ATG’s recent round table on how auctioneers and dealers should charge for their expertise
MADAM – I read with great interest your ‘The price is right’ report of the recent ATG round table, debating how to charge for expertise (ATG No 2358). I would like to respond to a question you posed as to whether dealers should have to justify their mark-up.
In my opinion they should not. Anything that is sold in any marketplace is, despite the valuation an expert may put on it, only worth what someone else will pay for it – be it property, a car, jewellery, company shares, a work of art or an antique table.