Post #780193 by tikiskip on Sat, Sep 30, 2017 4:52 PM

"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."

There is your answer, if you have no fun in it don't do it.
But, for me there are very few new tiki mugs that I want.
Mostly it's the old ones that I look for, like ones from restaurants.

But you never see those at a very good price so the thing that got me to quit collecting was the few EBay fat cats that could and did buy every cool mug that popped up.

"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 see it this way, I have been burnt on some tiki stuff, got some deals, and paid way too much for a thing I really liked.
And in the past I have sold tiki and done really well, so for me the times I sold and made good money on tiki offset the times I got burned or paid too much.

Heck I even give away lots o tiki each year.

I had a chance to buy EVERY table lamp at the last Kahiki auction for $40.00 bucks each!But I saw like ten other people who wanted that lamp so I did not buy them all so they too could buy one.

WELL years later I saw one or more of the people who I did not keep from buying that lamp sell the one they got for big bucks.
AND he's seen as a great guy and I'm a di$k for hording Kahiki stuff and being a profiteer.

So what a waste! I should have grabbed them all and cashed in myself.
PS I still have the two I got 17 years later.

Man do what's fun.

I too am thinking about selling my tiki stuff mostly because I get more fun from old Halloween stuff.

And I got too much.