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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 320974, member: 360&quot;]I&#039;ve been dealing antiques for nearly 3 years now. Yes, I&#039;m a newbie in this trade. But I&#039;ve seen - and have dealt with - all kinds of people and things when it comes to &#039;antiques&#039; and &#039;prices&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>An antique-shop owner I know was helping out a customer one day, and I heard the customer ask something about why X item was more expensive than Y item, when they were essentially the SAME item?</p><p><br /></p><p>And the shopkeeper said: &quot;It depends on what each individual dealer bought the item at and how much they think it&#039;s worth and what they can sell it for. It&#039;s not up to us (the shopkeepers) to tell the dealers (who rent their space) what to price their antiques at&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I get people who haggle and bargain with me all the time with my antiques and I don&#039;t mind. But when people insist on certain prices...all the fun just evaporates out of it. I had one guy offer $450 on a solid gold watch which I paid just under $400 for, and that, I consider cheap, considering what they go for retail. It&#039;s a hard business sometimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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