The Flake is Back

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As I was browsing looking for some kind of arthritis product to ease my aching joints (thanks so much to whoever is in charge of all the rain here in Southeastern Ohio) I saw that the frosted flake auction had been canceled.

Well, for a while anyway.

Seems that eBay had an issue with the flake because it’s a food product and that violates the site’s TOS.

“Something really dramatic just happened with our corn flake,” Melissa McIntire, 23, of Chesapeake, Va., said Tuesday, explaining that the sisters received an e-mail from eBay saying the state-shaped cereal was in violation of the site’s food policy.

Luckily for all of us, the auction was put back up and the sisters from Virginia, who took notice of such an interesting flake were able to continue their bid to fill the lives of flake collectors everywhere.

But the flake is back. The sisters say the Land of Lincoln twin they discovered in a box of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes is still available after all.

McIntire and her 15-year-old sister Emily said they’ve relisted the flake on eBay, but this time they’re auctioning a coupon redeemable for it, instead of the cereal itself. Bidding early Wednesday was at $116.11.

Copycat items have popped up on eBay, including corn flakes shaped like Hawaii and Virginia. There’s also a potato chip shaped like Florida, and Illinois corn flake paraphernalia, including T-shirts and buttons.

The bad part wasn’t that the auction was pulled and then replaced. The bad part is that anyone would want to buy such an idiotic thing. And for that much money? Really? I wonder if it’s not Jay Leno’s people trying to procure it for that segment they sometimes do about strange things found on eBay.

And why are there copycat auctions? Is anyone really interested in a potato chip (crisp, for those on the other side of the pond) that’s shaped like Florida? Unfortunately, it looks like they really are. I wonder how much my chewed gum, in the shape of Shamu the Whale, would get.

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