Post #746057 by Jamoorea on Thu, Jul 2, 2015 11:30 AM

All true Tikiskip - thanks for these posts and your insights.

On the heavy hitters - I've quietly cursed O***K many times for kicking my tiki bidding butt.

I really like the occasional bidding "wars" where the raises are only a dollar or two. It's easy to demonize someone that's bidding against me but I try not to. If I don't have passion for something I'm trying to get and, in one of these dollar increment battles, I can see someone else really really wants it - I let it go. With very few exceptions, EVERYTHING comes up again so I can wait. And for me, the goal is not to own everything or to get it all now. I really enjoy the looking and chatting and appreciating - much more than the acquiring. I'm guessing everyone in here feels the same. And I'm not reselling any of it at a profit or listing my collection on the NASDAQ.

I was at a postcard show last year talking with one of the vendors. We were sort of ruminating on the near impossibility that any of the things in the show could have survived all these years to make it there. So, on one hand, the inflated prices might be the downside, but thanks to all of the people in here, the "tiki archaeologists", writers, collectors and hobbyists, so much more of this stuff has been saved. Even the little Mom and Pop antique dealer in some backwater town is now watching for anything tiki.