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Posted By: barrysloate

In a sense if a seller only wants to part with an object at a very aggressive retail price he should bypass the auction route and see if he can make a direct sale. Perhaps even a Sotheby's or a Christie's could provide such a service and bring buyer and seller together. An auction really should be unrestricted, that is the whole purpose of the auction system.

But as Richard states it is difficult to get a seller to agree to those terms, whereas a buyer will gladly go for it.