Loved your rants. Have to agree with you 100%. What I find interesting is that nonprofessionals on Ebay can provide loads of pictures, but professional auction houses seem not to be able to provide multiple pictures.
They do in some cases, but why not put them on the sites that PULL half or more of their potential traffic? They have the images and info...why skimp? Makes no sense from a business standpoint.
I had seen the bonhams sale before your video and its funny as I was thinking exactly the same thing as you as I was browsing through the items. How do they think we can bid online without seeing more pictures of the items. Showing just the bottom or not showing the bottom at all. There must have been some mix-up in the pictures but these have been up for a while now so you would think someone in charge of this auction would have noticed how ridiculous this is.
I finally gave up on Bonham's. I collect Georgian silver also, and I am constantly dismayed at the poor quality photos. Plus, for a major auction house to not offer in house shipping is becoming unforgivable, as it can be quite difficult and expensive to deal with French shippers (for instance). In house shipping can be highly profitable to boot.
I asked for some condition reports on some lots from that Bonhams sale and they immediately sent me some extra photos in the condition report PDF. They have the photos; they are just not on the website for some reason.
Love your rants. You are just asking for a proper way of doing a fabulous auction.
Loved your rants. Have to agree with you 100%. What I find interesting is that nonprofessionals on Ebay can provide loads of pictures, but professional auction houses seem not to be able to provide multiple pictures.
on the bonhams site they have more photos of each lot
They do in some cases, but why not put them on the sites that PULL half or more of their potential traffic? They have the images and info...why skimp? Makes no sense from a business standpoint.
I had seen the bonhams sale before your video and its funny as I was thinking exactly the same thing as you as I was browsing through the items. How do they think we can bid online without seeing more pictures of the items. Showing just the bottom or not showing the bottom at all. There must have been some mix-up in the pictures but these have been up for a while now so you would think someone in charge of this auction would have noticed how ridiculous this is.
Love your rants!
Love me a good Peter rant!
Nice paintings, thank you.
I finally gave up on Bonham's. I collect Georgian silver also, and I am constantly dismayed at the poor quality photos. Plus, for a major auction house to not offer in house shipping is becoming unforgivable, as it can be quite difficult and expensive to deal with French shippers (for instance). In house shipping can be highly profitable to boot.
How disgusting, we put near 10 very high quality photos for our auction items worth even less than $100! The gall these auctions have is sickening.
I asked for some condition reports on some lots from that Bonhams sale and they immediately sent me some extra photos in the condition report PDF. They have the photos; they are just not on the website for some reason.
Lazy and dumb...thats all it is.
Why not put up more pictures? I think they are just running too many auctions at the same period, but with very limited staff.
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