The Great Art Con - From the Inside Out, Park West Gallery

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The Great Art Con - From the Inside Out, Park West Gallery

Article #8: Park West Contracted Auctioneers Speak Out
"You've got $20K credit – this is on offer...." This is when people would start to say it's a great investment and all this other stuff. The guy I trained with, that was his big thing. He would turn around and push everything as an investment. I would discuss his ethics with my friends on other ships and we would laugh about it at the time but when you look back, here are all these poor people who invested tens and tens of thousands of dollars thinking they were getting a huge investment, when the truth is if they ever tried to flip the artwork, the true value of the piece was revealed and the clients realize they have paid too much. Also, once a gallery is aware that any art is from Park West...nobody ever wants anything to do with that artwork; no gallery will buy off a collector if the art is from Park West.

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[dma]

having read the last batch of articles,i would like to tell you how accurate they are.i won the raffle for the discount of 500 dollars and ended up buying second piece under weird circumstances.i again thank you guys for all your help in my dealings with park west.my 25th weddings cruise would have been a disaster without you guys
i look forward to many more of these articles
great work