Would you attend Disney Art auctions on the ships?

[Quellman]

Went to an art auction once, mainly just to learn about art, it's value, and of course the free watered down alcohol, etc. But nothing about the art auction is particularly awesome as it would totally be an impulse purchase as you can't easily google search real value while at sea. It isn't like there are enough people to actually BID on the art and drive the price up. Basically the auctioneer would be like "starting bid $200. No? $150 then. Sold for $150."

Disney doesn't need this type of distraction unless they wanted to do tours of their art galleries and mention they are available for purchase.

 

[moose138]

Sorry that you didn’t have a lot of poll options to choose from. I added more.
The forgeries is in reference to the Bloomberg article that exposed Park West on RCL.

I think I would like an auction, even for non-investible pieces. The energy of the room is fun and being able to get art at lower than sticker price is very interesting to me.

 

[darnheather]

I have no interest to shop when I am on a cruise or vacation in general. I pickup a Christmas ornament and that is it. I have even less interest in Disney art.

 

[GrrArrgh]

Ship art is a scam, so no, I would not attend art auctions on the Disney ships. Yes, you're buying a thing you like, but if you think it will appreciate in value like art you would buy on land, you would be wrong. If they want to sell prints or originals like are sold in Main Street Disneyland, they could have a shop for that.

 

[Dug720]

Still no applicable answer. I like art but I don’t want an auction OR really to buy as I have no place to display it. So I went with “prefer to buy” but that is not 100% true.

I am perfectly happy with the Disney art the ships have on board. No need to ply people with alcohol and trick them into buying it.

 

[bumbershoot]

I'm going to guess the free champagne...

Yep!

But wow does Royal make you wait for it.

The forgeries is in reference to the Bloomberg article that exposed Park West on RCL.

It was Norwegian.

And the only mention of the word forgery I noticed was in regards to a signature, and it wasn’t discussed further.

Other than that I found the article to not be shocking. Anyone paying any attention to the “paintings”, and thinking about how they might possibly get THAT painting shipped to them, should know that they aren’t selling true real amazing paintings, or the ones right in front of them.

Then again, I learned of that “trick” with my first engagement ring. If a ring style is named, and you’re not choosing the stone separately, you’re not going to get the one you looked at so carefully with the loupe. They’ll take it back to wrap and swap it with a lesser version.

So it’s no surprise to me.

And his constant mention of spotty WiFi seems to date the article. WiFi in ships with it is pretty good now.

At the auctions I would write notes to my then-husband and no one ever approached me to throw me off the ship lol.

The energy of the room is fun and being able to get art at lower than sticker price is very interesting to me.

Not the auctions I’ve been to on Royal. Pretty boring and filled with people just waiting on the sparking wine.


There’s the occasional fun when someone thinks something is pretty and gets it. They’ve always seemed happy with their purchases.

 

[cadien]

We buy art but we have no interest in Disney art.

 

[kiford]

We went to one when DCL still had them just to see what they were like because I'd heard so much about art auctions at sea. Poorly attending, booorriing. Left after a short while. I don't have much room in my house for any more artwork than what I have but we do like wandering through the galleries on the ship and taking a look. If I really found something I liked and wanted, I'd find a place in the house for it and would be fine to buy but it's not likely to happen. I think that the no-auction method with only Disney-related artwork on DCL is a good way to go, if you buy there's actually some relationship from the art to the trip so is partly a memory as well as artwork, is low-key, and is much more in line with Disney's brand than the art auction sales usually found on ships.