A Prediction

Stephen Colbert, in honor of The Colbert Report’s one-year anniversary, is auctioning off the portrait that has hung over his fireplace since the debut of his show, all proceeds to be given to charity. In under a half hour it’s gone from $300 to just over $40,000 on ebay. Soon as he announced the auction on his show, I predicted it would sell for $75,000. I’m sticking with that. Check back in 10 days to see just how far off the mark I am.

And by the time I finished this post, it had already topped $100,000. No “I Called It” balloons for Dave.

Added on 10/20: And most of those bids were fake, as I started to guess when it topped $600K in under an hour. Throw them out and it’s down to a little over $5000.

Added on 10/27: Final price is $50,605.00. Not exactly the $75,000 I predicted, but still a pretty good showing.