Auction fraud - McTear's Auctioneers

The saga is continuing on their Facebook page and the Malt Maniacs group:

http://www.facebook.com/McTears/posts/303377086389629 http://www.facebook.com/groups/7425231196/10150670731766197/

17th Feb 2012 09:35 @reply

I just cannot understand McTear's reaction in this case. Surely the bad press is causing more damage than the hammer price of these lots? They should be accountable for this, no?

17th Feb 2012 10:29 @reply

@Appadurai Your comment is awaiting

I visit Mctears on a regular basis and I was worried when I heard about the story that seems to be spreading through the different social networks bad mouthing Mctears. Today I called Mctears and I heard their side of the story and I believe this to be nothing more than a very bad piece of bad mouthing from another so called auction house based in Glasgow so that they can try and compete with Mctears. ( they have even changed their whisky auction date to the same as McTears)

Here’s some facts: The person that picked up the bottles from McTears for Mr Timmerman was actually an employee of the so called auction house ” Mullberry Bank ” All the various bitching on facebook, twitter e.t.c has also came from employees of ” Mullberry Bank”

I could go on with various other things that have been put on the net but to be honest that would only bring me down to their level, and I would not stoop that low.

Being a businessman myself i believe in fair competition between your competitors but when you start to get into this kind of bitching then I think you really need to take a good look at yourself in the mirror.

My loyalties will still remain with McTears and I will not be stepping into Mullberry again, to be honest I wasn’t really that impressed anyhow…

20th Feb 2012 22:19 @reply

The above comment has also been posted on the Dramming.com post that I heard about the auction issues from.

http://www.dramming.com/2012/02/17/mctears-whisky-auctions-buyers-beware/#comments

A duplicate comment from a Connosr user with one post to his name and a profile that mispells the word whisky. It also smells a bit like libel to me, if there's nothing to back up the allegation. You can find more discussion over on the Dramming page.

22nd Feb 2012 22:30 @reply

(For the record, I'm a happy McTear's customer who has bought a few lots from them which were as described, and all the staff with I've dealt with have been friendly and very helpful. I only want to find out what's going on with this current mini-saga so that I can use McTear's again without any worry)

22nd Feb 2012 23:11 @reply