Someone is Selling Yakult Straws on Carousell As a Vintage Collectible For Up To $1K (But is a Troll)

It’s early in the year 2019.

While early, I must say we’ve had some good collection of news that should stay with us for quite some time.

Surely, the Platinium Dogs Club saga would come to mind as one of the most noteworthy thus far.

There are still yet stories to be told as we await for justice to be served on this most unrepentant, downright evil, Balenciaga cap-toting Cruella.

The gecko-commingled IRVINS salted egg fish skin should still be on everyone’s lips too as we anticipate further response (if any) from IRVINS’ head honchos.

Yet all is not doom and gloom, we’ve had some news on the side of sunshine as Yakult announced and effected changes in their support to go green.

Just 2 weeks ago, yours truly shared that Yakult was going to remove straws from their products come early 2019.

The time has now come and gone, and these cute Yakult straws have now been consigned to the annuls of history.

Straws be back

Yet like Arnold Schwarzenegger, it now appears that these Yakult straws are back with a costly vengeance.

How so you ask?

Well, if you aren’t a stranger to Carousell, you should know that anything from secondhand toys to used bolsters to your grandmother’s dentures can be sold and indeed , have been bought on Carousell.

It is such a easy platform to use, with niceties traded all year round and 100% confirm plus chop smooth transactions that there’s a dedicated non-porn Tumblr page, Carouhell,  dedicated to it.

Little wonder these Yakult straws have now sprouted like the tau gays they resemble, on Carousell, with prices going as high as SGD$1,000.

Carousell/Vintage Collectibles/$0-$1000

You can always trust the lords of categorization on Carousell to classify Yakult- rightly I must add – under Vintage Collectibles.

The prices though, seem just a tad bit fishy.

However, let’s take a look at these carousellers’ description to see if their prices are indeed justified.

In other word, let’s pang them some chance.

Carouseller 1

Name: Zhaloysius

Asking Price: $1,000

Likes: 9

Justification: “Vintage Yakult Straw very rare only got one left in Singapore.”

Writer’s comment: No chance in hell this is the last straw. Redditor Scherzoheng shared that he dropped one at Hougang Block 708 yesterday. Don’t say I say one hor, but if you like a treasure hunt, by all means, go for it.

Carouseller 2

Name: gadgettygadgets

Asking Price: $199

Likes: 7

Justification:

“The popular everyday probiotic beverage, Yalkult (??? New brand???), were once packaged with straws. Today, they are nowhere to be found – succumbed to the growing trend of strawlessness.

$199 sounds silly now, but surely, this a collectable worth investing to share stories for generations to come.

5 straws – Brand new in packaging”

Writer’s comment: $199 sounds reasonable when compared to $1,000. Throw in bombastic words like “probiotic” and quotable quotes like ” succumbed to the growing trend of strawlessness,” you might have gotten yourself a deal gadgettygadgets.

Carouseller 3

Name: minilovestoshop.com

Asking Price: $0

Likes: 0

Justification: Name your price

Writer’s comments: The least aesthetic photo of the lot, minilovestoshop.com’s offer is the most interesting and and possibly legit one. While there is a missing ‘s’ in minilove(s)toshop, grammatical error aside, this person can turn out to be either a gangster or economics professor.

Gangster because as a detail/justification, he/she just states “name your price,” which sounds like fang ma guo lai.

Economics professor because this person clearly understand demand and supply alongside Price Mechanisms.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Jokes on you (all)

But but but.

It would seem that we’ve all got our panties in a bunch for nothing really.

The most clickbait-sh of the lot $1,000 offer is actually more than meets the eye.

If you’ve missed it at the first glace, here’s a smaller-for-a-larger picture crop for you.

Now click on “read more”

“This is a joke i used the straw alr”

Jokes on all who didn’t click on read more and got trolled.

You know who you are *winks*