COST’s Newspaper Box Sells for Over $4,000
After just 14 bids, someone on eBay sold, what appears to be, the COST customized newspaper box for Showpaper that was purposefully stolen off of Second Avenue about two weeks ago. And did so for $4,200. Wow! Strangely, the seller installed some cheapy IKEA lamp in it and claims to have “purchased this item” from someone else.
Even more remarkable, whoever bought it, will have to pay for shipping from north Hollywood, California, that’s where it’s currently located according to the listing.
by Bucky Turco on December 6, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
So if it's a stolen Picasso, they send Interpol after you. If it's stolen street art, even Ebay is okay with moving illegally-gotten goods on it's website… Nice.
It's not illegally gotten if it wasn't legal to leave it in the street to begin with.
i like the NET one
seems like one way to tell who's who…..if yours ain't took………..
Like the Village Voice and other freebies, I assumed Showpaper put those boxes out legally. Is that not the case?
a box with swear words by a graffiti artist that raised hell in the 1990s for nyc im glad this is off the streets.
@BRT
Did you just compare Cost to Picasso? Hah! I mean, don’t get me wrong I love what Cost and Revs have done and grew up with his stuff saturating NYC but…NO!
the racks are not in compliance with the gloomberg "law" anyway…
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/sidewalks/newsra… http://www.thevillager.com/villager_29/attack.htm… http://www.nypress.com/article-7936-rack-attack-w…
If I was COST. Which I am not. I would have my homies steal the shit out of it….and Ebay it.
!Awesome, I like your post