What's going on with all the issue's w/ Auction House's this year?!?!

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Originally Posted by vintagehofrookies

After reading the madness going on with Crazy Uncle auctions and dealing with my own issues with other Ah's, I'm left to wonder what's happening with these AH's? The top guys (REA + Goldin) are top notch as always but its some of the other's you have to watch out for. Here are my issues: 1) Mile High Card auctions- I won a lot of PSA 9/10 BK rookies and when I got it in, the best card in the lot ,of course, was a PSA 7! Which is a $400 diff from what a PSA 9 is worth and also, this card was the reason I bid more than I planned to because as I was lead to believe it was a PSA 9. Almost a week since I sent them an email and no response, 2) Hunt auctions- won a lot of BB hof RC's and one card was described as vg/ex oc condition but when I had it in hand, it was so blatantly obvious that it was trimmed by like a 1/4 inch! and another lot of BB RC's I won had the cards listed as NM overall when a good majority had CREASES and rounded corners! Same thing as Mile High, a week and no response. and finally 3) Wheatland auctions- in their May auction there were a couple lots that on the last days were edited without any note being added to the lots as to why the BEST card(s) in the lot were taken out.

After a decade of buying/selling with AH's I haven't had any issues as close to these before with AH's and now all of a sudden this year it's like they just don't care because people are gonna buy/sell with them anyways.

I have had small problems with more than a few companies, but I reframe from not bidding because I don't want to lose out on an item I want in my price range. Unfortunately for the consignor as well as the auction house, I lower my bids on houses that I have small problems with. There are more with problems than not in my experience. Most of my problems revolve around packaging and/or charges for shipping. My biggest beef is to charge so much for shipping and them my items don't appear to be in as good of shape as they were pictured(and I know sometimes the pictures are not good enough and you could miss something in the picture. I get upset when they arrive in the same shape but it was poor job packaging it because it could of gotten damaged.

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Hopefully, Goldin does well and ends accordingly with no mishaps. I got a email yesterday from Goldin- saying they be down for scheduled maintainance. Hope they check with their platform guys as it ends in a few days. The last few Ahs have had some nice stuff, and seemingly tho glad-- i been out of the game during this panademic.

They said in an email shortly after the last auction if I remember correctly that they were updating and changing servers so they don't have a problem like they did last time. I didn't like what happened with the last auction but based on what happened I think they did the best they could with the situation after the problems started with their system going down.

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

So Grey Flannel auctions items at the same time as listing in the catalog, too??

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Circa-1930s...8AAOSw07ZdYFVM

https://greyflannelauctions.com/Fran...-LOT43639.aspx

Is it just one item or are all those items they have listed on ebay on their current auction?

If it's just one item, they probably just missed pulling it before the auction.

Originally Posted by bigfish

Goldin can’t wear REA’s ( Brian Dwyer REA) jockstrap. They are not even in the same sentence. They are more in line with crazy uncle and PWCC. Do the math and do some research on that. ( Don west YouTube)

Buy and sell with people who have a long history of being honest That’s my rule of thumb.

Toby Petersen

I disagree with your analogy! I don't think that Goldin is as good as REA, but I would say REA is like a 9 or 10 out of 10 in our industry and Goldin is like a 7 or 8. I would put Crazy at a 4 now only because they are new, so they could go up but seems more likely to go down in my book. If they were not new I would give them a 2 just above Coaches Corner's 1. Just based on my experience.

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Agreed, you should always deal with a company you feel comfortable with. I will add to Dan's post that Wheatland emails went to my JUNK folder. So, I missed out on many lots that I was ready to bid on in after hours. Hard to keep up with ALL the auctions and we all need reminders.

Not just Wheatland but a few of the other smaller auctions I deal with go to my spam folder and then I either miss the auction entirely or find out too close to the time of the auction so I have little to no spare money to bid on things.