How to explain the dramatic drop in bids for a lunch with
billionaire Warren Buffett? An online auction for the chance to break bread
with the Oracle of Omaha took in just over $1 million this past week. That’s
the lowest price since investor Mohnish Pabrai and two friends won with a
$650,100 bid in 2007, and an astonishing 71 percent discount below the $3.45
million paid by last year’s winner for lunch at a Manhattan steakhouse. This year’s winner—one
of eight contenders—chose to remain anonymous. Proceeds go to Glide, a San Francisco charity
supported by Buffett’s first wife for many years.
“It’s a sad day for Glide and for all of us,” Pabrai said
Monday of this year’s more modest auction result. “Our hero got beat down….”
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