If you promptly bought a Loom Band kit, afterwards you heard that a dress fabricated out of the elastic bands had bids for £170,000 ($290,00!) on eBay, you aren’t the alone being who anticipation to get their DIY on. (I said I was activity to accomplish a brace of pants, but that never materialized) eBay has been inundated with Loom Band accouterment listings, with bodies acquisitive to accomplish abundant money to buy a abode off of a kit that amount $14.99 at Michael’s. There’s alike a Loom Band dick holder. For real.
For the non-crafters out there, Loom Bands are a DIY ability area you use a peg lath and atramentous elastic bands to actualize bracelets. Bodies are accepting added artistic and accept acclimatized the address to accomplish dresses, acme and added accessories.
If authoritative clothes out of a ability kit that was advised for 8-year-olds to accomplish accord bracelets out of, sounds like an accessible way to accomplish a quick buck, the Daily Mail is advertisement that the new Loom Band creations are affairs for abundant lower than the aboriginal wallet-busting $290,00 dress (which absolutely never awash because the acceptable applicant alone out). Knock a few zeros off, and you’re accepting afterpiece to the amount of what contempo auctions accept been affairs for.
Perhaps it was aloof the poor architecture that acquired some pieces to not get as aerial bids–or all of the affected buyers’ accounts accept been suspended. Take a attending at some of the designers currently for auction on eBay and adjudge whether any of them are account spending a division of a actor dollars on:
1. Rainbow Loom Band Bum Bag, $8.40, Bids: 0
This is absolutely a air-conditioned design…for a fanny pack. If it was a approved purse, I anticipate it would accept awash for more. Coachella is continued over and I don’t anticipate bodies are arcade for the 2015 summer festivals yet, alike if it is alone $10.
2. Loom Band Bells Dress, $233.21, Bids: 0
The description is absolutely authentic back it describes this declared bells dress as “original” and “unique.” The better botheration I accept with it is that there are no analogous white Loom Band underwear to abrasion with it–and the actuality it looks like my cat attacked the skirt.
3. Rainbow Loom Band Tie Belt Sash, Buy It Now: $500
I agnosticism anyone is activity to pay $500 for a “tie belt sash,” if they alleged it a “scarf” I anticipate that it would accept gotten a college price, but no one ties annihilation about their waist, alike if it is fabricated out of consciousness-expanding elastic bands.
4. Haute Couture Silver Loom Band Dress, $750, Bids: 0
If you’re apathetic of your body-con atramentous dress, and you’re attractive for article new to abrasion clubbing, how about this? I don’t anticipate that this dress can accurately be alleged “haute couture,” behindhand of whether it was fabricated by four accomplished kids and their mother. I wouldn’t say it is “silver” either…It is still absorbing because it looks like fabric, not elastic bands.
(Photos: eBay)
