Guess how much???

oceaninabox · Jul 30, 2008

Being the avid eBayer I am, I stumbled across this beautiful tyree goldeneye chalice today. Guess how much you think it'll bring? I say $2300, whats your guess?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120288252372&ssPageName=ADME:B:ONA:US:1123

Ian · Jul 30, 2008

I believe thats Todd Cherrys colony... Wonder why he's selling...

rebelprettyboy · Jul 30, 2008

dang thats expensive..

Stixbaraca · Jul 30, 2008

bills start taking precedent!

BeakerBob · Jul 30, 2008

Actually, that is one of Cherry Corals farmers, MarineHabitat (AKA Acro76). The top picture (#1) is a picture I took of my large mother colony, grown from a frag from MarineHabitat several years ago.

This is a beautiful coral and lights up the tank with its four colors, bright red base, golden eyes, blue rim and bright green growth rim. Whoever gets the e-bay one will have a hard time deciding if they want to cut it up or keep it as a showpiece.

Nate82 · Jul 30, 2008

see that just doesn't do it for me.. idk guess i'm just particular to the new wild rainbow aussie acans and scollys

EliteReefs · Jul 30, 2008

i'm with you on that one. heck even the acans dont do enough for me to want to pay high dollars for them. they are nice dont get me wrong but the price is crazy and not worth it IMO

Nate82 · Jul 30, 2008

oh yea definitely i wouldn't pay the prices just saying i could justify it more for them... not trying to put down the auction though because ik the price is right it's the market thats not ha

EliteReefs · Jul 30, 2008

i remember years ago i got a hold of a big rock full of true PPE pallys. veyr nice looking yes but i always thought there was much nicer. well at the time they sold for crazy prices on ebay. i chopped the rock up and sold 3 polyps frags for a few hundred bucks each. i paid 28.00 for the rock just like any other large pally rock i would order from the vendors. by the end of the third auction i felt so quilty for making so much on them i ended up breaking the rock into three peices and sending one chunck to each winner. They about fell out of there chair when they got them. Two week later is when i changed to my current pricing system

one guy never said a thing though. made me mad. I figure he thought he got away with soemthing and was affraid to say anything lol

the auction idea is great. get what you can when you can but i think it is also the cause of the crazy coral pricing structure that we have today.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 30, 2008

yea no way, thats way to expensive,it is just a coral lol

Pitcom · Jul 30, 2008

The picture of the coral thats actually for sale doesnt even compare to the other shots. Why have pictures of a coral thats not even part of the auction?

oceanparadise1 · Jul 30, 2008

HA 1500 and the reserve hasnt been met yet LOL

oceaninabox · Aug 2, 2008

We'll at $3000.00 and still counting....YAWHZAAAAAA!!!!!! Reserve met!!

oceanparadise1 · Aug 2, 2008

wow who would pay that for a coral LOL thats nutzzzz

BluegrassReef · Aug 2, 2008

$3000...if I had money to burn....there are more important things to think about spending things on than a coral...yes it's nice but not $3000 nice. that's just insane. JMO

coral88 · Aug 2, 2008

Some people have more money than most of us could imagine. If I had so much money I didn't have to think about running out and I wanted that coral I would pay what ever it took to buy it. If two people like that start bidding we could see some really big numbers in the last few minutes.

Reef Goddess · Aug 2, 2008

Probably the same person that pays $4k for Gem tang. At least you can frag the coral. lol

oceanparadise1 · Aug 3, 2008

ha there was a guy on RC who baught a gem tang from LA and it arrived BAD, eventually died like 3 days later, he could not find the remains and LA refunded him ALL his money back :)

coral88 · Aug 3, 2008

I would not be surprised to find out there are collectors out there who have things that we've never heard of. Because of the price they would be things not even offered to us commoners.