Print Scam? There Is More Than Meets the Eye at the Ansel Adams Gallery
Prices of Ansel’s work varied. Some images were $25. Others were $300-$500. Then Ansel’s original prints… tens of thousands of dollars. Now, I’m on a budget. I couldn’t come afford to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a print. $22.50 sounded like a better deal. And, it was already matted!
What a deal! So I looked through the collection of images and I found one of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park that instantly caught my eye.
I ask the sales associate,
“So… What’s the difference between this print, the $350 print, and the $30,000 print on the wall?”
The sales rep replies,
“Uh… well… there must have been a defect during the printing process. Which explains why it’s pretty cheap.”
“Ok…,” I reply.
I carefully inspect the image trying to find any defects in it. Other than the splattered bug in the mat, everything looks good! I can get a mat replacement pretty cheap back home!
“I’ll take it!”
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