Auction Staff - Request Response

Based on a personal foul-up some years ago, here is what will probably happen:

In a few days (when the words "Art Show" no longer send PeterCat screaming in fear), he will look over the unclaimed art and contact you. He will send you a polite e-mail or snail-mail letter reminding you of the piece(s) you did not pay for and pick up. He will include the total amount you owe and request payment. Send him the money and he will have the art packaged and sent to you. When this happened with me, he did not include estimated shipping and handling costs. If he does not add them, add a few dollars to the total to help cover the cost.

In my case, I had paid for three pieces of art at the con but had completely forgotten that I had bid on a fourth. I had the check in the mail the day after I received his letter (literally), and had the art shortly afterward.

This message may get a quick response from him or you could send e-mail directly to him: the Art Show should be listed under the CONTACT US tab on the left.

Good morning Mr. Phelps, (sorry, couldn't resist)

At the moments your prints are securely stored with about four dozen other pieces of unclaimed artwork. I'll be taking them with me when I return home from Pittsburgh late Tuesday, and I have a full work week on my ordinary day job the rest of the week. I'll be unpacking and sorting out the unclaimed artwork over the next week or two, and contacting all the buyers involved about what they have, shipping costs, and information for sending in payment. Once I receive payment, I'll ship out the artwork.

I'm sorry we weren't able to accept payment for your pieces right at the mature auction -- for people who are buying artwork only at the mature voice auction, with nothing else that didn't make it to the voice auction, it would be ideal to wrap up the sales transaction Saturday night so they could take their artwork right then. I didn't have the presence of mind to realize that ahead of time and bring the necessary supplies to the auction room to be able to do this.

It's in my notes for next year. The payment options might be more limited; we'd definitely be able to accept personal checks for this, perhaps cash although we might not have enough change to handle a lot of people, but credit cards might pose a problem as we wouldn't have a terminal -- we'd have to take a manual imprint of the card without verification, and I'd be worried in case there's a problem submitting the charge,

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For faster answers to any Art Show question, please e-mail <art.2007@anthrocon.org>. I visit the discussion boards here only a couple of times a week.
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PeterCat
Anthrocon Art Show Director