My tiki stuff on ebay

Thinning out the 'ol collection & putting a good amount of tiki mugs & stuff on ebay if anyone is interested.
check it out babies:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=ezcheez&completed=0&sort=0&since=-1
For any winning bidder that mentions tiki central, I'll try to add a little bonus somethin-somethin! I'll be adding stuff all weekend.

Some nice stuff there, bbd, it'll be interesting to see how the bids will end up in 6 days...I am not an e-bay customer (all the stuff in the book is pre-ebay), but am considering "thinning out", too, cuz I need the money.
It is really a shame though that, I guess forced by e-bay hit statistics, even Tiki Central members have to mislabel Chinese and Mexican guys as TIKI mugs.
Remember my motto: If it says Tiki on it, it should have Tiki in it!

Hey, a guy has to do what he has to do to make sure the right people find my stuff.

How many people specificly search for "ceramic cocktail cups with an asian theme"?

I draw the line at labeling my stuff as "rare"(hate that) or predating it as 50's vintage....I have SOME scruples.

[ Edited by: bigbadtikidaddy on 2002-04-27 13:39 ]

I understand, that's why I wrote "...I guess forced by e-bay hit statistics,.."
And I am not knocking e-bay, we've already talked about all that, it is very beneficial for Tikiphiles that live in Tiki-dry zones.

And the irony is that that annoying e-bay lingo that labels tons of stuff "Tiki" though it really isn't (just as certain new books that have almost no "Tiki Drinks" in them, or way too much non-Tiki art from Melanesia) is in some way perpetuating the cheesy aspect of 50s/60s Tiki Culture, like the "Tahitian Mask" on page 187 of my book.
The same goes for ripping off Tiki design (Target just did it again with Bosko's Tiki canoe) which was very prevelant back then, too.
So why do I not find that just as funny?
Hmmmmm... I guess in my case it has to do with putting out this fat book that pretty much defines the style and still seeing people not getting it, or ignoring it to make money. But who am I to judge that...the whole damn' Polynesian pop phenomenon was based on commercialism....
..it's just nice if a little art happens as a side product of commercialism, which seems to be less and less the case nowadays, with everything becoming stripped to the bare lowest cost neccessities.
...I'm just rambling here....

I'd guess that many people selling "Tiki" items on eBay have never even seen The Book of Tiki. They're just dealers selling for a living/extra money. Most of them probably learned the word "tiki" from eBay or another dealer. Hell, I encounter Tiki fans who have never even heard of The Book...This may seem impossible but not everyone is on-line or hooked up with a hipster circle (When I do meet such folk they get a preacher like talking up of The Book from me). I myself found The Book by "accident" at a mid-century furniture store. It never would have occured to me that someone would have written such a book.
I've never considered The Book as a definer of what is or isn't Tiki so much as a documentation of Tiki style origin and a particular period of that style. I'm glad there wasn't an "Is Tiki" and "Isn't Tiki" list, such a list would have made Tiki seem stagnant or dead (and people would have ignred such a list anyway).
As far it being "nice if a little art happens as a side product of commercialism"...The Book of Tiki happened thanks to all the restauranteurs, apartment developers, et cetera attempting to make a buck off the Polyneisan trend. And because of The Book many folk have been inspired to create their own Tiki environments or attempt their own Tiki art without a thought to making a cent off their endeavors.

my latest offerings if anyone gives a flyin crizap:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=ezcheez&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25