A Reasonable Response From A Reasonable Auction House - Ha!!

[TriplexXxSports]

Re: A Reasonable Response From A Reasonable Auction House - Ha!!

....... if word got back to my boss that I sent an email like that, I'd be finished.

LOL, it was the boss that sent me my final e-mail. That's that kicker.

[godwulf]

Re: A Reasonable Response From A Reasonable Auction House - Ha!!

By the way, I got to thinking about it, and I wanted to make clear that I was not saying that all sports collectibles dealers are that way, of course. I've encountered several who were the nicest guys you'd ever want to do business with.

[dcgreg25]

Re: A Reasonable Response From A Reasonable Auction House - Ha!!

Not only that, but it was told to me in such a distasteful manner. Like I'm some POS, and my items are no good now because they were run by another firm.....

I hear ya TriplexXx....they had an opportunity to sell your items and get you a good price in which case, my guess is you would have used them instead of the first auction house going forward. Unfortunately, they blew an opportunity to gain a customer instead of losing several.

[TriplexXxSports]

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Ya know, I am all about the 'fresh' look and all of that. I understand that concept. What erks(sp?) me about it is why is it that I was denied consignments because they were run at another auction house months before. Its not like I am sending them to an auction that starts next week. There is a period of 4 months in between. I was honest with them in my initial communication clearly telling them that I was going to run my items in another auction prior to theirs to maximize visibility and potential sales. All I got was a 'thank you' and 'is there any other questions I can answer'......

As Dave put it earlier in this thread, maybe people would rather buy from one auction house rather than another, based on personal preference. We have all had conversations here about getting items from places like AMI, or Coaches Corner, etc. What if you saw an item in one of those auctions that you wanted but hesitated to bid. It never sold, and 4 months later the same item ended up in Robert Edwards, or Lelands..? You would more likely bid on it then, wouldn't ya?

Another reason out there that might cause a potential bidder to hesitate on bidding on an item is the difference in buyer premiums from one place to another. All the auction houses try to be competitive in the BP's. If an item doesn't sell at one place it may sell at another with a lower BP.

Another thing that 'grinds my gears' is what about the whole Flea-Bay scenario. I am willing to bet that if I were running these items on eBay in the months prior to the 2nd auction houses start date there probably wouldn't be much of a problem. But since I am running them in a 'competitors' auction prior to consigning to them, now there's a problem?!

I just wonder if my items are being victimized because of the competition between auction houses. It would make sense that a place that uses their own personal 'authenticators', for example, would not want to push an item with a Legendary Auctions LOA, or a Mears LOA. Lou Lampson LOA's seem to get away with it since he has worked for alot of these companies in the past, but I can see a direct LOA with a specific auction houses name on the letterhead could cause some conflict.

Now, I don't mean to sit here and sound like a whiny little school girl with my panties all up in a bunch (which I probably do) but, I just cannot see a logical explanation as to why legit game worn gear would get turned down, why this particular auction house would look past potential profit, and why the owner of this company would act in the manner that he did about this whole situation.

Something smells fishy.......