I have in my possession the
100,000,000,000
Commemorating Crayola Crayon
(Be sure to checkout the "HOT OFF THE PRESS" section below)
From 1996 - This would be the perfect gift for a son, daughter,
grandchild, niece, nephew etc commemorating the year they were born!
Listen up folks! Don't miss out on your opportunity to win one of Ebay's most pathetic products ever sold, a crayon.
The news media is surely gonna pickup on this item and the world will
be watching. So don't let this slip away, get your bids in early!!!!
About the crayon:
"blue ribbon" is the color
(this color was only introduced with this promotion,
you can't find this color anywhere!
That in it's self should be worth the price of a bid!)
Made in the USA
Never been used.
Has the year listed: 1996
Has the number 100,000,000,000 on it.
What makes this crayon truely unique is the slight
flaw in it. The head of the crayon is slightly bubbled as it was
shipped this way. I am not quite sure how the manufacture let this one
slip by, but it's truely a collectors piece that can be passed down
from generation to generation.
Here are some important need to know facts about Crayola crayons:
101 colorful facts:
(I like 101 myself, it's worth checking out and reading!)
1. Crayola makes about 3 billion crayons a year.
2. That's about 12 million crayons every workday.
3. When the first box of Crayola crayons went
on sale in 1903, it had eight colors: black, brown, orange, violet,
blue, green, red and yellow.
4. The box cost a nickel.
5. Today, the same box includes the same eight colors.
6. It costs $1.25.
7. America's favorite Crayola color, chosen through an online poll, is (ta-da!) blue.
8. To the Cherokee Indians, blue represents failure.
9. It's worked out OK for the Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Blues and Columbus Blue Jackets.
10. Not to mention Carl Perkins, who wrote
"Blue Suede Shoes," or Fats Domino, who wrote "Blueberry Hill," and of
course, Elvis, who starred in Blue Hawaii and sang the title song.
11. Sixteen of America's 50 favorite crayon
colors - and six of its Top 10 - are shades of blue: blue, cerulean,
midnight blue, aquamarine, periwinkle, denim, blizzard blue,
cornflower, blue green, Pacific blue, indigo, sky blue, Navy blue,
robin egg blue, teal blue, blue bell.
12. Finishing 50th among 50: laser lemon.
13. Dreaming about the color yellow symbolizes a struggle to achieve.
14. The Brooklyn Dodgers experimented with a yellow baseball, "a stitched lemon," before returning to white.
15. To the human eye, black on yellow creates the strongest contrast. That's why the combination is used for traffic signs.
16. Crayola crayons come in 120 colors,
including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11
browns and 8 yellows.
17. From 1903 until 1943, when a machine was
invented to do the job, each and every label had to be rolled onto each
and every crayon by hand.
18. The glue on the label is made of cornstarch and water.
19. You can eat it if you want.
20. The name Crayola was coined by Alice
Binney, the wife of the company founder. She combined craie, French for
"chalk," and ola, short for oleaginous.
21. Oleaginous means "oily."
22. The average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his 10th birthday.
23. Those stubs are informally known as "Leftolas."
24. Luckily, the company sells a $24.99 toy,
the Crayola Crayon Maker, that melts down nubs and remolds them into
new, multicolored crayons.
25. Phoenix artist Douglas Mehrens uses more
crayons than anyone in the world, melting down about 24,000 a year to
make his abstract works.
26. Britney Spears' favorite crayon color is robin egg blue.
27. President Bush likes blue bell.
28. There are no crayons named after people.
29. At least two people, however, have the
first name Crayola: Crayola Walker, of Bellow Falls, Vt., and Crayola
Collins, of Pulaski County, Va.
30. Crayola crayon-maker Emerson Moser retired in 1990 after 37 years with the company, having molded 1.4 billion crayons.
31. Only then was it revealed that he's colorblind.
32. Fewer than one woman in a hundred is colorblind. Among men it's one out of 14.
33. Researchers at Yale University have
determined that the scent of crayons is the 18th-most-recognizable
smell among American adults.
34. They found that coffee was the most recognized smell, followed by peanut butter and Vicks VapoRub.
35. Researchers at Yale have too much time on their hands.
36. Crayola sold about $42 million worth of
crayons in the last year, not including sales at Wal-Mart stores. Its
closest competitor sold about $3.7 million.
37. It costs about a penny to make a crayon.
38. The company hardly ever changes the name
of a crayon once it's been introduced. That's happened only three times
in 100 years.
39. Most of the crayon names don't come from
children's suggestions, the rainbow, nature, or even company marketers.
