Mike Lindell Auction Flops

[Voluntarist]

Mike Lindell Auction Flops As Multiple MyPillow Products Fail To Sell

he online auction of over 800 items by MyPillow, the company owned by Donald Trump supporter Mike Lindell, appears to have gone poorly with some lots failing to receive a single bid whilst some pieces of industrial equipment were sold for less than $10.

Lindell admitted his company had "lost $100 million" since major retailers stopped stocking MyPillow products after he became a vocal proponent of discredited claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump.

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MyPillow placed 854 items for sale on the online auction site K-Bid, with bidding coming to a close on Tuesday. Five items, including an ASUS R554L laptop and two sets of chairs, failed to secure a single bid.

Other lots, including industrial equipment, sold for figures dramatically below what comparable products have raised on other websites. Two Hytrol power belt conveyors, sized 20" x 86' and 20" x 35'3" respectively, sold for $6 each, despite other second-hand power belt conveyors selling for several hundred dollars elsewhere.

Other items sold for less than $10 include an office desk for $6, a 230/460 volt Leeson motor for $8, and a large pallet of latex-free face masks, also for $8.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Are we supposed to be happy about this?

 

[TheTexan]

Are we supposed to be happy about this?

I don't recall Voluntarist's specific disposition on this matter,

but my guess this is just more gloating

 

[Anti Federalist]

I don't recall Voluntarist's specific disposition on this matter,

but my guess this is just more gloating

I don't know either, but Lindell seems like a good guy and hundreds of people had good jobs because of him.

The crowd the reads NewsWeak are sure tickled about it, based on the comments.

If he's fire saling office equipment for pennies on the dollar at obscure online auctions, the business is done for.

 

[Voluntarist]

Are we supposed to be happy about this?

The fact that he was holding an auction came up on one of my newsfeeds a week or so ago. Then this one came up today. So I searched RPF to see if it had been posted here. It hadn't, so I posted it. Seemed like something of interest to RPF.

I've got three of his pillows; seem to work really well with my neck (I've got a couple of bad discs), and they maintain their shape after washing them. I hadn't realized that a number of product retailers had dropped his product line. I also hadn't realized that Dominion had filed a suit against the My Pillow company - kind of a surprise because I don't recall the company having any connection with the election rigmarole, just Lindell.

 

[TheTexan]

The fact that he was holding an auction came up on one of my newsfeeds a week or so ago. Then this one came up today. So I searched RPF to see if it had been posted here. It hadn't, so I posted it. Seemed like something of interest to RPF.

I've got three of his pillows; seem to work really well with my neck (I've got a couple of bad discs), and they maintain their shape after washing them. I hadn't realized that a number of product retailers had dropped his product line. I also hadn't realized that Dominion had filed a suit against the My Pillow company - kind of a surprise because I don't recall the company having any connection with the election rigmarole, just Lindell.

Apologies for jumping to conclusions about the gloating.

It is a shame that his business and life has been destroyed to such a degree. They certainly know how to make an example of someone.

 

[dannno]

I don't know either, but Lindell seems like a good guy and hundreds of people had good jobs because of him.

The crowd the reads NewsWeak are sure tickled about it, based on the comments.

If he's fire saling office equipment for pennies on the dollar at obscure online auctions, the business is done for.

Could be downsizing, he probably gets a decent amount of website sales.

 

[unknown]

Anyone hear about the auction?

I didnt, which I'm guessing was the goal, to ensure that he receives zero promotion.

 

[oyarde]

i saw an article about it before the auction on msn or yahoo news but i didnt read it .

 

[Anti Federalist]

Apologies for jumping to conclusions about the gloating.

It is a shame that his business and life has been destroyed to such a degree. They certainly know how to make an example of someone.

I agree, sorry about that, the NewsWeak headline turned me off.

 

[Voluntarist]

hundreds of people had good jobs because of him.

Brendan Whitworth (Anheuser-Busch CEO) has said the same thing

Brendan Whitworth wants Bud Light boycotters to blame him for the fateful Dylan Mulvaney promotion and not punish the 65,000 people whose livelihoods depend on Anheuser-Busch.

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Asked what troubled him the most, he said it was his 18,000 workers and the additional 47,000 people employed by its distributors. That number doesn’t count the farmers he said were also affected by the boycott.

“It’s the impact honestly on the employees that weighs the most on me,” he continued, urging people to drink Bud Light during the upcoming July 4th weekend.

It's one of those "Go Political, Go Broke" situations. With the country being politically divided down the middle, going political will tick off half your customers. And if not the customers, then half the corporate oligarchs that you're counting on to hawk your goods. What's needed is someone with a stage voice like Tim Allen, Bill Engvall or Mike Rowe to say to Mike Lindell and Brendan Whitworth, with the appropriate level of astonishment, "What did you think was going to happen?" I picture someone like Bill Burr chiming in with, "Just shut your fucking yaps and sell your beer and pillows. If you want to say something not related to your products, then praise veterans and first responders and leave it at that."

 

[Anti Federalist]

Brendan Whitworth (Anheuser-Busch CEO) has said the same thing

Mmmmm...apples and bowling balls.

Transhieser Busch is a foreign owned mega corp.

There are literally thousands of beers brewed in the US that employ US farmers, workers, truckers and so on.

Drink one of those beers.

There are not that many US textile manufacturers left to choose from.

It's one of those "Go Political, Go Broke" situations. With the country being politically divided down the middle, going political will tick off half your customers. And if not the customers, then half the corporate oligarchs that you're counting on to hawk your goods. What's needed is someone with a stage voice like Tim Allen, Bill Engvall or Mike Rowe to say to Mike Lindell and Brendan Whitworth, with the appropriate level of astonishment, "What did you think was going to happen?" I picture someone like Bill Burr chiming in with, "Just shut your fucking yaps and sell your beer and pillows. If you want to say something not related to your products, then praise veterans and first responders and leave it at that."

Again, not quite the same situation.

Lindell is going broke because he is being shut of of distribution and sales locations, along with losing banking and credit access.

I think people would still buy his products if they had the chance to.

That said, your point is not without merit.

If the people decide they no longer want to buy from you, because of a political stand you've taken then yeah, reap the whirlwind I suppose.