Must have had a lot of dirty Laundry to buy the stupid plates.

10 hours ago, Elkski said:

45 mil for a plate.  Wonder what the closest bid was? Surely not 2 entities willing to bid so much 

Only one plate. Clearly the buyer intends to put it on his old Honda Wave......????

Surely not, it's all a misunderstanding of huge proportions to be all solved will a wai or two.

20 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You don't know that they are traded by collectors and investors?

If the owners are not dead but the amulets are being traded, then the amulets are not lucky.

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

21 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You don't know that they are traded by collectors and investors?

If the owners are not dead but the amulets are being traded, then the amulets are not lucky.

Perhaps those previous owners, you know, the ones who did not die, consider that to indicate that the amulets are lucky, that's how they are able to sell them on.  You've got a bizarre idea of what being lucky is, myself, I consider not dying being pretty lucky.  

 

Amulets are traded because they have a value, not because they are "lucky"; being lucky isn't an objective trait, it's purely subjective.

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You don't know that they are traded by collectors and investors?

If the owners are not dead but the amulets are being traded, then the amulets are not lucky.

Obviously, they are not really lucky but the fact that they are being traded does not mean that the people selling them do not consider them to be "lucky".

On 12/13/2022 at 8:57 AM, mikebell said:

It's the same with 2nd hand amulets which can be very expensive; the buyers never question the fact that all the previous owners are dead.

The tenants of one of our buildings buy and sell amulets and they are very much alive, also seem to be doing very well.