If, after reading the headline, you are asking what the hell are you doing with your life, well, you are not alone. I was asking myself the same. Why am still here furiously typing on an aging MacBook Pro on an aging Apple Wireless Keyboard and look an aging Apple Cinema Display for a paltry return instead of raising my hand in a cool ass manner to bid for something that cost hundreds of thousands. Alas, life doesn’t favor everyone like in the case of 17-year-old Carson Guo. Continue reading Teenager Paid $800,000 For A Bunch Of Supreme Skate Decks In An Auction
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Check Out John Oates’ Custom Light-emitting Fender Electric Guitar
Here’s a piece of news both petrol heads and guitar heads will want to hear about. John Oates, one half of Hall & Oates who have recently received a custom 1960 356 from Emory Motorsports, is setting up a “Cars of the Rock Stars” exhibit at the 2019 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The exhibition, which will be held between March 9 and 10 at the Amelia Island Ritz Carlton Hotel, will feature Oates’s custom 1960 Emory Outlaw Porsche 356 Cabriolet alongside 200+ pre-1974 cars including famous cars owned by notable musicians with some of the guitars they played. Continue reading Check Out John Oates’ Custom Light-emitting Fender Electric Guitar
Bronco Lovers Will Not Want To Miss This Autotype x Icon BR Old School
Calling out Ford Bronco lovers! If you are residing in stateside, your chance of securing an incredibly dope Old School BR almost immediately is here! ICON4x4 has partnered with Autotype to put an Old School BR under the hammer to allow one eager and likely very rich enthusiast to call it his/her own without too long a wait and at the same time, doing something good. The sale, if successful concluded, will see 10 percent of the proceeds going to the Autotype Scholarship Fund to aid students currently enrolled in design schools. Continue reading Bronco Lovers Will Not Want To Miss This Autotype x Icon BR Old School
Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros From The 80s Sold At $100K
Never in the world would I have imagined one day video games would become collectibles, much less appreciate in value, when I started gaming three decades ago, but here we are, reading about how a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros was sold for a stratospheric amount of $100,150. That right there is a six figure sum. No typo or whatsoever. And mind you, folks, that was for a copy of video game that’s of a grand old age of 30 something. Imagine that! Continue reading Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros From The 80s Sold At $100K
First Production 2020 Toyota Supra Sold For A cool $2.1M In An Auction
When Toyota took the wrap of the much anticipated rebirth of the Toyota Supra at NAIAS last week, it also revealed that the first 2020 Toyota Supra GR off the production line will go under the hammer at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, and went on the block it did. Not only did the first production 2020 Toyota Supra GR, dubbed “Global #1”, was auctioned, but it was successfully claimed for a cool US$2.1 million by an unnamed bidder. Continue reading First Production 2020 Toyota Supra Sold For A cool $2.1M In An Auction
Japan’s Tuna King Paid A Record $3.1 Million For An Enormous 612-Lb Tuna
If you think paying $1.8 million for a live ornamental fish was preposterous, wait till you read about yet another mind-boggling fish-related auction. Someone have just coughed out a staggering 336.3 million Yen, or about 3.1 million American dollars, for a stiff tuna. That number there is not a typo, btw. Someone actually paid for a tuna with 3-freaking-million! Holy mother of… that’s hell lot of money for something that is going to end up in the stomach. Continue reading Japan’s Tuna King Paid A Record $3.1 Million For An Enormous 612-Lb Tuna
Someone Bought A Japanese Koi For A Mind-blowing $1.8M!
In Japan, people auctioned tuna which you probably already know, but I bet you do not know that Japanese ornamental fishes, specifically Japanese Koi, are being auctioned too and one such auction yielded a record transaction for a prized specimen of a recognizable breed. At the Sakai Fish Farm Auction, which took place on October 4th, 2018, a female Koi named S Legend was auctioned off for a whopping 203-freaking-million Yen (about US$1.8 million!). Continue reading Someone Bought A Japanese Koi For A Mind-blowing $1.8M!
Apple’s Jony Ive Designed A Diamond Ring That Is Entirely Made Of Diamond
When you hear people talked about diamond ring, it is always a tiny bit of diamond with the rest of the ring made of some precious metal. That’s the norm, but it does not apply to this particular diamond ring called The (RED) Diamond Ring. Designed by Apple’s design chief Jony Ive and renowned industrial designer Marc Newson, this bespoke ring was created exclusively for the (RED) Auction organized by Sotheby’s, slated to happen early next month. Continue reading Apple’s Jony Ive Designed A Diamond Ring That Is Entirely Made Of Diamond
Personal Belongings Of Late Colonel Sanders To Go Under The Hammer
I don’t know of anyone who will want to bid for possessions of a dead person, unless the person in question was an iconic celebrity. That said, I hardly think anyone would want a piece of the fast food legend, Colonel Sanders, either, but in case you have to desire to collect Kentucky Fried Chicken founder’s iconic white suit, hat, watch, driver’s license, credit cards, and whatnot, well, you are in luck because, those things are going on the block on November 3 at the Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction organized by Heritage Auctions. Continue reading Personal Belongings Of Late Colonel Sanders To Go Under The Hammer
Bizarre Louis Vuitton Backpack Umbrella Hybrid Sold For $1,875
With the exception of Balenciaga, ‘bizarre’ is not synonymous with most fashion labels. However, there will come a time even the most mainstream design house will turn out some rather goofy product, such as this backpack umbrella hybrid from Louis Vuitton’s limited edition 1996 “Shopping in the Rain” collection. It apparently did not end up in someone’s attic. This treasure from 1996 resurfaced at Christie’s “What Goes Around Comes Around 25th Anniversary Auction” in September and it was snapped up by an unknown bidder for $1,875. Continue reading Bizarre Louis Vuitton Backpack Umbrella Hybrid Sold For $1,875