Snowdrop prices 2010

[cycnich]

At least snowdrops are not fetching the prices of Giacometti's!  Yet.......

One sculpture has just sold for £58 million. 

Was that on ebay?

[KentGardener]

At least snowdrops are not fetching the prices of Giacometti's!  Yet.......

One sculpture has just sold for £58 million.  

Was that on ebay?

Sotheby's, London

[cycnich]

At least snowdrops are not fetching the prices of Giacometti's!  Yet.......

One sculpture has just sold for £58 million. 

Was that on ebay?

Sotheby's, London

Good old Del boy.

[Anthony Darby]

Our school had a non-uniform day (we had to wear red and/or blue) and raised £1400+ (fourteen hundred pounds plus) for Haiti. Lucy's primary school had a "hats for Haiti" day and raised £700.

[mark smyth]

someone just bought a spikey, Alburgh Claw, on Ebay for £155.

[Brian Ellis]

 

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[galanthusboy]

I thought things were going a bit crazy on ebay when wendys gold was going for £44 etc but this morning takes the biscuit Cordelia at £41 plus p&p. I need to lie down and have a stiff drink.

[steve owen]

The auction for Cordelia hasn't ended so the final price will be even higher. However, this is an aberrant auction. Four bulbs of Cordelia have sold on Ebay earlier this season for an average price of £16. What we have here is a bidding war between two bidders. When you get this situation and the red mist descends, logic goes out of the window. But generally this is a good time to buy on Ebay because ther early-season testostorone has disappeared and prices are tending to reduce.

To restate my earlier point, the £16 average price for Cordelia would be lower if some of the people who grow sizeable clumps of Cordelia were prepared to make some of them available. For example, Cedric's Prolific and St Annes (both super snowdrops) are available on Ebay at 3 or 5 bulbs a time for very reasonable prices. Its all about supply and demand.

[mark smyth]

I'm adding to the frenzy next year and hope to have an excellent selection of pot grown bulbs available on Ebay 

[zephirine]

Here's another, sweet (though french ) 19th century snowdrop VTC, Brian:

Zephirine

[Eric Locke]

Don"t think ebay prices have dropped that much as someone is selling "Grumpy and with over four days left is already over £90 

Eric

[steve owen]

Don"t think ebay prices have dropped that much as someone is selling "Grumpy and with over four days left is already over £90 

Eric

The current Grumpy auction is another aberration (13 Grumpy sales on Ebay this season have averaged £38) and another example of a bidding war with red mist. And generalising from one aberrant auction to "ebay prices" in general seems to me a pretty risky extrapolation.  Overall, Ebay prices this year are down on last; unsurprisingly when there's a word-wide recession. I keep the score.

[Eric Locke]

Don"t think ebay prices have dropped that much as someone is selling "Grumpy and with over four days left is already over £90 

Eric

The current Grumpy auction is another aberration (13 Grumpy sales on Ebay this season have averaged £38) and another example of a bidding war with red mist. And generalising from one aberrant auction to "ebay prices" in general seems to me a pretty risky extrapolation.  Overall, Ebay prices this year are down on last; unsurprisingly when there's a word-wide recession. I keep the score.

Hi Steve

Certainly the prices on the few I have listed this season were much lower than in the past .

Eric

[Brian Ellis]

Here's another, sweet (though french ) 19th century snowdrop VTC, Brian:

Lovely card Zepherine.