Bidspirit auction | Terms

Terms - 500 Gallery Terms: These Terms apply to ALL sales, including those by Auction, Private Sale and Buy Now. Massachusetts Auctioneer #121 NOTE TO LiveAuctioneers BIDDERS: IF YOU HAVE A CREDIT CARD ON FILE WITH LiveAuctioneers, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CHARGED 72 hours after you receive your invoice. Please see the Payment section below for other payment options and terms. If you are the high bidder, you agree to receive auction-related emails from us. A. All items are sold as is, where is, with all faults. There are no warranties or representations of merchantability, fitness, nor of any other kind, express or implied. All artists' names and dates recorded in this catalog are not to be taken as unqualified attributions to the artists named. No attributions to any artist or date are made or intended as to authorship or date of execution. Therefore, none of the property in this catalog is subject to any guarantee of authenticity and all of the property is sold ”as is”. All items are available for your examination prior to bidding. Your bidding will signify that you have examined the items as fully as you desire, or that you have chosen not to examine them. Written and oral descriptions are opinions and should in no way be construed as a guarantee of any kind as to age, condition, authenticity, materials or any other feature of items being sold. 500 Gallery recommends prospective bidders examine all items in which they have an interest. In the case of online-only auctions, examination of photographs of the objects may be supplemented with verbal descriptions by calling 500 Gallery at 508-533-6277 with questions. If you require absolute certainty in all areas of authenticity, and the results of your evaluation leaves uncertainty in your mind, we recommend you not bid on the item in question. Any statement, written or verbal, made by the auctioneer or any agent or employee of 500 Gallery shall not be deemed a warranty or assumption of liability by 500 Gallery or by any seller represented by 500 Gallery. B. Bidding will begin at a price determined by the auctioneer at his sole discretion. The Auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw a lot for any reason he deems appropriate. At the Auctioneer's sole discretion, no bid of less than one-half the low estimates will be accepted from any source: phone bidding, absentee bidding, internet bidding, or bidding at 500 Gallery. Some lots in this catalog are offered subject to a reserve, which is the confidential minimum hammer price at which a lot will be sold. In executing a reserve, the Auctioneer has the right to bid on behalf of the Consignor, whether by opening bidding or continuing bidding in response to other bidders until reaching the reserve. If the reserve is not met, the Auctioneer has the right to withdraw the item from the sale. The Auctioneer may rescind the sale of any lot if a catalog description is in error or if a lot was listed in error. C. Once 500 Gallery declares that an item is sold, 500 Gallery cannot reopen the bidding. 500 Gallery reserves the right to reject any bids deemed inappropriate or to withdraw any item(s) for lack of appropriate bids. If an item is withdrawn from the auction, it will be offered again only at the Auctioneer's sole discretion. D. RETURN POLICY: The Buyer has the right to rescind a sale of Property for any reason, so long as Buyer provides notice (email to be sufficient) of such rescission within forty-eight (48) hours of receipt of the Property and promptly returns the Property to 500 Gallery in the same condition it was sold. Refunds will be made for the Hammer price, plus the Buyer's Premium of the returned item(s). Shipping charges are not refundable, and return shipping cost is the responsibility of the buyer. PAYMENT If you choose to pay by credit card, please note that we impose a surcharge of 3% on the transaction amount of all credit card transactions, which is not greater than our cost of acceptance. If you have a card on file with LiveAuctioneers, it will be automatically charged 72 hours after you receive your invoice. If you have not contacted us to arrange payment within 3 days of the time that invoice is sent, we will charge the credit card you used to register on LiveAuctioneers for the full amount listed on your invoice. If you are budding through Invaluable have not contacted us to arrange payment within 4 days of the time that invoice is sent, we will charge the credit card you used to register for the auction for the full amount listed on your invoice. Payment for amounts under $1000 may be made by credit card. Larger amounts must be made by cash, check, money order or wire transfer. All payments are due within 3 business days from the sale date. 500 Gallery reserves the right to require bank checks or wire transfer for purchases over USD$1,000. Buyers not known to 500 Gallery, who wish pay by check,