Why do people pay so much money for trees?

aa6972 · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:00

Francis Briest, of Artcurial Briest-Poulain-F.Tajan, a Parisian auction house, believes it to be the first tree sale in Europe or the United States. The auction’s only distant precedent was Sotheby’s sale of Wollemi pines, newly discovered survivors of the Jurassic period, in Sydney in 2005, when the top lot of 20 young trees fetched A$149,187 ($125,000).

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Freaking rich people....

KNiVES · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:07

It must've been tree-mendous to have gone for that price!

gillywibble · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:07

WTF. All the trees are dug up every three to six years and the roots cut? That's insane.

I'd leaf them alone.

excaliborg · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:07

barking mad!

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:08

blix · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:09

Unbeleafable.

PhillyDee · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:12

Yew would have to be mad to pay that much!

JBuk · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:13

has no one twigged onto the scam yet?

Greenlizard0 · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:17

People have too much money when they pay that amount for a tree and they're starving people in the world. Problems exist, we should dwelve into the root of it all!

Dave · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:18

Saps, the lot of them!

starfighter · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:20

They are rare trees to be fair, if they were protecting endangered animals would you complain?

JBuk · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:22

starfighter said:
They are rare trees to be fair, if they were protecting endangered animals would you complain?

I agree, lets branch out

div0 · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:38

Some people are just bark-ing mad.

bullit in head · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:44

oh please leaf out all the puns .

bullit

starfighter · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:44

too many puns, gonna make like a tree and leaf.

JBuk · 27 Sep 2008 at 20:51

starfighter said:
too many puns, gonna make like a tree and leaf.

yeah, old the old chestnuts come out , this thread needs spruced up and any puns removed

unless people pine for more?

wez130 · 27 Sep 2008 at 22:29

i'd say it was a 'con if a' thought about it a little

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 27 Sep 2008 at 22:39

shauncr91 · 27 Sep 2008 at 23:09

You gotta be joaking.

HamZilla · 27 Sep 2008 at 23:11

Ash if I could afford that.