Post #780167 by fraterscire on Sat, Sep 30, 2017 3:57 AM

Let me ask everyone a question...

I go back and forth as to whether I should sell my tiki mug collection or not.

Im on a bunch of tiki mug groups, right?

This is what the tiki world has become.

A. Tiki mug artists have figured out that can make a killing off collectors if they make the same mug with six different glazes and sell them at $100 a piece. This gets highly annoying.

B. Tiki mug scalpers will buy the mugs and turn around to sell them at 200% to 300% markup.

C. A lot of the bars no longer sell mugs off their websites because its such a pain in the ass to ship them. This means people will go to the bars, buy the a $30 mug and then resell it for $60 to $90... Three Dots and a Dash mugs are a prime example of this.

D. Youre starting to see the idiots ruin the scene with their bullshit political crap and thats REALLY getting old.

An example of this is how the hipsters sat there and literally whined about White nationalists using stupid tiki torches after the Charlottesville deal for three straight weeks.

I get absolutely zero pleasure out of buying mugs anymore because the hipsters have ruined the tiki scene and the tiki scalpers have ruined the fun of collecting tiki mugs, its just not fun anymore.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

You know I can make runs to a lot of these bars to load up on mugs, bring them home and jack up the price by 200%-300% too but you know what? I really think that doing that type of crap is just a real lowlife thing to do.

I really wish the tiki scalpers would go back to scalping Katy Perry and Ariana Grande tickets outside of stadiums, but theyre here to stay it seems.

Should I really just consider selling my collection and just stick to enjoying my own private tiki room?

What do you think?