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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe2007, post: 1498574, member: 1262&quot;]I&#039;ve asked a few times about items and the standard response I&#039;ve gotten is that family/heirs have withdrawn items from the sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Potentially true, I&#039;ve seen family members grab stuff off of the &quot;good&quot; tables and just carry it off towards their vehicle several times at auctions and estate sales before it could be sold. Once the auctioneer asked them what they were doing and he and the heir had a shouting match in front of the crowd of bidders about contracts, breach of contract and such. Also smalls tend to go into pockets where they don&#039;t belong -- I believe I&#039;ve seen this a few times but professional thieves are slick. Once an expensive piece of Roseville got legs and apparently walked away. Auctioneers tend to hire security at some of the more inner city auctions/estate sales I&#039;ve been to but I don&#039;t doubt things go missing.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other I&#039;ve heard too many stories from many people I deem are trustworthy and know many auctioneers who I can confirm are not to be trusted with anything of value. One friend I know saw an auction worker taking a high value binder of postcards off of a table and out to the auctioneer&#039;s pick-up truck. And I&#039;ve heard stories of all the items that were in an estate and didn&#039;t make it to sale (i.e the auctioneer or their help kept them) and consigners were unhappy. One of my nurses at the hospital I regularly see sent her mother&#039;s stuff to auction and a lot of stuff has never sold to this day. There have been several auctioneers charged with fraud in our state for stealing from consigners and it is a wonder that more are not caught.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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