Hostess Twinkies on eBay for $300 Plus!!!

Twinkies do have a long shelf life but you do know that's a myth that they will stay good forever right? Yeah sometimes products people love go away and people will pay big money for them. I remember a few years back some specific brand or style of tampon was discontued and people were paying $80 plus per box.

Looks like someone else will start making them again once they sell the product line

Who Killed Hostess Brands and Twinkies? - Forbes

why would anyone pay $900 for a product that will be inedible in about one year?

At least wine gets better with time. :p

I just looked. Someone is selling a box of 10 for $2.99. I think it's a be awhile before the $300 gets sold.

Boxes of 10 have bids of $20+

The generic ones taste the same.

-g

Unions today are only good for the lazy people that use them to keep their jobs. Today's business environment is much different than the 1970's. So much for thos4 18,000 employees allowing the Union to get them a better wage. Now they don't have a job!

Mike Hill, I find your comment about unions to be really out of place here and in bad taste. The word "Union" is just a broad word that covers many entities in the working place, and trying to paint them with a broad stroke is just ignorant.

Please understand that there are many hard working and ethical people across America and many of them DO partake in bargaining agreements as a group (often times called unions). This is often quite necessary to leverage against gigantic corporations, and for many other reasons that I won't get into now.

I thought the Union was supposed to lookout for workers not lose them their jobs?
Way to go, another 18500 added to the unemployed...

I also agree with Mike Hill. As someone who has worked alongside unions for many years, unions protect the lazy and dependent employee. Now when I say dependent I mean an employee that depends on some kind of substance to get through their day.

A good worker will go above and beyond what the average union worker will do and get fast tracked in pay raises and job duties. Unions in a lot of instances allow for above average pay for lower than average work and the workers under them get a big sense of entitlement when they shouldn't have it considering they're just workers.

The downfall of Hostess was extremely high union wages. When you're paying someone $15 - 20+ an hour plus benefits to poor performers due to the amount of time in the job and not related to their actual production; in most businesses you're going to lose money.

On the bright side I went to the Hostess store closest to me and everything is 50% off. I got tons of stuff for super cheap.

The lady at the register who is probably making a little over minimum wage (and not a union employee) was talking on the phone about how mad she was that Hostess said there was two weeks of work for her, but they are probably full of shit since everything is flying off the shelf and she can only see it lasting another day or two.

There were not many Hostess products on the shelf, only bread, none of their sweets (they do sell other products that are not Hostess brand). She said tomorrow more stuff is suppose to come in (in case you have a local Hostess store and want a good deal).

My dad used to work for Wonder Bread / Hostess back in the late 70's, and for my first job, I unloaded trucks for the guys when I was 14.

That was when I discovered the the day-old store. I still shop at it to this day.

I am going to miss the 50% off on sweets at our house.


p.s. for those of you worried about my shopping at the day-old store, I refer back to Benjamin Franklin, "A penny saved is a penny earned."

Yes, "Unions today are only good for the lazy people that use them to keep their jobs" I guess that's why when I worked as a tech in the entertainment industry, concerts (Metallica), and Hollywood movies, I often times only worked 12 to 18 hour days. And I guess I was being particularly lazy the times I pulled in 24 hours straight at work.

The kind of craftmanship, dedication, and safety considerations could only have been done with union workers. Believe me, I know from experience.

So do me a favor, if you dislike unions so much - then go hunt for your own Salmon in Alaska, go bury your own rubbish, and stop drinking beer - most of it it's union made. : )

I was wondering when this would start happening, it's amazing what people will do to hold onto an old favorite

Unions have there place. Not as much as in the past but some still do. Walmart employees need one, for example.

I have seen and lived through many plant closing because of unions but this isn't one. The union suggested they take the contract but at the same time... the board didn't cut their salary. In fact they have been getting raises during all of "this."

Its bad when executives keep making big checks, drive the company in the ground and then expect the people creating the product to sacrifice.

-g

I guess the supply and demand aspect is finally paying up to its name..lol

this is hilarious... btw, they are sill going to be sold here in Canada..

