West Hartford CT Antiques & Estate Auction

Auction Terms & Conditions Quick "Need to Knows" before you bid? 1. Yes, there is only one day for the pickup of your items and you will be picking them up at our clients home (see below for exact day & times) 2. These items are not located at our facility in Oakville, please do not go there for pickup (See below for pickup location) 3. We do not provide in house shipping. Shipping is provided through 3rd party shippers only (More information below) 4. Shipping is not available on all lots, see the individual lot descriptions for this info 5. There is a Transport Fee applied to each lot if you are having it shipped (Detailed below) 6. It is your responsibility to read these terms & conditions in full before bidding. PICKUPING UP YOUR PURCHASES: All of the items in this auction will need to be picked up ON-SITE at our client's home, therefore the window for picking up your purchases is limited to only a single day by appointment. All purchases from this auction must be pickup up on the day and time listed below with no exceptions. It is expected that ALL of our customers have read the auction terms & conditions thoroughly prior to bidding and fully understand the pickup requirements. Pickup Date & Time for this auction Date: Saturday 4/9/2022 Time: By Appointment from 10:00pm to 2:00pm EST Pickup Town: West Hartford CT The exact pickup address and your appointment time will be provided to the winning bidders after your invoice has been paid via Email only. Please be sure to check your email spam settings before bidding to ensure you receive your invoice with the pickup address and your scheduled pickup time. East-Wing will not be responsible for missed pickups due to a customer not seeing the email. It is ultimately your responsibility to reach out to us prior to the pickup dates if you cannot find the necessary information. If you require a specific time on the date above to pickup your items, you must contact us directly as soon as possible via email, phone, or text. Pickup time requests are given on a first come first serve basis, and any requests for times cannot be guaranteed. The above pickup date is firm and non-negotiable. ALL purchases must be picked up on this date unless previous shipping or pickup arrangements have been made with the auctioneer directly. If you cannot pick up your purchases on the date above OR you do not plan to have your purchases shipped, please do not bid as no refunds will be given under any circumstance for an inability to pick up your purchases (See additional terms below). TERMS OF PICK-UP Removal shall be at the sole expense, liability and risk of the purchaser. All successful bidders who have not previously made 3rd party shipping arrangements are expected to pickup their purchases during and within the scheduled pickup dates listed in the terms above. If your purchases are not picked up on the date above or by the close of the pickup window, they will be considered forfeited and abandoned, NO REFUNDS, or CREDIT will be given under any circumstances. It is ultimately your responsible to ensure you are available and prepared for the pickup, packaging, and moving of your purchases at the pickup location on the date and times listed above. There will be no moving assistance for you at the pickup location. You are expected to bring with you all the necessary packing materials and moving assistance required to remove your items from the home. Please do not bid if you cannot make the arrangements to properly move the items you are purchasing. If at any time a member of our staff feels that you are not adequately prepared, or incapable of properly moving an item where we feel there is a risk of damage to our client's home, or injury of yourself and others. We will ask you to stop until you can make the proper arrangements to move the items in question. If you cannot get the help required to safely move a large item before the close of the pickup window your items will be forfeited and considered abandoned with no refunds or credits and no other pickup days will be made available. If during the removal of your purchases from the home, you damage the property in any way you will be required to pay for the damages incurred at your sole expense. SHIPPING East-Wing Estate Sales does not provide shipping services in house. We must be notified directly if you need to have your purchases shipped, we will assume you are picking your purchases up in person if no shipping request was sent to the auctioneer prior to the pickup date listed above. Our options for shipping your items - Option #1: You can arrange your own 3rd party pickup and shipment with any shipper that you like. With this option you items must be pickup up by the shipper on the date listed above, with no exceptions. East-Wing is not responsible for errors or omissions by any third-party agent. You must make all of the appropriate arrangements with your shipper to ensure your items are picked up on the date above within the listed time frame. We are happy to work with your arranged shipper to ensure your purchases are picked up. Option #2: We can assist in arranging shipping though a "UPS Store" in which we work with on a regular basis. We would have your items brought down the them after the pickup date, and would manage the quoting of your shipment and the payments to provide you with a smooth and simple shipping process. There is a transport fee applied to each lot for this service (Min fee of $10 per lot) If you would like to