Post #805167 by tikiskip on Sun, Aug 21, 2022 3:15 AM

Lots of times for newer TC folk people who collect tiki (Like really collect) these collectors don't like to give out too much info on the really rare things they find as it might help you find those things too as you would then have the right words needed to hunt the land of eBay to find those things.

The right words can take an item from 10.00 bucks to Hundreds of dollars.

"But skip they must have that thing already maybe even two or three as many as a twelve-piece setting"

I thought that too, but if they can corner the market on that rare bit of tiki they can then by keeping it from you come back and trade you that rare thing for that one rare tiki thing you have that they need.

Or maybe like every other person on this site they are going to write a book one day.

I even felt this way some time ago too, but is there a day when one might say I have a great maybe even awesome tiki collection and I'm not going to write a book and then share all the info that collection can provide to document bits and pieces of tiki history?

Once totaled up the eBay spending of a BIG tiki collector and this was after MANY years of him collecting, it was over $5000.00 bucks! EVERY month!

Used to love just looking at his monthly purchases as it was like a tiki museum with stuff I never knew was out there, (it was like a free book of Tiki that came out every month) but it told me it WAS out there and the words needed to find it on eBay, now you can't look up a person's purchases on eBay.

Man, you would need to hire help just to receive and unwrap all that tiki every month!

Who remembers Bananaboobs on eBay, now who will remember Sven?

Thank you, Wendy you have shared with me tiki stuff/info, over the years.