Post #2408 by woofmutt on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 11:29 AM

Despite the regular summer appearances of Tiki this and that at Target, Old Navy, and this year at Red Robin I don't think Tiki has infiltrated the culture as deeply as the general cocktail craze of the 90's. I'd guess the high eBay prices are paid by serious collectors who will still be collectors years from now. Though standard shakers and glasses don't go for much these days coctail ware of fine and rare quality still fetches extremely high prices at live auctions. A lot of regular Tiki stuff goes unsold on eBay (Tiki Leilani and Trader Dick's mugs). If Tiki were a big fad most of this stuff would sell. And if the seller's didn't start their prices off too high their stuff would probably sell as well. It was almost refreshing that the seller of the TV's Mai Tai set started bidding so low. It could have been a tactic, but I think he/she had no idea what she/he had and was just a general seller who got lucky. Now just day dream how things might have been if you'd stumbled on the auction when it was first listed and there was a $75 Buy It Now! option...