Caption: You can’t fault this Valentine’s Day gift for lack of creativity…
Did you receive an unusually shaped potato-based snack this Valentine’s day?
If so, then your ‘loving’ partner may have made you the lucky owner of the Quagmire-shaped crisp that took eBay by storm.
Initially the sweet chilli flavoured crisp that captured the infamously out of proportion chin received bids as little as 11 pence before hastily escalating into the tens of thousands of pound.
Joint-owners of the crisp Dominic Stapleton and Tom Littlemore, from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, discovered the crisp that emulated Quagmire from popular TV show Family Guy.
Having read a story earlier that day about a Homer Simpson shaped glob of glue that sold for £100,000 the pair raced to put their find onto eBay.
Within 24-hours bidders had pledged over £200,000 for their savoury snack that imitated Seth MacFarlane’s salacious lothario from fictional city Quahog.
When Tom saw the amount of money staked by people, he joked: “It was like all our Crispmasses had come at once.”
But a short tragedy befell them when eBay suspended Dominic’s account until he could send proof of his name, address and that he actually owned the crisp.
Unfortunately the temporary suspension resulted in them losing all bids they had previously gathered.
Having overcome the authentication process Dominic reposted the crisp on February 7th, setting a one-week window for people to outbid one another for the highly sought after crisp.
Meaning that bidding closed on Valentine’s Day and that somebody in the UK or outside could have received the crisp as a belated gift from their lover.
“It will probably be the most expensive crisp in the world,” Dominic added.
In a kind gesture the twosome have promised to donate 65% of the money they have made from the crisp to Cancer Research UK.
If you received this out of the ordinary gift for Valentine’s day contact: newsdeskrocks@gmail.com
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