[Meatspace]

Some dude was eating oatmeal out of that bowl one morning and the next think he knows that same bowl sells for three quarter of a million dollars.

All he has now is that $35.00.

That has to hurt.

[Hambone 1934]

That’s what I’m thinking...CRAP,I SOLD IT FOR 35.00!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Robert DeLong]

A 6-inch Chinese porcelain bowl that was bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale was sold at auction Wednesday for a staggering $721,800, which includes a buyer’s premium.

It was expected to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000 at Sotheby’s on the Upper East Side. The hammer price, which does not include the buyer’s premium and overhead premium, was $580,000.

Well the seller got a little over 1/2 a million and Soteby's got almost a 1/4 of a million at any rate. 8>)