The More I Watch the Auction Houses . . .
The more I watch the high-brow auction houses, with the kind of sales we saw Saturday at Bonhams, the better I am liking ChronoTrader (and even EBay). Who needs (a) the "experts" (with the crazy, manipulative, semi-fraudulent estimates), (b) the bogus "provenance", and (c) the private deals after the public sales fail. Suddenly, EBay seems like safe, reliable place to buy watches!
Pardon the rant . . . it just seems that the kind of listings and results we saw from the Saturday auction do not do anyone any good.
Jeff
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: I totally agree with Paolo: for the auction to be successful and
: let the auction house keep or build more trust in both the
: bidders' and the sellers' tben it's got to be a clear and fair
: process: reasonable price first, as the auctioneers are supposed
: to be experts. Btw, I still haven't finished counting the errors
: on the Patrizzi online catalogue!
: Cheers.
: Fabrizio
