Trade Me shows its most unwanted Christmas gifts of all time

Monday, 24 December 2018

Four days out from Christmas and Christchurch City Mission food bank is under pressure to feed the needy.

Half-eaten biscuits, a lump of coal and a red Toyota convertible that no one wanted, are some of the country's best rejected Christmas presents people have tried to resell.

Trade Me's compilation of the best unwanted gifts of all time also includes a $100 note an engineer called Robbie from Ashburton didn't want in 2015. It was the most viewed listing that year, with 268,000 views.

Trade Me spokesperson Millie Silvester said Boxing Day was a big day for the website with hundreds of thousands of Kiwis selling gifts that didn't quite hit the mark.

Most Kiwis unwrap between one and three unwanted gifts each Christmas. Here are the all time best present fails listed on Trade Me.

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Broken biscuits

According to the listing, the money raised from the auction of coal went towards paying a divorce lawyer.

A packet of broken, half-eaten and expired Sampler biscuits titled 'The Worst Christmas Present Ever?' took out the top spot, fetching 180,000 views in 2014 before selling for $554.

The $100 note

In 2015, Robbie's $100 note he didn't want, was the second 'best' unwanted gift of all-time.

A lump of coal

Someone else's Christmas card also made it on to Trade Me.

Last year a woman in Darfield made it on the naughty list, receiving a lump of coal from her husband.

This unwanted beetroot was sold for $122.

Silvester said, according to the listing, the money she raised from the auction went towards paying a divorce lawyer.

The red convertible

In 2011 a Nelson man decided to surprise his wife with a red Toyota convertible on Christmas morning, but she rejected the gift, saying it was too fast and too low to the ground.

And up it went on the resell market.

Christmas ham

An Auckland man sold a 4.5kg Christmas ham just because he didn't like ham.

Someone else's Christmas card

A Cantabrian auctioned off someone else's Christmas card.

Unwanted beetroot

An unwanted beetroot from Taranaki received almost 30,000 views and raised $122 for the local food bank last Christmas.

Rounding off the top 10 unwanted gifts were an unwanted Christmas dinner, ugly cheese knives from a mother-in-law and a half assembled garden-greenhouse.

If you've bought these gifts, beware, Trade Me reckons these will be the unwanted gifts this year

- Fitbits

- Michelle Obama's book Becoming

- Food (possibly expired)

- Bum bags

- Crappy portable speakers

- Popsockets for your phone