Word: woolman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restitution, continue to plague this electronic marketplace. Two-thirds of all Internet fraud complaints last year were directed at auction sites, according to the National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly adapted to e-auctions, find themselves dealing with amateurs who wouldn't know Caravaggio from formaggio. Peter Woolman, a British antiques dealer in Delray Beach, Fla., is one such frustrated buyer. "It's full of fakes," he complains. He recently flew to Texas to pick up a pair of bronze and ivory statues for which he bid $26,000, only to discover at a glance that they were...