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Originally Posted by JJ McGraw
On Sunday I found out I had won a 1948-49 Honus Wagner Leaf card and today I got the invoice. A couple of things which surprised me.
1. When bidding the estimate with fees that they do offer was almost $50 less than the invoice I received.
So here is how it played out
I won the card at $310, happy about that…they said it would be around $380 with fees, ok, still good
Then reality set in….
$310 for the card
$68.20….buyers premium ( still don’t know what that means)
$20.06……Service and Handling, that card must be awfully heavy to handle
$32.85…..sales tax…no way around that
Sub total….$431.11
So I tried to pay online…..nothing was working on their end, so I called hoping they would wave the $13.53 fee to use a card……..oh no, we can’t do that
Grand Total…..$444.64
So a card I won for $310 cost me an additional $134.64
Was it worth it….not to me any more. And I did drop some more serious cash at the LOTG auction, but did not feel the way I do today and will continue to patronize the LOTG auctions in future.
So, for now, I bid a fond farewell to Heritage, as they say….”too rich for my blood”.
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Heritage has the best payment system of any auction house.
It is setup where they draft from my checking account. When I log into my account and view my invoices I click quickpay and click a verification screen and payment is initiated and drafted the next day. No service fee, no mailing a check or anything.
08-18-2025, 02:08 PM
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