Buy smart not hard, and you'll save a lot of money at this auction house. I love this place. The…read morefirst time we moved to London from America we bought all of our furniture here, and a lot of great decorative items and amazing crystal vases. Insanely cheap too. And when we were ready to move back to America we simply gave them a call, they picked up all our stuff, and sold it for us! We got back about 80% of what we'd paid. Not bad at all for a year of a house filled with nice antiques, and a bunch of great items that we took back home to America. Now that we're back in London, I'm sure we'll return to the Southgate Auction Rooms, even if we live a bit farther away.

When I moved to Sussex from London, I needed to furnish my new home virtually from scratch. I…read morebought some fabulous stuff from West Sussex auctions and they even deleivered it for me too for a very reasonable charge. I always use them if I am looking for something else and I know that I can call any time if I wish to view items prior to auction. Jane Cummings Littlehampton

A world away from the high-profile sales of Christies and Sothebys, Greenwich Auctions offers a…read morefascinating mixture of items. As well as the more obvious collectables, paintings and furniture from several centuries, all sorts of strange items turn up from time to time: antique hats, war souvenirs, old signs. Auctions are held on Saturdays at 11am. Some lots are featured on the website in advance, but nothing beats actually going and having a wander round the large auction room: choose between Friday evenings (ideal for browsing with a glass of wine in hand) or Saturday mornings (for a brisker look around before the bidding starts). Staff are friendly and helpful, and it's hard to beat an auction for excitement. A couple of caveats. The concrete-floored building can be rather cold in winter, so wear warm clothes (especially socks!). The seats can be pretty hard, too. However, those minor discomforts are worth suffering for the chance to come across something really interesting - and perhaps at a bargain price.

If you want lousy customer service, low valuations, and a stack-em, pack-em, and rack-em approach…read morethis is the place to come to! Rude and acerbic is the way I was greeted, and the person I met with valued two lousy carver chairs I had from an American discount furniture store at MORE than an antique dining table. Really? I sold everything privately for many multiples of their valuation. Value low, sell-em cheap is their motto. If you want to see the circus in action, come here as there seem to be plenty of clowns; if you want to make money and get decent returns, then go elsewhere.

Bonhams runs the sf location with a don't give a hoot attitude, called for escalation about an…read moreissue with several of the employees in SF no call back at all from England the lady on the phone was incompetent. There are so many places to do business, go find them. Buyer and seller beware. The credit dept in sf is pitiful and a complete disaster, Martin Romero is the manager. Ouch he's pitiful too, long and short of it go to Clars they are killing these guys they get great prices and Deric is an absolute pleasure to deal with!

Once you get used to how they work they are very good with an excellent range of prices in all…read morecategories. Much prefer them to Christies who are also good but charge too high a commision for both selling and buying. If you are buying Bonhams also provide a lot more information. Bonhams in Oxford is also good but I prefer what I would call Bonhams Knightsbridge.

Great auction house. Fortnightly sales full off bargains and regular specialist sales.read more

Do not have the reason to give anything for cash. These are usually have displayed Three Spherical…read moreobjects hanging above their premises. Certainly the one down in South Street does! The reason I looked in was a display of certain hi fi equipment that was priced unbelievably low. I assume that was "no Guarantee" area. Did ask me about promotions ,but that is not my forte now.

Unable to visit as the counter was occupied , the frontage completely re-designed and a buzzer…read moresystem , which means if they are assisting one client ,you wait your turn,

CHISWICK AUCTION HOUSE are disreputable, dishonest, thieving SHYSTERS: Do not deal with them…read moreunless you like getting RIPPED-OFF! I bought an item directly through their online website recently. I sent them emails before and after the auction, letting them know that my Buyer's Premium was 25%, that VAT should not be charged for an int'l buyer, and that I had questions about shipping internationally. Not once did they respond back to me. Then when it came time for the bill, they sent an invoice through a "MEL O'NEILL" guy who politely asked me to pay but sent me the incorrect invoice. I sent an email back to him saying that my Buyer's Premium should be 25%, not the 30% that he had incorrectly calculated. Instead, Mel O'Neill of Chiswick Auction had the nerve to have an online auction site called The SalesRoom, send me an invoice with a Buyer's Premium of 30%. I have never dealt nor signed up with The Salesroom, so of course I am very upset and I have decided that I will not pay my invoice with Chiswick because not only is the invoice incorrect and they have refused to correct it, but now I don't trust that they will release my item to a proper shipping company to get it delivered to me, so there I would have $675 (+shipping) down the drain already. DON'T DEAL WITH CHISWICK AUCTION HOUSE UNLESS YOU LIKE TO GET RIPPED-OFF.

I brought some stones the reaction was dismissive, I met another valuer as I ended up at the wrong…read morebuilding, not being from London, there are two buildings and I went to the building in Acton, that was no fault of the auction house. They were polite over email and the communication was good but the valuer I met dropped a valuable stone and did not even apologise, she seemed a little incorrect with what she said and informed me that what I had was worthless. Trip to London for my item to be dropped, not really very good. Another auction house seemed not to be dismissive and said the opposite of what Chiswick said. There are other auction houses.