SUBJECT: BEWARE Steve Verkman, Keith Vari, Leland’s, Clean Sweep & Paragon auctions

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Let me attempt to translate and I speak misconstrued emails, partial communications, and knee jerk reactions fairly fluently.

I believe the buyer will receive the full amount to the sale plus sixty percent of the hammer fee but will be assessed some unspecified fee for the the labor involved or for some lower priced lots...

I believe in general terms if an item sold for $1000 and the hammer fee was $200, the consignor would get $1120 but may be assessed an undetermined fee.

I think the fact that two auctionhouses showed up with trucks didn't help a lot. I can see the wisdom of it as big collections need a lot of outlets and some things would fit better with Lelands while others would fit better with CSA. This could have been allayed with better up-front communications, preferably in writing, which may or may not have happened.

I suspect if they had just shown up and offered 100% of the hammer fee and arranged for pick up later, everyone would have been happy.