Post #375797 by bongofury on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 8:47 PM

I don't get all the whining over someone dropping some coin on something they really want. A piece of paper recently sold for $80,500.00! (Original 1930s movie poster for "The Invisible Man"). All this complaining just keeps collectors that do spend more than what most people may think is reasonable from not posting as has happened with Kohalacharms and others. My first Ebay purchase was an expensive lesson. I was going away and put what I thought was a high bid of $50.00 (it was at $33.00 when I left) for a menu. When I got back I found that I won the menu for several hundred dollars. When I looked at my bid, I had put a comma instead of a period after the 50.....so I think my top bid would have been for $50,000....I was just happy it did not go any higher than it did. I would love to have that Tahitian Terrace menu as I went there many times as a child, but I will spend that money on something else. Now let's get back to the Aloha spirit. As we put on our Aloha shirts and dresses to head out to Hukilau or Oasis, we are just like Trekkies heading to a convention.......where they spent 7.2 millin dollars in 2006.