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Posted By: Scott Forrest

I called a major auction house about consigning some items. I had placed scans of the items on a web-page and the rep would not even take the web-address from me - they said to just ship the items and that for it to work I would have to trust them to do what they thought was best and that they already understood what I had, when in reality that was quite impossible. Can you say "patronize"?

What some of these auction houses don't realize is that the reason we call is because we want to feel "warm and fuzzy" about sending our items to them. If it weren't important, we would simply fill out a consignment sheet and ship the items with no phone call.