Misbehaved Dealers

A very good Sunday afternoon to know more about antiques and a dealer, the three of us with the two of them had known each other before me. One of them an antique collector cum dealer, he told the both of us that a group of Chinese came to buy some items from him but did not mentioned the when and the number of them. Recently one of these men came back wanted to buy some more and this collector cum dealer refused to sell any items to him (one dealer) for the reason that the earlier deal had made the buyers rich and also asked for discount by them until this local dealer got fed up.

My protest against his action was that when the Chinese dealers bought the antiques from him, they have to put up capital and risk. I told this local dealer that you were hoping that Chinese buyers with the items bought from you to take back to China and not able to sell and go bankrupt. This dealer who came back is a successful dealer whereas the rest of them has not been so successful and this successful dealer has found that the antiques with this local dealer as important and the only thing is to increase the price and make better profits and do not sell if the price is not to your satisfaction instead of rejecting him. This local dealer has regretted selling his antiques at a low price at the previous deal and jealous of this successful dealer making profits from his pieces.

Later this local dealer asked me to get some buyers for him whom I have to turn him away for not sensible way in dealing and his arrogance. There are a lot of people that I have to distant myself where there is a waste of time. Many collectors, dealers and experts are jealous of my father running his antique business then and now the burden is with collectors with the ability to prove genuineness for their private owned artefacts.

I remembered reading an article in the local newspaper featuring a famous Chinese antique furniture collector holding a rare piece of antique bench in his hand in a photograph. The bench is a rare piece of furniture but meant for Chinese ancestor.

 Most of the collectors by now must have known what are genuine antiques and not on guessing basis after I had mentioned so many famous experts for consulting or sharing.