HAS ANYONE RECEIVED PACKAGES FROM MASTRONET?

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Posted By: Jason

My checked cleared my bank on the 8th and I still have nothing! Has anyone received their cards yet?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Mine cleared my bank on the 3rd,13 days ago.They said personal checks take 10 days to clear before they send it,so i wouldnt be worried yet

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Posted By: Mark

I thought I saw Bill Mastro in the Chicago airport last week boarding a flight to Buenos Aires - he was wearing dark sunglasses and I didn't recognize him until his mustache fell into his lap.

(J/K..please don't sue me)

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Posted By: Douglas

I received my packages from Mastronet. All 11 of them arrived last week. However, I did a wire transfer to Mastronet, so there were no delays. Good luck.

Doug

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Posted By: Jason

I called and they said they will mail it ont he 23rd! I think that is a little longer than it should be.

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Posted By: Chris

Jason,
When did they actually deposit your check. Just because it has cleared your bank, they have no way of knowing that. A returned check for NSF or other reasons usually takes at least two weeks to be returned to the person who deposited it. I think if they wait 10-14 days after depositing the check, that would be reasonable on their end.

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Posted By: Gilbert Porter

With the most recent update in banking laws last month (electronic clearance of checks - which is why most of you don't get cancelled checks back anymore), most banks will clear checks within 24-48 hours, even across major cities. Indeed, I have had checks clear in the SAME AFTERNOON that they were delivered. The bigger delays are not due to distance, but are due to whether or not your particular combination of banks have direct access to Fed wires and clearinghouses (i.e., major commercial banks will clear faster than remote savings and loans or credit unions, who rely on intermediary banks to handle their funds transfers). The ten-day rule ought be obsolete, but it will take some time before we all get used to the new quicker process.

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Posted By: Chris

Checks clear faster but you still do not receive notice from the banks until a couple weeks later if a check you deposited bounced. If you deposit a check, the bank credits your account like the check is good. If it comes back NSF they debit that amount from your account as well as charge a fee to the depositor. All though checks can clear within a 48 hour period, the person who deposits the check still has no way of knowing it has cleared. Ideally it would be great if a bank would send these notices the day after, but they don't.

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Posted By: Anonymous

..last Thursday via UPS....and was slow on sending my check.

.....they must be waiting to send the really good stuff out last

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Posted By: Joe P.

After his connecting flight in Buenos Aires - Bill was last seen on an island in the Pacific, south of Pago Pago.

Pictures in the local paper showed the new owner of the island stretched out on a beach lounge -like Nero - sunglasses still on - an extra large umbrella protecting him from the sun - little umbrella's scatthered all over the sand around him - while he's sipping a gentle drink with a little umbrella in it -- all the while he's watching the graceful and gentle moves of the Polynesian girls doing their dance before him.

Next Auction, will be conducted from south of Pago Pago.
No extradition.

(Bill, I know you have a sense of humor)

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Posted By: Jason

My bank cleared the check on the 9th. With that said they must have received it on the 6th or 7th. I think waiting until the 23rd to send is a little ridiculous.

Jason

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Posted By: Joe P.

There's only One Mail flight a week from south of Pago Pago.

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Posted By: Howie

All these big auction houses with their antiquated rules and policies. There's real opportunity for a business savvy collector to enter the auction business and show the dinosaurs how auctions should be run. Here's just a few things you can do to get them shaking in their boots.

1) No buyer's premium.
2) No seller's premium.
3) Free next day shipping and full insurance for all winning lots.
4) No need to wait for checks to clear because all winning lots are sent on approval.
5) Unlimited lifetime return privledge.
6) Toll-free numbers.
7) Free Fedex and pickup of lots to you prior to auction for inspection.
8) Guaranty you'll be able to resell all winnings immediately on Ebay for a large profit.
9) 10 cent bid increments.
10) Free high quality catalogs.
11) The ability to cancel your bids in case you change your mind.
12) The ability to extend payment for winnings indefinetly.
13) Cash advance of 100% of consignor's estimate of value on request.
14) Immediate wire transfer of balance payment to consignor at auction close.
15) No hassling of consignor to return overpayment of any cash advance.
16) Auctioneer to absorb state sales tax in case winner is in-state.
17) Auction ends when I am through bidding.
18) Credit card and Pay Pal payments accepted at no additional fee.
19) No registration requirement, no references needed.
20) Shill bidding allowed only on my consigned items, and not items I want to bid on.
21) The ability to cancel the bids of deep pocket collectors who won't appreciate the item like you would.
22) Replace caveat emptor in disclaimer to "The customer is always right."

That about does it I think. There's always room for improvement.

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Posted By: petecld

Howie,

Great plan.... hopefully you'll realize that just about every item on your list is going to make you loose money.

Nice dream though...

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Posted By: Bill Cornell

Shill bidding allowed only on my consigned items, and not items I want to bid on.

You are a man ahead of your time, Howie. This is the funniest post I've read here in a long while.

