One & only dealing
I do not recommend dealing with this auction house.
As an online bidder, I recently had an experience where 5th Ave reopened bidding after the hammer fell. The reason I was given was that “they allow for bidding to reopen after the hammer drops for online auctions, to allow for internet delay.”
Interestingly, from what I saw online, the bidders after the hammer fell were not online, but on the phone & floor - so an internet delay does not apply.
5th Ave claim there is no recording of the livestream auction to refer back to.
UPDATE:
The auction house isn’t happy with receiving a bad review - so they retaliate by blacklisting the bidder for not liking the way in which they conduct business. They have yet been able to provide any evidence to prove the contrary. I even paid the higher hammer price...
Their msg to me:
“The comments you are posting on public platforms are factually incorrect, untruthful and defamatory. In order to protect the industry at large I have added your account to the global blacklist of bad bidders – I intend leaving it there as a warning to other auction houses.”
Ironically they’re calling me a ****, which is defamatory & are acting with malicious intent.
FURTHER UPDATE:
48 hours later and 5th have now sent me some form of written proof of an online bid
