ebay link to Pez Outlaw Collectibles.
I'm now officially out of the Pez Outlaw Duffel Bag Business.
If you want one so you to can create a historic piece of Pez History.
CONTACT Jon Hicks below
https://jonspez.weebly.com/pez-outlaw-duffel-bags.html#/
4 examples of these rare Pez Outlaw Duffel bags & how collectors are displaying them. RARE, because at best 30 collectors will ever be able to own one of these duffel bags used by Pez Outlaw to smuggle Pez dispensers into the USA from Europe in the 1990s.
Think about it less people will ever be able to own one of these Pez Outlaw duffel bags than a Make A Face or a Black Santa. So Yeah I'd say rare. Add to that that the Pez Outlaw decade was probably the single most impactful decade in the History of Pez. Before Funko Who else could lay claim to having created 30 some Pez, Introduced Crystals (and created the name crystals), Glow in the Dark, Bubble Man and Black Santa.
Let me share some inside info. There existed at one point in time.
The latest proud owner of a Pez Outlaw Duffel bag
Jon Hicks
I want to thank the following people who have added Pez Outlaw Duffel bags to there collections. Lacy Ash, Frank Mountford, Chris Wiley, Megan Northrup, Michael Bassano, Jon Hicks and Jim Blaine.
Judy A Mesler, Lacy Ash, Frank Mountford and Jim Blaine have Pez Outlaw Cargo Bags.
The fact that these duffel and cargo bags are proudly displayed in Pez Collections as cherished pieces of pez history is very rewarding. A special thank you to Jim Blaine for starting all this.
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Pez Outlaw Duffel Bag Sells For $881.00 In Charity Auction
Lacey Ash was the very generous winner.
If you would like to buy one of these Duffel Bags I used to bring Pez Dispensers in from Europe as Pez Outlaw.
All are signed Pez Outlaw & Steven J Glew near address written on outside of bag.
These bags were used to transport approx 800,000 pez into the USA by Pez Outlaw.
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Below item SOLD to Megan Northrup
Megan Northrup's 7FCBgs1of3Duf under signatures means or signifies that this bag was 1 of 3 dufffel bags out of 7 bags total used in the French Connection.
Megan Northrup's French Connection Bag with Aeroports de Paris Securite sticker on it.
The TOTAL known Universe of Pez Outlaw Duffel and Cargo bags is 35.
5 Duffels recently found in a closet
Brief background on these Duffel Bags used by Pez Outlaw to hand carry 6 to 800,000 Pez Dispensers into the USA from other countries. As Pez Outlaw I sold roughly 2 Million Pez Dispenser and earned 4.5 Million dollars in 11 years. These Duffel Bags played a very big role in transporting/smuggling all these pez.
These Duffel Bags were used as my primary means of transporting the Pez Dispensers I purchased in my over 100 trips abroad. Countries visited to buy Pez were Austria, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Spain, and South Africa.
In each trip I transported on average 6 to 8,000 pez dispensers, coming to a total of 600,000 on the low side and 800,000 pez on the high side. All hand carried across international borders in these Duffel Bags.
Step one was to put every Pez Dispenser into a 3 by 6 inch clear or made in Hungary zip lock bag. As required by US Customs, every pez dispenser had to have country of origin, so if it had it on stem, clear bag, if not made in Hungary bag.
The next step was to double bag the Duffel bags one in side the other, then line with cardboard.
Step 3 was to dump 3 to 5 cases of pez in each Duffel Bag. Depending on the size of Duffel or Cargo bag, each bag contained on average 1,200 pez dispensers.
On each trip I brought back between 6 and 8 Duffel/Cargo Bags. This required 2 large freight carts at airport curb @ $50.00 per cart in porter tips. Extra luggage back then was $100 to $120 per bag. To transport the Swedish haul to the airport it took 2 Taxi Cabs plus my rental car to haul it all and that was not unusual.
You want to know a sight that will really break your heart. Several times while waiting to get off a plane, I was able to watch my luggage being removed from the cargo hold. I sat looking out the window of the plane to see my duffel bags tossed from the hatch down onto the tarmac. At least an eight or ten foot drop. Now that will break your heart.
black bags, green bags, springs. In my early travels I used standard military type green duffel bags for transporting Pez dispensers. Not the little ones you see slung over one shoulder with ease. No, I used the ones that hunch you over and when full weigh about 100 pounds. You see the goal was 1200 pez dispensers per bag. A few years in I switched to a very large black canvas cargo type bag that zipped across the top for transporting Pez dispensers. I always lined the exterior with 1 layer of cardboard and individually zip lock bagged each pez dispenser.
Over a 10 year period I spent well over 1/2 million Dollars cash on Pez dispensers in Hungary alone. At least $250,000.00 of that was in the form of bribes, or money skimmed off the top for services rendered. Everybody got a piece of the Pez Money.
