Post #52696 by suicide_sam on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 5:14 PM

I honestly don't have a problem with this. I know it sucks that the true fans should be the ones to get the work, but thats the nature of supply and demand. If you know someone will pay out there nose for something and you can get it relativley cheap, then why not pick it up and move it and make a profit for moving it. Of course I spent a couple of years selling drugs wehn I was 17-19 and I never had any moral dillema doing that either. All your doing is making a profit for moving something, picking it up here at this price, and moving it there at an inflated price. If someone is willing to give you that money then by all means go for it. What you have to realize is that some people have an addictiove personality. These people will pay anything for whatever there vise is. Honestly all people with addictive personalities are prey. If one predator doesn't prey on them another will. If this person had not bought the painting to resell someone else would have. It's the same thing that drives ticket scalpers who charge 5 to 10 times the price to people who are real fans of the band, it's the same thing that drives art dealers who buy art and resell it to collecters, real estae investors, ect, etc... It's almost a part of nature. Some people are buyers and others are suppliers.