christmas come early....  

Um...
That's disgusting.

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Why do you find it disgusting?

I'm not deaf to the humor...
But what don't you find disgusting about it?

£$?!
of course, we don't know what he did with the money. perhaps a health centre, a school.....

True...
I'd hope he would've kicked some back to those Congolese.
The blog is just oh so boastful. Extremely off putting.

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I havn't considered it yet but think its good to articulate responses, thats all.

This blog post
Seems to be a fabrication to me. I don't think it is a real situation... Just a fantastic joke with perhaps some kind of attempt at social commentary.
So in that case, whatever.

Disgusting?
I've never seen a thread bragging about having paid full market value for a piece.
Is the blog in question, whether believable or not, more egregious than the hundreds of "check out what I got for $20 at a garage sale" posts on the DA forum?

To answer your question, poach...
Yes.
Although it probably is made up to stir discussion.

Out of Africa
"It took 19 workmen, 14 shipping containers, 20 armed guards and one devoted dealer to get Jean Prouve's three long-lost Tropical Houses from deepest Africa to Paris."
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/25278/out-of-africa/

wow!
thanks for that!
http://www.patrickseguin.com/designers/jean_prouve_films/

Forget the tongue in cheek blog but the back story to all this is great and fair dues to the French dealer who had the where withall to pull this off.