Last year I paid $10 for a bag of crap and got a 4 point powerboard and a 24pack of Twix bars. Not bad.
Very very fun and exciting opening it infront of my workmates to see what I had bought.
What did you get in your bag of crap or "mystery box"?
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I am a guy and I got a pair of gel girls shoes in my 1 day bag of crap. Some things are mens and some are womans, and some are both. Would be good to have a differential. Though a lucky dip is a lucky dip.
Being a sucker for mystery I got the free deal off day sale last week, and there it was, sitting mysteriously packaged on my doorstep this morning, what would it be… it was like pass the parcel, several layers and excitement rising… and revealed was… a battery powered fan! And I have to say I kinda like it! Thats got to be a first for any of my mystery bags! Hooray for day sale!
It’ll fit nicely in our mini size campervan. Now waiting on my 3 deals batteries to arrive so I can check out if it actually works!
haha nice to hear a success story for a change Claudine, thanks for sharing
My two mystery deals came today from daysale, and were also alright – An egg separator (great for making meringues!) and a “smooth legs” hair removal system which my girlfriend had wanted me to buy anyway!
Don’t make the same mistake I did Michael and try it on your own legs. I jammed one of those machines on my leg hair and had to rip it off taking huge chunks of hair. Very painful.
But boy oh boy that 5cm square patch sure was smooth! (but bleeding) 
avoid the nasal trimmer, you may end up in hospital
‘black friday mystery deal’ was a LOAD OF CRAP!
i know it was still a mystery deal but they made out it would atleast be something with a teeeny bit of use
I got a pair of XL womens underwear. whats the likelyhood of that being of any use.I cant even give them away.
I give up on mystery deals!
I know what you mean – got a book which doesnt interest me at all – not worth the money I paid.
I got an eggseperator from the 1day mystery last week.
From the black friday one I got a Spiderman Bag and a loreal mascara – I don’t need ethier but deffo worth at least 20 bucks.. might put up on trade me. But I guess you win some lose some and thats the fun – at least you have more chance of getting something usefull from these lucky dips than winning lotto.
That’s a darn good point Jasmin!
Really disapointed in the mystery deals… I got the fan which looks as though it would strugle to be worth enough to see in a dollar shop. Not ‘worth at least the cost of the shipping’ like they said. Won’t watse my money on that again
Who was that from Caroline?
Is that the promise they made you? “worth at least the cost of shipping”?
My school teacher paid $5 for a one day sale mystery deal and he got a phone valued at $349…
niiiiiiice!
I also got a ‘worth at least the cost of the shipping’ mystery deal. Shipping was $9 and the item was a daily quiz calendar. Probably worth $12 brand new but it was a 2010 calender. In September. Take a dollar off for each month that has passed – now worth $3.50 – not ‘worth at least the cost of the shipping’. Basically paid $9 for about 300 true or false quiz questions. Won’t be buying there again.
ah yes, the good old calendar trick
Clay,
The price is on theback $26.99, with 4 months left, $8.99 plus the added quiz value if you join in the Facebook Fact or Crap game on our facebook page. You could win some great prizes. – Daysale
lmao! if only there was a like button on this id be using it on pretty much all the comments;)
Good idea, I shall install that today. Thanks Misbah!
Done!
I just love how sheldon is there with a laugh/tease to all these stories
he he
BUT – i wanna know – where are YOUR funny lucky dip stories!?
come on sheldon, GET INVOLVED…… or is your will power too strong to
“give into the temptation of the lucky dip?”….hmmmmm!???
I’m too scared of getting a giant bean bag that requires $100 worth of polystyrene beads to fill!
Haha Sheldon.. I have just been reading these comments and I did get a giant beanbag and yep, I did spend quite a bit of money on the ugly little beans to fill the thing. The daughter is happy after I vaccumed up the escapee beans.
I can imagine that was a challenge in itself Jane. Once they get a static electricity running through them it would be like trying to herd cats.
well, I was surfing Catchoftheday.com last night and I have been sucked into buying one of these mystery boxes. Then thought, hmm i’ll have a look and see what other people got…. oh dear! this should be very interesting. like the rest of you im sat waiting for my i phone, stereo, lcd tv to arrive
I suspect i may be dissapointed lol
I got an egg separator and some headphone organisers (3 pieces of plastic crap that you wind the headphone cord around on daysale C>R>A>P! worth at least the price of postage they said…. haha! yeah maybe someone,somewhere, ripped someone off and sold those for $8.99!!!
