Post #2345 by woofmutt on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 2:12 AM

Swooning over high mug prices at auctions may have become passe but this one was a real head shaker...A Trader Vic's Mai Tai set (Book of Tiki pg 92) went for $710 0n eBay. I think I have paid maybe half that amount for all my Tiki and aloha stuff combined (and I have a decent pile of stuff). In a way I have to admire the obsession of a buyer who convinced her/himself that she/he had to have the set. But it also makes me fear that sellers everywhere who watch the auctions will now think every scrap of Tiki in their possesion is golden...Oh wait, they already do think that.

(There's a link to that set in a post by polynesianpop under the topic "Tiki rum bottle" in this forum.)

[ Edited by: woofmutt on 2002-06-17 02:17 ]