In early 2011, spanning a time frame of approximately two months, eBay seller ‘nakedrabbits’ listed a large amount of Garbage Pail Kids on eBay. At any one time there are approximately 15-18,000 listed on eBay for the search term Garbage Pail Kids. To make his auctions stand out, nakedrabbits used a hot chick to model the items he put on eBay. In my opinion this guy was a marketing genius. Judge for yourself…
On eBay this nakedrabbits character has his location listed as ‘Behind the Zion Curtain, United States.’ In one of his auctions he listed a piece of Garbage Pail Kids Final Art and mentioned that it was framed by ‘Well Hung Framing‘ in Utah. I don’t know what kind of weird $hit is going on in Utah but I have no problem with it as long as this chick is involved.
I have no idea if the use of this model helped nakedrabbits get higher prices for his auctions but what I can tell you is I’m sure he got more watchers and page views. This OS1 Garbage Pail Kids full sheet sold for $1724.99; worth every penny in my opinion:
April 13th 2011 was a sad day for GPK collectors, nakedrabbits and America as a whole. All of nakedrabbits eBay auctions were pulled down for violating eBay’s terms of service. I know this because I had his auctions saved in ‘My eBay’ and I received notice when they were pulled. I would like to know who the loser was that decided to complain?
Luckily we have Google cache and I was able to locate the following pictures. Now we can save them here forever. Lest we forget nakedrabbits, a true pioneer in Garbage Pail Kids eBay marketing.
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