You go to a party and someone gifts you a hessian tote with a bottle of water, a tin of biscuits and a chocolate coin. So what?
Well, imagine that party was in fact the royal wedding, and said party bag was in fact an item so desirable you could flog it on Ebay and make enough money to take a year off work.
Interested? So were several of the 2,640 members of the public that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle invited to join in their wedding celebrations in the grounds of Windsor Castle on Saturday who are now flogging their commemorative gift bags on Ebay.
HR worker Claire Oliver, 31, has already sold her goody bag for £21,400, the Sun reports. In total, she received 80 bids, with one bid of £60,000 - it was later retracted, though - before it eventually sold.
Another lucky guest's goody bag has currently reached a selling price of £50,100 (at time of writing on Wednesday morning), with 102 bids and still four days left of the sale.
“I am selling my limited Goody bag for guests of Royal wedding of Meghan and Harry 19th May 2018,” writes seller “ChrisofWilliams” in the information section. “Don’t miss out on this limited once in a life time opportunity to have a piece of royal history.”
The simple hessian bags contain a commemorative chocolate coin, a Windsor Castle branded spring water bottle, a fridge magnet, a castle spectator badge, a tub of ‘handbag shortbread’ and a 20% off voucher for the Middle Ward gift shop in Windsor castle.
Over 40 other identical bags are now listed on the site, with bidding prices starting at £230 and ranging into the tens of thousands.
Among the non-VIPs invited to attend were 1,200 people who demonstrated strong leadership in their communities and were nominated to attend by nine regional Lord Lieutenant offices.
And clearly some of them are blessed with cut throat business acumen.
Can you blame them?
