Absentee & Telephone Bidding
Conditions of Sale

ABSENTEE/TELEPHONE BID PROCEDURE

ABSENTEE BIDS MAY BE LEFT AT THE PREVIEW OR DURING THE AUCTION OR USING THE ONLINE FORM BELOW

Successful bidders will be notified shortly after the auction if they are successful and to arrange for payment and shipping.

ABSENTEE:

To place an absentee bid, simply fill out this email bidding form on this page, WITH YOUR NAME, shipping address email and telephone – the number of the article(s) you are interested in AND a short description (to preclude any confusion) and the bid you wish to leave.  Once received, someone will telephone you to confirm the information and receive a credit card number as security. Absentee bids are executed by an experienced auction bidder who will represent your interests as if they were his or her own. The auctioneer will not know what your bid is though he will know that there is an absentee bid on an item. If there are more than one bid on the same item, the higher bidder will open at one increment above the lower bid. Someone leaving absentee bids at the auction will give a credit card number along with their bids.

TELEPHONE:

IN OUR DETERNINATION WE HAVE DECIDED TO ACCEPT TELEPHONE BIDS ON ITEMS YOU ARE WILLING TO OPEN AT $1000.00. OTHERWISE, PLEASE LEAVE AN ABSENTEE BID WHICH WILL BE SCRUPUOUSLY EXERCISED.

The procedure for registering is the same as for Absentee Bidding, except you will be called for confirmation and credit card information after the order of the sale has been finalized so that you will know when the call from us will reach you on auction day, within a half hour or so. Someone will telephone you shortly before your desired item comes up and will execute your bid as if you were on the floor.

TELEPHONE BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE:

We STRONGLY recommend that you give us your failsafe maximum bid in the form of an absentee bid so that you will not lose out if anything should go amiss in contacting you. ALSO, YOU MUST BID DECISIVELY, as an indicator of the seriousness of your intentions. The auctioneer reserves the right to knock down the article to another bidder if your phone bidding is deemed to be slowing down the sale. The best way to achieve this is for our caller to BID UNTIL YOU SAY STOP.

CUT-OFF TIME for accepting absentee and telephone bid requests will be 8:00 p.m. AST on Friday, March 2, 2007. Our onsite telephone number is 902-899-0801

CONDITIONS OF SALE

1. At this UNRESERVED AUCTION the Auctioneer determines when an article is sold and all sales are final.  The highest bidder acknowledged by the Auctioneer will be the buyer. However, the Auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid not commensurate with the item being offered, which is not in conflict with the fact of this being an unreserved sale.

2 CATALOG: The Auctioneer and Consignor have taken great care to insure that any statements or descriptions regarding the items contained in the catalogue are accurate. However all such statements and descriptions are statements of experienced opinion only. All parties bidding at the sale shall be held to have satisfied themselves as to the identity and condition of any lot for sale and the authenticity of any description or statement regarding these lots, and all parties shall be precluded from raising any objections thereto after the sale of the lots in question on any grounds whatsoever.

4. REGISTER: All parties bidding at the sale shall register their full name, address and driver’s license number with the Auctioneer before the sale.

5. PAYMENT: THERE IS AN 8% BUYER’S PREMIUM ON ALL IN HOUSE SALES AND 13% ONLINE. Upon sale the purchaser must pay the full hammer price to the Auctioneer. All lots must be paid for by cash, check, debit or credit card. PURCHASES BY CASH OR CHECK ENJOY A 3% REDUCTION IN THIS PREMIUM. U.S. exchange will be calculated at the rate on Friday, Mar 2. ALL PURCHASES ARE SUBJECT TO NOVA SCOTIA SALES TAX UNLESS WE SHIP OUT OF THE COUNTRY. Information will be available on site to assist in tax retrieval for those not living in Canada, as well as comprehensive information for Americans returning with goods to the U.S.

All parties bidding at the sale shall be held to have informed themselves as to the conditions of the sale.

BIDDER REGISTRATION FORM

Please note: All purchases are subject to our “Conditions of Sale” found above.

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