Sold! Cornflake goes for $1,350

[grazie7y]

Two sisters from Virginia sold this cornflake for $1,350 on eBay.

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP)  -- Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped cornflake on eBay Friday night for $1,350.

"We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "There's a lot of relief involved."

The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of a trivia Web site who wants to add the cornflake to a traveling museum.

"We're starting a collection of pop culture and Americana items," said Monty Kerr of Austin, Texas. "We thought this was a fantastic one." Video See another oddly shaped food item »

Kerr owns TriviaMania.com and said he will likely send someone to Virginia to pick up the flake by hand, so it won't be damaged.

This isn't the first cornflake that Kerr has tried to buy. He said he purchased a flake billed as the world's largest, but that by the time it was delivered it had crumbled into three pieces.

McIntire and her sister Emily, 15, listed the cornflake on eBay last week, but eBay canceled the auction, saying it violated the Web site's policy against selling food.

The sisters restarted their eBay auction, advertising a coupon redeemable for their cornflake instead of the cereal itself.

The McIntires said they'll likely use the money for a family vacation.

Copycat items have popped up on eBay, including cornflakes shaped like Hawaii and Virginia. There's also been a potato chip shaped like Florida, and Illinois cornflake paraphernalia, including T-shirts and buttons.

source:  cnn.com

[thegirlnextdoor]

Twisted flakes as Chicago has had enough of them already in one year!

I was thinkingit sold because of a particular athlete promoting it on their box was exstict?

[Lorenzo]

thats one expensive flake. sheesh!

[grazie7y]

That so ridiculously expensive Dong huh!

[Lorenzo]

Yes ma'am.

With that amount, a person can buy hundreds of boxes of corn flakes.

Ngek!

[grazie7y]

I know, Dong!  And to think real people actually buy those things in ebay!

OT:  who is that hot chick you are dancing with, Dong?

[Lorenzo]

Bitaw 'te, some of these people are just so loaded with cash. I wish they can send some to this poor college student, LOL.

OT: Amiga nako

[grazie7y]

Imagine they have thousands of dollar to buy a half eaten sandwich of Justin Timberlake!  Isn't that crazy? 

OT:  your amiga seems to be enjoying your dance, Dong!

[smiffytheninja]

o_O That's an expensive breakfast.

[Lorenzo]

1000 dollars can feed hundreds of starving Filipino children.

[grazie7y]

o_O That's an expensive breakfast.

Babe, it wasn't even a breakfast!  It was just a peace of cornflake that resembles like the coin! Crazy huh!

[grazie7y]

1000 dollars can feed hundreds of starving Filipino children.

Exactly, Dong!