Online Bidding

The Antiques Emporium offers an online bidding service via the-saleroom.com for bidders who cannot attend the sale.

In completing the bidder registration on www.the-saleroom.com and providing your credit card details and unless alternative arrangements are agreed with The Antiques Emporium :

1.             authorise The Antiques Emporium , if they so wish, to charge the credit card given in part or full payment, including all fees, for items successfully purchased in the auction via the-saleroom.com, and

2.             confirm that you are authorised to provide these credit card details to The Antiques Emporium through www.the-saleroom.com and agree that The Antiques Emporium  are entitled to ship the goods to the card holder name and card holder address provided in fulfilment of the sale.

3.             Statements made by us in a Catalogue, during the course of the Auction or elsewhere describing a Lot including its authorship, origin, age, size, condition, genuineness, authenticity or value are intended as a guide for interested Bidders. These are statements of opinion only and should not be relied on as statements of fact. Illustrations of the Lots are for general identification only.

4.             Lots by their nature are usually aged and varied in condition. The absence of any description of a defect, damage, modification or restoration in any Catalogue does not imply that there are none.

5.             The Purchase Price payable by a Buyer is the Hammer Price plus a Buyer's Premium of 15% of the Hammer Price.

6.             If you fail to pay the Purchase Price in accordance with these Conditions, we shall be entitled to charge interest on the amount outstanding at the rate of 3% per month from the due date for payment to the date that cleared funds are received whether that is before or after any legal judgment. This is without prejudice to any other rights that we have for non-payment.

7.             Credit Card payments will incur a charge of 3%.

8.             If you fail to comply with your obligations under these Conditions, the Lot in respect of such non-compliance may at our discretion be put up for sale at auction and resold. In this case, you will be liable in full and will indemnify us for all losses, costs and expenses (including legal costs) incurred as a result including the costs of the resale and the amount (if any) by which the Hammer Price obtained on the resale is less than the Hammer Price obtained on the original sale of the Lot to the Buyer.

9.             The risk of damage/loss to the Lot will pass to the Buyer on delivery. Title in a Lot will not pass to the Buyer until the Purchase Price has been paid in full.

10.           Unless agreed by us, you should collect the Lot within 7 days of the date of the auction. We reserve the right to charge for storage and to resell by auction or privately without notice to you, if a Lot is not collected. Alternatively we will send the Lot to you by recorded post. Postage and insurance costs will be charged as additional costs.

11.           Except in relation to Forgeries, you must satisfy yourself that the correct Lot has been delivered to you at the time of collection/delivery. We will not be responsible for any discrepancy which might be discovered after the Lots have been collected. [If we have delivered the Lot to you, we will not be responsible for any discrepancies if you fail to notify us within 24 hours of receipt].

12.           It is the Buyer's responsibility to obtain any necessary import, export or other licences required in relation to a Lot.

13.           Postage service available – minimum charge is £4.95

Please note that any lots purchased via the-saleroom.com live auction service will be subject to an additional 5% commission charge + VAT at the rate imposed on the hammer price