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lluis
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 Posted: May 22, 2017 04:48 Post subject: Re: Quarter million fake Tourmaline cluster. |
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Hi, Pierre, List
Well, I think that it is overpriced, but value is in beholder, so, if anyone bought it, price is correct for him. Despite what I think about.... On the other side, he said clearly that piece is hand-arranged, not as in nature. So, he does not cheat anyone (well, maybe the ones that do not read, but that is not his fault...)
A well known mineral dealer in USA wrote (or said...) that if a mineral is sold, that means that is too lowly priced..... By the way, I bought some of his former pieces from another dealer when I was in NY... And seller priced them very correctly, to my understanding. I continue buying from him (by post.....l)
So, prices are just a question of how much would buyer wish to pay.
Tooled ancient coins sometimes receive higher price than an untouched one...So happened in an European auction, with same type, one untouched and the other adverted as tooled, having the tooled one more or less double selling price after auction...
Things happen. For sad, to my understanding...But still, they happen...
With best wishes
Lluís |
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TripleRoyale
Joined: 23 Feb 2017
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Location: Tempe, AZ
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| Posted: May 22, 2017 10:02 Post subject: Re: Quarter million fake Tourmaline cluster. |
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| alfredo wrote: | Another way to look at it is that they are selling a work of art, not a real mineral specimen, and they openly admit that, so they aren't cheating anyone. What's the price of art nowadays? There's an item in the news today about a painting that sold for $100,000,000...
Makes mineral collecting look like a poor person's hobby ;)) |
Yeah, but that was a Basquiat.
This is just a Brokenrock. :( |
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Peter Lemkin
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Location: Prague
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| Posted: May 22, 2017 10:25 Post subject: Re: Quarter million fake Tourmaline cluster. |
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| I know some high-end dealers find that unique specimens sell better if they price them higher - not lower. That won't work with many flats of something, but a single piece or a few, even if not really objectively worth a lot more, sell due to snob factor and some assumption that if it must be worth more, because it is priced for a lot. A lot of gullible people around..... |
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lluis
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| Posted: May 22, 2017 11:30 Post subject: Re: Quarter million fake Tourmaline cluster. |
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Hi, Peter
No gullible people, just vanity... or thinking, as you said, that it worth far more...
If you have so many money that a million more or less is nothing, well, thinking is in another way...
With best wishes
Lluís |
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markbeckett
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Location: Cornwall
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| Posted: May 22, 2017 11:36 Post subject: Re: Quarter million fake Tourmaline cluster. |
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| The whole thing - what a sad report :-( |
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