Would you pay $50,000 for a goldfish?
The lunchtime public TV show usually visits somewhere in Japan -- furusato, which is kind of hometown, or home country. But today we had an auction. With huge koi.
And the centerpiece was the sale of one that went for 5,600,000 yen -- which is roughly $50,000. The winning buyer was from Singapore, talking on a cell phone to someone while bidding. The bidding on that fish started at about $8000 and quickly went up.
Mitsuko and I pondered briefly whether the fish would get a first class seat or just business on the way to Singapore. It is kind of interesting thinking about how you transport a fish like that.
And the centerpiece was the sale of one that went for 5,600,000 yen -- which is roughly $50,000. The winning buyer was from Singapore, talking on a cell phone to someone while bidding. The bidding on that fish started at about $8000 and quickly went up.
Mitsuko and I pondered briefly whether the fish would get a first class seat or just business on the way to Singapore. It is kind of interesting thinking about how you transport a fish like that.