South African Collectors’ Society

Bidding
Bidding Increments
Returns
Vendors
Postage & Posting
Countries excluded from the Auction
Deliveries to South Africa

This Auction is for Members of SACS (the South African Collectors’ Society) only.

If you are not a Member and you want to bid in this Auction you must first join SACS before you can enter a bid or submit a lot for sale. Join SACS now….

There is NO Buyers Premium. The only additional cost to the bidder is postage.

Vendors pay a 10% commission on the total of all lots sold in the auction to SACS.

Bidding

All bids must be sent by email to the Auctioneer who will acknowledge receipt of the bids.

Bids will not be accepted after the auction has closed.

The Reserve price is the minium bid requirement. Bids under this price will not be accepted.

All bids are on a first come, first served basis. Where two bids are the same, the Auctioneer will take the first bid received as the winning bid.

The winner of any online auction lot will be the highest bidder, at the bidding step immediately above the bid of the next highest bidder.

Where a bid is received without other competing bids, the bidder will win the lot at the Reserve price.

Winning bidders will be advised of their successful bid(s) by the Auctioneer.

Winning bidders will be advised of what they owe and the cost of postage by the Auctioneer.

Winning bidders must pay the Auctioneer for their lots and the cost of postage before the Vendor dispatches their winning lots.

Winning bidders can make payment either by PayPal, Cheque or Bank transfer.

Winning bidders paying by PayPal must add 5% to cover PayPal charges.

Bank transfer details will be supplied by the Auctioneer on request.

Bidding increments

Up to £20 ….. £1 steps
£20 – £100 …. £2 steps
£100 – £200 …. £5 steps
£200 – £500 …. £10 steps
£500 – £1000 …. £20 steps
Over £1000 ……… £50 steps

All bids not conforming to the above will be rounded down.

Returns

Returns are not accepted. The only possible exception to this rule is if the lot is not as described. The supplied scanned image forms part of the description of the item. Please examine the image carefully. The submission of a bid is proof that you have read and understood this, that you have examined the lot and found it as described.

Please contact the Auctioneer before an auction if you have any questions about a lot or any aspect of the auction whatsoever.

Any dispute arising from this auction must be referred to the Auctioneer. If the Auctioneer cannot resolve the dispute it will be referred to the SACS Committee who will respond in due course.

Vendors

SACS members are eligible to sell material in the Auction subject to meeting its requirements.

Members who submit lots for auction must submit a full and proper description of the lots to the Auctioneer including Reserve and Estimated Prices.

Each lot description must be accompanied by a scanned image of the lot saved as a 300 dpi JPG file. These can be emailed to the the Webmaster, or posted on a stick once the Auctioneer has approved the description and provided the Vendor with approval to do so.

Scans must be supplied in a specific format that includes the Auctioneer’s Lot number, ie.
the file names of the scans must conform to the following convention.

AUCxxJAN25Lot1.jpg, where:
AUCxx is the relevant Auction number
‘JAN’ in the month,
’25’ is the year,
‘LOT1’ is the Auctioneer’s assigned Lot number.

Where a lot has more than one scan, (for example, the front and back of a stamp), add ‘a’ after the Lot number for a second scan and ‘b’ after the Lot number for a third.

AUCxxJAN25Lot1a.jpg – where there are two scans
AUCxxJAN25Lot1b.jpg – where ther are three scans, etcd. etc.

No more than three scans will be aaccepted per Lot, the ideal being one.

Scans and photos of the lots can only be submitted provided that they are properly lit, cropped to remove the background and that the aspect ratio is not distorted. Scans are preferred. The Webmaster has the right to reject unsuitable scans.

The Webmaster’s only responsibility is for placing the description and accompanying scans as supplied by the Auctioneer on the website in the Auction that is being prepared. The Webmaster takes LOT instructions from the Auctioneer only, never the Vendor.

Lots are NOT to be sent to the Auctioneer. Vendors will retain all the lots in their possession. The Vendor will be responsible for postage and dispatch to the buyer.

The Auctioneer will contact the Vendor after the auction and advise of any sales and the value thereof and to provide the Vendor with the winning bidders contact address details for the purpose of arranging postage.

Postage and Posting

This is to be completed between Auctioneer, the Vendor and the Buyer.

On completion of an Auction, the Auctioneer will advise the Vendor of the winning Buyer’s contact details. The Vendor will discuss with the Buyer the method of postage required.

Once the Vendor has a cost for the Buyer’s preferred method of postage, the Vendor will immediately commuicate the cost of postage to the Auctioneer who will add this to the invoice which will be sent to the Buyer for the purpose of faciltating payment.

Vendors will only dispatch the winning bids once the Auctioneer confirms full payment has been made.

The Vendor will be paid after receipt of the winning bidder’s full payment, the dispatch of sold lots to them and the deduction of a 10% commission to SACS by the Auctioneer.

Countries excluded from the Auction

Countries we post to include UK, Ireland, Europe, USA & Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan.

If you live outside one of these countries, please contact us before you bid to check if we can post to you. We reserve the right to not post to countries that we believe represent an unacceptable risk to the safety of our members’ philatelic material.

Deliveries to South Africa

We are unable to mail items to South Africa with any certainty that they will be speedily and efficiently delivered, if at all. While SA continues to have no reliable postal service, it is difficult for SACS to include SA members in its auction.

At present, most South African buyers have arranged for their purchases to be delivered to a UK contact address. This provides the SACS vendor with the simplest postal solution.

Another solution is to courier material to SA buyers, however this is an expensive option for small purchases. If you live in SA and can suggest how we can deliver to you, please contact us.

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