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Marc S.are you really comfortable with an outside, for-profit company having access to all of your bidding records, personal information, etc. over the past few years? If not just REA, imagine that all the auction houses had this sort of information. And I certainly do not know what Mastro et al. do, but I know that universities have pretty sophisticated systems for measuring potential donor's asset bases, etc. Would you be comfortable with MEARS knowing what you have bid on in every auction for the last 10 years, what you won, how it increased, an assessment of the value of your collection, your net worth, etc?
That worries me. That worries me tremendously.
There are some auctions where I'm high bidder on many dozen items at the outset -- but may often end up with a significantly smaller set of winnings. I categorically DO NOT want MEARS to have access to this data.