Thread: Graysonline and Thieving Buggers

Yes Bruce, I fully understand your disappointment with the turn of events, but unfortunately we have to live with the fact that there are low life individuals out there, and also corporate identities like Grays while getting annoyed with such happenings are not likely to lose any sleep over the angst it causes their buyers. I hope that nothing like it happens to you again,
Ropetangler.

Originally Posted by argeng

apart from the 25% add on for Grays and GST. Not quite sure how that works for second hand items

Sorry to hear about your rough deal.

As for the 25%, that's their commission.

GST inclusive or exclusive on Grays?


Auctions can be conducted on a GST 'inclusive' or 'exclusive' basis. Grays provides this information on the lot description page so you aware of this prior to bidding on an item.
Inclusive GST Sales
When an auction is listed as GST 'inclusive', this simply means that the bid price has the GST percentage already included. You do not need to add the additional cost to your invoice. It is important to note that the Buyer's Premium and freight charge if applicable is GST inclusive.
We sell assets on behalf of a Vendor, if the Vendor is registered for GST purposes then we may charge GST on those items.
Exclusive GST Sales
When an auction is GST 'exclusive', you will need to pay GST as well as the bid price. The GST is a percentage of the bid price. You will also need to pay GST on the Buyer's Premium in a GST 'exclusive' sale. Therefore when looking at GST exclusive sales, remember you need to add GST to the bid amount, buyer's premium and freight.
GST Free Sales
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Cheers

With Grays their pick ups a doggy!!!
Get there early the first day Of pick up.
Heaps of #### goes missing, wrong lot numbers the works.
Auctions and garage sales... Keep your wits about you. And be prepared to push in line and fight for service, there is a group of people out there that buy from grays that are underhand and crafty, but not like a fox, more like a thief crafty.

We once had a garage sale and I witnessed several items being stolen! For f&@ks sake, the items were only two bucks!

And this mob have the hide to say you can only pick up items on certain days and have to have the receipt etc....

The auction I attended a couple of weeks back the auctioneer said at the start, if you buy it, you look after it...

A lesson I learnt was not to go to a private auction sale without means to carry things. I thought I did well on some stuff that nobody else seemed to want, but I had to return home to fetch the trailer. The awful thought occurred to me that it may have been the vendor who swiped it!

Jordan

Bruce

Not a a good tale to have to tell. It does seem that Grays make the process quite difficult for pick up etc. and yet they are so lax in preventing theft.

The add-on costs are another issue all together. All you can say is that they do make this clear in their conditions. However it is important to work out the final cost compared to your bidding price. I think they normally do give an example based on $100.

I have moved away from their auctions because of their "style."

Regards
Paul