Mountain Dew iTunes winner listed on eBay

[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.

 

[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?

 

[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

 

[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.

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!

 

[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...

 

[LucasLand]

Don't buy unless it is sealed!

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

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]

Re: Don't buy unless it is sealed!

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.