Bill

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Posted By: runscott

My favorite is #17

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Posted By: Joe P.

I Will Deliver Personally!

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Posted By: Brian H (misunderestimated)

Actually to run a successful auction house I would recommend charging almost all of the fees to the buyers not the consignors -- so you can get better items and pick up market share.
The bidders (if they were good at multiplication and additon) would still pay the same amount but your auction house would just be the party collecting.
Also I would use Ebay's incremental bidding system rather than the "traditional 10%" that probably leaves money on the table. Also it's stupid that you can only leave a max at "every other" bidding slot. This may have made sense before computers (and good auction software) but it seems almost medieval right now.

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Oh and my cards from Mastro arrived last week (but I paid promptly and live in Chicago so the ground transport took about 1 day).

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And appluse and accolades to Lew Lipset who shipped out my winnings in his last auction most promptly. I appreciated it alot.

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Posted By: runscott

I used to send money orders but it didn't seem to have much effect. I see dealers breaking up lots on ebay days after auction end, and two weeks later I'm still waiting for my lots.

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Posted By: Julie

Not only has my package arrived (UPS ground), but Ben has already received his package from ME--of course i sent it to him FedEx overnight. This all happened last WEEK!

Ben and I sent separate checks, both money orders, his air mail from Canada, mine Priority from California. They told me they mailed the stuff the end of the week before last, and I got it last Wednesday late, mailed Ben's half Thursday early, he got it Friday at 1 P.M. his time in Montreal.

GOOD SHOW! The Joseph Hall Saint Louis is VERY delicate, being mouse-eaten around some edges, esp. the upper left-hand corner; my SGC 60 Fan Craze Keeler is terrific, clean as a whistle, with just a tiny bit of chipping on two back corners...

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Posted By: David Seaborn

Got mine today from Mastro...four SGC-graded Mayos waiting for me. Gotta love those Mayos!!

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Posted By: Jim Clarke JC

Check cleared the bank on Nov 1st. Package came in yesterday. Maybe new people running the auction, under the "Mastro" name. The packaging was the Best I have ever seen. Not much bubble wrap and "Popcorn" (yea) and thick cardboard sandwich with the gems in the middle. Plus, the packing slip was there showing the lots won without the prices. My wife had no clue when she snooped in the box when I was taking the kids to school.

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Posted By: runscott

Packing was incredibly safe - overkill.

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Posted By: david

is anyone else still waiting for items besides me?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

I finally got mine yesterday and once they actually mailed it,it only took 2 days to get to me.Since it went to a different mailing address than the one i reside at,i have to wait a few more hours till i actually see what i got.I'll need security to keep the family and their greasy hands away from my mastro winnings.It will be like my own little christmas while everyone else is celebrating thanksgiving

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Posted By: David

Still waiting in Honolulu for Mastro auction winnings. Also still waiting for first issue of Old Cardboard. #%@\!!

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Posted By: David

P.S. Spent two weeks in Pongo once on a surveying job. No offense meant to any Samoans on the board but no "Polynesian babes" are conjured up in my memories of the place. Now, Tahiti, there's another story . . .

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Posted By: Joe P.

BigSpiderBeck:
"P.S. Spent two weeks in Pongo once on a surveying job. No offense meant to any Samoans on the board but no "Polynesian babes" are conjured up in my memories of the place.
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BM to David.

My newly acquired uncharted private island, was the best kept secret of the ages.

No outsiders whatsoever permitted.
No dogs.
No missionaries.
No surveyors.

As a matter of fact, legend has it that it might have been the site of the original Garden of Eden.

Keep smiling, and keep bidding.
BM

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Posted By: David

No Missionaries, Surveyors or Dogs Need Apply. My surveying buddies will get a kick out of that. Boys, looks like we're in fast company.

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Posted By: Julie

even ONE DAY OF THE YEAR..is too hot for me.

From an old Mastro package: Happy Thanksgiving!

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Posted By: David

Both Old Cardboard #1 and MastroNet winnings finally arrived today. OC looks like a winner. Won a 1933 WS program from MastroNet. Arrived in a nukeproof package the size of a small car.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

I am enbarassed to say this...

but I had won something from Mastro and TOTALLY FORGOT about it.

In fact, I was kind of laughing at how patient you people could be to have not already received your items!

Then yesterday ...

I get a Fed Ex package with my 1911 Collier's Book of Baseball in it!!

They could have NEVER sent this and I was clueless. What an idiot I am.

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Posted By: john/z28jd

That reminds me Hal,when are you sending me the Burkett card,you cashed the check awhile ago and mustve forgot about it just like the mastro lot you won.I'll let it slide this time because you obviously have alot on your mind.Email me if you need my mailing address again

PS I saw my 2 mastro lots on thanksgiving and was very impressed with their packing[theyre the first items ive won directly from them] and i couldnt have been happier with the actual items once i finally got to them.It took awhile but they were definitely worth it

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Posted By: Hal Lewis