<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=67019.msg2991616#msg2991616">Quote from: NileGoddess on 02-05-2010, 02:24:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I think we should start with the thing that initially pisses of Gianna, which is being duped out of some art she really wants. Like you said cere, she could be trying to place a bid from somewhere else, and Nicholas had offered a lot of money to Gianna's lackeys to drop her call. The auction concludes, and Gianna is left without her precious art. <br/><br/>All we need is a way for her to find out Nicholas's intentions.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Agreed...we can begin with Nicholas' version of the two auctions.<br/><br/>Anonymous buyers are just as vulnerable to being on the wrong side of a bribe as well as anyone. Paintings move about using security companies and it only takes a few hundred pounds in the pocket of one of their admin clerks, those who schedule the routes, to discover the destination of  a particular pickup from Sotheby's. Two people would be involved...a storeman from Sotheby's, who would know the name of the pick-up security transport company (Securicorp) and the consignment note number...and then an admin clerk within Securicorp.<br/><br/>Gianna would simply arrange for her personal assistant to manage the details and come back with the answer.<br/><br/>Sound ok?