use Option #2 you must reach out to us via email, phone, or text AFTER you have paid your invoice. Requests for shipping must be made 24 hours prior to the pickup date listed above, any requests not received 24 hours before the pickup date will be subject to a $25 additional fee for a late shipping request. Once we receive your request you will get a confirmation email, and we will be sure your items are claimed at the pickup and brought to "The UPS store" to be quoted for shipping. Once we receive your shipping quote from UPS we will send it to you via Email for your approval. Payment for shipping may be made using your card on file or paid via CC over the phone with us or "The UPS Store" directly. Please note, we have absolutely no control over the prices, quote and shipping times, packing, or handling of your item once they are given to "The UPS Store". Shipping quotes are usually sent to you within 5 to 10 business days after the pickup date above. When using Option #2 for shipping, a transport fee will be applied to your invoice total. The transport fee amounts will be listed in the lot descriptions, if not listed a minimum fee of $10 per lot will apply (Example: If you purchase 5 lots the fee will be $50 min). Transport Fees are due prior to our staff bringing the items to "The UPS Store" from the estate and are non-refundable. The UPS Store reserves the rights to charge storage fees for invoices that remain with them for over 30 days, or for purchases that end up getting picked up from "The UPS Store" by the customer or another shipper. Option #2 Packaging & Shipping will be managed by: The UPS Store 7365 Main St STE 12 Stratford, CT 06614 (203) 386-9388 Due to the auction pickup taking place at our client's home all of the remaining non picked up lots after the pickup window will be left at our clients home, and we will not have access to them after the pickup window is over. Please make all necessary arrangements with the auctioneer ASAP! Any items left unclaimed, unpaid, or unshipped after 60 days will be considered abandoned and a refund will not be issued. We will reach out by email only, and after a final shipping notice is sent we will not contact your any further to arrnage or pay for your shipping. ABSENTEE BIDS & RESERVES: We accept absentee bids by phone (subject to availability), by mail, or in person. Absentee bids need to be requested no later than 24 hours before the auction. We will require a valid Credit Card to be placed on file before any absentee bids can be accepted. If you mail in your absentee bids please call us to confirm that we received them. All absentee bidding is handled as though you are in attendance. We will bid on your behalf on all designated lots at the bidding increments just above where competition stops. Please check these increments before placing your bids to understand where your bids may end up. All absentee bids will start at the listed starting bid unless there are two or more competing absentee bids at a price higher than that in which case we will place you bid at the next highest bidding increment. Because of the way our bidding is structured, it is possible that several people will leave identical bids, the winning bid will go to the bidder who placed / sent in there absentee bid first. All absentee bidder names and bids are held in strictest confidence, disclosed only in the event of a question after the sale. Absentee bidding is a convenience offered to our customers and while we will make every effort to execute your instructions, East-Wing Estate Sales is not liable or responsible for any errors or failure to do so. Please send mail in bids or place in-person bid at the following address: East-Wing Estate Sales, LLC 28 Main Street, Oakville CT 06779 Be sure to include all of your information, as well as the auction name, and lots numbers you wish to bid on as well as the maximum bid you would like to place on each lot. A reserve is the confidential minimum price established between the auctioneer and the consignor. East-Wing may implement a reserve on a particular lot by bidding on behalf of the consignor up to the reserve price. If the bidding on a lot fails to reach the reserve price, the lot will be bought-in by the auctioneer and the highest underbid brought to the attention of the consignor for consideration. If the consignor decides they would like to sell the item at the highest offered bid we will reach out to the bidder and offer them the lot at the underbid price. PHONE BIDDING: When telephone bidding is available, telephone bid lines are given on a first-come, first-serve basis - please reserve your phone bid as soon as possible. All requests for phone bids must be placed 24 hours before the auction. If you need condition reports or more information on a particular lot contact the auctioneer prior to requesting the phone bid. At the time of the auction we will call you at the phone number(s) given ONLY. If you are unsure of where you or your agent will be during the sale, we recommend you leave absentee bids instead. All requests for overseas phone bids must be accompanied by absentee bids, which will be executed on the buyer's behalf should there be any problems with telephone connections. Your phone number and lots will be confirmed before the auction. Please do not change your phone number after your phone lines have been confirmed; if you do, East-Wing Estate Sales will not be responsible for any breakdown in communications. Bids are placed on the phone at the sole discretion of