WARNING!!! DO NOT SHOP HERE!!!! RACIST AND DECEIVING!!!
This past week, 03/29/18, I stopped at Obeidi's "Fine Art Gallery" to inquire about a couple Fred Machetanz prints that I was considering purchasing at a different gallery. I had been directed to Obeidi's as they were supposed to be well versed in Machetanz works. I spoke with Mousa Obeidi, showed him pictures of the prints I was interested in and was enthusiastically direct to go make the immediate purchase and return with the prints for him to view. I followed the "experts" direction and returned with the newly purchased prints. Mousa offered me $5k for the prints (dramatically more than I paid) which I politely declined because I wanted to do more research. This seemed to me to be an incredibly high price for these works but I blindly trusted the "experts" opinion.
I returned home and began to do fairly extensive research on the newly purchased art work. I identified some red flags and began to question the "experts"information. I returned to Obeidi's Fine Art Gallery on 03/31/18 and spoke with Mousa's son, Sid.......
Sid was happy to inform me that the newly purchased prints are truly worth about $175 a piece, which is what I had originally thought they were roughly worth. I explained to Sid the conversation had with Mousa. Sid then proceeds to call another local art appraiser (on speaker phone) to verify that the prints are worth $175.....
I was clearly not impressed with this information. I dramatically overpaid for the prints. Mousa's "expert" opinion cost me over $1000.... Sid then offered to reframe the prints for a discounted price of $175 a piece... I mostly bit my tongue and collected my almost worthless prints. As I walked to the door I heard Sid casually say "Sorry"...
I'm not going to state the highly racist comments made from Mousa during our interaction. They were certainly out of color and unneeded. Perhaps if Mousa was less interested in talking about his money and the ethnicity of clients he doesn't want to rent to at his available office spaces at Valhalla Center on Northern Lights, he might have been able to make a more accurate assessment of the prints.
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