Post #567700 by Tipsy McStagger on Sun, Dec 5, 2010 12:54 PM

part of the problem trutiki is that tiki central has been around for so long now and the tiki resurgence has also been around for so long that most long time collectors here on tiki central are only interested in things they haven't seen yet or talked about yet...which is why most don't comment on stuff that may be familiar.....i can't blame them as i am guilty of the same thing. You can witness the same phenomenon on ebay......loads of tiki stuff that 10 years ago would have been interesting and gone for big bucks now you can't give alot of what was once sought after away.......reason being, most collectors have already gotten the common tiki items in their collections and again, we only fight on ebay over the rare stuff we don't have in our collections... it simply a case of odds. more people into tiki means more people searching in limited pool of artifacts that is rapidly shrinking as things are found and kept in collections. The more common the tiki item, the more you see it on ebay for .99 cents and it still won't sell. historical items from an actual vintage tiki establishment will always be at a premium depending on the scarcity of those items......