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$3.2 Million for a Comic Book

If only you had saved your comic books that you had when you were a kid, you might have a fortune by now. Here is one extreme example.  Action Comics No 1, printed in 1938, recently sold on eBay for  $3.2 million , an all time record. The comic is in mint condition.  The original cost of the comic was 10 cents. It was the first comic ever to feature Superman.  A portion of the sale will go to  the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Warren Buffett has been Bid up to a Million Dollars

In case you weren't aware, there has been an auction going on this week for the rights for you and seven friends to have lunch with Warren Buffett in New York.  There has been some spirited bidding, with the bids starting at $25,000 and currently over $1 million. You need to be qualified as a bidder in order to place a bid. The auction is being run by eBay , and the proceeds of the auction will go to the Glide Foundation.

$1 Million for a Lunch with Warren Buffett

The Warren Buffett Power Lunch Auction, which was held 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 of the successful bidder's friends. The auction was to benefit the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco, California. 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. The reason for this drop in price is uncertain. Some pundits...

How You Can Have Lunch with Warren Buffett - One Day Left to Bid

How would you like to have lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B)? Plus, you can bring seven of your friends along. Plus you get to pick Buffett's brain during the dinner, to get great investment advice. Well now you can. An auction for this great opportunity is being held by eBay (EBAY), with one day left to bid. If you are the successful bidder, then Warren Buffett will host a lunch for you to benefit the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco and its programs. The bidding began June 2, 2013 at 7:30 pm PDT and closes June 7, 2013 at 7:30 pm PDT. If you are the winning bidder , Warren Buffett will dine with you and up to seven friends at the Smith & Wollensky restaurant in New York City on a mutually agreed upon date. All bidders must pre-qualify . The starting bid is $25,000. All of the proceeds from the winning bid will benefit GLIDE, one of the leading social service institutions working to alleviate human suffering and poverty in the San Franc...