Heritage Auction problem

[travrosty]

Shelly,

thank you for your post, I haven't met Shelly or known him but i do agree that the way Heritage handled it was not professional and heaven knows me and a few of my boxing friends bent over backwards to try to help them with their boxing offerings but they are always the smartest guy in the room according to them, so we gave up trying to help.

A bad piece like the "signed" Mike Tyson preprint under the frame just ended up selling, even with a cert from a major TPA.

If they have something to say they should just come out and say it and stop "implying" things.

[ctownboy]

A little off topic, but I read an article yesterday that said Heritage recently sold a dinosaur skeleton that a Texas court had ruled shouldn't be sold. The skeleton had been smuggled out of Mongolia illegally.

Auctioned dinosaur was removed illegally, say experts | MNN ...
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/ani...ly-say-experts

David

[RichardSimon]

That is one interesting article and quite a collectible .
I also want to say thanks to Shelly for his post. We have been friends for a number of years and I have witnessed many of the right things that Shelly has done to help the hobby.
Seems like attempts to intimidate Net54 members does not work very well.
Thank goodness we still have freedom of speech on this board, as long as you follow the proper rules and don't try to hide.

[Maddog]

Hi gang, although still a newbie to Net54 I feel I need to add my two cents here so please forgive my ramble.
Hopefully Heritage is still following this stink bomb of theirs so they read this.

I have followed and bid on Heritages auctions over the years and bought a fair amount of items from Rich Simon as well. I lost interest in Heritage when on several occasions my "winning bids" seemed to be trumped after the auction had closed. I have never had any form of an issue with Rich. In fact at this point I will not bid on anymore auctions because I have no trust in any of the houses. I have narrowed down the list of dealers that I will buy from to around 5 and Rich is in that 5.

It may sound corny but honesty and integrity are very important to me. To have an "alleged" idiot (hey if it covers their ass it covers mine ) make what I felt were very disparaging comments about someone who has been trying to change the BS in our hobby for longer than I've been involved in the hobby, and offer some of the worst excuses for their negligence just makes me sick.

So to the folk at Heritage, I'll tell you what, you can ban me as well, you have my info on file.

Regards

Charles Maselli

[Wite3]

What I find bizarre is that Heritage would not contact the consignor for the original poster. Even if Heritage just put them in contact with each other, maybe they could work something out and save two customers (possibly more since no one lives in a bubble). Just bad business imho.

Joshua