They come from a federal Commerce Department manual entitled "Color:
Universal Language and Dictionary of Names."
40. Purple Heart is the only crayon named for
an American military medal. The award goes to soldiers who are wounded
or killed in battle.
41. Cleopatra loved the color purple.
42. So too the artist known as Prince.
43. Crayola executives point out: If all the
crayons made in a single year were laid end-to-end along the equator,
they would melt.
44. In the early 1900s, American Gothic
artist Grant Wood was among several aspiring talents who entered a
Crayola-sponsored coloring contest.
45. He won.
46. In 1952, Binney & Smith opened a manufacturing plant in the southern Kansas community of Winfield.
47. Winfield is ranked 56th among the 100
Best Small Towns in America, and hosts an annual music jamboree called
the Walnut Valley Festival.
48. Crayola closed its Winfield plant in the late 1990s.
49. The town still has the Walnut Valley Festival.
50. Kids ages 2 to 8 spend an average of 28 minutes a day coloring.
51. Dogs eat more crayons than children do. Or at least it seems that way.
52. People buy enough crayons each year to make a crayon 35 feet in diameter and taller than the Statue of Liberty.
53. The 64-color box of crayons, prized by children for its built-in sharpener, debuted in 1958.
54. What's believed to be the world's largest
crayon collection is owned by a retired Navy doctor, William Mahaffey
of Sandusky, Ohio. He has more than 725 colors, all cataloged by
manufacturer and hue.
55. He has never colored with any of them.
56. Crayola crayons come in boxes of 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96 and 120. The 24-crayon box is the best-seller.
57. Ninety-nine percent of Americans recognize the name Crayola.
58. The company also makes Silly Putty.
59. In 1958, Crayola changed the name of
Prussian Blue to Midnight Blue. The company says the switch was made at
the request of schoolteachers who felt their students had tired of
learning Germanic history.
60. We don't believe that for a minute.
61. We think that in the depths of the Cold War, Prussia sounded a bit too uncomfortably like Russia.
62. Silly Putty was invented during World War
II by a General Electric researcher named James Wright. He was trying
to make a synthetic rubber, because Japanese invasions of the Far East
had cut off supplies to the United States.
63. The consumer warning on the back of the modern Silly Putty package says, "Not intended for use as earplugs."
64. Don't use it for chewing gum, either.
65. In 1962, Crayola changed the name of flesh to peach, recognizing that people, like crayons, come in all different colors.
66. In 1969 the company opened a second plant
in Easton. It moved its headquarters there from New York City several
years later.
67. Boxer Larry Holmes was born and raised in Easton.
68. He still lives there.
69. The town is also home to a Pez Museum.
70. In 1980, Binney & Smith bought an Australia distributorship so it could sell its products Down Under.
71. Kangaroos outnumber people more than 2-1 in Australia.
72. A newborn kangaroo is the size of a honeybee.
73. Beeswax comes from the secretions of worker bees. It's great for making candles, so-so for making crayons.
74. Binney & Smith was bought by Hallmark Cards in 1984.
75. Americans send each other 1.2 billion birthday cards every year.
76. About half a billion are made by Hallmark.
77. People send more cards on Mother's Day than on Father's Day.
78. Crayola added neon carrot to its color lineup in 1990.
79. That same year, eight colors were
"retired" and replaced by new shades. The departed crayons were maize,
raw umber, lemon yellow, blue gray, orange yellow, orange red, green
blue and violet blue.
80. Shortly thereafter a group called RUMPS -
the Raw Umber and Maize Preservation Society - held protests outside
the corporate offices. So did the Society to Save Lemon Yellow.
81. The next year, Crayola offered those retired crayons for sale as part of a limited-edition collector's tin.
82. Delicious new colors added in 1993 included granny smith apple, asparagus, and macaroni and cheese.
83. More than 8,000 people showed up on opening day at the Crayola Factory in downtown Easton in 1996.
84. The Crayola Factory isn't really a factory.
85. It's a giant play-and-scribble attraction
for kids and their parents. Crayola makes its crayons at a plant just
outside the city.
86. The Crayola Factory, housed in an old
Orr's department store, may be the only place in America where children
are encouraged to write on the walls.
87. In 1996, Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood visited Crayola to officially produce the 100 billionth
crayon. The crayon, named blue ribbon, was inserted in a box and sold
to the public as part of a contest.
88. Mister Rogers' favorite color was lemon yellow.
89. The special blue ribbon crayon happened to be in a box purchased by Darlene Martin, a grandmother from Port Orchid, Wash.