Now For the Fun Stuff
In the beginning of my travels abroad I used to paddle-lock all of my Duffel/Cargo Bags closed.
The pictures below will give you an idea how that went over with US Customs Officials.
US Customs Officials cut all the locks off whenever my luggage was lost. Which happened a lot, though in my over 100 trips I never lost a bag forever. Though on one occasion I did lose my luggage for approximately 10 days. Usually I just unlocked the bags for customs inspection, but when my bags were flying solo the locks got cut. I found these 2 cut locks And this slip of paper in the bags when I got them out for re-storage. On the Business channel today they were talking about the widespread corruption in Hungary.
I always thought of it as a vigorous entrepreneurial spirit. Why else do you think I spent over a decade traveling to n buying Pez There. I love Hungary.
Pez Outlaw always felt very much at home in Hungary.
Be Honest, You thought for sure that with this kind of a buildup I wouldn't be able to resist doing the obvious. Because let's be honest restraint is not my nature. I can't explain it, but for now I'm not gonna do it.
Well that's today, we'll talk again soon.
Recording the podcast at noon on 9-9-2018.
Hope it turns out OK.
If you want an OFFICIAL SIGNED Pez Outlaw Duffel Bag
CONTACT Jon Hicks below
https://jonspez.weebly.com/pez-outlaw-duffel-bags.html#/
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After Pez Outlaw, I intend to retire.
Pez Corporate Fraud, Pez Color War, Restitution.
My price guide is fun for beginners but if you want a real Pez Price Guide go here.
If you want one so you to can create a historic piece of Pez History.
CONTACT Jon Hicks below
https://jonspez.weebly.com/pez-outlaw-duffel-bags.html#/
4 examples of these rare Pez Outlaw Duffel bags & how collectors are displaying them. RARE, because at best 30 collectors will ever be able to own one of these duffel bags used by Pez Outlaw to smuggle Pez dispensers into the USA from Europe in the 1990s.
Think about it less people will ever be able to own one of these Pez Outlaw duffel bags than a Make A Face or a Black Santa. So Yeah I'd say rare. Add to that that the Pez Outlaw decade was probably the single most impactful decade in the History of Pez. Before Funko Who else could lay claim to having created 30 some Pez, Introduced Crystals (and created the name crystals), Glow in the Dark, Bubble Man and Black Santa.
Let me share some inside info. There existed at one point in time.
315 to 400 Black Santa's of vari ing type.
300 to 450 Owl Melody Makers
Make A Face was an over the counter item, at least 100 exist on the card and easily that many loose and my guess is that that estimate is very low. I know of 48 Make A Face on the card in one buy alone and there have been several over the decades.
The known universe of Pez Outlaw bags used to smuggle 800,000 pez is 35 bags and many collectors are buying 2, 1 of ea style.
As with everything there is a window when a particular thing becomes available. 1st reactions are always, wow that seems like a lot of them. Then boom they are gone and that particular window of opportunity is gone forever. You may not realize but when I got the 30 Black Santa's in 1994 there were some who actually got angry thinking that it was just to many. I sold every one and now 24yrs later try and find one to buy.
As with everything there is a window when a particular thing becomes available. 1st reactions are always, wow that seems like a lot of them. Then boom they are gone and that particular window of opportunity is gone forever. You may not realize but when I got the 30 Black Santa's in 1994 there were some who actually got angry thinking that it was just to many. I sold every one and now 24yrs later try and find one to buy.
The latest proud owner of a Pez Outlaw Duffel bag
Jon Hicks
Judy A Mesler, Lacy Ash, Frank Mountford and Jim Blaine have Pez Outlaw Cargo Bags.
The fact that these duffel and cargo bags are proudly displayed in Pez Collections as cherished pieces of pez history is very rewarding. A special thank you to Jim Blaine for starting all this.
***********************************************************************
Pez Outlaw Duffel Bag Sells For $881.00 In Charity Auction
Lacey Ash was the very generous winner.
All are signed Pez Outlaw & Steven J Glew near address written on outside of bag.
These bags were used to transport approx 800,000 pez into the USA by Pez Outlaw.
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Below item SOLD to Megan Northrup
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| Megan Northrup's 7FCBgs1of3Duf |
Megan Northrup's 7FCBgs1of3Duf under signatures means or signifies that this bag was 1 of 3 dufffel bags out of 7 bags total used in the French Connection.
The TOTAL known Universe of Pez Outlaw Duffel and Cargo bags is 35.
Which
means only 35 Pez Collectors will ever own and frame in a glass box on
there pez collection wall (many are buying a Duffel & a Cargo so how many can have in collection is actually smaller) one of these bags that I brought roughly
800,000 pez dispensers into the USA during the Pez Outlaw years.
