Well, once the value of your winnings reaches five figures, paying the 9% sales tax will end up outweighing the shipping costs in almost every case. Bottom line is that you will still be better off paying the shipping costs than picking up in NY. Unless you live locally, you would still have to pay some sort of shipping and insurance costs in addition, anyway.
The major reason for the shipping cost being so high as compared to the sports memorabilia AH's is the fact that Christie's makes it mandatory that shipping is done overnight (mainly via FedEx), as far as I know. Their thinking is that it gives the shipping service much less time for something to go wrong than standard ground which could take several days, maybe up to a week in the U.S. Again, as others have mentioned, their primary lines of business focus on much more high-dollar items than we see in the sports memorabilia business so this shipping process must work well for them in the majority of their endeavors, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Last edited by bcbgcbrcb; 10-31-2016 at 08:07 PM.
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