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We offer fortnightly appointments and drop in sessions where you can have your items valued for free. Please see our calendar for available dates. You can call us on 0191 5372630 or go to your online account to book your slot.

 

Or send some photos of your items by email to info@boldonauctions.co.uk please send grouped photos rather than lots of individual photos and only one photo of the front of a piece of furniture is more than enough.

 

To see the type of items we accept take a look at our Departments and Past Sales pages.

 

We make the process simple and easy, if you’re happy with your valuation we keep your items, catalogue and photograph each lot and then email a pre-sale advice with all this information for your records. We work for you to achieve the best possible auction price, you will then be sent a post-sale advice with the results. Payment is made approximately two weeks post sale straight into your bank account.

 

For terms and conditions, fees and packing tips please see below.

Our vendor commission rates are 20% of the hammer price plus £5.00 lotting fee, this includes commission, insurance, photography, cataloguing and marketing on our online website and selling platform. All our charges are subject to VAT. 

Contract & Receipt: Upon consigning items, you will receive a receipt listing your items by email, which serves as your record and contract with Boldon Auction Galleries. 

The ‘net sale proceeds’ received from the buyer in cleared funds will be forwarded to Vendors no later than 21 days after the last auction of the vendor’s goods. The ‘net sale proceeds’ are the hammer price less commission and expenses set out in the terms of business. The vendor waives any right to interest that may be earned during the period from payment by the Buyer to receipt of the ‘net sale proceeds’ by the Vendor.

Boldon Auction Galleries must be notified of any changes in seller’s address in writing. Where a seller is ’unknown’ at their stated address and correspondence is returned to the Auctioneers offices, Boldon Auction Galleries reserve the right to offer their goods for sale without reserve to be sold to the highest bidder after a period of 90 days from the date of the initial posting. Any monies realised will be held by Boldon Auction Galleries, until claimed by the seller. The Auctioneer reserves the right to deduct commission and expenses.  For the avoidance of any doubt, the Seller shall have no recourse to Boldon Auction Galleries where payment is not received by Boldon Auction Galleries from the Buyer.

The ‘net sale proceeds’ received from the buyer in cleared funds will be forwarded to Vendors no later than 21 days after the last auction of the vendor’s goods. The ‘net sale proceeds’ are the hammer price less commission and expenses set out in the terms of business. The vendor waives any right to interest that may be earned during the period from payment by the Buyer to receipt of the ‘net sale proceeds’ by the Vendor. Boldon Auction Galleries must be notified of any changes in seller’s address in writing.

Where a seller is ’unknown’ at their stated address and correspondence is returned to the Auctioneers offices, Boldon Auction Galleries reserve the right to offer their goods for sale without reserve to be sold to the highest bidder after a period of 90 days from the date of the initial posting. Any monies realised will be held by Boldon Auction Galleries, until claimed by the seller. The Auctioneer reserves the right to deduct commission and expenses.  For the avoidance of any doubt, the Seller shall have no recourse to Boldon Auction Galleries where payment is not received by Boldon Auction Galleries from the Buyer.

All goods are offered for sale WITHOUT RESERVE at the Auctioneer’s discretion unless written instructions as to reserves are received by Boldon Auction Galleries prior to the commencement of the sale. Where requested, advice on reserves will be discussed and agreed. Reserves placed by telephone are accepted at the sole risk of the vendor and must be confirmed by the vendor in writing to be received by the Auctioneers prior to the commencement of sale. All reserves are subject to 10% Auctioneer’s discretion unless a fixed reserve is agreed. All estimates/reserves will be reduced after the initial sale if failing to sell at the Auctioneer’s discretion unless written instructions as to reserves/estimates are received by Boldon Auction Galleries prior to the commencement of the sale.

Boldon Auction Galleries reserve the right to charge a withdrawal fee of £25 per lot for items removed from auction.  This fee covers the sum of the vendor’s commission, the entry fee, the illustration cost, the loss and damage warranty, the buyer’s premium, the marketing fees and other expenses in relation to the item. VAT is applicable on all charges. Boldon Auction Galleries will store the withdrawn item for a period of five days with no charge, after this a storage charge will be applicable at a daily rate of £3 (small items) and £10 (furniture and large items) plus VAT for items that remain uncollected.

Unsold items and withdrawals must be collected from the saleroom, including in instances where items have been consigned to Boldon Auction Galleries at an offsite valuation event.

Lot Examination, description and estimates. (a) Boldon Auction Galleries  will provide a free standard examination of the seller’s lot which does not include tests or in depth investigation. Boldon Auction Galleries may recommend further research and tests which may incur extra costs. Such undertakings by Boldon Auction Galleries shall be at the seller’s expense. Identification and description of the lot is a statement of opinion by Boldon Auction Galleries and is made for the purposes of the seller. Until the lot is entered for sale, the basic description given by Boldon Auction Galleries is not binding. (b) Estimates. Estimates are made for indicative purposes only and are merely a statement of the auctioneer’s opinion based on a variety of factors such as the item’s market value at the time of the sale, quality, rarity, etc. The seller accepts that any estimate or valuation provided by Boldon Auction Galleries, is a genuinely held opinion only and can in no way be considered as a guarantee of the selling price or value of the item. Estimates do not include Seller’s Commission or VAT.

