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UPDATE: Since purchasing these cheetos, the Donald has been elected and with his inadvertently making cheetos worth a ton of money, Helen has offered up the snack dinosaurs again on E-Bay for $500,000. Anyone interested, please go to E-bay to find the information. Just search for Donald Trump snacks known as the Trump-ets. Good luck.
Helen Crumples is almost $500 richer today after accepting the highest bid on eBay for her "dinosaur" cheese puff collection.
Helen Crumples is almost $500 richer today after accepting the highest bid on eBay for her "dinosaur" cheese puff collection.
The set of five Chester's Puffcorn snacks, which look
amazingly like miniature brontosauruses, were discovered by Helen while tidying
up her son, Seth's room.
"I've joked a number of times that looking for
anything in Seth's room is like going on an archaeological dig. Little did I
know that I wasn't too far off the mark," said an elated Crumples.
Since accepting the offer on eBay, Crumples has bought
several more bags of the cheesy snack, and has discovered that most of the puffs
resemble either dinosaurs or swans.
"The jig is up, I guess," said Crumples
unapologetically.
"I sure hate to break the news to the poor woman who
bought my collection. She was such a nice old lady and so excited to have been
the highest bidder. I just hope she doesn't think I swindled her."
Crumples did some checking and could find nothing in the
eBay rules and regulations that says if a seller realizes the item they are
selling is not as listed or not worth nearly what was bid, the seller has any
obligation to refund a buyer's money.
Helen says she does feel a bit bad about the whole thing,
though. In order to make it up to the buyer, Helen is sending a $25 gift
certificate to the kindly old woman from Hobby Lobby.
Helen is hoping the woman, who claims to be an artist, might
use the gift card to buy some fake palm trees and shrubs to make a nice diorama
in which to show off the unique, or not so unique, puffs, which after realizing
her mistake, are actually now only worth the $2.00 or so price of a bag of
Chester's Puffcorn.
