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eBay: Witco Bar Stumbled Upon on eBay! |
Traitor Vic
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 02, 2003
Posts: 428
From: Greenville, SC
|  Posted: 2003-07-25 01:00 am Permalink
I, personally, am not in the market for this item at the moment. I stumbled upon it accidentally and figured someone here might be interested. The starting price seems reasonable to me. The seller apparently doesn't know Witco from a hole in the ground.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2337152724&category=20690
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Unga Bunga
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Joined: Jun 06, 2003
Posts: 5734
From: CaliTikifornia
| Posted: 2003-07-25 01:26 am Permalink
That is a reasonable price, but the Ebay dilemma is shipping, $250.00. Seems to have kind of an African theme.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-07-25 08:35 am Permalink
I've been looking for one of those to begin the inevitable conversion of the John Boy Walton suite (the guest bed and bath attatched to the Paradise room) to tiki. The mug spillover has already filled up a shelf and a dresser in there.
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tiki_kiliki
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Joined: Apr 01, 2002
Posts: 988
From: Hamtown USA
| Posted: 2003-07-25 08:38 am Permalink
Wow, it's in Birmingham, AL! Wonder if I know this person. I could just go on down and pick it right up!
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Traitor Vic
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 02, 2003
Posts: 428
From: Greenville, SC
| Posted: 2003-07-25 09:07 am Permalink
Well, Kiliki! That solves the $250 Shipping Problem don't it? Ahhhhhhhhhh... The Joys of Living in the Beautiful South...
I can't get anything even remotely that large into this poor little house right now or I might would consider driving over to Knoxville myself.
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kahukini
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Joined: Mar 28, 2002
Posts: 555
From: Saint Louis
| Posted: 2003-07-25 09:57 am Permalink
The auction says the original owner here in birmingham paid 1K for it in a shop in the big easy in the early 80's - insane, no? In the early 80's this should have been worth $200 max, right?
Doesn't look like they know what it is, but they know it's worth a lot, what with that 2K buy it now.
I have never seen a witco bar in person... maybe I should email the buyer to see if I can go take a look.
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Traitor Vic
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 02, 2003
Posts: 428
From: Greenville, SC
| Posted: 2003-07-26 01:13 am Permalink
I can't imagine that that would hurt! Unless, of course, it gave the seller more justification for hangin' on to it. I certainly doesn't seem as if he/she has a clue. The term TIKI BAR doesn't come up even ONCE in the description.
By the way... If you've never seen a Witco Bar in person you need to visit Graceland and head directly to the Jungle Room! Not just the Bar but the ENTIRE ROOM is Witco'd Out to the Max! It is Amazing!
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kahukini
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Joined: Mar 28, 2002
Posts: 555
From: Saint Louis
| Posted: 2003-07-26 10:32 am Permalink
oh that's right, i have been to graceland a couple of times...
I don't think i got very close to the stuff there. This specific bar is in the BOT... it looks so small, I'm just curious to inspect it, to pet it..
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