In anticipation of the auction "Bukinist" (
http://artinvestment.ru/news/auctnew..._bukinist.html) have traditionally asked for comments from Anatoly Borovkov, an expert in direction. View was skeptical. I picked up from the mail correspondence, and publish with the permission of Borovkov (without cuts).
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Hello. After reviewing lots of auction Sovkom regret that there was nothing to write about the auction can not, for ethical reasons. After all, I also do books. In fact, the latest book auctions held in Moscow for the past two months is difficult to call auctions, but rather a sale on the auction rules. This comes from reading and evaluation of books offered for them. The vast majority of these books can be purchased in the free trade in most antique shops in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today, self-respecting company can collect material for this auction and hold it no more than twice a year. Or to arrange an auction to sell a large collection of collector. Yet the last "auction" - this is a normal sale. Visibility trade creates lots of times, only the initial low price of the lot. Today, compared to other book auctions, more properly, yet look only auctions "Empire", since they just started to engage with books and approach this with caution, not put up for sale defective copies of the ordinary books derived from the seal "and" make a Xerox of pages " . Although they are sometimes lured to their auctions unusually low initial prices, which then grow to several times during the auction, which was not possible to observe any of the well-known international auctions, where the estimate is not privyshayutsya more than doubled. So извените, I expressed my opinion, but from Comment particular auction refuse.
Anatoly Borovkov