No surprise, there’s a considerably large array of Wheaties boxes available for purchase on eBay. No surprise, most of them feature the athletes some of us remember from our youth or kids’ youth – to be featured on a Wheaties box has been quite the accolade in popular sports for some time. Each listing has a colorful, hopefully price-point-justifiable, story to tell. For example, an unopened encased box signed by Celtics Red Auerbach, Larry Bird, John Havlicek, Bob Cousy, Jojo White and KC Jones. Over 30 NBA titles combined, asking price $999. Question is: is there cereal in there?
For the more skeptical collectors amongst us, here’s something more guaranteed whole-grain free. And at the price of just four dollars a box…
For $10 K, you’ll receive a set of Wheaties boxes that includes 325 1993 Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl XXVIII championship editions, 125 Michael Jordan’s Comeback boxes, and 105 of those Auerbach, Bird, Hondo, etc. boxes, just to name 555 of the 2,750.
According to the listing, all the boxes are from the General Mills plant in Buffalo, NY, where the seller, ernest_orlando, went to college. Ernest says he bought them off plant employees, who were each given three boxes each time a new box was issued. So unlike what could potentially be molding inside other commemorative Wheaties memorabilia, these factory-flat boxes he guarantees have never come in contact with any sort of dietary fiber.
