{"id":18761,"date":"2015-01-27T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=18761"},"modified":"2024-03-05T04:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:17:37","slug":"artist-claims-he-was-stiffed-by-online-auction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/01\/artist-claims-he-was-stiffed-by-online-auction-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Claims he was Stiffed by Online Auction Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entlawdigest.com\/2015\/01\/26\/3611.htm\">Courthouse News Service Entertainment Law<\/a>. \u00a0William Chambers alleges that Universal Collectibles dba Midwest Estate Buyers \u00a0sold works he consigned for far less than the agreed price. \u00a0In addition, Universal Collectibles claimed that some works were stolen from them by movers when they moved their offices; but Chambers discovered that they were actually sold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For all the artists out there &#8230; be careful and do your homework before consigning works to any gallery or auction house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamchambers.com\/slices\/slice_2x4.jpg\" alt=\"slice_2x4\" width=\"259\" height=\"291\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Chambers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courthouse News Service Entertainment Law. \u00a0William Chambers alleges that Universal Collectibles dba Midwest Estate Buyers \u00a0sold works he consigned for far less than the agreed price. \u00a0In addition, Universal Collectibles claimed that some works were stolen from them by movers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/01\/artist-claims-he-was-stiffed-by-online-auction-site\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-18761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.7 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Artist Claims he was Stiffed by Online Auction Site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/01\/artist-claims-he-was-stiffed-by-online-auction-site\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artist Claims he was Stiffed by Online Auction Site\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Courthouse News Service Entertainment Law. \u00a0William Chambers alleges that Universal Collectibles dba Midwest Estate Buyers \u00a0sold works he consigned for far less than the agreed price. \u00a0In addition, Universal Collectibles claimed that some works were stolen from them by movers &hellip; 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