ami question / help needed

[clinton2828]

Re: ami question / help needed

what about charging them criminally with theft? my buddy who is a cop said i could based on the circumstances because they are making no effort to pay.

[JFK]

Re: ami question / help needed

I have been monitoring the bbb website for some time now. I saved all of the screen prints as well.

On 2008.07.31 they had a "Satisfactory" rating, with 6 complaints.
On 2008.12.17 they had a "Satisfactory" rating, with 16 complaints.
On 2009.01.16 they had an "F" rating, with 23 complaints.
On 2009.02.03 they had an "F" rating, with 28 complaints.
On 2009.02.11 they had an "F" rating, with 30 complaints.
On 2009.02.23 they had an "F" rating, with 31 complaints.
As of today, they still have an "F", with 31 complaints.

[JFK]

Re: ami question / help needed

A Class Action lawsuit might be the best approach. Complaining to the BBB is a waste of time. Complaining to the Attorney General is also a waste of time (unless it's the office specific to the State of Nevada). So unless you live in or near Las Vegas, you're going to have a tough time resolving this issue. Their contract also has a clause that requires you to resolve all issues in Las Vegas !

I am amazed that they are still running auctions.

Unfortunately, the word has not gotten out yet as to just how bad AMI is in terms of honoring their obligations. So there are still many people out there that still hold AMI in high regard, since they probably were at one time, for a long time, a good place to consign to.

I have been looking for a forum like this for a couple of years now.

I always wondered how they were able to command such high prices for some of their items. One of my theories is that since they're not paying their consignees, the consignee feels forced to bid on other items instead of getting paid. They are then forced to bid higher than an item might be "worth", just to get it over with. Then, sometimes, when an auction ends and they know that they're not getting cash for it, they tell the winning bidder (the consignee that they owe money to) that the item was taken back by the seller, or sold to someone else. They then offer it to the second-highest bidder, who is also sometimes another person they owe money to. So what I'm suggesting is that many of the sales are attempts from the people they owe money to to get something back from them. Just a theory.

[33bird]

Re: ami question / help needed

Just an update. They didn't respond with payment within the 10 days as stipulated by my lawyer, so he now is going to sue them and collect the whole package-25k+ interest lost in the last 6 months that they've had my money. I'll let you know how that goes once they get all the paperwork from my attorney.
Greg
biggamebird@yahoo.com

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Re: ami question / help needed

[quote=JFK;128887]

I always wondered how they were able to command such high prices for some of their items. quote]

May I suggest you look at the other "AMI" posts here......pop the top on a beer......happy reading.......

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Re: ami question / help needed

clinton2828.......Here is a post I just made (a portion of it under "Mastro Net" earlier today) that deals with your question, and subsequent theory. I hope it helps in enlightening you into AMI and their history.....

"I remember laughing out loud when I saw on AMI's site "Let's get back to the good old day of bidding...." and so on, referring to the fact you can no longer place a "Max" bid on their auction items. The FBI shut that crapola down.

They shut it down because the auction house was seeing the max bids on their system, and making the poor souls who placed them pay for it by bidding.....shill bidding....the item right up to that bid JUST BEFORE the max placed by an honest, yet naive bidder.

Pathetic."


Does THAT explain the high auction results they were getting for their consignors?

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Re: ami question / help needed

Oops!!! Wrong President.....my prior post, I meant JFK....not clinton2828, my apologoes!