Message #45962

[cshapiro]

Thank you George!

Thanks Charll! I'm sorry you didn't get your bottle.

Because I was wary, I called and told them if they would walk out to the warehouse and take some candid photos of the bottle and text them to me right then, I would pay right then. I was surprised they complied. So I paid and then worried all the way up until it got here.

It's interesting that the bottle was shipped from Flushing, New York - home of the original auction house, even though it was listed as being in Fairfax, Virginia. So the other auction houses are affiliated in some way and that is disconcerting.

I'm happy that all turned out well, but this was a bigger gamble than I was comfortable taking, and so won't be making the same mistake again. There are several of these second tier auction houses in the US, UK and Canada that are older established companies that I am comfortable doing business with, and so will buy from them, and avoid these unknown ones in future.