Post #478131 by Swanky on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 11:44 AM

On 2009-08-11 06:17, tikiskip wrote:
I'm kind of out of the collecting game, especially ebay.
It is too cut throat and filled with bs now.
People who use thier seemingly unlimited funds to suck
up EVERYTHING sucked the fun out of even watching ebay for me.
I went to the Kahiki auction long ago and I won the first bid
on ALL of the table lamps. ($40.00 bucks)
That meant that I could have taken them all for $400.00.
But there were other people there and they were so afraid I would do
just that. And I had the cash to do it on me.
But I did not buy them all I just got two and walked.
Now these people were STRANGERS, No TC, No Ohanna.
Oddly enough one of the lamps I let someone eles buy went to...
You got it Mr golden wallet. ($600.00)
So you see if I did not have the Aloha, Ohana bs spirit.
Mr golden wallet would not have one now.
People who have met this guy say he's great.
In fact one guy I met hated him at first and now loves him.
What changed? The great trades he gives you.
Or the flat out free stuff.
It would be nice to have the funds to spend 3 to 5 thousand
a month on tiki.
But even if I could I would not do it.
I just don't see the Aloha or Ohana in that.
I'm sorry.

That's not exactly a fair criticism. You sell things on Ebay, and you want the best price you can get or you'd do everything with a Buy It Now price instead of an auction to the high bidder. And one person wins and maybe several lose. That's how it goes.

The simple fact is that for every mug that sells on Ebay for $600 to the high bidder, there is a loser that bid $595. And there may be another loser that bid $590 and another at $400, etc. etc. Nobody is expecting to win that mug at $20 any more. That ended in 1998 on Ebay.

There are a long list of Kahiki collectors who bid high. It is the most collecable stuff out there because of these bidders. Anything rare and Kahiki will fetch top dollar from one of at least 5 Ebay high dollar bidders. Even the more common stuff like the Hoffman Moai mug still goes for $75 every time it shows up. I have been wanting one for years and never saw one go "cheap."

If KC stopped bidding tomorrow, there would be another person winning a lot of rare stuff and they would be a target here apparantly. And so on, then another and another.