$150 bid for Little Garden
A Trade Me auction for the complete range of New World’s Little Garden seedling kits has attracted more than $150 in bids.
New World’s latest promotion gives customers a seedling kit for every $40 spent in store and one Trade Me member put all 24 kits up for auction on September 22.
The listing has attracted more than 90 bids, taking the value of the items to $153 on Wednesday. In the listing, the seller said they had won the set.
Trade Me spokesman Logan Mudge said there were often a lot of listings each time a supermarket launched a new collectables range. He said that there had been about 8000 searches for the kits since the promotion started this month. The highest price a supermarket collectables kit has sold for on Trade Me was $715 for a New World Little Kitchen set.
Spokeswoman for Foodstuffs Antoinette Laird said there was no need for people to be buying Little Garden sets when they could get them free with their shopping. One of the kits, containing petunia seedlings, went on sale on Monday for $1 to raise funds for Starship Hospital. She said the seedlings were an opportunity for gardeners of all levels and aspirations to get growing their own vegetables and herbs. For young kids, it was a fun and easy way to start, for experienced gardeners it was a chance to play with plants they may have not worked with before.