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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 5212729, member: 101855&quot;]Heritage charges 25% for political items. When you add my local sales tax, that gets the over the hammer price up to almost 36% for me. I&#039;ve told them I can&#039;t afford that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people claim that buyers&#039; fees don&#039;t matter. You break back you bids to reflect the buyers&#039; fees. That&#039;s true for dealers because they have the discipline to drop out when the total bid gets too high.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there are lots of collectors who bid as if it&#039;s not there. That&#039;s why the auction houses charge them. They are upping their bottom line and telling consignors that they getting more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buyers&#039; fees are bad for bidders. The higher they get, the more likely it is that I will not bid in that company&#039;s auctions. There are firms who charge no buyers&#039; fee, and they get more respect from me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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