Often, before the auction, the seller offered to accept lower bar of the reserve price on the pretext that revealed no great interest in this work, or because there are too many works of the author taken at the auction. The seller, of course accepts the assignment, since there is no way (shipping, insurance, cataloging, and so on and so forth), and then it turns out that at the tender 2-3, well, a maximum of 4 works by this author. Often, the buyer (especially on the phone) is a battle with another buyer, or vice versa, in the room to fight with someone who participated by telephone. And in the first and second cases, the telephone line is no one except the employee of the auction.
If the last bid phantom - the work is exhibited at the following trades, and the seller informed of the non-payment.
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