90. She sold it back to the company for a $100,000 bond.
91. Feathery new crayons added in 1998 included pink flamingo and canary.
92. The total number of colors reached 120 that year.
93. In 1998 the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating Crayola crayons.
94. The walking, talking crayon that serves as an animated company spokesman has a name: Tip.
95. Indian red, a staple for four decades,
was renamed chestnut in 1999. The company was concerned that people
thought the name was supposed to represent the skin tone of American
Indians. Actually, the firm says, the name originated from a
reddish-brown pigment found near India.
96. In 2000, Silly Putty eggs from the early 1950s went on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
97. We think putting Silly Putty in the Smithsonian is a bit of a stretch.
98. "We are so much more than crayons," says company spokesperson Stacy Gabrielle.
99. Crayola sells stationery, watercolors,
drawing pads, gel pens, modeling putty, oil pastels and sidewalk chalk
shaped like small bunnies. It sells tints to brighten children's
bathwater. It sells scissors, glue, flashcards, play desks and doodle
pads, along with disposable cameras, computer mice, cassette players,
T-shirts, backpacks, rain hats, beach bags, denim shirts, wristwatches,
children's clothes, stuffed animals, bedding, baby goods and
eyeglasses.
100. It still makes most of its money selling markers, pencils and crayons.
101. Someone from Ebay paid the most ever for a single crayon!
You are not bidding on the 100 billionth
Crayola crayon. This crayon resides in the Crayola Hall of Fame in
Easton, Pennsylvania. Your are bidding on a 100 billionth, one of a
million ‘blue ribbon’ special that were made and sold in commemorative
boxes.
_________________________________________________________________________
*Phone numbers, email address and
names will be removed to protect the identity of the contact and
so that every fricking ebay person doesn't send email to them wanting
them to do a story on thier pathetic item, like mine - If I get
permission from my contacts, I will post real name and contact info,
very unlikely though*
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Q: I AM
THE MANAGING EDITOR FOR CHANNEL # NEWS IN DETROIT. I WOULD BE
INTERESTED IN DOING A STORY ON YOUR CRAYON. PLS CALL ME AT 313-222-XXXX
OR EMAIL ME AT somename@abcd.com
R: Hi.. Thanks for your interest. I will contact you at the number you provided. -SC
On Nov-15-05 at 09:31:54 PST, seller added the following information:I've
gotten a lot of inquiries about this item since posted. One thing I
didn't mention that I feel that I need to is that any $$$ from this
item will be donated! I haven't decided if it will goto a military
veterans group or my kids school district yet. It would be nice to be
able to donate to both groups if I can. -SC
________________________________________
I will be conducting a interview this afternoon on the radio with
Live 97.1 FM this afternoon (11/15) at approx 3:00 pm with the D&D
Show about the crayon. -SC
________________________________________
At approx. 11:30 am EST I did a phone interview with a local new
agency here in Michigan. They said they were wanting to run the story.
Once I find out the exact details I will post. The station here in
Detroit is WDIV Channel 4. It wasn't specified if this will be a on air
or internet story, so I guess we will just have to wait and see. -SC
On Nov-15-05 at 09:44:39 PST, seller added the following information:Email this site to someone.. will ya please? :)
By doing so, you can email this listing to your
friends and family to tell them about this pathetic Ebay listing and
you all can laugh for hours. It only take a real quick second to email
it.
On Nov-15-05 at 15:36:31 PST, seller added the following information:
AMAZING!!!!!!
That's all I can say.. WOW!!
I just want to give a public thanks to Deminski & Doyle from Live
97.1 Free FM in Detroit and the Detroit listeners for helping me get
this monster started. When I started the interview with these guys I
was at about a whole whooping .06 cents.. I was up to about a whole .30
cents when my interview was over. Then OMG, the next hour.. I was up to
over $500 then too $810 (yeah my hopes where up!!)
but as luck would have it, the high bidder retracted his bid and that
left me with the high bid of over $200 still. Not that I am complaining
of a bid at this amount, I am simply amazed at the generous people in
this world. Thanks for everyone's support!! I greatly appreciate it.
Although it's time to reflect and figure out what comes next, I've
learned a lot from today's exp. You all will just have to wait and see
what's next.. Until next time, thanks again.. -SC
On Nov-16-05 at 09:21:06 PST, seller added the following information:Just
Added
On Nov-16-05 at 17:58:17 PST, seller added the following information:It's all fun and games until someone loses a bid...
