Annoucement of a new Auction Company

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Posted By: leon

Adam- We are using Collectibles Insurance Agency for our insurance coverage.

Lee- We will not accept paypal. Folks will still need to send their cards to us but that is all. No scanning or dealing with anything like ebay. We know our auction venue won't be for everyone. We never planned on pleasing everyone. Once we start our auction you are welcome to bid if you register and see anything that suits your fancy. We aren't trying to hurt anyone or do anything wrong. All we want to do is run an ethical auction a few times a year and have fun collecting while we are doing it. Scott B made a good point several posts up in that we won't be allowed to bid in our own auctions. That could be one of the hardest things about this as we are both more passionate buyers than sellers. Take care...

edited to fix a typo and answer Jerry too.....

The numbers you are referring to are "views". We get about 900,000 total a month for all pages on the board....about 500,000 a month on the front page alone. The unique IP's could be high for various reasons but even 2000 good members would be quite a few. We don't think we need to take credit cards as we are offering Net Terms auctions (when allowed by consignors) where you don't have to pay 70% of the total cost for 90 days. That is longer than most credit cards give to pay. After it's all said and done credit card companies take about 3%-4% and we don't feel that is something we can offer at this time.