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Bought $6k worth of Vintage Audio at an Auction… Now being asked to sell it all back.
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Out of thirty pieces won individually, the disputed item turns out to be one specific unit worth around three thousand dollars that sold for six hundred. The auctioneer waived fees on everything and charged a twenty percent premium instead, which means they were paying close enough attention to the transaction to structure it, just apparently not close enough to notice they were selling something they maybe should not have been selling.
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That gap between what an auctioneer knows before the sale and what they claim to discover after it is worth getting upset over. I did. Equipment does not develop mysterious ownership problems on the drive home. If something was consigned incorrectly or belonged to someone who never authorized the sale, that is an administrative failure that happened well before the auction opened. The buyer finding out via casual text after already paying and picking everything up is not the buyer's problem to solve, at least not for free.
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Selling something back at cost when you pawned a watch to buy it, and it appreciated significantly the moment you won it is a charitable interpretation of the word options. Covering the pawn interest is the absolute floor of what a good-faith conversation looks like. Factoring in that a three-thousand-dollar item went for six hundred because the auctioneer created the conditions for that to happen is where leverage comes from.
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Would is doing a lot of work in that text. The answer to would is always negotiable.
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