Monstertool on Ebay

[Monstertool]

i've never actually sold anything on e-bay in my life till tonite. i just kinda wanted to share this with everyone because i think its kinda funny. it just goes to show that even the strangest or most rediculous items can be worth a lot to some people.
a couple of weeks ago i was just kinda surfing the internet and i ran across the burger king website, and they were selling these goofy masks of the burger king King, for like 9 dollars, well after shipping was added in the total came to almost 20 dollars. so i kinda debated for a while on if i should get one or not, so i decided what the hell, and i got one. i mean i like the burger king King i think he's kinda cool, in a creepy strange sorta way, and a good role model for children too. so anyways, a couple of days ago my mom calls me and tells me i got a package in the mail. i have packages and things that i order go to my mom's house since i don't have a real mail box where i live. and she asked me what was inside and i told her it was a burger king mask, and she went on to scold me and told me i shouldn't be wasting my money on stupid things. well that night i was on e-bay and i decided to do a search for "burger King masks" just to see if people were selling them on there. and my jaw dropped because they were going for like a hundred bucks each on e-bay. so of course i'd take a hundred bucks over my burger king mask anyday. so i put my Burger king mask on there to see how mcuh it would get me once it sold, so check out how much i got for this thing http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6571524606

Edit: apparently the price got so high because burger king had made only 10,000 of the things and sold out of them on their website, so the only place left to find the masks were on e-bay

[Jungle Pickle]

LOL. Is the BK a rare cultural icon now worth 100+ dollars? It's not like his commercials don't air every day in America...

[vinylrake]

Hey JP - long time no keel! Drop by sometime soon so the rest of the guys can finally see some dead green body parts for a change.

MT - that is too funny about the BK mask. I wonder how much I can get for my rare cultural icon tchotkes like my packs of unopened Bill & Ted cards, or my Pee Wee Herman action figure on his scooter...?

(update: just did a search and found the PeeWee for 9.99, and the cards with no bids (though they are opened). Damn, I obviously like the _wrong_ cultural icons.)

Speaking of cultural icons, is it wrong that I find myself mildly attracted to females who dress like Ronald McDonald?

[also when I was writing this I remembered the weirdest fast food adI have ever seen - that's it's BK related is extra on-topic]

[Monstertool]

guess everyone wants to be the King this haloween, i mean if the mask wasn't so valuable, i would have kept it myself, i think it would have been funny wearing something liek that and going into a burger king and having breakfast. and it would be good to have for people who want to wear it to scare their small children or their spouse. or to be in a bed wtih the member of the same sex, and when they wake up hand them a really big greasy artery clogging stacked burger king breakfast sandwich. and stand outside peoples windows just like the real King. not that i'd do that though, because i wouldn't wanna be arrested and go to jail.

oh by the way VR haha amazing how different Mcdonalds comercials are in japan than here, i can't ever immagine mcdonalds using a comercial like that over there to sell grease burgers. here they're just so dumb and family oriented and boring they sure don't grab my attention, the japanese comercial got my attention though.

[Jungle Pickle]

I always liked how in that BK commercial they had the Asian building the road in the Old West setting.

And yeah, about Japanese commercials - they're way more entertaining and to-the-point than American ones. Whenever I watch them I not only know what the product is, but they also don't bore me or try too hard to be meaningful or any crap like that.

I think the only time I've been confused about the meaning of a Japanese commercial was in an advertisement for what I think was a camera, and they had what I assume must be some tennis icon (I don't follow tennis, but she was in a tennis outfit with a racket and wasn't Japanese) saying nothing but "Double OK" in a seductive voice. I think it had something to do with the camera having different modes/functions and it being "double OK" for them all, but I really don't know for sure.

[Baak]

Very nice MT!!

What did your Mom say after you sold it for that much?

Yeah, ads in America have been spiraling downward for a long time. Says something about our culture in general. We actually gave up TV completely (put our Satellite on vacation hold) for the past six months and haven't missed anything. We taped the stuff we did watch so we could ff through any ads. I caught this statistic back in January 2004 that reflected what we noticed (though many of our younger audience would be unaware of):

Nearly a Third of Primetime Is Now Ad Time

A recent study by PhaseOne Communications has determined that every three hours of primetime programming includes 52 minutes of commercials and promotions, up from an average of 28.5 minutes in the 1980s and 38 minutes in the 1990s. PhaseOne's Terry Villines told the online edition of TV Guide Thursday that the current figure is 8 percent higher than it was four years ago. "We thought back then that networks had reached the breaking point," he said.

We gave up when we started noticing they were *cutting* programs to fit in more ads as well as overlapping the stuff you were watching with those idiotic little banner ads constantly advertising something else to watch later. It's like a server constantly talking to you about other food on the menu while you're trying to eat - incredibly rude.

It's always enlightening to see things from other countries and cultures - very interesting to look back at ours from "the outside".

Congratulations again MT - nice work!

[Two Saks]

We gave up when we started noticing they were *cutting* programs to fit in more ads as well as overlapping the stuff you were watching with those idiotic little banner ads constantly advertising something else to watch later.

Heh - I used to have it all boob tube wise - amd I mean everything - and the last (going one) four years I only have a TV for DVDs. Miss nothing as well, but admit...when I do get in front of a TV with full choice of programming I am like starving amaciated survivor stumbling onto a bowl full of cheetos. I feast like a fool.

[vinylrake]

I actually watch more TV than I would like to admit, but in my defense I tape it and watch it later in compressed time.

Watching 3 hour long shows in about 2 hours makes me feel like I am cheating time - like I am living in matrix-bullet time. I really feel much better about the hours I am wasting when I am wasting time more efficiently.

Now if I can just get my other VCR drive hooked up and get the full screen horizontal split screen on my TV working so I can watch two shows at once I will be ecstatic. I wonder if I need to categorize my shows into left-brain, right-brain type shows?

[Monstertool]

speaking of TV haha, i have one very small TV, i use mine for my playstation 2, and watching DVD's, the only regular TV stuff i watch is sometimes football on sundays and monday nights. you're right about TV being worse because of the commercials. all the cooperate advertising does take away from the TV viewing experience. i try not to get too mad about it because in a way the tv programming is there in the first place because of the commercials. even though there are more now than ever. One thing that really makes my blood boil though is when i pay $8 dollars for a movie ticket and go to the movies and have to sit through a bunch of commercials before the movie starts. It makes me mad because 8 dollars is a good chunk of money. and the 8 dollars pays for ME to see the movie, the advertizers aren't paying for me to see the movie. the theatre is pocketing that extra money, and making going to the movies a much less fun experience.

[vinylrake]

I hear ya MT. The ads before movies s00k, almost as much as the ads _in_ movies (e.g. product placement).

You can see first run movies for $8? Wow, they are $9.25+ up here - which explains why I don't see many first run movies. There's still one $1.99 movie theatre in the state, though it's a bit of a drive. What I really need is a 8' rear-projection television. Ok, that AND a room large enough to put it in.