Rats Rats Rats!!!

Check out this eBay auction that ended at $38. For that some lucky son of a bitch got:
• The Criterion laserdisc of "Robinson Crusoe On Mars," which isn't really a collectible anymore because of its DVD re-release, but still worth the money, and
• The autographed version of "The Day The Earth Stood Still," which includes not only the movie, but a CD of the score, a book about Robert Wise, and Robert Wise's frickin' autograph. This is the dude that edited "Citizen Kane," and won the Academy Award for "The Sound of Music" and "West Side Story."
There were only 2,500 autograph sets made, according to lddb.com, and I could have had one if I could have paid the auctioneer on payday, just four days late. But the dude never wrote me back after I asked for permission to hold my payment for 79 hours. That auction was worth a TON more than $36. Rats Rats Rats!!!
Plus to add insult to injury this putz is selling his copy of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for a starting bid of $24, with $15 shipping. Of course, his is the first US release of the movie, the one that was discontinued after a remaster was released... a better LASERDISC version replaced it. When it was first produced, this dude's LD went for $39.98 retail, so the lucky bidder there will save a whole 98¢ off the original price. Gads, I may spend the whole day sighing.