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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 64478, member: 55&quot;]I don&#039;t know if it would apply to books, but I do have an anecdote about an auction where &quot;fresh to the market&quot; was a factor.</p><p><br /></p><p>At a recent Northwest Coast Native art auction a bracelet by a very famous maker sold for $80,000.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some folks were surprised, because another bracelet from that maker had sold at the same auction house 6 months before for $100,000.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Auction staff explained that the owner in the recent case had shopped his bracelet around, showing it to all the local collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; When he didn&#039;t get results that way, he listed it with the auction house.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus, most of the prospective buyers had already seen the item, and already decided not to buy it.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The auctioneers were convinced this had cost the owner $20,000, and that the expected price would likely have reached $100,000 had the bracelet been &quot;fresh to the market.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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