Before The Auction (Part 2)

Getting Your Property from Your House to Ours
It doesn’t matter where your property resides, how much there is, how fragile or bulky it is. Rago’s will help you transport it safely to our door. We are happy to handle all the arrangements for you, should you choose, and for less than any specialist shippers. Most auction houses leave all shipping arrangements to the sellers. Note: We must have your property early enough to catalogue it, photograph it and market it correctly, usually at least one month prior to sale.

Protection of Your Property
If you ship through us, your property is fully insured from the moment it leaves your hands. (If you choose to ship by another means, we urge you to get full coverage for the trip.) Our property insurance, on the road and at the auction house, is with Excelsior Insurance Company, a member of the Liberty Mutual Family. It has an A rating in the A.M. Best Guide, the independent, industry arbiter that rates the financial condition of insurance companies.

Marketing Your Property
Any auction house can bring your property to market. What you want is an auction house that brings the market to your property.

Rago’s excels at marketing. We develop a strategic plan of print media (local, national and international), online media, print and online promotional mailings to qualified buyers (from a database of over 30,000), public relations, previews, print catalogues, online catalogues (on Artnet, Artfact, Auctionbid, Live Auctioneers, eBayLive Auctions and our own website), targeted e-mails for each auction we hold.