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Originally Posted by HarryT
That sounds like an absolutely extraordinary law to me - it makes "bargain hunting" into a crime, from what you're saying! If I see something for sale for $10 and I think that it's really worth $20, I'm committing a crime by only paying $10 for it?
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No. The intent was to prevent experts from paying $5 for a $5,000,000 piece of art.
If an expert saw the painting for $5. Let the owner know the real value, then offered by buy it immediately for $4,000,000, that wouldn't be a problem.