I moved from north of prescott to tempe last may. I contacted Harris auction and the owner came out to my home and loaded a house full of belongings plus a barn full of tools, saddles tack, etc. He assured me that it would all sell in short order. He stored it in a building and a yard in chino valley on hwy 89. It was covered with tarps and sat in the yard from may until November. There was even a 12 volt off the grid freezer. Many people wanted to buy the freezer, sewing machine, serger, saddles, etc but he told me I signed a contract and could no longer sell myself. I said fine I would let the people know when the auction of my things was to take place and they could attend and bid. Well the stuff was sold piece meal over a 6 month period! Some on line, some he put into different auctions! When he finally gave me the list of what sold half the stuff he had wasn't even listed! Tents, sleeping bags, camping stoves and heater, sweepers, Hoover floor scrubber still in the box! The list was endless. When I asked about it I was told that what couldn't sell was taken to the dump! Including a Basset love seat and exercise equipment! HIs wife was the one that talked to me, not him! She said they couldn't pay me what they did claim they made as they were in financial trouble, but she would make sure I got paid eventually. I ended up getting payments, the last one being in February of this year! As an example, they said they sold a new pair of Tony Lama boots for $2.00 Same for a new pair of Justins. It just went on and on. If something wasn't accounted for she said they couldn't sell it so it went to the dump! These people are rip off artists! They own two homes and I found out when I looked them up that both of them are in their daughter's name! I guess to protect them from losing anything if the IRS or foolish customer's like myself try to get any money from them. The thing is, if they tell you that they sold a refrigerator for ten dollars and you don't know when or to whom-to bad for you right? You can't argue with what the wife wrote down as to what they received for the item! That way they claim less as profit to the IRS and have to pay you little of nothing for your stuff. I might add, when I finally got to talk to the owner Ralph, I asked him how he could do this when I trusted him. His exact words were--" you can kiss my ass!" "you think your stuff was special? It was worth shit! i could have gotten better stuff from the dump!" "Your stuff was worthless!" Of course, that wasn't what he said as he loaded up a box truck full of sofa's , loveseat, two saddles and tack,, a house full of chest of drawers, vanities, dishes, beds etc. You see I had two homes and the one in Tempe was fully equipped with everything I had in the one up north so I couldn't bring a thing with me to Tempe. Not blankets, bedding, bath items--nothing! I now wish I would have gone wit h my original idea of renting a truck, loading it and bringing it down to the valley, putting it in a storage locker and selling it from there! However, I'm 75 years old and it sounded like to much for me so i trusted Ralph and his wife as they had a long history of being in chino Valley and auctioning peoples belongings. My mistake. I should have looked them up FIRST! ANyway, beware, don't believe a word either of them tell you and if you have them auction anything of yours, tell them you MUST be present at the auction!
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