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A box heralded as the latest from McDonald’s Georgie Pies will be auctioned for more than Trade Me and is already attracting four-figure bids.
Fans of the discontinued classic have been bidding for 42 frozen meat and cheese pies since Sunday.
With six more days to go, the listing had reached a leading bid of $ 1,520 on Monday night.
A McDonald’s spokesman said the cakes were selling for about $ 5.50 each, but each cake was worth at least $ 18.45 on the Trade Me listing.
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The cakes will be transported to a McDonald’s closest to the winner’s address for collection.
One bidder asked if the fries also came with the order, but McDonald’s said it was just the cakes.
The expiration date for the cakes was March 25, 2021.
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McDonald’s decided to eliminate the Georgie Pie in June of this year.
The fast food giant decided to phase out the pies in June due to a lack of demand.
McDonald’s relaunched the kiwi favorite seven years ago.
The auction money would go to Ronald McDonald House Charities, the McDonald’s spokesman said.
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McDonald’s last Georgie Pie box was worth more than $ 700 on Monday, with six days to go for the auction.
A Trade Me spokeswoman told me that earlier this year, a climbing jail on Big Mac’s playground sold for $ 2,260, having been viewed more than 38,420 times.
In February 2017, an auction featuring a Big Mac officer climber jail, Mayor McCheese’s roundabout and a Hamburglar double swing made national news.
Twizel camp manager Tony Ritchie paid $ 11,000 to win the TradeMe auction.
Georgie Pie first opened in 1977, the brainchild of Tom Ah Chee, who also opened New Zealand’s first supermarket in Otahuhu in 1958.
McDonald’s acquired several Georgie Pie restaurant sites when the business was closed by its owner in the mid-1990s.
