McInnis John Auctioneer

My husband and I have been trying to find someone to appraise a Lithograph and baseball cards that we own for months, and happen to stumble upon John McInnis. When I called the woman was very helpful and seemed genuinely excited to see what we had and said that John did appraise baseball cards too — so we went in about an hour later. To our dismay John McInnis was very dismissive when he saw what we had (mind you we were not asked much about the art or the baseball cards before coming in) and he barley even glanced at it saying, «This isn’t worth much.» Ok, well «worth much» to me and John are probably in two different galaxy, and I was not there to ask if it was worth «much» I was there to ask what number it was worth. You could tell that he felt as if we were wasting his time with our art and baseball cards — he opened up the box to the baseball cards (about 1,000) took one look and said to give them to a 5 year old. As far as he knows we could have had a few that he would have been interested in, but he told us after that he was not an appraiser of baseball cards as we were told on the phone. Before leaving, I asked him what dollar worth the lithograph would be because I have seen similar ones SELL for $ 250 through $ 500. He said «That is what they are asking for them, you should just put it online and let it go for $ 50.» I am sorry, I know that we did not have a painting from the 1900’s, but we are locals and would have liked to have a reputable dealer in the area.

Participated in an Auction with this auction house via online service. I called to pay my invoice on the Monday after the auction. I called to arrange pick-​up and shipping with the recommended shipper and waited for the call to pay the shipping charges from UPS. It never came.
I called back to the auction house one week later to find they juxtaposed numbers in the CC. They simply put my file aside and never contacted me via phone or Email. I had to find it by calling back after waiting. they rerun my card and prepare my lot for pickup.
Skip ahead another 3 days, I call the recommended shipper who does not look up what is happening with my item but simply says we will contact you when its ready. So I email the auction house who assure me that the auction house picked up my item 3 day prior.
Skip ahead another week, I still have no call from the shipper. I call them. The shipper was not given all of my items that were in my lot! (its been over a week since they were picked up). So many things were unprofessional, with the shipper and the auction house here but two stick out for the Auction house. They did not call me or contact me when the card was declined. They did not give the entire lot to the shipper when they picked my item up.
They will plead that they are swamped. I will say they are understaffed (see other reviews). It is apparent that one person doing everything only works when everything goes perfectly. Since life is not perfect they should looking into adding staff.
I wont say do not buy from them, however, if you do you may wait a month to get your items. Slow. slow. Slow. (with this kind of service for items when they are paid for, they should not be charging ANY storage fees)

They’ve been in the business for years and it shows. They offer a WIDE spectrum of auction services from entire estate auctions, fine art & antique auctions, specialty collection auctions, real estate and more, both onsite and in their gallery.
JMA holds record high prices in several categories.
If you’re looking to go to an old fashion auction look for one of JMA’s discovery sales. Generally, these sales have
For higher end items keep an eye out for their gallery sales. Best way to keep in touch is to get in their mailing list, either digital or print.

this review pertains only to the store in Florida.
Firstly,
We have participated in 7 different auctions in May (across several different parts of USA) and this was the ONLY auction house which actually charged storage fees. (275 $ and that after bargaining down from $ 500).
Yes, we are VERY out of town (outside USA) and we had to pick up 5 weeks after the auction, and yes, the store is small.
But for any out-​of-​town buyer this is something to consider — many auction houses have large facilities where they store items as a courtesy for buyers from far away at no charge (despite disclosures saying that they would).
so, while we cannot blame the store for following its own printed policy, we found all other auction houses more accommodating in this respect.
Secondly, we won a console table ($ 1000) which shown well in the photos,
But photos did not show major problems with the table and we feel we threw 1000 $ away.
So, request condition reports if you bid remotely because this auction house downplays the problems.
(not the only one to do so mind you).
to be fair we won 2 other lots which we were pleased with
and the lady helping us was very nice so it earned the 2^nd star.

I went to the Hilltop auction today, which has been publicized like crazy for the last month. As expected, it was packed. $ 100 deposit was required to bid. Fine. Normal. BUT, there was 1 poor woman at the desk to give deposit refunds back AND ring up winners. The line was horrific. It was well over an hour long within 2 hours of the 10+ hour auction. When I finally got to the front, I was told they couldn’t ring me up because my item wasn’t in the computer yet…1 ½hours after bidding. Another 20 minutes spent waiting.
Did they not anticipate people showing up? Why couldn’t the woman transcribing put bids directly in the computer so there wasn’t an excessive lag? It felt like a scam that people had to wait so long to get their deposit back. If you don’t have the staff, don’t do such a large auction with public draw.
The auctioneers were really good though. A nice sense of humor and very clear.