Take a belt buckle with openwork jade. The auction house put the object up for auction with a starting price of 100 euros. That is also a psychological trick, Scheper admits. Put a low price on it, and with a bit of luck people will start bidding against each other. “100 euros is so attractive that people will start bidding.” And when two wealthy Chinese start bidding against each other, the buckle suddenly yields 23,000 euros. “It is also a kind of competition, for us as an auction house it is also a party.”
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