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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Black Forest, Germany
Posts: 1,192
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Yes, they have stopped all auctions with weapons. I think the reason for this are the more and more difficult or nearly impossible possibilities to dispatch or ship weaponry!
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Tyneside. North-East England
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Oddly enough, they still list Japanese swords and non-Western swords ie ethnic. Go figure. I also thought it was because of the difficulties with logistics but a katana differs in no way to a UK sabre as far as the world outside is concerned. However, there were virtually no listings from UK vendors after Brexit; and many European vendors were resorting to third-party facilities to overcome customs red tape, at 100 euros a pop. Big pity: I acquired several items from them. |
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Leiden, NL
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Yeah, it's a real shame. I got my first few antiques from there at the start of the pandemic. I had no idea what I was bidding on, so they're not the greatest quality pieces perhaps but it put me on the antique & ethnographic arms collecting trail. I don't have that many connections yet in this community so it's a significant lost source of new toys and it was always fun and informative to window shop there.
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Black Forest, Germany
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The main problem is that DHL, Fedex, HERMES etc. do not transport any kind of arms, so shipping guns, pistols, swords, knives etc. are impossible to ship at reasonable costs. Therefore you are forced to use the help of special transporters, which have very high prizes to send items to other countries. These from supplier to supplier very different fees didn't match with the ideas of Catawiki, so they stopped the auctions.
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Tyneside. North-East England
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Yes, I agree, it has proven a major problem for vendors and an expensive surcharge for customers; but why are ethnic items excepted? Rhetorical question really, but maybe someone can answer it.
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Tennessee, USA
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FedEx just facilitated shipping two halberds from Germany to the U.S. for me. |
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Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Bristol
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That's good news. They wouldn't ship US to UK as the UK depot bounced a sword back.
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Tyneside. North-East England
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I have to keep returning to this extreme stupidity in the midst of the general stupidity we have inherited recently, i.e. what is the difference between a 19th century cavalry sabre and a Japanese Katana as far as the general populace is concerned.
Furthermore: unless you are part of a re-enactment group or theatrical troupe a firearm replica has to be coated in a bright coloured plastic skin, yet 100% accurate air-pistols - that can actually inflict harm - and blank-firing replicas are readily available to anyone over 18. I despair! |
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 16
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I purchase 1 dagger from Czernys 30 cm....and they want to charge 230 euros....and it takes 2plus months to receive it. Something is not right. Not only is one auction house trying to charge 25 percent buyers premium -- but they are also trying to heavily profit off the shipping. Anyways....Ive found that if the item is really nice....it's best to just go over to Italy, Spain, or France and pick it up personally. In the last 12 months I've been Spain & Italy twice....and France once on three separate trips. If I have to pay 230 euro for one little box....I might as well just fly over there. |
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Leiden, NL
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Interesting... What country are you in? I've never paid more than a little over half that in shipping from Czerny's (but the last time was early last year), and that was for a large pata gauntlet sword (I still find it absurdly expensive). From what I understand the long wait times have to do with Italian customs rules for exporting antiques.
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 16
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The shipping via direct purchases from individuals in Italy has been great and very efficient. No problems with cites or customs.... Only when I purchase from auction houses do things get complicated and very expensive. In my experience, France is the country that is the fastest and I have the least problems with when it comes to shipping antique knives and daggers to the US My only other bad experiences were with DHL, during the heart of COVID, when I think it was bad for everyone. The items still came....it just took 45 to 100 days. Ive read here that others have had lost or missing packages shipped from Europe or shipped to Europe from the US....I'm happy to say Ive never had that problem one time. |
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