Online auction opinions: Lelands or MastroNet?

StriderTB

I'm just curious if anyone here has any experience or opinions on either of these online auction houses. They seem to be the biggest players when it comes to vintage sports memorabilia.

Thanks!
Jim

koby

Probably Mastro for sports, but if you ask any comic book collector, Mastro gets absolutely no respect.

Griffins

Mastro and Robert Edward.

Stone193

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Griff
Agree! I had a customer service problem with Lelands - the only thing that they were good at was cashing my check!
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Mike

zsz70

I bought a raw set from Lelands and it was
as good or better per the description.

Mantlefan

17.5 % hammer fee from Lelands (Mastro is 15%)and need to pay NY state tax (8.5%) if I win something from Lelands, makes the choice easy for me. I have obtained some great cards from Mile High Auctions and Memory Lane also.

duner

leland's disclaimer about guaranteeing authenticity for only 3 years, and even then reserving final say on an item keeps me from bidding on their memorabilia.

Griffins

I had a bad experience with Lelands as well, and they were non responsive. But with Chris Porter in charge now I really believe it is a completely different company, and will give them a second chance on that basis.
However, 17.5% buyers penalty is unjustified, and all things being remotely equal would spend my budget with another auction house that stuck to the standard 15% if I had to chose. Same goes for Heritage's 19.5% If Mastro can print those incredible catalogs and still make money at 15% I don't know why the others can't.
FWIW, I think Lipset is still at 10%, and most or all of the others 15%.

Knuckles

I was going to bid on this Jacques Plante Montreal Canadiens Team Autographed Game Used Stick but I think I'll pass now..



I wonder if the portion missing from the stick got put into cards?

Stone193

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