Sunday Night Stupid Watch Thoughts

A wealthy person making a really big tax write-off to charity and they get a watch in the process is really not the best way to determine the "value" of said watch.

Just because I got a tote bag from from the NPR station after donating doesn't mean it is worth the $25 I gave to the radio station.

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I agree that this wasn't a good way to determine the "value", but I don't think that the bidders were bidding because of the charity. I suspect the motivations were more for bragging rights than for any noble gesture. 

If you watch the Barret Jackson auto auctions, you often see a car auctioned for charity where the winning bidder immediately turns around and donates the vehicle to be auctioned off again. In my mind, that is truly being philanthropic.  

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Hold up are you saying the system is somehow tought in favor of the wealthy? nooooo!! haha :)

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A fucking piece of jewelry selling at auction for a grotesquely obscene amount of money and so much ink getting spilt over the ephemera of the ultra-rich?

Per your username and in the great words of Mr. Vonnegut...so it goes.

To quote Vonnegut again, this is what I think about all the noise around luxury watch "culture" (Rolexes, Pateks, and the like): *

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soybobomb

A fucking piece of jewelry selling at auction for a grotesquely obscene amount of money and so much ink getting spilt over the ephemera of the ultra-rich?

Per your username and in the great words of Mr. Vonnegut...so it goes.

To quote Vonnegut again, this is what I think about all the noise around luxury watch "culture" (Rolexes, Pateks, and the like): *

Sad, but true