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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5
If you take it as a personal attack on your integrity that an auction house, who doesn't know you from Adam, wants to verify your ability to pay before using their service, the problem is not with the auction house, it's with your fragile emotional state.
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I read it as the opposite situation. An auction house he has a proven track record with going back several years. They do know him, or should. Being denied a bit extra in that situation seems unreasonable.
My one big auction experience was in a different hobby, had to apply for permission to bid at all. Gave a couple hobby references, and had to answer a couple questions about what I planned on bidding for. Very modest plan, pretty much the two lowest estimated items they had plus a slightly more expensive lot as a backup plan.
Approved, with no limit mentioned.
Totally blown out of all three..... Ah well.