Mountain Dew iTunes winner listed on eBay

[billpalmer]

One of the three known winning iTunes Mountain Dew bottles is for sale on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2787071418

:D

[virividox]

still a platic bottle :) hehe i wonder how much it will get

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by virividox
still a platic bottle :) hehe i wonder how much it will get

Exactly. Let's see how much fun we can have with it...

[Koodauw]

What is stopping someone from taking a winning cap and that yellow ring off of a Pepsi bottle, and putting it on the Mountain Dew bottle. All of a sudden you have a winning Mt. Dew Bottle. With no hint of anything iTunes on it, who would know?

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by Koodauw
What is stopping someone from taking a winning cap and that yellow ring off of a Pepsi bottle, and putting it on the Mountain Dew bottle. All of a sudden you have a winning Mt. Dew Bottle. With no hint of anything iTunes on it, who would know?

We can only hope that the Mac community in general would be more honest than that...:p

[Le Big Mac]

Originally posted by Koodauw
What is stopping someone from taking a winning cap and that yellow ring off of a Pepsi bottle, and putting it on the Mountain Dew bottle. All of a sudden you have a winning Mt. Dew Bottle. With no hint of anything iTunes on it, who would know?

Why would someone believe this to be collectible? So far as I can tell teh value goes from 99c to 0c as soon as the promotion is up.

[beefcake]

who really cares?

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by Le Big Mac
Why would someone believe this to be collectible? So far as I can tell teh value goes from 99c to 0c as soon as the promotion is up.

Beats the hell out of me.

But someone's already bid $9.95 on it... :p

[SilentPanda]

Originally posted by billpalmer
But someone's already bid $9.95 on it... :p

Please don't outbid me. :rolleyes:

[King Cobra]

Someone must really like their Avril to bid $9.95 on a yellow cap.

Plus, I think the cap value is more like a nickel or so, given that you pay for a bit of the plastic along with the hydrocarbons.

Or could be that the person hosting the auction doesn't like using an mp3 player to browse the internet.

Either way, someone outdid my bid. :p :p

[jeremy.king]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Someone must really like their Avril to bid $9.95 on a yellow cap.

I would think whoever bid on this wants it for the novelty and "rareness", assuming that it is authentic and that Mountain Dew wasn't supposed to have iTunes caps.

Think of it like an error baseball card or a misstamped coin like these (http://www.usmintquarters.com/coinerrors.htm)

I wish they'd put them on the Code Red bottles :(

[TEG]

The big attraction is just a screw-up at the bottling plant where they put an iCap on a Mountain Dew.

Also, to track where iCaps and iCups are, check out http://www.ipodgarage.com/

TEG

[virividox]

well i hope who ever wins it, places it on their mantle one day, then their mom or girlfriend or cleaning lady will throw it out into the trash thinking its just another empty bottle

[evil]

this has to be one of the most pathetic things ever.

[Engagebot]

Originally posted by evil
this has to be one of the most pathetic things ever.
agreed.

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by kingjr3
I would think whoever bid on this wants it for the novelty and "rareness", assuming that it is authentic and that Mountain Dew wasn't supposed to have iTunes caps.

Obviously. It's like a Buffalo Nickel with only three legs.

It's a collectible for its rareness, not for its redeemable value...

[el coyote]

this is nuts. Its just a bottle cap. Rare or not.

GULP

I cant believe that people GULP are going nuts about a bottlecap.

I am outraged at... hey, what's this!? My Mountain Dew is one of the winners!!

Who-hoo! Ebay here I come! C-Ya! I gotta log on to ebay before this gets too blown out....

Hmm, starting bid... $10. Buy it now for $50 and i'll throw in the bottle and free shipping!

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by el coyote
this is nuts. Its just a bottle cap. Rare or not.

GULP

I cant believe that people GULP are going nuts about a bottlecap.



Hey, the sucker's up to $11.45... :cool:

[King Cobra]

An 1831 half-ounce Hawaiian gold coin was put on eBay for $10,000,000. And, according to my meterstick, the coin and the cap don't have much of a physical size difference.

So, obviously, we have people bidding because they care about opportunity rather than money. It's a "weigh the facts" type of situation (and I hate using clichés). That's why we have careless people bidding on some of the most unusual eBay auctions. :rolleyes:

By the way, I put up an auction for the capacitor buried underneath one of my black keyboard option-keys.

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by King Cobra
An 1831 half-ounce Hawaiian gold coin was put on eBay for $10,000,000. And, according to my meterstick, the coin and the cap don't have much of a physical size difference.


So in other words, the Mountain Dew cap is worth $10,000,000?

It's up to $12:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2787071418

$9,999,988 to go...

[hobbes3113]

Originally posted by billpalmer
Hey, the sucker's up to $11.45... :cool:

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public. If I could only convince people that NYC dust will someday be a collectible, I'd be rich...
;)

[gwuMACaddict]

wow

lame doesn't even begin to describe

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by hobbes3113
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public.

Or the obsessive fanatiscism of collectors of Apple memorabilia...

[thecow]

Yeah I really want to pay $12 for a plastic bottle thats only really worth the ¢99 from the code under the cap.http://forums.macrumors.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by billpalmer
So in other words, the Mountain Dew cap is worth $10,000,000?

Here we have the result of what happens when one does not pay attention in College Writing class.

"So" is a transition that implies a result from a process, or a logical conclusion from facts. Most often, the transition "so" is used in an essay or debate to conclude an idea that derived from a logical step by step process, showing to what the idea amounts.