Yep! I went to Albertsons yesterday to get all my Thanksgiving stuff and thought I'd grab a box of ding dongs. A girl's gotta have her ding dongs (wait, that sounded wrong)...anyway - the shelves were picked clean except a little 2-pack, which I grabbed.

The lady said as soon as the store opened there was a lie of customers buying out all stock and whatever was in the back. Even the clerks grabbed them on their break.

Everyone here in Texas is wondering what the State Fair's fried Twinkie stand is going to do now.

I've always wondered what twinkies are? Can anyone tell me.

This is a PERFECT example of the scarcity technique at work. I bet when Robert Cialdini does his next update of Persuasion, the Hostess story will be a part of it.

All the best,
Michael

p.s. Probably best to stop discussing unions themselves, as it is a highly political issue.

The world has officially gone crazy!

I was at Walmart yesterday and saw a lady with 2 shopping carts of Hostess Products. Told me she was going to freeze them for her kids.

Someone will buy Hostess, we will not have to go without.

Someone start selling t-shirts (lol).

Looking at ebay at the moment I'm seeing auction after auction ending with $20-$30+ per box for Twinkies. 5 box lots selling for $105-$125. Crazy. Who knows what they will go for come next week.

I wish I had stocked up earlier this week at the Hostess store. About a month ago I had like 50 twinkies and a bunch of other stuff. I actually gave most of them away since I don't really eat them.

I went to the Hostess store again today and bought a ton of stuff. They didn't have any of their "iconic" stuff. They had a lot of cheap stuff though. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't completely sold out after today.

Anyone want to buy Hostess Frosted Flakes, Raisin Bran, or donuts? That's all I really got that is their brand everything else were other brands. They also made bread for Target under a different brand which tastes pretty good.

With their reach and sales I'm surprised that they couldn't make money.

The lady at the store today was saying she was a union employee and she said, "Today is bad I probably won't have a job after the next couple of days." I gave her my card and told her to give me a call, since I might be able to get her a job.

I'm one of the people that went and took carts full of them off of the shelves. I of course heard the "They are selling for $300 a box!" stuff too. I sold 446 single wrapped twinkies for $4.50 a piece after fees and shipping in 48 hours. Paid .25 each on average. Now I have the rest of my stuff like Zingers and Ho Hos listed up as 7 day auctions because I'm speculating that prices will raise for those things in the next 7 days.

Things like a box of Strawberry Cupcakes are going for $10 pre-fees with free shipping, so theres no money to be made there.

Ding Dongs just hit about $6 in value for a pack of two, pre-fees with free shipping.

Ho Hos about $6.50 pre-fees.

Cost is growing at about $0.80 per day for these single packs. At this rate, I'm hoping to sell a lot of these off for about $10 per pack. Worst case scenario is that they lose value and I eat them and get diabetes.

Yeah, been hearing about this non-stop. There's pretty much no way the products aren't going to be bought by someone else and still manufactured, so people really are pretty stupid.

But in the meantime, someone needs to make the Twinkie Ebay WSO.

You people can rattle about this all you want.

I know how to make them.........

If you are looking to profit from Twinkies you better sell them fast, seems that there is some hope the Union will work things out with executives via mediation.

And ofcourse everyone wants to work instead of being unemployed, yet there comes a time when we need to stand up and fight for a better life, and better working conditions without being taken advantage of. I think that's the reason why most of us are here on WF.

The Twinkie will be back within a good month or so, these people are dumb.. They were auctioning off the assets of the company, and they will keep the secret ingredient alive..

People are ridiculous. Not only that, the company is worth billions. They have 50+ bakeries and like 300 distribution centers. There is no way someone won't bid for the entire business.

The workers are dumb for thinking the CEO was bluffing when he told them to come off strike or else.. How can they complain in an economy like this? A dumb time to strike I would say.

That is hilarious. I heard a Mexican company might buy the rights to some of the Hostess products.

I agree with Sal. they werent the same twinkies we had as kids anyway. Eating one doesnt really bring back the ol lovin feelin. They kinda suck these days. I dont know what changed but they arent the same.

I also grew up eating those apple pies, until I realized just how toxic they were (along with every other Twinkie product). Not that I've cut down any less on calories, I just spread them out through out my day more.

What will the cops eat now