I'm not 100% familiar how the process between a buyer
and seller goes, but I was wanting to know for my
fathers sake. I believe he has several Mayan artifacts
he had found many years ago and was wanting to find a
buyer for them. He has recently told me that he found
a buyer through a friend, but that he would need to
give a $700-1000 deposit to just examine them to
verify their age/authenticity since they have yet to
be looked at. This buyer lives in another state; would
it be advisable to go and actually meet the buyer to
be sure that everything goes as told?
--- Paul Barford <pbarford@pro.onet.pl> wrote:
> An interesting question. It may not be a scam, but
> the way you put it sounds pretty unreasonable.
>
> You were a bit cagey about describing what type of
> material and situation you are asking about, or
> whether you are the buyer, seller or just curious.
>
> I assume you are talking about a situation where
> somebody has bought something 'as seen' and now
> wants to do tests on what they have bought to check
> that it is what they thought it was. But this is a
> caveat emptor situation, if it was sold (bought)
> without the results of confirmatory tests existing,
> then the results of such tests formed no part of the
> contract between buyer and seller. So I would not
> think the seller should be liable for the costs of
> the testing they want to carry out (unless of course
> this DID form part of the contract between them).
> After all you would not ask the seller after the
> sale was completed to cover the costs of
> conservation, cleaning or a cabinet to put it in -
> unless that was part of the bargain.
>
> Surely (assuming the object was not received on
> approval), while the object is their property, costs
> of anything they want to do to it should be met by
> the owner, whatever they may decide they want to do
> with the object afterwards when they get the results
> of putting the artefact through a "special machine".
>
>
> Paul Barford
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: hurleygirl33
> To: Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:03 AM
> Subject: [Ancientartifacts] Question about
> possible buyer.
>
>
> Hello, this would be my first post here.
> I wanted to ask if it is a scam if a buyer tells
> you that they want
> you to mail a large amount of money to just verify
> an artifact of
> yours. Or they say that it costs a lot of money to
> have it verified by
> a "special machine."
> I'd appreciate any comments.
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
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