Wilkins and Wontkins Muppets

MuppetsRule

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Came across this on e-Bay. These don't actually sell for this now days do they? Seems fishy to me.

e-Bay Wilkins and Wotkins

The listing is also a bit misleading. These aren't the actual real puppets used on the show. They are the puppets given as a premium with the coffee.

If this is real I may have to sell mine. I could use the ten grand.
 

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This sounds even more fake than those stories about old Disney VHSs selling for that much. Don't do it.
 

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Typically when I've seen them listed on eBay, they are in the $600-800 range as a pair. I lucked into Wilkins at an antique store in NJ for $25 about 10-15 years ago, and I lucked into a solitary Wontkins on eBay last month for about $100. So they are out there, and for considerably less than $10,000!
 

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I agree. There is currently a pair on e-Bay for around $800. Not sure why this one sold for so much. The listing does seem deceptive as if it is the original puppets by listing the patents and all.
 

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I don't think they sold for that much. The seller "relisted the same or similar" using the same picture. Then that one didn't sell. I think the original sale is likely fraudulent (multiple accounts, working with partners to promote a higher price). Just my instinct, though.
 

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How recently did you acquire them and for how much? I recently saw them on an episode of Pawn Stars.
Honestly it's been so long I don't remember how much I paid for them. I'm sure it wasn't more than a couple hundred though. There is currently a set on e-Bay that last I checked had 2 bids going for $899
 

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I wish I had Wilkins and Wontkins. They're my other favorite Muppets besides Kermit. I don't really have any puppets except for these Ernie and Bert hand puppets from the 70s my mom had when she was a kid, that I don't know the whereabouts of right now.
 
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