Our departments reflect the market sectors in which we offer both vendors and buyers market-leading expertise. We provide access to world class specialists in all areas of the Works on Paper market. Our intended expansion into other markets will be on this same basis. We aim to make selling at auction an intuitive and transparent experience. Our commitment to you, as vendor, is to promote your interests in achieving the best possible prices for the items you consign to us for sale.
Services
Forum Auctions are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide consumer credit services. Unbolted is the trading name of Open Access Finance Ltd and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Forum Auctions is not regulated by the FCA and makes no representations or recommendations regarding the suitability of the Unbolted loan offering.
Please note that the live bidding application becomes active 60 minutes prior to the start of each auction. Live online bidding with video and audio streaming is available at no extra cost for all of our live sales through BidFORUM. Please note, you must Sign In to your Forum Auctions web account in order to use this feature.
The timed online-only sales format is a regular feature of our sales calendar offering our customers the opportunity to sell and buy from us throughout the year. The starting price on all lots is the minimum price a lot can be sold at taking into consideration any reserves. For lots offered without reserve bidding will commence at 5. We feel that this additional transparency is of benefit to both our buyers and vendors.
At Forum Auctions we aim to make selling at auction an intuitive and transparent experience. Our commitment to you, as vendor, is to promote your interests in achieving the best possible prices for the items you consign to us for sale. Our charges for the services we provide are easy to comprehend and explained to you prior to our accepting your items for sale.
The auctioneer may vary the increments during the course of the auction at his or her own discretion. This can ordinarily be reclaimed if you are VAT registered or the item is exported outside the EU. This can ordinarily be reclaimed as input tax if you are VAT registered or refunded when the item is exported outside the UK.
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Jerome Fagan
Nov 17, 2020
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Don Gummerson
Jan 28, 2020
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Ilya Kushnirskiy
Oct 15, 2019
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Stephane
Jul 29, 2019
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Willem De Vocht
Jul 16, 2019
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Huw Lougher
Jan 13, 2019
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James David
Aug 27, 2018
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BUYER’S PREMIUM
This auction house charges you a “Buyer’s Premium”, as if it is somehow a great privilege that you are allowed to buy from them. Just think about it. Would you go into any other business and pay this. Go into any major or minor retailer. Pick say $1000.00 in merchandise. You get your sales slip and they want $1250.00 plus any applicable taxes. You show them the mistake and they tell you it is a “Buyer’s Premium”. Would you pay it? Why pay it here? The hammer price is the same as the price in a retail shop. Why are you paying more?
The bidder has $1,000.00 to spend
This auction house charges you a “Buyer’s Premium”, as if it is somehow a great privilege that you are allowed to buy from them. Just think about it. Would you go into any other business and pay this. Go into any major or minor retailer. Pick say $1000.00 in merchandise. You get your sales slip and they want $1250.00 plus any applicable taxes. You show them the mistake and they tell you it is a “Buyer’s Premium”. Would you pay it? Why pay it here? The hammer price is the same as the price in a retail shop. Why are you paying more?
The bidder has $1,000.00 to spend
David Vine
Jun 03, 2018
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Robert Grunder
Mar 12, 2018
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Cesar Garcia
Oct 03, 2017
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Ben Furnival
Aug 08, 2017
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