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Posted By: ramram

I've always written my own auction descriptions, at least the key items that I would like noted, and then leave final editing to the auction house. It's a pain in the rear but it often is necessary if you want to achieve it's full potential. With the quantity of material that the auction houses have, they usually don't take/find/have the time that the consigners would like to see noted. On the other hand, sometimes we're just too personally involved (kind of like - no boy will ever be good enough for my daughter).

I have on a couple of occasions written up the information only to find that the auction house never even saw it and wrote a very poor abbreviated description. That gets real irratating and I have pulled a lot for that reason before and had them list it in the next auction. It worked to my advantage in the long run because the item sold at what I had estimated it at and was about four times the amount the house originally estimated it at. There is a fear that goes with this though....when an item gets pulled and then listed later, a lot of bidders wonder if there is something questionable or wrong with it.

Rob M.