The current antiques market suffered from a lack of integrity, inadequate laws and regulations, and other problems. The industry also had rules such as never authenticating antiques, leaving buyers to rely entirely on their own judgment to distinguish true from false and good from bad, and refusing returns after a sale. Therefore, if consumers encountered a dispute after purchasing an antique, protecting their rights would certainly not be easy.
Basically, every professional present understood this state of the industry very well. Therefore, while everyone condemned what the man had said, no one could think of any other solution. The antiques market was simply like this now; even if they wanted to regulate it, they could not.
Perhaps someone might say that with so many people present—and aside from the famous senior experts, they were all elites in the industry—couldn't they unite and boycott such practices?
That sounded simple, but doing it would be incredibly difficult and basically impossible to succeed. After all, the antiques market was no longer the small-scale affair it had been ten or twenty years ago. It had already grown to a considerable size. Not only had antiques markets blossomed across the country, but they had also become integrated with the global art market.
This had resulted in all sorts of complicated and tangled interests. Even the people in this room would find it difficult to stand united, let alone join forces in a boycott.
At this point, Chai Pingle let out a long sigh. "Sigh! It seems my eye for antiques still isn't good enough!"
Old Yu smiled. "Boss Chai, there's no need to be discouraged. This inkstone was made incredibly realistic. Not to mention people unfamiliar with authenticating the Four Treasures of the Study—even some experts could have been fooled."
Everyone chimed in with their