East-Wing Estate Sales, and at the caller's risk. Telephone bidding is a convenience offered to our customers and while we will make every effort to execute your instructions, East-Wing is not liable or responsible for any errors or failure to do so. PAYMENT: All invoices must be paid in full no later than 5 days after the close of the auction. Invoices for successful bidders will be sent out the evening of the auction close. If we have a Credit card on file for you, it will be automatically billed after the close of the auction. We do not accept payments in person, or via cash or check with no exceptions. If you need to use a different card than the one you registered with you will need to call us as soon as possible. For payments taken over the phone your billing address registered to your account must match the card you are providing over the phone with no exceptions. Any invoice greater than $5,000 usd payment must be made by a bank wire. Contact us for wire instructions. (LiveAuctioneers customers will have their cards billed automatically 72 hours after the close of the auction. Or you can make a payment using there LivePayments system anytime) For purchases of Gold & Silver: If you are purchasing gold or silver in our auction we may require additional verification from you prior to your receipt of the items. For purchases of gold or silver in excess of $500 payments must be made via bank wire. Due to an increased number of fraudulent accounts all new customers must adhere to this rule. Customers who have purchased from 3 or more of our auctions without incident may pay for gold & silver purchases normally with there card. BUYER'S PREMIUM A buyer's premium of 23% will be added to the hammer price of each item. Sales tax is then applied to the invoice total unless a valid resale certificate is already on file. We will require a copy of your resale certificate as well as the CT Resale Form (Found on our website) to be filled out and sent to us via email prior to the tax being removed. The information on the resale certificate must match the information on your account for the tax to be removed we cannot remove the tax if the information does not match. It is ultimately your responsibility to provide us with a copy of your certificate. WARRANTIES: Condition reports are made to the best of our ability but are not guarantees. No employee is authorized to make any warranties, expressed or implied, on behalf of East-Wing Estate Sales, LLC. Items described as "Appears to", "possibly", "probably" or "attributed to" are not to be considered a guarantee, but rather the matter of opinion of the auctioneer. No guarantee is made in relation to an items condition. All items are sold AS IS, WHERE IS. And ALL SALES ARE FINAL. AUCTIONEER'S DETERMINATION: A lot will be sold to the highest bidder as determined at the auctioneer's sole discretion. The auctioneer will also have the sole discretion to resolve any disputes between bidders and determine whether to pass or re-offer a lot for sale. The auctioneer may reject or challenge any bid or advance in the bidding. WITHDRAWAL OF PROPERTY FROM SALE: East-Wing Estate Sales, LLC reserves the right to withdraw property from the sale for any reason and with no liability for such withdrawal. RESCISSION BY PURCHASER If within thirty (30) days after the sale the original purchaser gives written notice to East-Wing Estate Sales alleging that the age, authenticity, condition, genuineness, quantity, period, culture, source, or origin as set forth in the terms of sale and warranted by East-Wing Estate Sales, as evidenced in the written condition report obtained by the purchaser, were materially inaccurate and misleading and substantially overstated the value of the Property, and returns the Property with five (5) days of receiving this permission in the same condition it was in at the time of sale and proves the truth of such allegations to the satisfaction of East-Wing Estate Sales, the sale of such lot will be rescinded, East-Wing will refund the full purchase price to the purchaser. Refunds shall not include costs of transportation or shipping, insurance, or other expenses that may have been incurred by the purchaser. After 30 days from the date of purchase (NOT the date of delivery) the guarantee will expire and all items are then sold as-is, where-is and there will be no returns for any reason. This limited right of rescission is available only to the original purchaser and may not be relied upon by any heir, agent, transferee, assign, or other third party or assigned to any subsequent transferee of the Property which gives rise to the claim. The purchaser acknowledges and expressly agrees that the provisions of this paragraph state the sole and exclusive remedy available to a purchaser in the event of nonconformity in Property purchased. The purchaser understands and agrees that the exclusive remedy for any breach of the warranty shall be a rescission of the sale and a refund of the original purchase price (bid plus buyer's premium), as well as any applicable taxes paid. Neither East-Wing Estate Sales nor its consignor shall be liable for damages beyond the remedy expressly provided for herein, such as but not limited to, direct, indirect, special, incidental, punitive, or consequential, including the loss of profit or revenue, cost of obtaining alternative property, claims of customers of the purchaser or otherwise. --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------

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