9 top load green Duffel bags (5 really old ones of which 4 are now gone & 4 newer replacement ones)
4 side zip green duffel bags
4 large blue cargo bags
13 large black cargo bags (2 are sold/gone)
5 Duffels recently found in a closet
How many exist of a collectible is usually not told in the world I came from as Pez Outlaw.
I got up this morning and said to myself, ENOUGH!
I've tried since the Pez Color War of 1998 to be painfully open and honest with you.
Brief background on these Duffel Bags used by Pez Outlaw to hand carry 6 to 800,000 Pez Dispensers into the USA from other countries. As Pez Outlaw I sold roughly 2 Million Pez Dispenser and earned 4.5 Million dollars in 11 years. These Duffel Bags played a very big role in transporting/smuggling all these pez.
These Duffel Bags were used as my primary means of transporting the Pez Dispensers I purchased in my over 100 trips abroad. Countries visited to buy Pez were Austria, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Spain, and South Africa.
In each trip I transported on average 6 to 8,000 pez dispensers, coming to a total of 600,000 on the low side and 800,000 pez on the high side. All hand carried across international borders in these Duffel Bags.
Step one was to put every Pez Dispenser into a 3 by 6 inch clear or made in Hungary zip lock bag. As required by US Customs, every pez dispenser had to have country of origin, so if it had it on stem, clear bag, if not made in Hungary bag.
The next step was to double bag the Duffel bags one in side the other, then line with cardboard.
Step 3 was to dump 3 to 5 cases of pez in each Duffel Bag. Depending on the size of Duffel or Cargo bag, each bag contained on average 1,200 pez dispensers.
On each trip I brought back between 6 and 8 Duffel/Cargo Bags. This required 2 large freight carts at airport curb @ $50.00 per cart in porter tips. Extra luggage back then was $100 to $120 per bag. To transport the Swedish haul to the airport it took 2 Taxi Cabs plus my rental car to haul it all and that was not unusual.
You want to know a sight that will really break your heart. Several times while waiting to get off a plane, I was able to watch my luggage being removed from the cargo hold. I sat looking out the window of the plane to see my duffel bags tossed from the hatch down onto the tarmac. At least an eight or ten foot drop. Now that will break your heart.
black bags, green bags, springs. In my early travels I used standard military type green duffel bags for transporting Pez dispensers. Not the little ones you see slung over one shoulder with ease. No, I used the ones that hunch you over and when full weigh about 100 pounds. You see the goal was 1200 pez dispensers per bag. A few years in I switched to a very large black canvas cargo type bag that zipped across the top for transporting Pez dispensers. I always lined the exterior with 1 layer of cardboard and individually zip lock bagged each pez dispenser.
Over a 10 year period I spent well over 1/2 million Dollars cash on Pez dispensers in Hungary alone. At least $250,000.00 of that was in the form of bribes, or money skimmed off the top for services rendered. Everybody got a piece of the Pez Money.
Now For the Fun Stuff
In the beginning of my travels abroad I used to paddle-lock all of my Duffel/Cargo Bags closed.
The pictures below will give you an idea how that went over with US Customs Officials.
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| SOLD |
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| SOLD |
US Customs Officials cut all the locks off whenever my luggage was lost. Which happened a lot, though in my over 100 trips I never lost a bag forever. Though on one occasion I did lose my luggage for approximately 10 days. Usually I just unlocked the bags for customs inspection, but when my bags were flying solo the locks got cut. I found these 2 cut locks And this slip of paper in the bags when I got them out for re-storage. On the Business channel today they were talking about the widespread corruption in Hungary.
I always thought of it as a vigorous entrepreneurial spirit. Why else do you think I spent over a decade traveling to n buying Pez There. I love Hungary.
Pez Outlaw always felt very much at home in Hungary.
Be Honest, You thought for sure that with this kind of a buildup I wouldn't be able to resist doing the obvious. Because let's be honest restraint is not my nature. I can't explain it, but for now I'm not gonna do it.
Well that's today, we'll talk again soon.
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| signing bag for Frank |
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| signing bag for Chris. it was very hot n I was losing my mind. |
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| signing a Pez Bank for a customer. Pez Outlaw Long may he live. |
Recording the podcast at noon on 9-9-2018.
Hope it turns out OK.
If you want an OFFICIAL SIGNED Pez Outlaw Duffel Bag
CONTACT Jon Hicks below
https://jonspez.weebly.com/pez-outlaw-duffel-bags.html#/
**************
After Pez Outlaw, I intend to retire.
Pez Corporate Fraud, Pez Color War, Restitution.
My price guide is fun for beginners but if you want a real Pez Price Guide go here.
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