And here I am thinking 20 bucks is a little steep.

Someone must really want it.... Is it special at all? It says extra variegated but is that it or is it some rare cultivator or something?

Non the less I'd never pay that much

That happens when you let bots bid for you. A lot of times it's somebody dishonest trying to jack up the price of something. Yet again, they sell some pretty weird things on ebay. I once saw two dead flies sell for almost $300 and a gum wrapper found on the walk of fame for more than that.

Wow, and here my cheap *** refuses to spend over $10 on any one plant. Well aside from my Adenium, but they're special :) I have always wanted one of these in a non variegated form but I'd NEVER spend that on a plant. Truly insane. (I lied, if I had billions of dollars and this was something extremely rare I don't think it'd matter much to me)

Some fool with money to burn...

Christopher

I've seen folks drop more than that on a handbag here, at TJ Maxx...and real estate is purchased in cash here in LA. I don't run in those circles. I've blown at least that much on plants but not all at the same time and not on one plant.

79 bids, it's over $1000 now. ;-/

In case you missed this one, you have two more hours to bid on another rare and even more expensive one,

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141888345381?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I've bought some plants from that particular seller before, but obviously not to that amount. My max budget for a plant I really really want is to $100 and that's it. Having said that, royalagave really does have many healthy and great plants.

It's like tulip mania in the 1600's. Orchid collectors pay big bucks for rare plants, too.

Sold for $1,030. And not even free shipping!

Beautiful plant but not worth the $, IMO. Ah well, a fool and their money ....

Just think...it took at least two people to get the bid that high.

tj

Why is everyone complaining about it. I would love to make money off of plants one day, its awesome to know that its possible even to sell a plant for that much. Any of you could have grown that and made a thousand dollars.

Just search for 'bonsai specimen' or 'rare haworthia', sort by price, and you too can wonder who is buying these things. Are there really uber-wealthy wall street bankers who are interested in rare plants? I always wonder about the people that have both huge disposable income and a pining for rare plants that aren't trivial to keep looking nice. No one I've met anyway :)

But anyway, there's always someone with more disposable income than you, and if it's disposable, it can be spent on anything that catches a whim...so none of this should be surprising.

If I had enough money that my disposable income/hobby budget was $1000/week, I'd happily spend it all on plants, and if there was one that cost $2000 that I desired, I might even save up for 2 weeks to buy it.

I think of judgment day when you spend $5000.00 on a house plant and pass a homeless vet on the street. or just any one in need. They are so many places to give money to help one another out and in such days as these. How very lucky we are to be able to spend at all. The most I have spent was $100 for a Tricolor Beach Tree. It sold for $150, so I got a deal. still have it in my front yard.