Ebay Update & Who Profits?

45,486 Active Zhu Zhu Pet auctions on ebay!

But here is the sick part 255,805 have SOLD since August 30th. Now I'm going to base an average price of $35.00 to that number and the estimated total sales would be $8,953,175.00

I bet Ebay is loving this, lets say each auction costed the buyer $0.35 to list the item and lets say the average price of each item sold was $35.00 that would be a total of $2.89 in fees just to ebay (NOT INCLUDING PAYPAL FEE's), now times that by 255,805 which are the completed auctions and EBAY gets $739,276.45 just off people selling Zhu Zhu's on Ebay. I'm sure that number is low but I think we all get the picture.

You can almost see why most retailers that carry Zhu Zhu pets have increased the prices.

I'm sure Cephia is doing well these days but I would love to hear the comments from the CEO of Cephia on what he thinks of these numbers.

Lets say Cephia's cost on these hamsters is $2.99 (give or take) and they sell them to retailers like Walmart for $4.99 that would mean based off of Ebay;s completed auction numbers Cephia would have sold only $764,856 for the 255,805 auctions. That is almost equal to the amount of fee's collected by Ebay. Big difference in those 255,805 auctions from gross sales of $764,856 to almost $9 Million in sales. Don't get me wrong, who knows if Cephia purposely limited these to retailers, which I think they didn't because like most US business's times are tough and if the product wasn't going to sell before the holidays would it make sense to carry a large inventory of them?

The point of this story is that yes some people made some money selling Zhu Zhu's on Ebay but at the end of the day the true winner was EBAY and the craze is not even over.

I have received a ton of hits from this blog and all I'm trying to accomplish is one thing, a damn Zhu Zhu pet for my kids. The story has gone from a Dad trying to get a Christmas gift, to seeing the Greed of people profiting from the hamster sales, to learning that Ebay made more $$$ off 255k of zhu zhu items than Cephia.

I'm still on a mission here and I will accomplish this before Christmas, if not my kids will read this post later in life and they will understand all the crap I have gone through and why I wasn't able to get one.

Exposed Illinois Ebay Sellers Part 2

I can only imagine if Ebay had an option to select the past 6 months when selecting completed auctions what the total number of Zhu Zhu pets these people actually SOLD!


fearbobafett - Huntley, IL has 15 items for sale and sold 28 hamsters and accessories
dee11gkids - Sleepy Hollow, IL sold 19 hamsters and accessories
niecies - Crystal Lake, IL sold 9 hamsters and accessories
lzmom_of_twins - Lake Zurich, IL sold 11 hamsters and accessories
mrmandms - Carpentersville, IL has 2 for sale and sold 19 hamsters and accessories
rach.ael -Cary, IL has sold 7 hamsters and accessories
larson799 - Barrington, IL has sold 7 hamsters and accessories
sleepyhollowtreaures09l - Huntley, IL has 9 for sale and sold 5 hamsters and accessories
jman134 - Crystal Lake, IL has sold 13 hamsters and accessories


UPDATE on previous abusers (looks like they scored some more)
bdmat - Lake Zurich, IL has 4 for sale and sold 38 hamsters & accessories
justinmh711 - Cary, IL has 7 for sale and sold 74 hamsters and accessories

Toys R US 7am sale - NO Zhu Zhu for ME

Wow, I got to Toys R US this morning around 6:30, i took one look at the line and said forget it. TRU was letting the first 50 reward members get Zhu Zhu's and after I counted the people in line there was easily about 100 of them.

I'm still on the hunt.. thanks to the kind person that left a message about the Zhu Zhu's at Shopko.com.. I thought I scored because I added one to my cart and by the time I went to checkout it was out of stock..

This whole experience has been crazy and I'm yet to give in....stay tuned for my updates.

Ebay Update

Ebay looks like it is slowing down some, there is ONLY 38,844 auctions for Zhu Zhu's.

By far the auction below has to top the cake.

Ebay item # 170415041340
Starting Bid: $5,999.00
BIN: $50,000.00

The "ULTIMATE Zhu Zhu Pet Package"!
Have 10 Zhu Zhu Pets and a Zhu Zhu Car/Garage...
HAND DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN USA BY SANTA ON CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!!


5 "Pipsqueak" Yellow Zhu Zhu Pets
2 "Mr. Squiggles" Brown Zhu Zhu Pets
2 "Chunk" White Zhu Zhu Pets
1 "NumNums" Grey Zhu Zhu Pet
1 Zhu Zhu Pet Car/Garage

What better way to say Merry Christmas than to have Santa Claus himself HAND DELIVER the "Ultimate Zhu Zhu Pet Package" to your home on Christmas Morning?!?! Just tell us when and where anywhere in the United States! (*Alaska excluded) Santa will come to your doorstep with his bag full of Zhu Zhu pets for your family!

$2,000 down payment. Remainder must be paid before delivery. Please feel free to message me with any questions you may have! Have a Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Ho!

Target in Crystal Lake, IL

I hit this store first thing this morning when they opened and when I pulled in parking lot 20 minutes before they opened I noticed one woman standing outside waiting to get in. So I waited until 2 minutes before the store opened and I stood out front. Now when I got to the door the woman looked me up and down and we didn't speak to each other but we both new what each other was doing there, ZHU ZHU's...

The door opened and I have to say I have seen a 40 year old woman run so fast in my entire life, I couldn't believe it, so I said shit I have to catch up.. So I got to the Toy isle and she was already there and NO Zhu Zhu's. The look on her face was priceless because she had this smile on her face like.. HA HA I bet you to the Toy isle.. Way to go Babe!!!

So I left Target and I hit Walmart in Crystal Lake, IL. Funny thing here was I was right behind the woman from Target so was going there to... No luck as usually nothing.. notta.. zip.

I'm still on the Hunt and I will try again tomorrow.

Toys R US 3pm sale - Crystal Lake, IL

So I thought I had a chance today, I got to my local Toys R US in Crystal Lake, IL around 2pm for the sale to start at 3pm. The line was out the door, I stood in line and then an employee came around and was counting all the people, because they where selling to the first 100 families (more like the first 100 people) I saw people with children get like 7 Zhu Zhu's, well anyway I wasn't in the first 100 hundred so NO luck for me today.

Funny thing though is that they had accessories and the first 20 people bought all of them. They where selling 1 of each accessory per person, so people where just buying the whole set.

I must say the characters in line where with out a doubt Ebay resellers, Now I probably look like that as well because there was alot of 40+ year old men standing in line but the main difference is that I'm actually looking to get one for my children. I couldn't tell you how many times I heard people in line say there where going to sell them on Ebay for $50.00... the whole thing just made me sick.

Will Santa be able to deliver Zhu Zhu pets in time for Xmas?

Stay tuned... to find out.



Do you know someone that is having a bad year and is looking for a Zhu Zhu pet that lives in the Northwest Suburbs of Illinois? If so please contact me as I plan on offering (if I can ever get one) a free Zhu Zhu pet to someone that is in need of it this year for Christmas.