$50,000 for a Hand Bag at Auction - insanity

Portero.com ^ | 4/24/2008 | Staff

[2banana]

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[2banana]

$48,500 for a piece of leather!?! And it does not even look that good. What prices is status?

[brooklyn dave]

I’d just take the handbag with $50,000 inside.

[Tanniker Smith]

What's really insane is what your description did to my "Latest Articles" page ... pushed the sidebars right off the page.

ick.

8-(

[Balding_Eagle]

$50,000 for a handbag!

DAMN ETHANOL FARMERS

[Red Badger]

THAT'S ONE UGLY BAG!.............

[Red Badger]

MINE DID TOO!!! HOW CAN WE GET IT BACK TO NORMAL? I EXITED FIREFOX AND RE-LOADED AND IT’S STILL IS MESSED UP!!!!..........

[penelopesire]

Proof of a ‘looming depression’!! Quick...send the link to Paul Krugman!! (eye roll)

[PzLdr]

Hell, the Ortiz shirt they dug out of McCoombs Dam Park [the ‘new’ Yankee Stadium], is going for almost 70 large in an auction. The proceeds go for the Jimmy Fund, which helps kids with cancer, so it’s worthwhile. But it’s still a jersey.

[NCjim]

You’ll have to either wait for the article to roll off the first page or have the mods edit it to a shorter string.

[cubreporter]

$50k for a handbag? More money than brains is my guess. Wasteful, sinful, greedy and outrageous.

[Red Badger]

THANKS! IT’S BACK TO NORMAL NOW!........

[JennysCool]

Hate to tell ya this, but for some people, $50,000 is like $100 to the rest of us.

[mnehring]

Value is simply a measure of what someone is willing to pay for an object. In this case, someone was willing to pay $50k, so it is worth $50k to that person.

Don’t look at it from that end, flip it around. Someone crafted and object that someone else considered so well done, they were willing to pay $50k for it. Don’t we all want to be in that craftsman’s shoes?

[count-your-change]

Why call $50,000 for a handbag insanity? The person who pays the price obviously has WAAAAY more money than they need for necessities and the sale just transfers some of that surplus to someone else. All voluntary and legal.
And if anyone wants status I’ll sell some of mine for way less than $50,000.

[Tanniker Smith]

It'll stay that way until this thread is off the main page. It's because the link doesn't provide for a line break.

Short answer: post 100 more new articles and it'll go away. (It'll be fine by this afternoon the way things get posted around here.)

[Brainhose]

I'm still using a Levis wallet I bought at the Chelmsford Massachusetts mall in 1976.
Perhaps I should put it up for sale on eBay.