Sisters sell Illinois-shaped corn flake
on eBay to TriviaMania.com
CHICAGO -- Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. "We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "There's a lot of relief involved."
The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of the trivia Web site TriviaMania.com who wants to add the corn flake to a traveling museum.
"We're starting a collection of pop culture and Americana items," said a representative from TriviaMania.com. "We thought this was a fantastic one." The corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois will join Jack Ruby's hat and Marilyn Monroe's datebook in the exhibit.
This isn't the first corn flake that TriviaMania.com has tried to buy. A flake billed as the world's largest was purchased, but by the time it was delivered it had crumbled into three pieces.
"That's the most perfectly Illinois-shaped corn flake I've ever seen,” said TriviaMania.com spokesperson Jon Wolf as he accepted the flake.
McIntire and her sister Emily, 15, listed the corn flake on eBay last week, but eBay canceled the auction saying it violated the Web site's food policy. The sisters restarted their Ebay auction, advertising a coupon redeemable for their corn flake, instead of the cereal itself. The McIntires said they'll likely use the money for a family vacation.
Copycat items have popped up on eBay, including corn flakes shaped like Hawaii and Virginia. There's also been a potato chip shaped like Florida, and Illinois corn flake paraphernalia, including T-shirts and buttons.
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