because I really don’t get it:
Here it is. A corn flake, for crying out loud! I have a seller in the city who would be thrilled to get $200,300 for her condo listed in Lakeview. What about a college education? Could there possibly be a corn flake on the face of this earth as valuable? As economists weigh in daily on our so-called “Recession” and the Fed prepares today to slash interest rates, yet again. As the home forclosure rate escalates and the subprime market continues to ravage Wall Street’s biggest securities firms, WHO is prepared to pay $200,300.00 for a corn flake? It’s the million dollar question and I hope we’ll soon find out. There’s only one day, 22 hours and 1 minute left for bidding. If you want to see this for yourself, here’s the link on Ebay. Believe me, we’ll be watching.
Great Illinois Corn Flake Bid Surpasses $200,000.00
March 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Corn Flake Watch · In the News · Just For Fun
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1 Plant Oleum // Mar 18, 2008 at 3:54 pm
The person who is buying the corn flake is paying for more than just the corn flake. They are paying for the fame, attention and advertising that will come for that person or business that buys it. In other words, making money online has a lot to do with how many numbers of people can be attracted to you and your website so that advertisers can pay for advertising on it. It’s all about attracting the big numbers of people.
2 LizLuby // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for your comment, Plant Oleum. I like your name, by the way. I follow what you’re saying about the fame, attention and advertising that will come grom the “Great and Powerful Illinois Cornflake,” but I was wondering whether you think the exposure will really be that great, or that lasting. Do you think someone will make commercials about “The Great Illinois Corn Flake” or do you think someone will make a mascot out of “The Great Illinois Corn Flake?” It has my attention, for now, but sometimes that doesn’t last very long. By the way, I’m so curious. Would you please please please tell me…are you one of the highest bidders?
3 Plant Oleum // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Hi LizLuby. Thanks for your comment on my name “plantoleum”. I think that the person that gets “The Great Illinois Corn Flake” may be buying it because they figure that they may get more publicity out of it than by placing an ad on tv which could cost more. I am not the person buying it because I don’t have that much money at my disposal right now. However, I have at least come up with a new word “plantoleum”, but I haven’t seen the media knocking on my door or showing interest. LOL
4 Chris // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Personally I think people are purposely making fake bids. What little fame and attention you would receive from being stupid enough to pay a mere hundred - let alone two hundred thousand - dollars for a cornflake is not going to be worth it. I mean really, what does the bidder expect to happen? He/she’ll get attention but considering all the more important things going on in the United States, it will blow off quickly and they’ll be stuck with a corn flake that cost them a small fortune. Its just a corn flake for God’s sake! The only other explanation I have is someone feels really charitable and hopes the girls will use the money for college. Maybe all it took was a unique cornflake to spark random, copious generosity.
5 surf // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Inflation
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