In my post, I mentioned two separate items of about the same physical size, but of extremes in prices. I'll admit, though, that I did leave out the detail that no one bid on the gold coin. "Therefore" (a transition that has similar properties to that of "so"), bidders are more than likely willing to spend money on cheaper items than on highly prices items, given that either item can be considered a "collectible."

(That explains what happens to me when I don't pay attention in College Writing class.)

Now we come down to the issue of the "so." I initially mentioned these two separate entities and their contrasting prices. "So"...people care about opportunity rather than money in a "weigh the facts" type of situation. "As a result" (another conclusion transition), the logical conclusion one can make from these particular entities is the one I stated.

billpalmer decided to look at only the ideas (in this case, the contrasting prices between the coin and cap), rather than how I intended to explain their meaning. He drew his own "conclusion," thinking that the cap had the same value as something of near equal physical size.

The lesson to be learned here is to look for key transitions and ideas, not just the ideas, that explain where the writer wants to take that idea.

(That explains what happend billpalmer when he didn't pay attention in College Writing class.)


In effect of this post, I wanted to correct the confusion between my coin to cap comparison post, and billpalmer's post about the value of the cap, and to show from simple mistakes how confusion with literacy can be averted slightly, as well as corrected.

Now, would you people focus on something other than a yellow Dew cap already? :p :eek: :eek:

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by hobbes3113
If I could only convince people that NYC dust will someday be a collectible, I'd be rich...
;)

New York City is worth over $40 billion. All you need now is a percentage figure, a way to pull New York City dust molecules out of the air and from underneath park benches, and a f***load of delivery trucks that can keep that dust attached to the outside of them for when the insides are full. :D

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by King Cobra
That explains what happend billpalmer when he didn't pay attention in College Writing class.


Well, let's see, I dropped out of college, so at least I have an excuse.

What's yours? :p

[Makosuke]

From the auction:

"This is perhaps the most famous Mountain Dew bottle in America."

Yep. Meaning that about 5 people care of it and maybe a few dozen have heard of it, as opposed to the zero and 1 figures for the average Mountain Dew bottle.

Assuiming it's even real, to want to pay $12 for that bottle, you'd have to either be stuipd enough to believe that it'll be worth something in a few years (when nobody will care, or even remember this promotion), or that they really, really want that Mountain Dew error because it means something to them personally.

If they're in the former category, they're idiots. If the latter... uh... glad they're not me, anyway.

Hey, I once found a box of mint chocolate chip ice cream with one giant chocolate chip in the middle (chip machine must've jammed), and a can of pork and beans with screws in it... should've eBayed them! I could've made millions!

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by Makosuke
Meaning that about 5 people care of it

Four of whom have already bid on it :cool:

[flyfish29]

Were the caps really on one litre bottles? I thought they would be limited to the regular 20 oz bottles or something like that...I smell a rat on this auction!

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by flyfish29
Were the caps really on one litre bottles? I thought they would be limited to the regular 20 oz bottles or something like that...I smell a rat on this auction!

You can read the whole story behind the Mountain Dew odyssey here (http://www.billpalmer.net/ipodgarage/ipod000032.html).

I can assure you that there are no rats involved here, biological or philosophical...

[virividox]

almost 12 dollars...hmmm still retarded in my opinion

its not like a coin or an inverted stamp. its a bottle

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by virividox
its not like a coin or an inverted stamp. its a bottle

Yeah, a bottle is not like a coin, which is know to be worth as much as twenty-five cents, depending on model. And stamps, hey, they've been known to be worth as much as thirty-seven cents! :p

[Lancetx]

Just is proof positive again that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Or more like what 5 million men would consider as trash is 5 men's treasure I guess in this case. :)

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by Lancetx
Just is proof positive again that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Or more like what 5 million men would consider as trash is 5 men's treasure I guess in this case. :)

Well, 6 men's treasure, now.

Scary stuff...

[hobbes3113]

Originally posted by billpalmer
Or the obsessive fanatiscism of collectors of Apple memorabilia...

So true. Makes me wonder how much someone would pay for my Mac Classic II...

[foofan]

It is worthless unless it is SEALED!

If it is unsealed, the cap could be from another bottle.

[hobbes3113]

Originally posted by King Cobra
New York City is worth over $40 billion. All you need now is a percentage figure, a way to pull New York City dust molecules out of the air and from underneath park benches :D

This is very easy. Get an apartment and open the window. Within ten minutes your whole place will be covered in 10" of crap. Now if I could only muscle in on a trucking business, I would be about a week away from millions...

[crazytom]

Originally posted by foofan
It is worthless unless it is SEALED!

If it is unsealed, the cap could be from another bottle.

Exactly! I could just as easily say: "I found the only iTunes winning cap on a Coke bottle!"

I find it funny that even at a bid of $12.45, that the reserve hasn't been met!

[kylos]

billpalmer, is this your bottle? I saw your name attached to an article about the md itunes bottles.

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by Kyle?
billpalmer, is this your bottle?

Yes it is. In addition, upon taking some advice from some people here, I set out to find a still-sealed bottle. Went back to the same store, asked clerk to let me look in the back, found two more iTunes-eligible bottles. This time I was smart enough not to uncap them. I'm keeping one, selling the other:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2787677283

Think this one's worthless, too?

[Engagebot]

problem: if you can go to the store and find several of them without a problem, chances are they're not so rare.

[billpalmer]

Originally posted by Engagebot
problem: if you can go to the store and find several of them without a problem, chances are they're not so rare.

If you think they're so commonplace, go ahead and scan the web and see if you can find reports of any others. :p