TREASURE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN TREASURE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN Serendipitous attendance to Mecum Glendale! All 5 Days! All event staff as well as Mecum staff seemed focused on my enjoyment! TV fan forever. Both experiences great. But, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE! IF YOU GET A SHOT, TAKE IT!

Bought 3 autos Bought 3 autos. 1 was fine but 2 were involved in front end collisions and the damage was covered up. The 2005 Silverado had a clean Carfax but is severely damaged and put back with incorrect parts. The 2003 Corvette was also in a front end crash at some point. Also the tires were 11 years old and actually falling apart in chunks. Very dangerous to drive. Obviously they don’t go over their autos very thoroughly. Do not buy from them unless you inspect these vehicles in person. They offered to have me re auction them but in good conscience, I could not do that to someone else. At a minimum they should at least make sure that they are safe to drive, but they do not! This is not an opinion, it is a fact. They advertised the truck had a clean Carfax, it did not. A Chevrolet[Dave Kirk Chevrolet] body shop estimates 10,000 to repair correctly. The people who brought it to Mecum to auction did not disclose this info. I would like the name of the person or business who brought it to Mecum, please. Dear Mecum, its the people who bring them to you who are deceitful, not Mecum.

I want to warn individuals for selling… I want to warn individuals for selling cars at Mecum. In my case, my father passed and I had seven cars in a collection to sell. Everything with Mecum as far as writing up an editorial about my father, convincing me to run them through as a collection, and photography and transportation all went very well. Where things got bad and then even worse was when it came to the money and title. All my pink slips with the required documents they requested were in Mecum's hands roughly four weeks before the auction. So I assumed everything was fine. The auction comes, each car sells, but 2 1/2 weeks after the auction I started to wonder when I would get paid. I was told by the rep that I would be paid within four weeks. When I inquired with the title department of Mecum, they didn't know who I was or where my cars were in the system. Finally after 10 minutes she comes back and says she found 3 out of the 7. There was an issue with all the titles so they said they could not pay me until they got the pink slips in my name rather than my father's. So this will delay my payments for the cars for several additional weeks. I was the worst is I found out that what Mecum does is when you see the auction price, once they hit the hammer and they're sold, they add their 10% buyers' fee which means you are not getting what shows on the screen. If you have a 10% reserve, they add a back door fee of 10% on top of that for the buyer buying your car so they are essentially getting 20% off the selling price. They never told me about the additional 10% that comes off my price. I had reserves on 4 of my cars but had I known they were going to take 20% I would never have dropped the reserves. You feel like you got ripped off righteously, so buyer and seller beware. Horrible experience and they don't tell you about the hidden fees. In my case, they waived the entry fees, the transportation fees, but now I know why they would do that because at the end, they made about 18% on some of the cars. I can't believe how sick I feel and how ripped off I feel.

Always a smooth experience with Mecum I attend 2 or 3 of their auctions a year. Sometimes I buy and sometimes sell. Very professional and fair company that is why I only deal with them. I have never had a problem. For someone to say they did not know there was a 10% fee to sell with a reserve is either not truthful or totally in a brain fog. Everything they do is thoroughly explained weeks before and even that day prior to the sale or purchase.

TV Coverage has become unwatchable! This is about the TV coverage. Boy, has it gone south in the last few years! They should rename the show: "Mecum Auctions Commercial Extravaganza" (which may or may not be followed by a car auction). There are soooo many commercial breaks (and they get longer and longer it seems). And why do they waste OUR time on these useless "car previews" when John Kraman is going to tell us everything we need to know when it crosses the block? It's just stupid! Do car auctions; cut-out the extraneous BS; and maybe, just maybe, you can cut-down on the commercial interruptions! NAH! I'm gone!