Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Bootleg Gates Gifts
What better way to say I [Heart] NY and I [Heart] You to that special someone on the day after Valentine's Day than with the gift of bootlegged material from the installation of The Gates?
Because it's New York, there are plenty of sellers. (This is the city, remember, where a couple decades ago people were ripping apart the Brooklyn Bridge and selling the pieces off as scrap metal.) And because its official policy is not to know the definition of "gray market," eBay is the place to buy.
For your shopping convenience, From the Floor has cherry picked some of the better items from the 100+ listings available.
Because it's New York, there are plenty of sellers. (This is the city, remember, where a couple decades ago people were ripping apart the Brooklyn Bridge and selling the pieces off as scrap metal.) And because its official policy is not to know the definition of "gray market," eBay is the place to buy.
For your shopping convenience, From the Floor has cherry picked some of the better items from the 100+ listings available. - An unfurling tube, starting bid $1,200.00 (That's the idiot with his $1200 piece of illicit cardboard at right.)
- A self-locking nut and bolt with a bonus swatch of fabric, starting bid $500.00 (Price set, I would guess, by someone with a couple screws loose.)
- A tarp cocoon, starting bid $499.00 (For the college fund, no doubt.)
- A "rare" safety cone, starting bid $29.95 (One of only 30,000 used on the project.)
- A package of ten fabric swatches, starting bid $0.01 plus $12.00 shipping ("I received all the swatches yesterday from the volunteers in Central Park. A limited number of swatches are being distributed during the 16-day run, and none are being sold by Christo. They can only be obtained from volunteers in the Park." Or from some greedy eBay dork like this.)
