How it works
1. Register
Browsing is open to everyone. To bid, create an account with your name, email and mobile number.
Then save a card before you bid. It is only charged if you win, automatically shortly after the auction closes.
2. Browse and watch
Each catalog describes every lot plainly: what it is, its size, its condition and what I know about its background.
Tap the heart on a lot to watch it. Questions, extra photos and viewing appointments can be requested from the lot page.
3. Bid or set a max
Bid the next increment, or set a private maximum. With a maximum, I bid for you one increment at a time, only as much as needed, up to your max. Nobody else sees it.
If two maximums are the same, the earlier one wins.
4. Closing night
Lots close one at a time on closing night, one every 30 seconds.
A bid in the final 2 minutes extends only that lot by the same window from the moment of the bid. You will see an Extended label when it happens.
5. Pay and pick up
After the auction closes you get one invoice for everything you won: the hammer price plus 15% buyer's premium and 10.55% sales tax. Tax applies to hammer plus premium. I am not accepting reseller permits at this time, so sales tax applies to every purchase.
Your saved card is only charged if you win. It is charged automatically shortly after the auction closes, for the hammer price, the buyer's premium and Washington sales tax. If the charge does not go through, you pay the invoice online before pickup.
Pickup is at the gallery, Galerie Bach, 309A 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104, the morning after closing. Bring your invoice QR code or a photo ID. No shipping.