Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
Great news.. Santa brought Zhu Zhu Pets!!
The journey has come to an end or has it just started!!!!
Picture and more info to come.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
1400 Visitors - THANK YOU
I have had 1400 unique visitors for the months of Nov/Dec and I would like to thank you for taking the time to read about my experience trying to obtain these little pests. There have been some haters and there have been some really nice people that have tried to help me out. Thanks goes out to the ones that deserve it.
The moral of this whole story is crazy and nuts, now it is Dec 23 and still no Zhu Zhu's for my daughter. I'm waking up tomorrow morning early and I will be out until the stores close to try and accomplish, like the Chicago Blackhawks say "ONE GOAL", instead mine is a little different "ONE HAMSTER"
The moral of this whole story is crazy and nuts, now it is Dec 23 and still no Zhu Zhu's for my daughter. I'm waking up tomorrow morning early and I will be out until the stores close to try and accomplish, like the Chicago Blackhawks say "ONE GOAL", instead mine is a little different "ONE HAMSTER"
Ebay's Bubble has bursted
Looks like in the past 10 days the bubble on Ebay bursted, you can know pick these guys up at cost of course it is too late for me to pick one up on ebay and have it shipped on time..
Ebay Auctions for Zhu Zhu Pets 8,905
It looks like the new 4 are going for a couple of bucks over cost but looking at the completed auctions know one has been buying the original 4 for anything over cost.
I hope these sellers our stuck with these, yes they made there money but there are going to have a hard time trying to dump these hamsters. Look for these resellers in stores after Christmas returning them...Just give them eye contact and laugh :)
Ebay Auctions for Zhu Zhu Pets 8,905
It looks like the new 4 are going for a couple of bucks over cost but looking at the completed auctions know one has been buying the original 4 for anything over cost.
I hope these sellers our stuck with these, yes they made there money but there are going to have a hard time trying to dump these hamsters. Look for these resellers in stores after Christmas returning them...Just give them eye contact and laugh :)
One more day for the hunt
Well I want to thank the kind people that offered up Zhu Zhu's to me, I have been sick and haven't been online lately. Nice time of the year to be sick. Well no Zhu Zhu's as of yet, I tried this morning at Walmart and there was way too many people in line. I'm going tomorrow to Walmart & Toys R US in a last ditch effort.
On Saturday I went to a flea market and I was surprised with all the vendors selling Zhu ZHu's.. they wanted $35 a piece for them.. People where eating it up. Amazing!!!!
Stay tuned because I will get one tomorrow I can feel it...
Wish me luck!
On Saturday I went to a flea market and I was surprised with all the vendors selling Zhu ZHu's.. they wanted $35 a piece for them.. People where eating it up. Amazing!!!!
Stay tuned because I will get one tomorrow I can feel it...
Wish me luck!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Pre Order new Zhu Zhu pets
I just got a link from a buddy of mine about the new color zhu zhu pets that are in the stores now. I'm sure there are a couple of sites out there doing this but I just came across one that is offering Pre-Order for the colors at $14.99 each but they will not be shipped until January. It doesn't really help me out as I need them for XMAS but I thought for those that aren't resellers if you post a comment on my blog I can send you the link , I would post it on here but I don't want it to get in the wrong hands.
CVS Pharmacy - Cary, IL
I had a tip that they where going to be getting these Zhu Zhu's in any day so I went into the store today and talked to the nice lady there. They aren't getting any and it has been so bad she told me that they get over 50 phone calls a day asking about Zhu Zhu's. The funny thing is there is a Big note on the front door stating that they are sorry but they will not be getting in any Zhu Zhu pets.. I will try to take a picture of it tomorrow with my camera.
If today was like the great depression I really think I would have a better chance of finding a loaf of bread and a can soup instead of finding a Zhu Zhu... wait a minute we aren't that far off.
If today was like the great depression I really think I would have a better chance of finding a loaf of bread and a can soup instead of finding a Zhu Zhu... wait a minute we aren't that far off.
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.
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.
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