The 1% fee is for using the RIA live bidding platform.
Phone bid and pay with a check -- 17.5% plus sales tax and shipping.
Again, do your homework. Not every auction house charges sales tax for out of state bidders and not every auction house does their own packing/shipping. Overall costs vary significantly.
Thanks for the clarification. You'd think, I would anyway, that the automation of the process (live bid platform) would cost less than having an employee in a one on one bidding process that could go on for some time depending how many items in which a bidder had interest.
Jeff
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