Boldon Auction Galleries shall not be held responsible if a Lot does not sell within the range of the provided estimate and by no means can the sale be cancelled by the seller in such circumstances. Please assist us with accurate information as to the provenance etc. of goods where this is relevant. There is strict liability for the accuracy of descriptions under modern consumer legislation and in some circumstances, responsibility lies with sellers if inaccuracies occur. We will assume that you have approved the catalogue description of your lots unless informed to the contrary. Where we are obliged to return the piece to the buyer when the lot is a deliberate forgery under Condition 27 (Cancellation), of the Conditions of Sale and we have accounted to you for the proceeds of sale you agree to reimburse us the sale proceeds.

Vendors should note that notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, the vendor(s) may in certain circumstances be liable to Purchaser(s) in respect of disputed catalogue descriptions, even though they have been made innocently and in good faith. Marketing and any promotion of a lot(s) in any medium is at the sole discretion of Boldon Auction Galleries. Boldon Auction Galleries shall own the copyright on all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for Boldon Auction Galleries relating to a Lot, including catalogue contents. The Seller shall not use the said materials without the prior consent of Boldon Auction Galleries.

The seller or consignor of electrical or mechanical goods warrants and undertakes to Boldon Auction Galleries that at the date on which the same are consigned to Boldon Auction Galleries or put under Boldon Auction Galleries control and excepted as previously disclosed to Boldon Auction Galleries the same are safe if reasonably used for the purpose for which they were designed and free from any defect not obvious on external inspection which could prove dangerous to human life or health and will indemnify Boldon Auction Galleries, its servants and agents against loss or damage suffered by any of them in consequence of any breach of the above warranty and undertaking. Boldon Auction Galleries reserve the right to make a minimum charge of £5.00 per item plus VAT to have the goods checked by an electrician for the safety of the item.

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Please use banana / fruit boxes available from any supermarket, pack items lightly in newspaper or bubble wrap, if using bubble wrap do not use sellotape.

The charge for haulage is £75.00 per hour, to include travelling to and from the location of any Lot and the loading, unloading, packing and unpacking of any Lot and appropriate insurance.

The vendor shall duly indemnify Boldon Auction Galleries against any claim in connection with any goods sold by Boldon Auction Galleries on the vendor’s behalf.

The vendor gives Boldon Auction Galleries full and absolute right to photograph and illustrate any lots placed in its hands for sale and to use such photographs and illustrations and any photographs provided by the vendor at any time at its absolute discretion, whether or not in the connection with the auction.

Boldon Auction Galleries Limited (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

By visiting boldonauctions.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act), the data controller is Boldon Auction Galleries Limited, 24a Front Street, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear, NE36 0SJ. Telephone 0191 537 2630.  Email info@boldonauctions.co.uk.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site boldonauctions.co.uk or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you subscribe to our service and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and debit or credit card information, personal descriptions and photographs.
  • Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you from third parties including Auction Technology Group who provide the live bidding platform for online bidding and Mailboxes Etc. Newcastle or another delivery service

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

  • to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
  • to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
  • to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data;
  • to notify you about changes to our service;
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

  • to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Disclosure of your information

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with [them or] you.
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If Boldon Auction Galleries or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions boldonauctions.co.uk and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Boldon Auction Galleries, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Where we store your personal data

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted [using SSL technology].

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

We use a third party payment processor to process and manage the storage of users payments details, in a PCI DSS compliant manner. The third party payment processor is committed to protecting the users information.

How long we keep information

  • Contracts where the service provided includes sale of items at auction, purchase of items at auction, bidding at auction, internal valuations carried out at Boldon Auction Galleries, external valuations carried out at client’s home or valuation venue, written valuations or services for private treaty or willing buyer/willing seller transactions. The retention period is 7 years from the conclusion of the contract.
  • Contracts where the service provided includes written valuations for Probate or Insurance purposes. The retention period is unfixed due to the nature of service provided (maximum length of retention 50 years).

For more information on how long we store your personal information or the criteria we use to determine this please contact us using the details provided above.

Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@boldonauctions.co.uk.

Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.

Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

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Boldon Auction Galleries provide a full range of professional valuation services for pre-sale, insurance, probate or family division purposes. These can be arranged by appointment at either your home or in the saleroom and in each case are tailored to suit the individual client’s needs.

We offer an efficient, professional and confidential service for executors and trustees. Duplicate bound copies of the valuation for Probate will be prepared promptly after valuation. We also offer full house clearance if required, collecting all items for auction and removing and disposing of items of no value.

Valuation for sale purposes may vary from a single item to an entire collection. A full bound inventory can be prepared with illustrations if needed.

Verbal valuations for sale purposes are provided free of charge by our Valuers either by appointment or at one of our fortnightly Open Valuation Days held on the Friday after each sale.

We offer a full house clearance service which involves clearing saleable items and disposing of unsaleable property.  Our Porters have many years experience in the clearing of properties across the North East.

20% of the total hammer price + VAT (VAT is payable on the 20% commission only). 

£5 per lot + VAT. 

All lots will be sold without a reserve unless expressly requested by the vendor.

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