Promises That Are Not Kept Makes Auctions Look Untrustworthy
There are three international auctions in the world, Sothebys, Christies and Bonhams. They built their reputation over two hundred and fifty years and they are still going.
Reputable, trustworthy and reliable!
New auctions mushroom all over the world and one should be careful who they are dealing with when selling or buying. We hope to offer such advice to the public as part of our site and service.
Our experience tells us many unsavory things about the auction business and their practices. However, they serve a purpose and one has to take them as they come and especially when they are major auctions and they have the client base to do a good job for you.
Psatharis Auctions came to our attention accidentally and we trusted them with some of our property. On three different occasions they promised to include paintings in their small auction but they broke their promises with excuses that do not stand scrutiny. They sold a few paintings for us too with no problems.
The latest broken promises were so crude and unprofessional that we severed any links with them immediately.
Greeksinart is a site that sells and buys paintings but we also serve the public with advice on what to buy and sell and how. We advertise the good work of auctions but we cannot keep quiet about the wrongs in any business and that includes Psatharis Auctions, a small auction business in Cyprus.
Psatharis Auctions:
Promised to include a painting in their auction of May 2010. Emails to that effect were exchanged and phone agreement was made. Do they know what a gentleman’s agreement is ?
Shipped the painting to them at a cost.
Received the painting and liked the work and all was as agreed via email for the inclusion of the painting in the sale.
Catalogue out on net and the painting was not included in the sale. No reasons or explanations were offered and never informed about it.
Emails to find out why the painting was not to be offered remained unanswered for weeks.
No contracts of receipt of painting to this day. No contract of sale of another painting and No catalogue of the sale ever sent.
Threatened them that the paintings were stolen and the police would get involved unless I heard from them.
They called me over the phone to say that all was well and a contract and catalogue was to be sent. To this day nothing arrived.
We do wonder and do ask ourselves:
Can an auction acting in such manner be trusted with anything?
We act in the public interest, not ours, with No malice and NO Prejudice!
Peter Constant
