Sometimes the buyers don't care.
Years ago I was talking to a senior curator at an Australian gallery who was trying to wrangle half a million dollars out of the Board of Trustees. The purchase target was a bunch of 1970s American colour photographs. I pointed out that the photographs probably already showed changes and that chromogenic colour work from that era was notoriously unstable. The curator replied along the lines of "Don't care, not interested, not my problem. If the pictures fade it's a problem for the Conservation Department. That's what they draw salary for."
The photographs were purchased: Trustees, Curator, and Conservation Department all happy.
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