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07/03/2010 9:38 pm  

Have y'all seen this? I mean, please.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190378309080&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


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meyersk76
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07/03/2010 11:04 pm  

Nothing should be worth that...
Nothing should be worth that much....nothing. Well, maybe a small house or nice car;)


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fastfwd
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07/03/2010 11:57 pm  

And...?
There's lots of expensive art for sale in the world; is there something particularly noteworthy about this piece?


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08/03/2010 8:45 pm  

Noteworthy
only in the fact that I can think of dozens more venues other than ebay to try and sell a 72K lamp to a very select market.


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Tulipman
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09/03/2010 5:43 am  

Look at the feedback
Hasn't sold a bloody thing in years!


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fastfwd
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09/03/2010 11:54 am  

Art dealers can wait forever...
Art dealers can wait forever for consigned pieces to sell. Doesn't cost them anything.
There's a Warhol print, for instance, that's been on Ebay for over a year. Even if it never sells, it makes money for the dealer: Some percentage of the people who see it also look at his other items and end up buying a $100 Peter Max poster or an $8000 Keith Haring print or something.
Interestingly, the dealer keeps tweaking the Warhol's auction text. Every couple weeks, he changes something -- the title, the subtitle, a few words in the description, even the shipping terms -- as though he actually expects to find the magic phrasing that'll induce someone to mail him $100K+.


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barrympls
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09/03/2010 3:45 pm  

That lamp
either makes me sick or hungry.


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