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Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb
I was not trying to imply that Saco is being picked on too much by board members. Instead, I am wondering why the level of interest in their auction is so great now when many other auction houses have numerous historical offerings on their side?
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I was responding to your question: "Why does this auction house create so much interest/controversy from board members..?"
I don't personally think their auction generates any special amount of interest, but it does generate discussions here on the board, for the reasons I mentioned above. The comment about us picking on him was more of a response to Troy's last post. Any time a representative of an auction house posts the way Troy does, you are going to get discussions - he is sort of inviting them by the types of comments he makes. I have to think that he feels it helps generate bids, or he wouldn't do it. It's sort of a new business model I suppose - maybe we can look forward to all the major auction houses hiring p.r. people like Troy to post here. Personally, I think that would be fun.
Regarding the level of discussion as related to other auction house items, the Brooklyn cdv was an aberration - as Troy mentioned, $90,000 is kind of a lot of money, and you would expect such an item to generate extra discussion.