Live Auction in North Vancouver - Apr 26th

[dannzac]

It's at a Holiday Inn and run by Mumbling Muse. Seems like they have a few nice vintage items (Laval Dairy set, 63/64 Topps set, 79/80 Topps and OPC set). Starting prices are OK, but they hit you with 12% tax and 10% buyer's premium. Ouch. I stumbled across this on another website. Anyone know about this?

 

[chadsexington]

It's at a Holiday Inn and run by Mumbling Muse. Seems like they have a few nice vintage items (Laval Dairy set, 63/64 Topps set, 79/80 Topps and OPC set). Starting prices are OK, but they hit you with 12% tax and 10% buyer's premium. Ouch. I stumbled across this on another website. Anyone know about this?

To be honest, 12% tax is normal here (our federal + provincial sales tax) and a 10% buyer's premium is actually pretty low. Able Auctions charges 15%

Their website looks fancy but doesn't function very well. I can't see the online catalogue at all.

Is anybody around here planning on going to this rather than the card show tomorrow?

 

[dannzac]

I'm not saying any of those things are out of the norm. It's just that when bidding and something seems like a good price, is not such a good price when you get hit with an extra 22% at the end. And since it's in CAD and I'm in USD, it's even more of a hit. It's easy to forget those things.

 

[Pacman69]

I'm not saying any of those things are out of the norm. It's just that when bidding and something seems like a good price, is not such a good price when you get hit with an extra 22% at the end. And since it's in CAD and I'm in USD, it's even more of a hit. It's easy to forget those things.

That didn't make sense to me. With the current conversion rate, if the tax etc is 22% and your winning bid is $100 cdn, it would work out to a little les than $100 usd.


Pacman

 

[Orca Pod]

I'm not saying any of those things are out of the norm. It's just that when bidding and something seems like a good price, is not such a good price when you get hit with an extra 22% at the end. And since it's in CAD and I'm in USD, it's even more of a hit. It's easy to forget those things.

100 US dollars is currently about 121-122 CDN dollars. So you'd be getting the tax/fee more or less 'free.' that of course doesn't account for how much your payment method gouges you on exchange, but that's out of your control.

 

[koondog44]

I'm not saying any of those things are out of the norm. It's just that when bidding and something seems like a good price, is not such a good price when you get hit with an extra 22% at the end. And since it's in CAD and I'm in USD, it's even more of a hit. It's easy to forget those things.

To help ease the "hit", I will trade you your US dollars for Canadian dollars straight across I have to put a cap on it at $1,000,000 though :dance:

 

[Orca Pod]

To help ease the "hit", I will trade you your US dollars for Canadian dollars straight across I have to put a cap on it at $1,000,000 though :dance:

You're such a nice guy Brian. Always willing to help people out!