Have You Got Your Stuff From Heritage?

[petecld]

First of all, "jhs5120" has no clue about what he/she is talking about. All of the items in the "Post-Auction Buys" section are items that were offered in the auction that had reserves (Note: With Heritage, all reserves are revealed in the week prior to the end of the auction.) but were not met. When the auction ends, bidders have a chance to buy these items at the reserve price plus the BP or you can make an offer. Any offer is presented to the consignor and the consignor and only the consignor have the right to accept or refuse. This is the ONLY WAY an item is offered as a Post-Auction buy listing.

Shipping issues: Yes, we do have them. I have already requested an update for everyone in this thread and if anyone else has an issue please contact me directly at peterc@ha.com and I will do what I can.

[ullmandds]

thanks pete!

[T206DK]

by registering for Heritage's auctions you are agreeing to their terms and conditions, so in court they might just win. This policy of selling already sold items for more money is a common auctioneers practice ( at least to me it was). I've seen it happen many times at art auctions and antique auctions I've attended. I've bought lots from auctioneers after a phone bidder had already thought they had won a lot. It's a greedy business I'm afraid , and competition is stiff for all these auction houses no matter what record sales they may or may not be having.

This old surfer hippy guy from California I knew in high school used to always say something that at the time made me laugh, but when I thought about it it rings true. He used to always tell me " greed kills, Jiver", "greed kills". He may have been on to something I think.

[ullmandds]

I left my CC payment over the phone the day after the auction ended...and the woman I spoke to said it would be processed that monday. Never happened...I just called...and paid "again." You may want to call and check on status if peter hasn't already done so for you.

[old-baseball]

Thanks to Pete for looking into some of these issues on the shipping. I certainly didn't me for this to degrade into a discussion on "Post Auction Buys". I've bought multiple times from Heritage in the past and this is really the first instance of this issue that I've seen. Hopefully they'll get their immediate issues with shipping taken care of and we'll all get our "stuff" in a timely fashion.

[DJR]

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[ullmandds]

peter c helped me get my payment straightened out and apparently my card is in the mail. I have little auction house buying experience so I don't know what a reasonable time for shipment is. I guess I was expecting mine "any day now?"

Does this rule:

'21. The Auctioneer or its affiliates may consign items to be sold in the Auction, and may bid on those lots or any other lots. Auctioneer or affiliates expressly reserve the right to modify any such bids at any time prior to the hammer based upon data made known to the Auctioneer or its affiliates.''

mean that the auction house...knowing how high the highest bids placed are...can place bids to help bump prices higher?