Are people getting sick of Buffett's crony capitalist spiel? The San Francisco Business Times reports:
The last few minutes of bidding for the annual charity lunch with Warren Buffett are normally happy ones for supporters of San Francisco's Glide Foundation.
In recent years, last-minute bidding has regularly pushed the price to record levels. Last year's lunch for eight almost tripled in the final minute of bidding, closing at $3.46 million.
With bidding nearing the $1 million mark by mid-afternoon Friday, expectations ran high that the lunch with the Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO could cross $4 million for the first time.
But as the auction closed at just $1,000,100, some attending the invitation-only countdown party at Restaurant Lulu in San Francisco could be heard speculating that a glitch must have occurred. At the party, I asked Alan Marks, eBay's communications chief, about the possibility of a glitch. He defended the integrity of the auction.
I'd bid a 100 bucks just to not have to eat lunch with that nose-picking shill
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