Heritage auction shipping time

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by drapala

Hello all. I'm bidding in a Heritage auction that ends tonight and I'm moving 3 weeks from today. I think I remember reading here that it can take awhile to get items from Heritage.

From your experience, is 3 weeks enough of a cushion?

Thanks!

Change your shipping address, temporarily, to your office or to a friend or family (maybe one in a no sales tax state), and the item will be shipped there and you don’t have to worry about it

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Change your shipping address, temporarily, to your office or to a friend or family (maybe one in a no sales tax state), and the item will be shipped there and you don’t have to worry about it

I agree with Ryan.

My experience is it usually takes them about a week to ship after you pay.

Add in shipping time and it’s probably close to 2 weeks before it arrives.

If they are just a little bit slow on either end and you’re hosed. Why risk it!?

Another option is to intercept it. Usually they ship with FedEx. By going online and clicking a few buttons, you can direct FedEx to hold it at one of their locations, including convenient places like a lot of Walgreens. They will usually hold it there for a couple of weeks. Then you can pick it up at a place of your choosing and general leisure.

[drapala]

Thanks everyone. I'll try to send it to family. Appreciate it!

[Lobo Aullando]

That kind of delay is what I was counting on when I won a couple items a few months back. I was able to bid, but not in a location where I could pay for about 3-4 days afterward. Yet, two days later they shipped it out, and when I opened the box there was an invoice on a nice red sheet of paper. (I had paid by that point, just as I had planned.)

Weird. Just weird.

Originally Posted by raulus

My experience is it usually takes them about a week to ship after you pay.

Add in shipping time and it’s probably close to 2 weeks before it arrives.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by raulus

I agree with Ryan.

My experience is it usually takes them about a week to ship after you pay.

Add in shipping time and it’s probably close to 2 weeks before it arrives.

If they are just a little bit slow on either end and you’re hosed. Why risk it!?

Another option is to intercept it. Usually they ship with FedEx. By going online and clicking a few buttons, you can direct FedEx to hold it at one of their locations, including convenient places like a lot of Walgreens. They will usually hold it there for a couple of weeks. Then you can pick it up at a place of your choosing and general leisure.

+1 agree with the change of address and if that is not an options then ask them to hold it until you move.