AN MP4 TV PLAYER SWEET
Yeah? Good score Neil!
yeah a bargain mst of been the 10,000th buyer or something
Very pleased for you Neil.
However I am one of the multitude that won’t try THAT again.
At least with Lotto you know the odds are 3.2 million to one, so there is no place for false optimism…
I got a mascara from 1-day mystery box … wasn’t woth what I paid and the shipping. Waste of money. Sounded like you could a really good deal. As it was it was just getting rid of crap they couldn’t sell. Disappointing.
Along the same lines as Mystery Boxes & Bags of Crap, a guy called Paul Hunkin has created http://www.mysterybox.co.nz/ which uses a bot he created that will find you $5/$10/$20 bargains from TradeMe. You don’t know what you’ll get until it turns up!
I got some random stickers to stick on a wall. Not worth the money I paid. Wont do this again. last time I got a slicer thingy with a chopping board… also useless.
Mystery deals your crap
got the same thing, don’t have kids or painted walls complete waste of money. Thought they would go for something generic at least.
I got a running shirt which was high quality and worth more than i paid for it. Very happy, though was size 8 womens top so if i was larger or a guy would not have fitted me.
Just adding my 2 cents worth (about the value of my Mystery Deal from 3deals) LOL.
Any way got a nose hair/sideburn trimmer and a $2 shop purse for the deal that stated ‘worth at least $25′.
Now I don’t mind a gambel but to misrepresent the potential value, is I think pretty poor sales technique. I wasn’t expecting the LCD or Playstation etc etc that they tell you you might get, but hey … be honest in your valustion.
So I learnt my lesson learnt, won’t be dealing with this outfit again.
Good luck future Mystery Buyers.
Dear oh dear, thanks for sharing your story Mark
I got a $1 mystery deal where I got some sparkler candles, a hemp like fabric wallet thing, a metal hip flask and 2 circular metal things that I’m yet to find out what they are- maybe napkin holders? So not bad for $1 plus $9.99 postage
haha wow, that is quite a score Heather!
So I saw the other reply that guy made about his not showing up and that made me remember I had actually bought 2 mystery deals in the space of 2 days one from firstly from onedollar.co.nz and then from freedeals.co.nz. The one that I got that stuff from was actually freedeals.co.nz which makes it an even better deal at $8.95 including postage
… And the one from onedollar.co.nz hasn’t turned up yet and I have a sinking feeling it won’t…
My bag of crap never arrived and I still had to pay for shipping!! What a joke!
750g of vietnamese chupa chups
450g of brazillian lollipops
and a kg of m&ms
Not bad at all
haha, I’d be very happy with that haul myself!
I got a swizz ball in the random $11 bag of crap 1-day march 2011
Got my bag of crap yesterday a chicks pack( 60 chupa chups, for sale only in Vietnam and they expire 3 April 2011!!! and, I wretched from the preservative that came out of the barrel) and a blokes pack (4 rechargeable AA batterties, can’t even read it because it’s not in the national language of NZ!!). Of course, everyone at work wanted to know about it, and yes it was CRAP!! This has been my second year of disappointment, definitely won’t be going there again.
Chose ‘chic’ $11 box of crap and received 2 large bags of asian copy type lollipops & m & m’s. Cannot believe any chic would be thrilled to receive lollies. Surely they should be in the general category. Not at all impressed even though I knew it was just a bit of fun.
Gotta laugh at you ‘bag o crap’ buyers! You buy a box of crap and when it turns up and it’s crap – not happy????? It’s crap! Buy it for the laugh and excitement.
Got a “Made in France” perfume which smells of toilet cleaner and I would guess doesn’t actually come from anywhere near France.
I did the 10 items $10 mystery bag at Free Deals and I’ve never been so disappointed. I got 7 mini (awful!) clown candles, a beat up old calculator, a glass thing that floats on water and a photoframe that was broken.
I absolutely got ripped off – and how they can claim 7 clown candles are 7 different items amazes me.
I have stopped shopping here and discontinued all communications and subscriptions. Avoid at all costs.
Bought two bags of crap.
I just know overall I got fake tan, a kg of (really really gross) smarty things, and… can’t remember…. something else crap I think. Nothing of use. Wasted money
lol that was fast- dint even realise it was possible haha- anytime email me if you want to hire me;) lol
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