Bidder Reviews for Tidewater Galleries (18)

This guy wouldn’t pay his bill until we had to threaten a dispute. Below is a direct copy and paste from this man’s email address where he clearly misread the description and then had to make a big stink just because he couldn’t admit he wrong I suppose Copy and pasted from his email-“To Whom, The description clearly says “19th century commode in the Neoclassical Style”. Clearly he misread the description. And the part he left out where we still tried to give resolution-I’m happy to take the piece back and run it through our next sale for you and will even do that for 0 % commission. I’m also happy to send my employee back to your house to pick the piece up, again at my expense, even though this could have easily been put right back on the van when you told josh you didn’t want it. But I’m not able to refund your money given the consignor has already been paid and we clearly said STYLE in the listing. In the future please ask if you have any questions. As a third generation dealer, I can tell by the paint alone that this piece isn’t period and I would have happily shared my thoughts on the piece if you had asked I can’t comment much past this given that we are now going to litigation but thought the rest of the story should be given.

Karen is mostly correct here, except for the part where I told her to reach out to the ups store in colonial heights for another quote. Our commission on this $25 lot comes out to $5.75, and that’s before you consider the labor of photographing and listing this lot. I’m so sorry that Karen thought we should ship her items for free. If our $25 minimum fee for shipping is too much for you, stick with the flea markets

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This woman pitched a fit because I wouldn’t meet her shipper at 9 pm.

This woman was a nightmare. She bought a set of suitcases for $25 and then pitched a fit about shipping, which has nothing to do with us. She tried to pull a sympathy card by saying she was "trying to rebuild her possessions after hurricane Ian" and when called out on why she would be buying a bunch of vintage suitcases instead of furniture if her property was destroyed, she admitted she made that up. When she admitted she couldnt afford shipping she said she would dispute the charge. I told her we would dispute her account so that other auctions would know how she behaves to which she replied-"I don’t care if you dispute my account. If dealing with asshats like you is what I would deal with by using LiveAuctioneers."