Famous Author Bought 166 Hatchimals to Resell Them For Profit and Parents Are Pissed

Sara Gruen is known to many bookworms as the author of the New York Times best-seller, Water For Elephants, but after this holiday season she's going to be known as the woman who bought all of your kids' potential Hatchimal toys to resell for profit. Rather than seeking the help of a GoFundMe page or another fundraising effort, Gruen turned to the year's hottest toy, buying 166 of the speckled eggs from eBay to attempt to "put a dent in the extremely hefty lawyer fees I'm accruing in my fight to get the wrongfully convicted man's case back before the Supreme Court."

However, Gruen hit a road block once she started listing the furby-like toys on eBay — they made a rule out of seemingly nowhere that a seller could only list three Hatchimals per week. Amazon and other resale sites are also giving her a tough time, driving her to reach out desperately to her followers on Facebook.

Regardless of your feelings about her actions, you've got to admit that she's doing a pretty good job of handling the unexpected situation with humor. "Now there are Hatchimals stacked up around every side of my office," she wrote. "I am having Hatchimal nightmares. Last night, someone's kids hatched all of them and then went home and I was bouncing and patting and poking and cooing to as many as I could to keep them alive."