How You Can Have a Power Lunch with Warren Buffett

How would you like to have a Power Lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) (BRKB). On top of that, you can bring seven of your friends.

An auction is being held on eBay (EBAY) for this luncheon. The bidding began June 5, 2016 and will close on June 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm PDT. Buffett will join the winning bidder and up to seven friends at the Smith & Wollensky restaurant in New York City on a date agreed upon by both parties.

All of the proceeds from the winning bid will benefit GLIDE, a leading social service institution working to alleviate human suffering and poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The opening bid was $25,000. If you are interested in bidding, you must pre-qualify. The current bid at the time this article was written is $200,100.

To see what the latest bid is, to pre-qualify, and to bid, go here. 

Several Business and Tech Domains For Sale at Sedo Auction

Sedo, the large domain auction house, is currently auctioning off many domain names, several of which are business and technology related. If you are looking for an interesting and unique domain, you might be able to pick on up at a reasonable price. Some have minimum bids of only one dollar.

Here are a few that may be of interest to you:

boardroom.com

chat.org

vp.tv

china.pro

ebusiness.it

manufacture.net

tieandsuit.com

korean.tv

fireinsurances.com

The auction ends on April 28 at approximately 12PM EST.

You can get more info by going to the following link:

https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?rel=2&orderdirection=2&listing_type%5B%5D=4&auction_event%5B%5D=387&et_cid=&et_lid=&et_sub=GD_April&language=us

Have Lunch with Warren Buffett for $25,000

Now is your chance to have lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B) for only $25,000. At least that is the price at the time this article was written. That's if you bid now, and no one else bids.

Here is what this is all about. eBay (EBAY) is holding a charity auction for this opportunity, starting tonight. For the winner of the auction, Warren Buffett will provide a lunch for you and seven of your friends.



The proceeds of the auction benefit San Francisco's GLIDE Foundation and its programs. The bidding starts now and closes June 5, 2013 at 7:30 pm PDT, 10:30 EDT. If you are the winning bidder, Warren Buffett will dine with you and your friends at New York City's Smith & Wollensky restaurant at an agreed upon date.

All bidders are required to pre-qualify, with the starting bid of $25,000. GLIDE is a leading social service institution working to help overcome human suffering and poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area.

By the way, if you want a free list of Warren Buffett stocks go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

A Million Dollar Stamp

This isn't a forever stamp, but the owner of this stamp will be forever wealthy. This is the famous Inverted Jenny stamp which has an upside down airplane printed on it.

There are only five of these stamps in mint condition, known to exist. 

The stamp will be auctioned off in New York next week, and may sell for $500,000 to a million dollars.

Why not add it to your investment portfolio?

Final Result of the Warren Buffett Lunch Auction

The Warren Buffett Power Lunch Auction through eBay (EBAY) was completed last week. This was the auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B), along seven friends. The auction was to benefit the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco and its programs.

In case you missed it, the results are in. The lunch sold for $1,000,100.00, with 106 bids. Bidding started out at $25,000.

Unfortunately, this lunch didn't pull in as much as last year, when the auction was hammered at $3,456,789. What is interesting is that there were the same number of bids last year as there were this year.

As a matter of fact, the high bid this year didn't even come close to many of the previous years. In 2011, the Warren Buffett lunch went for $2,345,678, in 2010, the Buffett lunch sold for $2.6 million, and even in 2008, the lunch was auctioned off at $2 million.

Not sure why it is so low this year. Any thoughts?

$20 Million for Two Boxes of Hostess Twinkies

Someone listed $20 million for two boxes of Hostess Twinkies on eBay (EBAY)! (Thanks to Rachel Fox for finding this Twinkies news.) I guess union strikes and company shutdowns can generate a lot of news and end up creating new collectibles.

This listing closed on Black Friday, November 23, 2012, and had 51 offers. The sales price was technically $19,999,999.90. These were 13.5 ounce Golden Sponge Cake Cream Filling Cakes with ten Twinkies per box. One half the proceeds to be donated to the local children's hospital according to the listing.

Full Disclosure: Author of the article has never eaten a Twinkie and has no plans to do so in the near future.

Are We Really in a Recession?

Considering the high prices paid at auctions recently, it makes you wonder if the recession is really all that bad:

$1,000 for a Popsicle

Hat sold for $131,000

A $2,000,000 lunch

Dress that sold for $4.6 Million

$110,000 for a Gun

$2.3 million for a Photograph

Who Would Pay $4.6 Million for a Dress?

Yes, $4.6 million was pad for a dress at an auction recently, but it wasn't just any dress. It was the dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in 'The Seven Year Itch' where the air was blowing it up.

The dress was consigned to the auction by the famous singer, dancer, and actress Debbie Reynolds. Other dresses and Hollywood collectibles were also sold.


Picture from Wikipedia

Warren Buffett Lunch Hammered at $2,345,678

The lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B) at Smith & Wollensky in New York City that was auctioned off on eBay (EBAY) went for $2,345,678, and the high bidder agreed to increase the top bid to $2.63 million to set a new record. The proceeds go to the Glide Foundation in San Francisco.

There were eight bids but most of the spirited bidding took place during the first couple days of the five day auction.

Here's an Investment: The Statue of Liberty's Nose

No, it's not the Brooklyn Bridge that's up for sale. It's a piece of the nose of the Statue of Liberty that will be auctioned off. It was one of four pieces of copper created as a backup replacement for the tip of the nose during the 1980s. One of the nose tips resides at the end of Lady Liberty's nose, one is owned by a collector, one has been destroyed, and the fourth can be yours. It will be auctioned off by Guernsey's Auction House.