No records of sales were kept Until the Corporation Acquired Artwork
Prior to the Corporation's involvement no records of sales were kept of Verdult artwork. In addition no major website that track art maintained any sort of record on Verdult. Most of Verdult sales were taking place in the barter arena, where works were alleging selling for $35,000 to up to $150,000 on barter or trade dollars – not United States Cash.
According to the Corporation's auditors, in order for Verdult art to remain on our books, instead of barter, exchange or trade dollars a cash value must be placed on the artwork.
In short, other than barter or the shadowy sales by Troy Verdult, there was no defined market for William Joseph Verdult artwork. This condition allowed individuals like Troy and William Joseph Verdult to place astronomical values on the artwork without any supporting documentation or actual sales for such artwork. In short what was taking place was that, people like Troy and his associates were claiming an artwork sold for $42,000 or $65,000; yet when asked they could not produce one document that would support such a value.
While on the other hand, they would tell the public that a piece was worth $125,000; not based on any factual evidence; then instead of attempting to get an unsuspecting customer to pay such a value – they would sale four or five pieces of that art for about $1,000.00 – while telling the public that the art was selling for thousands. This condition in our opinion – while great for people like Troy and associates were really duping the public as well as impacting the value of our investment.
The Corporation in conducting due diligence in discussions with the actual purchaser as well the auctioneer of the King Tut artwork that was allegedly worth millions of dollars, found out that the works now on display at Tanglewood Resort not for millions of dollars but the entire collection sold only for $90,000.00. While $90,000 is certainly a good sum of money it is a far cry from the alleged multi-million dollar sales.
In making this determination, we had to conduct further due diligence to ensure that the artwork we were holding on our books, in light of our findings and our auditors request, were truly worth what was claimed by the gentleman who sold us the art.
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