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Old 04-11-2017, 03:37 PM
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I still don't understand why an auction house would charge a sellers fee on top of the buyer premium. It's double dipping.
They charge it because they can get away with it.
It was not that many years ago that there was no buyers fee.
Christie's & Sotheby's, those paragons of virtue, started the buyers fee.
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