A A Mazzone's Auction Svce

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Mazzone Auction
Owned by Joe Mazzone, located at 3003 Carmen Rd., Schenectady, NY 12303, phone 518-355-4821.

This man has been in the auction business for over 30 years. He feels that he knows everything about the furniture, pricing, and will tell you that he has lots of contacts in which to sell your furnishings. He will look at your immaculate antique furnishings and tell you that they are worthless, he will then proceed to tell you that your wrong in thinking your furnishings are worth what you had them appraised for!

He arrived in a large truck and then informed me after I agreed to auction off some of my furnishings that there would be a $50 fee if we did not help move my furniture into his truck.

I made several phone calls to Mr. Mazzone trying to let him know the clear value of my furnishings, he was unwilling to listen to me.
He did call me and one occasion because he had missed marked some of my furnishings and included them in someone else�s lot of items to be auctioned off. This error on his part has not been resolved and when I did try to resolve it he became obstinate and rude.

I attended his auction to see what was going to happen to all of my belongings, I sat in the back and behind me sat all of his buddies. I sat there and listen to his buddies talk about how The Auctioneer was going to put things aside for them and not include them in the auction. They also spoke about private deals between themselves and the auctioneer.

The auction started and I sat there and just watched and listened, almost everything in the room was auctioned off while the building was packed full of people, all the chairs were taken and plenty of people were standing all around the outer edges of the seating area. 99% of my items were not auctioned off until 90% of the people had left, and some of my items were not auctioned off at all. After most of the people were gone all that were left were the auctioneers buddies, and borrowing my husbands words who stated, �the auctioneer is running a garage sale now and giving your items away at a garage sale prices to his buddies�.
I sat shocked and horrified at what transacted during the farce of a auction. My oak chairs with the original finish, in mint condition normally sell for between $275 and $375. Mine were sold for $55 a piece to his buddy sitting behind me. My swords, daggers, and gun went for pennies on the dollar to another of his buddies, even I know antique military items don�t go down in value. All my coins and silver certificates went to his employee, minus the ones he miss marked and added to another women�s lot.
Some of the items that he did not auction off he asked me to come get them, he charged me $50 cash for me to get my items. Which were dirty, smelly, and had to be washed and polished and bug bombed. The sofa, came back with a hole in the fabric and smelled so bad I had to air it out for two days along with cleaning the fabric and the hand carved wood.

If you want to do business with him I suggest you only make purchases, otherwise you will loose your furnishings for pennies on the dollar the way I did.

The whole point of writing this up is to make everyone aware of what happened to me, so it will never happen to another person again.