Opinions on Huggins and Scott auctions

[alanu]

Overall, imho, the auction houses are benifiting (sp?) from the museum BIN's on ebay and the lack of straight auctions for nice vintage items on ebay.

[calvindog]

They're also benefiting from massive fraud.

Unrelated, but how's Josh Evans feeling? I heard he was sick.

[rainier2004]

Calvin - Whats this fraud you speak of?

[YankeeCollector]

Originally Posted by calvindog

They're also benefiting from massive fraud.

Unrelated, but how's Josh Evans feeling? I heard he was sick.

How could we go about preventing this fraud?

[autograf]

Fraud notwithstanding................When you have the depth of goods these major auction houses have in a single auction, you're going to attract much more attention than the flea market that is ebay. Given ebay has reduced the actual categories out there to almost nil, you have to search for specific items or go through THOUSANDS of items to find the few you want. I think that has ultimately hurt ebay (and the rest of us). Although they have found a myriad of other reasons to shoot themselves in the foot. And fraud is rife on ebay too as we all know.....

[rainier2004]

Seriously, what fraud is this? Are you saying huggins and scott are fraudulent at times? I thought they were the sure fire safe purchase?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

Seriously, what fraud is this? Are you saying huggins and scott are fraudulent at times? I thought they were the sure fire safe purchase?

Huggins and Scott is an advertiser here so keep that in mind. That being said, in all of my collecting experiences, Huggins and Scott Auctions is one of the few auction houses that I have never heard a whisper of impropriety about. They are one of the auction houses I would even place an up-to bid with....

[vintagerookies51]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

Seriously, what fraud is this? Are you saying huggins and scott are fraudulent at times? I thought they were the sure fire safe purchase?

I beleive they are saying eBay is fraud, not Huggins and Scott.

[autograf]

Think one of the posters was making a generalization about fraud in the larger auction houses but nothing specific with H&S. Like Leon, I've bid and won tons of stuff there with up to bids and hardly ever hit them. They always ship quickly and are responsive when I have questions..........

[YankeeCollector]

Originally Posted by alanu

Overall, imho, the auction houses are benifiting (sp?) from the museum BIN's on ebay and the lack of straight auctions for nice vintage items on ebay.

I totally agree.