The rifle linked to last year's fatal sniping attacks on 13 people, most of them in metropolitan Washington, came from just such a questionable dealer, who claimed that 238 firearms were somehow "lost" from his inventory.
Question questionable sources.
When Setsuko (Liana Pai), an art historian, yields to the affections of Darius (Stephen Lang), an art dealer of questionable repute, it's because she wants to believe that his words and his feelings match.
Rather than tying dealers in, however, this questionable restraint of trade is merely encouraging them to cheat on their contract and seek ways round it.
Scott A. Travers, a Manhattan coin dealer and author, said questionable grading services have surfaced on eBay and have "fooled consumers into paying higher prices".
Some less-than-scrupulous dealers mix bonafide antiques with questionable reproductions.
The questionable past of his trainer, Angel Guillermo Heredia, an admitted steroids dealer who testified for the government in the Balco scandal, only added to rampant speculation, which Marquez and his camp vehemently denied.
Worse, in a dealer system there is a risk of collusion among market-makers to keep spreads wide.The SEC has successfully pursued cases against Nasdaq dealers for collusion, partly on the basis of questionable academic evidence that purported to show that prices moved suspiciously more often in eighths than sixteenths.
"EBay is one of the greatest avenues for selling questionable merchandise that's ever been invented," said Alan Bamberger, a private dealer in books and art.
"In many cases," promotional materials for MILES say, "the newest members of our nation's defense are therefore preyed upon by dealers who charge exorbitant interest rates and prices for vehicles of questionable quality".
