It took a day to wrap up and truck out hundreds of musical instruments now stored in a Surrey warehouse ahead of an online auction.
At the seller害羞草研究所檚 house, an Able Auctions crew sorted and transported some unique and rare instruments including guitars, amps, microphones, horns, harps, banjos, drums, dulcimers, mixers, cases, xylophones 害羞草研究所� you name it, it害羞草研究所檒l be auctioned on Nov. 19.
The 害羞草研究所渓ifetime collection害羞草研究所� is , and it takes some time to scroll through the 448 items.
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Someone in the Gulf Islands is selling off a "lifetime collection" of musical instruments with Surrey's .
害羞草研究所� Tom Zillich (@TomZillich)
It takes some time to scroll through the 448 items, as seen below.
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The auction company won害羞草研究所檛 name the seller, due to privacy concerns. 害羞草研究所淚 imagine he wouldn害羞草研究所檛 be too hard to track down because he害羞草研究所檚 promoting it (the auction) quite a bit on his social media channels,害羞草研究所� Dodd said.
A 害羞草研究所減review害羞草研究所� of all those instruments is planned Friday, Nov. 18, a day before the online auction.
The pandemic forced Able to hold all auctions online, where they害羞草研究所檒l be forever more.
害羞草研究所淎ll our auctions these days are 100 per cent online, but we have a preview day so people can view the items. It害羞草研究所檚 a COVID thing that won害羞草研究所檛 go back,害羞草研究所� Dodd explained. 害羞草研究所淲hen those first public gathering restrictions were announced in March (of 2020), we basically switched the next day to 100 per cent online.害羞草研究所�
Online is a much more efficient way of auctioning, he added.
害羞草研究所淚t害羞草研究所檚 become an online business with 100 per cent of our sales online, and it害羞草研究所檚 just so much easier to control the payment of product, the pickup of product,害羞草研究所� Dodd said. 害羞草研究所淲e now put a lot more effort into photographing and videoing products so people don害羞草研究所檛 have to attend the preview 害羞草研究所� some still do. Before the pandemic we were around 40 per cent online sales, and now we害羞草研究所檙e 100 per cent.害羞草研究所�
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