I'm currently watching NXT for January 13, 2021 and Wade Barrett said something that sparked my curiosity. Dexter Lumis had drawn a caricature of Johnny Gargano (and another of Austin Theory) that Gargano had ripped up. Barrett said "I'd have put that up on eBay!"
It got me thinking: Why doesn't WWE and/or AEW take things like that, put them up on eBay or create their own auction site in some fashion, and try to either make some extra money from that? Better yet, why not take those things and take whatever money you earn from it and donate it to charity?
Someone would probably want to buy one of those props. Not everything is going to be preserved in the storage warehouses. That's a small prop that will just be tossed out, most likely. And there are TONS of those things throughout each year.
Keep what you want to keep for history's sake. Let the Superstars and other personnel take home souvenirs if they want them. But if you're just going to toss something, why not put it up on an auction site? No matter what money you get out of it, it's a positive. Even if someone spent $25 to buy the smashed tombstone from Halloween Havoc or things from Being the Elite or AEW Dynamite or whatever, it's still something that can go to charity.
Just a thought. We're no longer on commercial break, so back to the coverage of Lumis vs. Gargano.
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