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The Oz Round Table boards => The Round Table => Topic started by: *CountessA* on June 28, 2009, 02:07:46 AM
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Excellent eBay guide here (http://reviews.ebay.com/The-Brutal-Truth-about-Buying-Chinese-Antiques-on-eBay_W0QQugidZ10000000005820898).
New law - as of June 2009 in the Peoples Republic of China, exporting anything earlier than 1911 (the end of the Qing dynasty) is strictly forbidden. Also, President Bush signed an executive order just before he left office preventing the importation of Chinese antiques older than 250 years. In Taiwan, anything 100 years or older cannot be exported. In the Peoples Republic of China, the penalties for smuggling "Cultural Relics" are severe. Lengthy imprisonment, and sometimes even execution. The Chinese Government doesn't fool around. This is well documented on the internet.
FACT #5 - MOST SCAMMERS HAVE GREAT FEEDBACK!
Good feedback ratings on these western con artists do not mean that they are selling real antiques The types of customers who buy junk from these scam artists are mostly low feedback novices. They are all too happy to leave excellent feedback for their "genuine Ming Dynasty jade dragon pendant", or whatever piece of junk they just blew $100 on. They wouldn't know a real antique piece from a fake - so how reliable is their feedback? There are dealers out there who have thousands of sales and 99% positive feedback who have never sold a genuine piece their entire life.
Read the whole article for some extremely interesting information if you've been looking on eBay for this sort of thing.
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Thankyou Countesa. That is interesting.
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It is interesting indeed, however I have always considered the words "Asian" "Antiques" and "Ebay" combined to be somewhat of an oxymoron....
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Yes liisa. I don't bother browse those listings anymore--- makes me feel annoyed.
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Another pet hate of mine is the terms "Antique like" and "Antique style" it's either a Bloody Antique or it is not IMHO.