PWCC t206 set break auction frustration (AITA???)

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Bobbycee

Just received this email only 5 minutes ago from PWCC:

Thank you for your interest in participating in our T206 Premier Auction. We need additional information to approve you to bid. Please provide the information below, so we can verify you:

Time-stamped screenshots of your bank, portfolio, or credit card statements, including your full name, showing that you have the means to follow through with a purchase in our Premier Auction. Please redact private information before sending the statement to us.

This process approves you for our Premier Auction only. You should already be able to bid in our regular Weekly Auctions.

Areyanna Gardiner
PWCC Marketplace

So, they are still going to treat this as a Premier auction- which is foolish. I haven't responded to them yet but I will tell them 'no thanks'. You need my bank or credit card info to bid on a couple of cards which probably won't exceed $650 total? I just won 2 cards from them in their weekly auction ending 7/16- (which haven't even been shipped yet), and they can't see the hypocrisy in their request? It's simple: Call REA, my #1 reference, and ask them about my buying history. Done. If I'm the consigner of this set, I am not happy. They've just limited their buying pool by a large amount.

Please understand I am not agreeing with them. I am not a fan of PWCC and I am hoping that new owners changes that.
I do not know what their requirements are but I do know for me to bid in Hunt Auction Recently as a premier bidder(or whatever it was called) and in Goldin at a certain limit those types of items were requested for me to be able to bid.

And Hunt did not distinguish between price points to be approved but for the specific type of auction

So what they are asking for is not uncommon in the business.