Selling with Heritage is easy, fun and often quite successful. Buying from them, more or less the same.
Having your posters shipped to an international destination: A slightly different story. I do not understand, why a major auction house is either unable or unwilling to provide a shipping quote upfront and allow international buyers to make an educated choice when it comes to selecting a carrier. I don't understand this, and I don't really like it, either. On the other hand, their actual shipping costs usually were quite reasonable. When I'm buying non-poster collectibles from other auction houses in the US that use external shippers, I frequently find myself paying hundreds of dollars for pickup and packing of my auction wins. Plus, everything I won from Heritage always arrived professionally packed, so no complaints here either. Again, an upfront quote would be nice, but all in all, I'm still quite happy with their service. Helmut www.filmposter.net > I have bought posters from several dealers and auction houses in USA without > problems, yet time and again I find Heritage Auctions and myself at odds. The > latest point of dissension concerns shipping to UK. Everyone else provides me > with a quote; I accept by email; I pay; they ship. HA always had to have > their International Shipping Instructions form signed with acceptable methods > and scanned and emailed to them, which they then held on file. > My latest shipment, however, they tell me they cannot send because they > require a new ISI form signed with just one shipping method accepted. If I > decide to have a different method in future it will require a new ISI. Why? > Can they not just accept an email as everyone else does? They have given me > various reasons for this, none of them actually believable. The first was > that this would 'ensure safe delivery', the latest being that the form is > physically sent to the shipping department. Really? Are HA so lacking in > technology that they have pieces of paper circulating between departments? > Furthermore, why do they insist that all orders over $250 paid by credit card > or PayPal must be sent by Fedex or UPS? Most everyone else is happy to use > the cheaper options of USPS, and I have just received a couple of shipments > from Bruce using first class email which arrived swiftly and securely. > Besides, how else would I pay? > This might not seem like a major inconvenience but as a point of principle I > find it very annoying, mainly because it just seems to be a bit of > bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake. Their T&Cs simply state that, 'Successful > international Bidders shall provide written shipping . . . to the Auctioneer > for any lots to be delivered outside of the United States.' I would have > thought that an email is a written instruction. Does anyone agree with me, or > am I just being picky? > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
