Buyer backs out of £62,000 Mr Blobby suit purchase

The purchaser of an archetypal Mr Blobby costume has backed retired of the £62,000 acquisition little than an hr aft placing the winning bid.

The outfit was listed connected online auction tract eBay for £39, but the starting terms rocketed arsenic the bids multiplied.

The seller, who wishes to stay anonymous, said they were not amazed erstwhile the eventual purchaser backed out.

The erstwhile BBC worker admitted they were "shocked" the lurid costume had attracted truthful overmuch attention.

The outfit had been intended for an overseas mentation version of Noel's House Party - the TV amusement wherever the clumsy pinkish quality recovered fame - but yet the amusement did not spell up and cipher from the accumulation squad wanted it, said the owner, explaining however it came into their possession.

It is successful request of immoderate repair, including the reattachment of some arms, and has been sat astatine the seller's location since the 1990s.

A location determination prompted the seller to database Mr Blobby for auction, and led to a freefall of 178 bids.

"I thought it would get to a level of £100 possibly - and truthful I was arsenic shocked truly that it reached the level it did," they said.

"I deliberation it was 1 of those things that was driven by societal media."

The attraction thrust the seller into the limelight, bringing a drawstring interrogation offers from media outlets, but they chose to stay anonymous and spot what happened.

Despite the victor of the auction bidding 10 times, they pulled retired of the merchantability wrong an hr of placing the mammoth bid.

Under eBay's presumption and conditions, winning an auction is simply a committedness to bargain an item, but the selling level cannot enforce this by law.

"Ironically, it was being sold not to marque wealth but to marque space," said the seller.

"I don't deliberation you tin suffer thing you've ne'er had," they added, reflecting connected their £62,000 'loss'.

Sadly Mr Blobby aficionados volition not find the pinkish and yellowish costume backmost connected eBay immoderate clip soon, arsenic the proprietor has decided to support him astir for a small longer - astatine slightest for now.

However, different sellers look keen to currency successful connected Mr Blobby's mini revival, arsenic different costumes person since popped up connected eBay for precocious prices, including 1 listed for £15,000. At the clip of writing, it had nary bids.