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For sake of good relations perhaps you write it off, putting it down to experience? When I first became excited about old beads I bought from a Muslim Filipino dealer with connections to 'relatives' in Indonesia and China. Time, reading, and this forum made me aware that I had paid well over the odds. I saw the dealer and explained to him what I had learned, and apologised for being so easy to fool (which went down well) and he did actually make me some recompense and a couple of carved stone pendent gifts. I also bought strands from him at a much more realistic price. Win-Win. I still see Ahmed once a week or so, and we remain on good terms. It was well-worth avoiding a confrontation. Dealers are wrong to misrepresent their goods, but for the small guys perhaps it is a kind of wishful thinking on their part. Sometimes we have to pay the price for being naive. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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