Has anyone else encountered problems with BRICOL

[rose14]

Re: Has anyone else encountered problems with BRICOL

I don't trust Brian Collard or his auction service at all.

In 2001 he had an auction and I was the high bidder on a 1954 Wilson Franks Ted Williams card, a Hideo Nomo Autographed Japanese League jersey and a "vintage" Joe Jackson bat. I ended up getting the Williams card for $309, which was a phenominal price since the card was worth at least 7-8 times that.

I received my invoice from them and called them the same day as I wanted to have the items shipped overnight so I could get them quicker. Well, it turns out that they just happened to have misplaced the Williams card as it could not be found anywhere. Brian got on the phone and said sorry there was nothing that could be done and if they were to find it they would contact me. Well, do you really think they found the card? He or the consigner just didn't like the price that the card sold for so it just happen to come up missing.

Well, I got the other items and the "vintage" Joe Jackson bat turned out to be a commemorative bat that was issued about two years prior to the auction. The Nomo jersey had a huge red stain all over the front. It looked like a cool-aid stain but nothing of the sort was ever mentioned in the auction ad.

Brian Collard is a thief in my book and I would love for him to come on here and try to explain what happened since he supposedly reads these threads.

Chris or the moderators, if you need more facts, it was BricolSports Auction #23, and my invoice was # 4426 so everything I am saying is pure fact and no speculation.

Todd Evans

[Lokee]

Re: Has anyone else encountered problems with BRICOL

I had one guy email me through ebay asking me to consign with BRICOL about 1 month ago. He left a number to call as well. I forwarded to ebay as spam.

[scottanservitz]

Re: Has anyone else encountered problems with BRICOL

Wow. This is interesting. I was at lunch last Thursday and I got a phone call from Brian on my cell phone. He asked me if I had anything to consign in an upcoming auction for Bricol. First of all, I don't remember giving a cell number to them, but I may have. Second, I was surprised they wouldn't just call my home phone and leave a message. I told him I really hadn't thought about consigning anything at this time. He told me he would email me some information and contact info. if I ever decided to. I never received the email. I just thought I'd share this as we now know how they do business.

Scott

[ndevlin]

Re: Has anyone else encountered problems with BRICOL

Well, their next auction is set to run Nov. 13th, so I think they are very much still in business. Sounds like you're getting screwed around. Sorry to hear that.

[silverschmidts]

I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered problems like I have recently with Bricol Sports Auctions. Unfortunately, I consigned a collection of items with them last March. Most of them sold in their next auction yet here I am 5-6 months later with no payment. They won't respond to my emails and when I've called, if they answered, I was lied to on two occasions with "check's in the mail" like statements. Today I called again and got the answering machine. I'm thinking I'm going to have to file some kind of legal action to get them to pay me. Have anyone else encountered this kind of thing with them? Are they still in business? --Steve