Thank you eBay support!!! I
had to contact eBay support about the following 3 users. Since I am
considering donating the money to sponsoring a improvished family, I
wanted to make sure all bids were legal and binding. I sent eBay a
email last night concerning these 3 users stating I believed
these 3 bidders were falsely bidding. As much as I wanted to
keep it up there that high, I didn't want the rug pulled from under me
at the end of the bidding.
Situation Resolved!!! Thanks again eBay!!!
swampytoadstool ( 6 ) |
Retracted: US $500.00
Explanation: Entered wrong amount |
Bid: Nov-15-05 12:40:25 PST
Retracted: Nov-16-05 13:33:49 PST |
walmartisshit ( 4 )  |
Retracted: US $851.00
Explanation: Entered wrong amount |
Bid: Nov-15-05 12:21:24 PST
Retracted: Nov-15-05 13:00:39 PST |
| sharff2005 ( 7 ) |
Retracted: US $250.00
Explanation: Entered wrong amount |
Bid: Nov-15-05 13:26:41 PST
Retracted: Nov-16-05 14:07:48 PST |
Donations Requested
For
all of the "I was gonna bid" but the bidding was too high, you can
still place a bid, well you can donate - it's just like bidding, just
think about it as getting out bided..
** For everyone who donates, you will be emailed a "certificate of appreciation" with this sites branding on it. **
You can use visa, mastercard or paypal to donate.
Please click on the button below to donate. Thanks for your support!! -SC
On Nov-18-05 at 08:28:25 PST, seller added the following information:
WATCHERS!!!
This site is currently on a whole lot of websites being tracked.
In addition too that, there are currently over 1000 people tracking this auction.
Snipers everywhere.....
It's
a pretty common practice for bidders to be sniped at that last min. buy
watchers. This happens when the bidding is about ready to end, but in
the remaining few mins and hours people start to aggressively bid to
get it for the cheapest price possible.
$$$$ BID NOW!! DON'T GET SNIPED!! $$$$
It
is also true that the bidder will not be out bid by a snipper if the
bidder places a reasonably high bid with a good max amount set. If the
bidding is good and high, then the sniper might feel that the bidder
has a high "MAX" bid and the sniper may not want to play that game
anymore, thus the bidder wins.
Auction Updated!! Item(s) added
Well
the entreneurship side of me is starting to come out with this auction.
As you can see, this site has great hits, mailing list, tracked by over
1000 people and LOTs
of attention. The winner of this auction get's the mailing list, the
crayon website (permanent crayon website of this site - just think
about all the traffic from this site going to the website, not to
mention all of the internet stories about this auction etc..) You will
permanently have a crayon site with all rights and responsibilities to
do with whatever you want, sell adds, affiliates, mailing lists for
other odd ebay items, there is no limit to what you can do.. heck, this
is eBay, you can maybe even auction the website on here too!! With the
amount of traffic it's getting..!! I am telling you folks, word is getting out
about this auction.. Trust me.. don't delay, I am getting about approx
5 - 10 emails a hour from people who are adding this auction to thier
websites and groups etc. In under 3 days, this site has had almost 2000
visitors. Even after 3 days (when this auction ends) people will still be lingering around looking for this site.. thus where the perminute page comes into play at your disposal.
About the website
http://ebcrayon.jove.prohosting.com/
Exactly everything you see here currently, minus the eBay branding.
Everything is free to maintain, manage and operate. Setting the site up and these applications didn't cost me a penny!!
Webhosting (where the website resides - no adds either!) - FREE
Hit Counter (let's you know how many visitors) - FREE
New Ebay forums (talk about any eBay issue you want) - FREE
Mailing list program (with users from this site who singed up to the newsletter) - FREE
I am trying to get the bidding up on this site, this is
why I am letting all of these go with the crayon. I'd like to get the
bidding as high as possible, for good reason!
I will tell everyone just like I told the person who
emailed me yesterday about ending the listing if they deposited $$ in
paypal. Please use this auction site to bid!! I will not end this auction early sorry!! -SC
On Nov-20-05 at 13:39:33 PST, seller added the following information:
The clock is
ticking folks! Get your bids in now before it's too late and this
auction goes down in history like this crayon!!!!!
This may be your last chance!! I've warned about the watchers..
If you think I am joking, just check out http://pulse.ebay.com/Other_W0QQsacatZ88433 (PULSE EBAY!)
This auction is currently, and has been the most watched item in the Everything -> Other section.
(Click on link above to see for yourself!)
This auction has been on EBAY PULSE pretty much since it started!!!
(For those who don't know, it's eBay's tracking application for searches and most watched items).
)
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