So why do people assume that when someone is successful in life and has alot of money and like to spend it are crooks or up to no good?
And good for the buyer if he has staff to look after his piece of art created in his home.

The media is responsible ;) :razz:

Its just intimidating when someone spend so much on something which, um, well I don't know how to explain it. Its like those splashes of paintbrushes going for millions of $$$$ since one cannot understand the meaning of it (abstract!). Just intimidating and its the human's nature to gossip about intimidating stuffs :lol:

Darn, I thought my $10 bid would have done the trick... Guess not. :mrgreen:

If you look at the bid history though, something does look a little fishy there. Some people bid against themselves driving up the price $1k at some points.... That strikes me as odd. It happened on numerous occassions. Good on the winner to be able to spend that on a fish though! I would have much rather rebuilt another awesome reef tank for that price, but to each their own!

Long story short you can't really bid against yourself. Consecutive bids by the same person is them trying to outbid the high bidder that set a max bid. Example I set my max bid at 100.00 the auction bid is at 25. You place a bid at 35,45,55 etc. but I'm still high bid and you now have three in a row that makes it look like you are bidding against yourself. The high bidder increased his max bid that's why the two most recent bids are his but the price didn't increase.

Gotcha! Thank you. That makes sense... I was wondering what was going on there. lol.

That's possible for sure. I agree, for a breeder the price is reasonable.

That's just a sad, sick thought. :neutral: I know these people involved, they are not crooks.

matt got the one ltng maroon clown from png. they wont as far as i know
let any more go to the us (if they find any) so it is a rare fish. he decided to let the clown go female because of their aggression and paired her up with a smaller maroon clown male. after that i dont know what happened and i dont know how he was able to get another. think of the possibilities if a breeder (i hope) gets one of these. a black clown with the lace pattern would be beautiful.:idea:

Its not about being crook. Its about setting the right market price in biddings.