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Bidding on Charizard-shaped Cheeto — Cheetozard — reaches $2100 (www.polygon.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

The website charges a 22% buyer's premium fee?!? Then a $19 shipping fee with 0.9% insurance fee?!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Even if you have the money to burn... who looks at stuff like this and thinks 'I NEED to have that!'?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve been around nerds long enough to know some cards are more expensive than my house

But I also know that personally I’d be way more stoked to see a Charizard Cheeto in someone’s collection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So, how much did you bid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I need to eat it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

i wonder how easy it'd be to make this sort of thing. They say it's not fake, and i'll assume cheeto experts can tell, but...there are recipes for making fake cheeto powder out there. I wonder how much 'famous kind of food shaped like something' fraud there is going on. There are so many jesus shaped foods people try to sell on there.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/401845735096 though just lying about what you see is probably easiest.