Market confusion

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Сообщение от Samvel

But I've always thought that auctions are intermediaries between the seller and the buyer

Indeed.
Pad their offers, takes the lead in organizing the process, creates an audience, etc.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzranskiy

pad their offers, takes the lead in organizing the process, creates an audience, etc.

ie controls the process.

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Сообщение от Samvel

ie controls the process.

Yes, but also organizes more.
Here, brought Sotheby's in Moscow, the pre-auction lots on display. To see and people to see their reaction. Again, an episode which, everything seems to be written about this event and even on the television show should have been.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzranskiy

but also organizes more.

Control, no organization does not happen.

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Сообщение от Samvel

Control, no organization does not happen.

Well, maybe ...

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzranskiy

Allow me to ask you, how can control the people if he had not only deprived of the opportunity to make any plan at least for a ridiculously short period of time, well, years, for example, in 1000, but not can answer even for his own tomorrow

Honestly do not understand your vopros.Ya do not know how to respond, and what. If possible, some of which came your question?

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Сообщение от Samvel

Honestly not understand your question.

It's not my question.
This is a question Woland Berlioz and homelessness.

This I mean, they control, organized, and some volcano puffed and no one will arrive in London, for example. Or more trenchant, crisis, or, God forbid, war. And what plans do to the organization, with control?
- Yes, man is mortal, but it would not be so bad. The bad news is that he sometimes sudden death, that's the trick! And do not say that he would do in the evening. (c)

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzranskiy

It's me to the fact that the monitoring, organized, and some volcano puffed and no one will fly to London, for example. Or more trenchant, crisis, or, God forbid, war. And what plans do to the organization, with control?
 - Yes, man is mortal, but it would not be so bad. The bad news is that he sometimes sudden death, that's the trick! And do not say that he will do in the evening.

Hmmm, I Do not Know even what to say to you that something is not like, probably you today not in the mood, this is more like me than vas.Chto-we do then, damn it?

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It was I to behold it you say it all:

Сообщение от Samvel

ie controls the process.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzranskiy

Here, brought Sotheby's in Moscow, the pre-auction lots on display. To see and people to see their reaction. Again, an episode which, everything seems to be written about this event and even on the television show should have been.

Appeared little reason to revive the subject. We have translated and published a bestseller, Donald Thompson's "How to sell a stuffed shark over 12 million" (the truth about the auction houses and contemporary art). Impressive. All the questions that arise here answers in this book. Perhaps someone has already read it too ... is there any opinions? The book was published in Moscow, perhaps, Muscovites have already discussed. In St. Petersburg it is in the House of Books.
I must say, this is a serious study, polite and correct. The author - a professor at Harvard and studied the ins and outs of the European art market, the mechanisms that are not on the surface. Read very interesting.