Someone Who Can Decipher Bidding Patterns Please Explain This

[georged]

An auction for a similar, not-quite-as-nice-but-definitely-not-bad LB just finished a few minutes ago:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ENGLISH-ESTATE-PIPE-DUNHILL-LB-BRUYERE-1966-/362033721034?hash=item544ae42eca
I wonder if Chance ever got paid?

 

[sablebrush52]

One day you have to tell us an Adventures of the Glamorous & Spoiled story or two. (I'm imagining a producer who dropped a $3K bottle of wine while wining and dining you to join his project, but didn't even flinch. Just ordered another and finished his pitch.)

Well. I once had a producer invite me to lunch at a very exclusive and expensive restaurant whereat he sat eating lunch while I sat and watched him. When he was done stuffing his face, he gave me a load of bullshit over our bill for services rendered on his crappy film. I was very happy when the executive producer fired him. What a douche.
Mostly it's mystery meat in a sack. Ahh, the glamour of Hollywood.

 

[georged]

An auction for a similar, not-quite-as-nice-but-definitely-not-bad LB just finished a few minutes ago:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ENGLISH-ESTATE-PIPE-DUNHILL-LB-BRUYERE-1966-/362033721034?hash=item544ae42eca

Whoops, never mind. Replacement stem. (Obvious too---I had a different pipe in mind, then linked to this from the thumbnail without checking. That'll learn me. :lol: )

 

[georged]

Well. I once had a producer invite me to lunch at a very exclusive and expensive restaurant whereat he sat eating lunch while I sat and watched him. When he was done stuffing his face, he gave me a load of bullshit over our bill for services rendered on his crappy film. I was very happy when the executive producer fired him. What a douche.
Mostly it's mystery meat in a sack. Ahh, the glamour of Hollywood.

That sort of scenario is pretty much what I imagined. Ego-driven, lots-of-show-and-little-go, "power of personality"-type interactions, and facts & truth having little to do with anything.
Thanks for the laugh. :lol: