Is any members picking up items from Brunk Auction?

[danmckee]

Any friendly members picking up winnings from Brunk Auctions in Ashville NC?

$57 to ship 4 small, light baseball cards with no insurance UPS Ground just seems ridiculous to me.

Any help is appreciated

Dan Mckee

[oldjudge]

Dan--if there is no insurance tell them to throw them in a USPS priority mail box and it should cost $14. Seems just a little high to me. 🤮

[danmckee]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Dan--if there is no insurance tell them to throw them in a USPS priority mail box and it should cost $14. Seems just a little high to me. 🤮

Yes I sure will if they respond to me asking them if that was a typo Jay .....

Ugh

[tiger8mush]

Hi Dan,
Send Greg a pm, username "BrunkAuctions".
Or email Leah - leah@brunkauctions.com.

I won a single card and they agreed to send it via USPS Priority instead of UPS, for a reasonable cost. I sent a personal check and already received my card.

Good luck!

[danmckee]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

Hi Dan,
Send Greg a pm, username "BrunkAuctions".
Or email Leah - leah@brunkauctions.com.

I won a single card and they agreed to send it via USPS Priority instead of UPS, for a reasonable cost. I sent a personal check and already received my card.

Good luck!

Well that is promising and TY for that information. I am waiting to hear back from Greg the owner. He seems very nice and hopefully reasonable.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by danmckee

Any friendly members picking up winnings from Brunk Auctions in Ashville NC?

$57 to ship 4 small, light baseball cards with no insurance UPS Ground just seems ridiculous to me.

Any help is appreciated

Dan Mckee

They will give you a better quote, they cut mine in half and probably if I had cared enough to fight it they would have reduced further.

[BRoberts]

But do they provide a tracking number if asked?

[danmckee]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

They will give you a better quote, they cut mine in half and probably if I had cared enough to fight it they would have reduced further.

Thanks Peter! Great to hear from you my friend!

[danmckee]

Update! They did get back to me and told me 2 graded cards and 3 raw cards and a tin type small case wouldn't fit into a small flat rate USPS box. offered me $36 USPS Priority with No signature and $40 with signature. Still high as a kite to me without insurance but I am already tired of the back and forth and the principle of the thing.....

Hope others had better luck than I and the fact that many of us had to do this is also ridiculous in my opinion. Just charge fair shipping, we understand you have overhead for the shipping department but we get gouged enough by Heritage shipping.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

What are a Brunk? Is it the surname of the business owner? I keep seeing the banner ad and often wonder at the choice of business name.

[Lucas00]

I've heard before that insane auction house shipping prices are done to pay the shipping employees.

You can send what Dan bought in a medium flat rate box (The long rectangle shaped ones) for $12-$15 max, if you use an online shipping service. So to charge over double what it's costing you, to me is not cool at all. Especially knowing its an east coast to east coast package only a few states away from each other.

Charging double the actual shipping cost on an auction with hundreds of lots is going to pay the shipping department (if there is one) real quick.

I just sent a card express to psa (California) and for priority return shipping fully insured and signature required it was $35. I'm on the east coast so this is literally the max you can pay in shipping.

Shout out to the auction house owners on n54. I've bought cards and other memorabilia from most of them and they are all pretty much 15 bucks flat.

[oldjudge]

Cover the shipping department? What does the buyers premium and occasional sellers premium do?

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

What are a Brunk? Is it the surname of the business owner? I keep seeing the banner ad and often wonder at the choice of business name.

Appears you are correct ...
https://brunkauctions.com/our-team/

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Cover the shipping department? What does the buyers premium and occasional sellers premium do?

+1 to what Jay said. I sense that some auction houses consider their shipping departments to be separate profit centers!!

[BrunkAuctions]

Hi All,

Greg from Brunk Auctions here. I just wanted to clear up a few things and tell a bit about myself. First, I got a good chuckle when someone believed I was the owner of the auction house - not quite. I did all the cataloging for the sports card and memorabilia sale we recently conducted and I hold an Auctioneer License in North and South Carolina, but my main title is Coin & Currency Specialist.

I grew up collecting and loving both hobbies, coins and cards, and like many here worked at a baseball card shop back in the “junk wax” era of the early 90s. I can honestly say that I had a ball cataloging this recent group of high-grade T205 and T206 cards. I worked closely with our consignor and we chose some to have graded, while others were sold ‘raw.’ It is always a balance to decide where grading fees can be best spent.

Brunk Auctions is well known in the categories of furniture, art, silver virtu, and historical documents, even being described as the “Sotheby’s of the South” at times. We were fortunate enough last year to handle the sale of an early printing of the Constitution which brought over $11M, all fees inclusive.

https://apnews.com/article/us-consti...7c328b5488b3f1

In the last five years or so we have expanded getting involved with numismatics and I would like to also handle more sports memorabilia collections going forward. I appreciate all of the feedback received here and I have spoken to some very friendly collectors, who I would like to get to know better. I will also pass on your feedback to other departments, such as Shipping, who are adept at handling requests both small and large - they have even shipped transatlantic cargo to the Louvre in Paris before.

Me personally, I look to be more involved with this online community. Leon has been wonderful to work with for advertising and a few others have reached out. In my own pursuits, I like to collect signatures of Negro Leagues players, I have a nostalgic soft spot for 1980s era Atlanta Braves that I grew up watching (Murphy for HOF!), and I have one small niche collection of players who tragically had careers or lives cut short, players like Donnie Moore, Tony Gwynn, Dave Draveky, Bo Diaz, et al.

Favorite Card of mine: I recently picked up a 1941 Double Play #73 Buddy Meyer [sic] #74 Ben Chapman that was fairly high grade. Full disclosure, I purchased it off of Ebay and I may be an occasional customer of some on here if you operate an Ebay store. If you Google those two players, you will realize what an odd pairing this was!

So that is me and Brunk Auctions in a nutshell. Feel free to reach out to me at greg@brunkauctions.com anytime if you have any questions or just want to talk baseball.

Thanks All!

[griffon512]

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[BrunkAuctions]

griffon,

It's my understanding that the Shipping Department's initial quote is with the in-house option, through UPS. At the high bidder's request we can explore other methods which might be cheaper (an alternate carrier, dropping or lowering the insured level, etc.)

[GeoPoto]

Thanks for the intro. I agree Myer and Chapman are an interesting partnership, in light of their history and the media narratives that surrounded them at a time when inconvenient facts were no barrier to a good story. Chapman lives on as the villain of the Jackie Robinson story and Myer as the only Baptist in the International Jewish Hall of Fame.



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[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by BrunkAuctions

griffon,

It's my understanding that the Shipping Department's initial quote is with the in-house option, through UPS. At the high bidder's request we can explore other methods which might be cheaper (an alternate carrier, dropping or lowering the insured level, etc.)

Hi Greg, nice initial writeup. Do you tell high bidders they have that option or are you just sending them an invoice with that in house option?

[BrunkAuctions]

GeoPoto: "the only Baptist in the International Jewish Hall of Fame" Love this! Never heard that before. What an interesting tidbit.

parkplace: I believe the latter, thought I have to admit to that not being my department