Funny how naive I sometimes am when bidding on eBay.
The other day, for instance, I very innocently bid (a measly $17, though not to me) on a bumper sticker commemorating the Beatles' July 4, 1966 concert in the Philippines. I thought to myself, who would pay $17 for a scrap of paper?
It went for $290.
Clearly I was playing with the big boys here, and I simply had no idea. (Somehow I naively thought the Beatles memorabilia market would have been exhausted by now.) (I knew to stay away from the psych-folk LP auctions, but...)
I also bid -- around $18, I think -- on the Juan de la Cruz Band's Himig Natin LP, thinking (especially its re-release on Shadoks) that no one would be interested.
It went for $125.
Well, here are more: Beatles pomade, cellophane tape, mothballs... all circa 1966. (I think Ringo himself could use those mothballs.)