Attack of the Clones
Further from below, I’ve just had a look around eBay: there are now hundreds of copycat Mystery items for sale, following on from the original Mystery Envelope.
Do a search for “mystery” in eBay’s totally bizarre category and you’ll find mystery boxes, envelopes and keys by the handful.
Stranger are the oddities: a mystery snack pudding box and a mystery safe. The safe supposedly contains sombody’s grandfather’s life savings (yeah right!). The minimum bid is $30,000 and the buy now price $750,000. Strangely, with only 2 days of the auction left, there have still been no bids.
As soon as somebody does something original, it seems the world wants to copy them. The thing is, after its been done once, its no longer original. Remember all the copycat air guitars and buckets of water that have appeared on eBay since their pioneering originals? Not funny anymore.
