Originally posted by Bigbird:
I've never been to the reunions so I may be way off here, but doesn't the mini come with the full size? Like the 2 for $70 or whatever?? If so, then this is the freebie and a thumbnail (which is that a freebie too for all practical intents and purposes?) that they apparently were trying to pay for their $70 full size, the E-Bay costs of the auction and perhaps their flight/gas to and from the reunion!?! Who knows, maybe they wanted the reunion to end up free too!!!! 
Price of the reunion piece with mini: $70
Price of trip to reunion (including meals): ?
Cost of Reunion: ?
E-Bay costs to post auction: ?
Reserve: $1,873.45 
Steve Steve,
Actually you are not too far off in part of your reasoning.
It's been a tradition that people who attended the Reunion would buy the maximum of anything they could and get the maximum of freebies given to each individual guest and use the extras to help defray the cost of the Reunion.
There always were some who would do that in a trade situation- say a scarce limited edition for one of the Reunion pieces.
Hey, like it or not these are scarce items and many of the people here are long term serious collectors and can remember when items went up in value almost immediately upon being issued and sold out or fully distributed.
Is it greed or capitalism at it's finest ? The decision has to be made individually. They put an item up for bid and had either a price in mind that they would accept or the set a high enough price so it wouldn't sell low and got an idea of what people were willing to pay for an unknown item.
That's the way the process works. It ain't wrong and it ain't right it just is.
Dennis
