Money and lack of Brains

I've seen lately another example of more money than brains. When someone can sell a corn flake that supposedly looked like the shape of the state of Illinois and get
$1350.00 dollars for it. Im thinking i should be getting a case of corn flakes and dump them out and start going through them for this kind of money. What in the heck is this world coming to?
I have been out bid by morons on Ebay for a used item that you can still buy brand new for less. I was hoping to get it for less than new store price and i was called a sore loser for pointing this out to him that his final bid price and shipping was more than you could go buy it brand spanking new. So thats what i did I sent him a thank you email and went to the store and got it. I hope he enjoyed his over priced possibly scratched used DVD lol. While i watched it from a new untouched DVD!
I used to like going to Ebay and bidding on items. But when you run into some idiots who just has to have it at any cost it sours me to the site.I have since found other sites where i don't have to out bid someone and spend more for the item than it would cost me to pick it up in town. Now if its something that is antique and hasn't been made in along time and someone wants it bad enough i can see something along that line. I guess that money is burning a hole in their pocket as my dad would say.
I've seen poker chips recently on Ebay. A $ 5.00 dollar chip selling for $ 8.00 dollars plus $3.00 shipping thats $11.00 return on a $ 5.00 purchase not bad at all, alot better odds getting more money back than trying your hand at poker or black jack this way your guarenteed not to lose.
Last winter or year before someone from the Colorado area sold a cooler full of snow a free item on Ebay someone out in eastern United States paid like $ 400.00 so their kids could have a snow ball fight cause they had a real mild winter and lack of snow.
After the winter we had here in the midwest for 2007-08. I would have gave anyone the 3 feet of snow all over my yard for FREE !
Makes me wonder what ever happened to COMMON SENSE in this world?