Thank you, Judith, but let's also give Sal her due (if I remember correctly, she is a she, I hope). So far, the response has been underwhelming, perhaps because I didn't even have it in me to follow your marketing advice and, perhaps too, because I haven't given it enough time, which I don't currently have a lot of, monetarily speaking. At this point I'm hoping the expert is not being overly optimistic, though I do like and trust what I've so far experienced with him. I guess we'll find out in November, their next auction...
On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:25 AM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: > > > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:06 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > I'm hoping that Ted can put my set of flip-flops > > > up for auction at the same time that he puts up > > > Maharishi's sandals, so that I might get some > > > "spillover" traffic from wealthy foot and fraud > > > fetishists. Thanks to you and obbajeeba for > > > suggesting the idea. > > > > I wonder whatever happened to the idea of, > > if you need $$, getting a job. > > Gee, Sal, I bet there's a whole lot of unemployed > people in this country who never thought of such > a brilliant solution to their financial problems. > Just go out and get a job, nothin' to it. You > really ought to write a letter to the editor or > something. > > I think > > Mark is living in a dream-world, perhaps > > even dangerously so, if he thinks these > > decades-old "relics" are going to become > > his salvation. > > Right. I mean, if they were *new* relics, they > might actually be worth something. > > (You have to forgive poor Stupid Sal for her > pique; after all, she had predicted Mark would > be lucky to get $1,000 for the sandals. Now > that she's learned that the guy who runs the > very successful memorabilia auction house > handling the sale thinks a reserve price of > $70,000 or more is appropriate, you just can't > blame her for taking her embarrassment out on > Mark.) > >
