Auction houses vs. Ebay

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Posted By: davidcycleback

My two fears with consigning to big auction houses is that the items won't align with their audience and that the auction house will group the items not to my liking.

More than half of the more expensive non-sport items I sell are bought internationally, and eBay is a good way to sell internationally. I might get a better international audience than I would consigning to Mastro. On eBay I sold a photograph to the founder of Sotheby's photograph department in London. I would guess he doesn't receive the Mastro catalog.