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<p>[QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 8145573, member: 90666"]This assuredly does not happen at the middle to top level, not now and not in the past. I know many of the top dealers and agents, and their livelihood depends on strong prices in the short term for their commissions, and strong prices in the long term as everyone is eventually a seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>It did happen in the fine arts world (Christie's, Sotheby's) but the other way round, cooperation to raise not lower prices, and there were major legal consequences.</p><p><br /></p><p>Low level vest pocket dealers or collectors may at times say to each other "I've limited resources and am thinking of going for a,b,c" and the other reply "good to know and good luck, I won't be on those" but that assuredly isn't "meeting, identifying overlaps, citing maximums and agreeing not to compete" as quid pro quo</p><p><br /></p><p>Today's frothy auction results anyways show that if anyone thinks there's any form of agreements to lower prices, those involved are clearly woefully incompetent as results have never been stronger[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 8145573, member: 90666"]This assuredly does not happen at the middle to top level, not now and not in the past. I know many of the top dealers and agents, and their livelihood depends on strong prices in the short term for their commissions, and strong prices in the long term as everyone is eventually a seller. It did happen in the fine arts world (Christie's, Sotheby's) but the other way round, cooperation to raise not lower prices, and there were major legal consequences. Low level vest pocket dealers or collectors may at times say to each other "I've limited resources and am thinking of going for a,b,c" and the other reply "good to know and good luck, I won't be on those" but that assuredly isn't "meeting, identifying overlaps, citing maximums and agreeing not to compete" as quid pro quo Today's frothy auction results anyways show that if anyone thinks there's any form of agreements to lower prices, those involved are clearly woefully incompetent as results have never been stronger[/QUOTE]
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