ID: 139040 Closed

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Bananas by Jon Keegan

Xamuel 131

Item Location: United States

$1,110.00

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Bidder	Amount	Date
J****a 45	$1,110.00	31.08.2025 18:45:42
V****u 44	$1,078.00	31.08.2025 18:45:42
V****u 44	$1,060.00	31.08.2025 18:36:19
J****a 45	$1,010.00	31.08.2025 18:36:19
J****a 45	$952.02	31.08.2025 01:17:45
1****3 43	$942.02	31.08.2025 01:17:45
J****a 45	$910.01	31.08.2025 00:27:42
1****3 43	$900.01	31.08.2025 00:27:25
J****a 45	$900.00	31.08.2025 00:27:25
1****3 43	$820.00	31.08.2025 00:26:34
J****a 45	$810.00	31.08.2025 00:26:34
1****3 43	$800.00	28.08.2025 19:55:12

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It's the summertime in USA and time for Keegan to release a new puzzle! Except he's releasing TWO new puzzles. Since I can't remotely afford them with my current budget and lack of change hiding in sofas near me, how about I sell an older Keegan puzzle to pay for the new one(s)? Yeah that's right, Bananas is on the market for you hungry monkeys!

Anyways, there isn't much for me to personally tell about this puzzle. It's in near-mint condition with me being very careful to not scratch up any part of the puzzle. I took months and month to solve this thinking things through and being very careful to proceed. Aluminum scratches very easily and I wanted to keep this puzzle looking as nice as possible.

This puzzle was an amazing journey and I felt very sympathetic to the monkey inside. Keegan was my jailer who made a mental cage around my mind with this puzzle. He's one scary zoo-keeper to manage that! Anyways I can't say too much without spoiling this puzzle and it's been out long enough that I'm sure anyone bidding on this has some idea of what they're in for.

I'll mention that I have the original laser-cut wooden box which is an ingeniously cool feature of the puzzle. But it's still very thin, fragile wood holding a heavy metal puzzle. Despite being as careful as possible and minimizing the amount of times I took the puzzle in and out of the wooden container, it still suffered some damage with a corner prying apart where the glue weakened. I show it as best as I can in the third picture. The original shipping box from Keegan is still around to transport the crate and puzzle in maximum safety. But it's also a pretty large box at 12.5"x12.5x12.5" (because of all of the padding used inside). So keep that in mind if you are an international buyer since shipping is very unpredictable these days with the tariff nonsense going on here sorry.

I accept and prefer using Zelle as my payment method of choice.
I accept Paypal. I prefer Friends & Family due to the IRS tax rules. But if you rather pay with Goods & Services, I will accommodate that preference.

I accept Wise for international buyers.

I am willing to consider other payment methods.

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