Problems with two championship rings in upcoming Heritage Auction

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by ramram

Is it possible that an auction house might want to drag their feet on an investigation until after the auction concludes and only then clean up the mess with the winning bidder? Then it's not out there, before the auction concludes, for the masses to see? Just a thought.

Rob M.

That would be a very poor decision on the part of any auction house. The resulting bad PR from having knowingly "sold" a bad item (even if it never actually changed hands) would be far worse than any blowback from pulling a bad item from the auction. They might conduct their investigation and then pull the item without giving a reason, but to knowingly sell a bad item to someone with the intention of clearing up the matter with them behind closed doors after the auction is over is a lose lose proposition. They would still wind up getting bad PR, would not get commission from the sale of the bad item, and would lose out on whatever other bids the "winning bidder" would have placed in the auction had they not thought their funds tied up with the bad item.