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Re:Why people collect art by 20180201 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @12:24PM (#16353570)
certainly seems plausible to me. do you think there's a reason they do this with art more than cars, homes, watches, jewelry? portability?
Re:Why people collect art by coldtea on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:17PM (#16353895)
Because cars, homes, watches and jewerly don't jump in price as highly as art pieces do. You can't buy some shitty car and sell it for 1 million a few years later. As for selling antique cars and Ferraris and such, those are already expensive to begin with and the margins are low.

But you can artificially inflate some BS artist's work.

Re:Why people collect art by mseebach on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:29PM (#16353950)
These things generally aren't unique, and so it's relatively easy to establish a market price, and flag it if something suddenly sells for a lot more than that.