I agree with you, Richard. Unaware/aware dealers might be a big component in using the Bonhams results to bump up their asking prices. At the end of the day we all know how unpredictable the all thing is and the number of somehow unknown variables that might affect the final price. It is a bit of a gambling and sometimes I get carried away by heavy doses of optimism. Could that be a subliminal response to my wife faces when she looks at my collection?

Overall a good debate and I can't wait to discuss this and much more in few days over few glasses of wine....

Francesco

Yep those chancers, they get everywhere! They have been around for
: a long time already and as ever people who ask significantly too
: much never sell or it takes them years to…

: I think we would need to see a significant flow of extra buyers to
: put prices of the average ones up by much more than say 10-20%.
: On this point even though the PR machine run by Bonhams and Arno
: has been awesome, it’s still been in the fairly rarefied space
: of top level motorsport and the classic car/top level watch
: collecting circles. Many people who are selling their pieces on
: Ebay or elsewhere are unaware of the auction...and so the effect
: these people will have on asking or sold prices is I’d suggest
: negligible. I'd certainly say more are unaware than aware, with
: the excpetion of actual Heuer collectors, like us.

: Rich