Did that come from Ross's? I thought inspection's allowed until the start of the auction.
Where to advertise?
- Thread starter Rocko
- Start date
(In response to @wirralaccordion asking “Who wants to buy an accordion as an ornament?”)
While I was searching for my Castello, I visited a well known accordion shop and they’d just sold all their vintage accordions to a design company who pretty much bought them by the tonne to decorate pubs.
While I was searching for my Castello, I visited a well known accordion shop and they’d just sold all their vintage accordions to a design company who pretty much bought them by the tonne to decorate pubs.
Lots of "cool looking" accordions here, however..........
I'd like to know how the estimates were generated..........
Seems whoever did so miss read "Ranco" as "Rank-O"...........
Condition seems to be based on how few "little bits and parts" were missing or unattached..........
Several I'd potentially be interested in, however.......
NO case, No internal pics, No returns = NO BIDS!
I'd like to know how the estimates were generated..........
Seems whoever did so miss read "Ranco" as "Rank-O"...........
Condition seems to be based on how few "little bits and parts" were missing or unattached..........
Several I'd potentially be interested in, however.......
NO case, No internal pics, No returns = NO BIDS!
Lots to answer here, let me contact the auction house and I'll answer where I can.
AFAIK, the auction is available to view now, at Ross's but I'll confirm.
They also told us there will be no live room bidding, its nearly 1000 lots so would take hours to get through. Again, I'll confirm.
With regards to the cases. We all have jobs, families, children. The task of even clearing the house took months. This wasn't a back room with the odd accordion, it was a 7 bed house packed to the rafters with them. And 4, yes 4 sheds, in the garden housing the cases. Not small sheds either, 30ft long ones.
The auction house couldn't take the entire collection AND the cases, they just didn't have the space in their warehouse, which we have almost filled.
We have relied on them researching the prices, names, details. Its taken six months to get to where we are, and cost over £5000 for the photographs alone. We sent the link to Rob Howard and he couldn't see anything out of place.
If we had endless time and endless resources, we could have researched, catalogued, photographed and priced each item individually ourselves but it would have taken years. You have to remember the auction house knows nothing about reeds either, hence no photos of the insides, not even of my beloved Constellation @Walker
Imagine a family member passes away and you're confronted with one of the largest collections of something you know next to nothing about, something quite niche in the grand scheme of things. Help is from those giving up what free time they have, but after the 20th message asking information it starts to dry up. The only person that knew the information is no longer here to help. And you have to deal with the rest of his estate. And it's my wife's dad, that was hard enough.
We've done our best.
AFAIK, the auction is available to view now, at Ross's but I'll confirm.
They also told us there will be no live room bidding, its nearly 1000 lots so would take hours to get through. Again, I'll confirm.
With regards to the cases. We all have jobs, families, children. The task of even clearing the house took months. This wasn't a back room with the odd accordion, it was a 7 bed house packed to the rafters with them. And 4, yes 4 sheds, in the garden housing the cases. Not small sheds either, 30ft long ones.
The auction house couldn't take the entire collection AND the cases, they just didn't have the space in their warehouse, which we have almost filled.
We have relied on them researching the prices, names, details. Its taken six months to get to where we are, and cost over £5000 for the photographs alone. We sent the link to Rob Howard and he couldn't see anything out of place.
If we had endless time and endless resources, we could have researched, catalogued, photographed and priced each item individually ourselves but it would have taken years. You have to remember the auction house knows nothing about reeds either, hence no photos of the insides, not even of my beloved Constellation @Walker
Imagine a family member passes away and you're confronted with one of the largest collections of something you know next to nothing about, something quite niche in the grand scheme of things. Help is from those giving up what free time they have, but after the 20th message asking information it starts to dry up. The only person that knew the information is no longer here to help. And you have to deal with the rest of his estate. And it's my wife's dad, that was hard enough.
We've done our best.
This is why I've asked to confirm, because currently it's advertised differently on their website.
You're paying them a fortune to liquidate these accordions and they are not doing a great job by potentially mis-advertising the auction on their website, not listing shipping information, not replying to punters' emails asking about info that should have been on their website first place.
And if you got charged £5k for photos alone and they did not bother pulling the pins to show the reeds or do a close-up of the bellows from all angles, ask for your money back.
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
That's about $5 per item.
Expecting bespoke service for $5 an item is rather expecting a bit much?
Of course, you could take "record shots " with a digital camera yourself for quite a bit less.
That's about £20 an hour, which is quite a bit more than minimum wage in this country.
And don't forget that the house takes 22.5% commission on every sale they make. I expected them to take the pics for free - they are already set up for doing that as part of their day-to-day job and they get more commission from better pics.
wirralaccordion
Well-known member
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2017
- Messages
- 714
- Reaction score
- 406
It was implied in the previous post but I have asked the auctioneers for clarification anyway.
wirralaccordion
Well-known member
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2017
- Messages
- 714
- Reaction score
- 406
Sorry tcabot. I just realised that "the previous post" was actually yours! I thought that was the case when you said "buying blind............" because that is what you are doing when you buy on ebay.
Some clarification from the auction house.
- Viewing is available Monday to Friday (9am – 5pm) up until the auction ending on Wed 6th August at 11:00am.
- The auction is a timed online auction that runs for two weeks from Wednesday 23rd July until Wed 6th August. There is NO Live in room bidding.
- Ross’s offer the packaging and fully insured delivery of one accordion to the UK Mainland for £40 + VAT. All additional lots delivery are discounted by 50%.
Walker
🪗
Just me, or is everyone gonna hold off bidding until the last 3 seconds?
Beautiful!
Nope ....but I am likely to be caught "skip diving" half hour after auction ends ......
We need to set up 24/7 monitoring of all exits from Ross's warehouses so we know where the treasures are going to be buried.but I am likely to be caught "skip diving" half hour after auction ends ......
