Why are antique dealers so greedy and shady?

Question

My fiancee loves antiques. She can never seem to get honest answers from antique dealers, when either buying or selling. They either tell her something is valuable when its not (when selling something....including fake repros), or tell something is nearly worthless (when buying something from her). What gives?

Also she had one PUSH HER DOWN at a garage sale! She was looking at this item and this dealer purposely knocked her down so he could get to an item.....very mean in my book.

Answer 1

You could have called the cops and had the meathead charged would have looked good on them. As for honesty, if a person can get away with something like that, they'll keep right on doing it. Sorry, that's human nature.