There are many bizarre items that sell often on eBay regularly. One that I come across frequently is empty cans of Coca-Cola. It’s one of the absolutely strangest phenemenoa I’ve ever come across. Actually, there are a lot of people who love to collect Coke stuff. It’s bizarre.

Why would an empty can of Coke have value? It might look cool or interesting I suppose, but really? A can of Coke?

Once in a while I see them as part of what seems to be a mystery auction. Those auctions are where people are bidding on some kind of secret gift inside a box or something, but they don’t know what it is. A few “empty can of diet coke” auctions I’ve seen have that same bizarre appeal. I don’t get it at all.

I guess people’s unbridald love of Coke and owning a slice of true Americana is enough to drive them to buy, but there just seems to be something weird about buying what amounts to advertising materials. Making yourself or your house into a billboard is just odd, especially if you’re proud of it.

Oh well, at least people aren’t throwing them away to rot in a landfill, so that’s something right?