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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 9536312, member: 10944&quot;]The auction market in general is very slow in the summer. Less real auctions to go to and less bidders/buyers on the online platforms. The amount of sales I get took a nose dive in July and it has each of the last few years. August also bad. July at least the sales I got were a lot of higher dollar stuff. August just sucked all around. Luckily I got one of my best sales ever the other day so that helped. Figures, the item that went really high I wasn’t even aware of what it was when I bought the lot. Good thing I figured it out! Summer is definitely the slow time of the year for auctions and online sales though. </p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of the Japanese market being soft you might have to look a little further into the future though. Like years, or decades maybe. I don’t think it’s bouncing back in the immediate future like sales in general will when people are inside more. It’s partially affected by the global economy from what I understand. Like when China’s economy boomed. They started wanting to bring their treasures home. I know next to nothing about economics but I understand kind of the opposite happened in Japan. Economy downturned and their buying of their old treasures slowed way down. That lag in sales spreads across the global market and things bring less money and become less desirable worldwide. Japanese stuff is so amazing though that I can’t imagine it won’t rebound. Whether because of an uptick in the Japanese economy or just because people start to see how great it really is again. Netsuke, Inro, woodblock prints, I see them sell for good money regularly. The rest of the Japanese stuff seems to be pretty weak for how good the quality is. I only know enough to sound silly trying to sound smart so take the above with a grain of salt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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