LOG Auction:Tom Brady's got NUTHIN' on This Inflation!!

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

My shipping bill alone was $2800 for my Christie's order! Wow! No other alternative.... but if I do it on my own, I have to pay NY sales tax, which is even higher! Wow! Everything else seems like a bargain!

Wow! Did you win several cars in the auction?

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by Stampsfan

Wow! Did you win several cars in the auction?

I did win a number of bats and framed photos (I did not realize that they were framed)... a couple of which were panoramas... in the end they decided that they needed to professionally package them, build a crate and FEDEX overnight.... and it was their way or the highway... and if I picked them up, the sales tax would have been way more than the shipping.... I expected roughly a $500 shipping bill, but it was $2100 from them and they forced me to pay the insurance (even though I have an umbrella coverage that would have covered it)... which is $700. Wow. Will need to keep this in mind next time that there is a Christie's auction.

[packs]

Wow very strange that they would force you to insure a package packed and shipped by them.