Auction Consignment

As a small, family-run business, we’re able to keep lower overheads than large auction houses. Our fees are straightforward and competitive. We charge a flat commission rate of 30% plus a $2 eBay listing fee per item.

Our typical consignment agreements deal with a single item, or a small group of items such as books, ephemera or photographs.

For libraries or collections that are considerably larger (300+ items), we recommend tackling the consignment project in portions. In this way, you’re able to hold the balance of your collection while we process the group in smaller lots, working our way through the entirety of the collection.

In an online auction, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on eBay for a certain number of days (typically 7-10). Buyers then place bids on the item. When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins.

Once the winning bidder has submitted payment, the item will be packaged and shipped to the winning bidder.

We recommend starting most auctions at the opening bid of $9.99 and allowing them to run for a full 7-10 days. In our experience, we have found that this low starting price encourages bidding activity, whereas high starting prices tend to discourage bidder interest.

This is our recommendation based upon 10 years of experience at auction, and we’ve found that its the best way to both entice bidders and to achieve a fair auction value.

A reserve price is an optional add-on to your auction listing and is the minimum amount you are willing to sell for. In other words, if the reserve price isn’t met at auction, the item won’t be sold. This means that even if someone is the highest bidder at the end of the auction, they won’t win the item unless they have met your reserve price.

We do not recommend using auction reserves; reserves tend to discourage bidders and many items pass at auction without bids when placed under reserve.

Once the winning bidder has received the item(s) and is satisfied, we’ll send your payment to you via check or PayPal (your choice).

Large auction houses typically take 30 days or more to send your portion of the profit; we strive to send payment as quickly as 14 days following a successful auction transaction. A successful auction transaction would be one in which the item has been received by the winning bidder to their satisfaction and the sale is fully finalized.