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Thread: AMI Auction: What Happened???
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06-05-2009, 07:08 PM #21
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Re: AMI Auction: What Happened???
sarahsdad,
I was referred to buying maybe one....."possibly 2" items a year....if that.
Like I said, maybe you should reread the posts?
I will say I think that you finding anyone who bids on items in AMI's auctions (assuming you won one of them you meant.....right?) is putting stolen property in one's possession (the winner) is a fairly good laugh.
I mean.....please tell me you were kidding, weren't you???
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06-05-2009, 07:14 PM #22
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Re: AMI Auction: What Happened???
I have said all I need to and am going to say. It is all yours now.
sarahsdad
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06-05-2009, 07:15 PM #23
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That's exactly why I don't talk to the forums members the way you talk to your children you work with, EWfan.....because the members here aren't children. I show them the respect they deserve by communicating on an adult level.
I have no problem with a differing opinion on anything. I welcome it, it usually conjures up stimulating intellectual conversation.
Usually.
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06-05-2009, 07:15 PM #24
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I have to agree. Nobody should buy or sell from these crooks. They still owe me 22k from last September. I lost my Bird jersey to them; haven't got a red cent; had to hire a lawyer to try and salvage something. Many others in the same boat. Buying from them is like buying stuff on the black market.
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06-05-2009, 07:21 PM #25
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Getting back to the original post and point of this thread, Moustache Gang, I actually called to inquire about one item because it too did not show as sold. I was directed to Keita, who told me "we'll need to fix that one too". She told me it had in fact sold.
What I took from that was that they were having technical difficulties in the way their system was posting the results.
I find that hard to believe.....but that's just me. Why does it work on most of the items, but on a select few...there are technical difficulties?
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06-05-2009, 07:21 PM #26
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Sarahsdad drew the line that he is comfortable with. And you are criticizing him for it, as if he didn't already sit down and decide on his personal stance. Who are you to say he didn't appy common sense or make a well-thought decision.
I happen to agree with Sarahsdad. If I need to cross my moral or ethical grounds to obtain something for my collection, well then it is time to sell the collection.Wanted: Minnesota Twins throwback or special event jerseys.
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06-05-2009, 07:41 PM #27
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You know, hard not to interpret it that way. AMI doesn't pay the consignors but takes your money. That's theft, and your purchase really is essentially accepting stolen property.
I personally would not buy from any auction house operating as AMI presently is. I find it simply immoral if not illegal.
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06-05-2009, 07:42 PM #28
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Re: AMI Auction: What Happened???
Greg,
You are doing all you can do. And I wish you nothing but the best of luck in recouping what's rightfully yours.
I'm just curious, however. Have you considered what your chances would be of recouping your monies owed, if everyone followed your advice and just stopped buying (bidding) on their items cold turkey?
They would be forced to close their doors within a few weeks, one month or two at the most.
Is that really what you want?
You know, the funny thing is, I find myself in an absolute laughable position here. Some of the posting members here have had the twisted effect of making it seem like I am in one way or another standing up for AMI. You guys couldn't be farther off base. That's nonsense. If you ONLY KNEW what you were talking about......I'm on YOUR SIDES.
At the risk of sounding "arrogant and abusive towards" you guys, which of course I am not attempting to do in any way, shape, or form......I will state for the record:
I have NEVER consigned one single solitary item with AMI.....never.
I have my reasons, and they are not important to this discussion.
But for you guys that have been wronged in your dealings with them, and in a show of emotion and anger are now coming out and making statements that essentially are saying "GO OUT OF BUSINESS, and FAST!!!".....I think you need to take a deep breath and maintain a bit of composure here.
We are all pulling for you guys to get your money back. We would be disingenuous and deceitful members of this forum to suggest anything else.
I will also state this for the record:
If I had any ability to help ANY of you owed money for past consignments get your money back by stating something here that would help you in that endeavor, I would be doing just that.
So, I am using discretion on coming here and posting, while you are all in this compromised and unenviable mess, and am watching with a hopeful heart that it all works out for you. But I am suggesting to you as a friend (albeit an unknown one at that) to use your heads, to follow proper procedures in seeking payments owed, and not shoot yourselves while hunting. The hospital may be out of your blood type when you get there...
capisce?
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06-05-2009, 07:44 PM #29
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I see both sides, Squeeze's and Sarahsdad's. If AMI had something I really really really wanted, something I felt I'd never see again (and they had one such item right around Christmas time,) I'd probably bid. But for all the people who have been screwed, these bids are just allowing AMI to continue, and people are paying for it in the wrong way. Sure, it's just a couple bids, Squeeze, but if everyone just puts in a "couple bids" and only several of us only win "just one item," well, that's enough to keep them afloat another month, which is another handful of consignors getting nada.
"I was referred to buying maybe one....."possibly 2" items a year....if that."
You're enabling them, and saying "I've got mine" kinda stinks when so many others are getting empty promises or fraudulant items. I believe in karma, and while you and I aren't getting stuck with empty consignor promises, we're not the ones withholding their money, any bids we make are just helping those who are doing it. Somehow, somewhere, that will (and should) come back on us.
I think Sarahsdad has a point: if we ALL stop bidding, NOW, AMI will go under, which appears to be what they deserve (disclaimer: I've never been shafted by them, just going on what I've heard.) So a few choice items won't be available through them, so what? The items will pop up again somewhere.
Ken
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06-05-2009, 07:51 PM #30
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That's the way I see it too. It might not be your intent SS but it sounds like, "it's not really stealing if I don't do it very often." Or, "it's not really bad if I really want it." For me it would take the joy out of whatever I bought if I had to get it that way. But that's just me.