richard s.

I have purchased tens of thousands of dollars of art on this site over a 5 year period. The site- backed by vc- has two major major problems. First, many of the items i purchased for up to 10,000 were fake. I sent them for authentication and they were fake. Plain and simple. The site may not be legally responsible for this but they are not in my opinion doing a fair job in preventing this. Second, the site is completly vendor oriented concerning alleged disputes. I have purchased tens of thousands and yet am now being barred from bidding over an alleged dispute concerning a 50 dollar shipping fee which was never agreed to. The site does not try to resolve these issues and vendors don't care if they ruin you ability to bid by sending a strike even when it is not really a strike. Live auctioneers does a much more even handed job iof this. This site needs to more time and money into making it a fair marketplace..