Keep in mind that the artist, Maurizio Cattelan, is known as a prankster in the art world. I suspect that the banana was actually just a prank...until someone actually bought it. And then someone else bought the second one, and Cattelan suddenly realized he had a frickin' GOLD MINE and jacked up the price. He might have been as shocked as anyone that people bought them.
You'll find things like that on Amazon occasionally. Something that normally costs $5 priced at $5,000. There are fools out there. LOL
I agree, but in fairness I ask you to consider my hobby of stamp collecting.
I enjoy stamp collecting because it broadens your horizons with regards to history, the arts, politics, and so on.
Yet I'm paying good money for what is--basically--a receipt for a service (ie: delivering a letter or parcel) that will never be used.
In short, I'm deliberately "buying a bill of goods."
One particular stamp is considered the Holy Grail in philatelics . . . and that is the 1918 inverted Curtis Jenny airplane.
It was accidentally printed upside-down when the paper was threaded through the printing press in the wrong way.
So . . . it's a defective, misprinted bill of goods . . . and you couldn't touch it for less than--perhaps--$180,000.00 for a single stamp.
Does it make me stupid or gullible that an inverted 1918 Curtis Jenny is one of the first things that I would try to acquire if I won the Lottery?
Stamps--in and of themselves--are actually quite worthless for anything.
To top it all off, I suspect that interest in stamp collecting is waning and dying out--in part--from email and electronic communication that is reducing the importance and appreciation of the postal service. So, I believe that my stamps are actually decreasing in value as time goes by.
