Dakil Auctioneers Inc.

As a result of poor and inadequate advertising, most of my inventory and assets were sold for a fraction of their worth. And a fair amount were not sold at all. In addition to the 30% commission, DAKIL charged me for advertising, hourly wages for his personnel, and a 10% buyers premium which I did not get a percentage of. I received a check for just over $2,000.00, while DAKIL pocketed over $3,500 .00 In the end, about 25% of the items in the auction did not sell, and were left in my building. Of these remaining items, I advertised the most valuable ones (in my opinion) on Craig's list, and sold everything that was advertised. If I had to do over again, I would just advertise everything on Craig's list and not hire any auctioneer. DAKIL made about 150% of what I ended up getting paid. I feel like he did not fulfill his obligation to advertise the auction, and profited excessively at my expense. I should have known, after we signed the contract, he took my hand and said a prayer that the auction would be successful. I do believe in God, but it has been my experience that people who use God to promote their business is a red flag that you are about to be taken for a ride, or entering into a bad deal. Louis Dakil lived the next street over from my house in the 1980s. He sold his house at auction, and I went to the auction just to see how it would go. When he showed the backyard, there was a dog pen with two cages, a gravel floor, and the trash can buried up to the lid for dog waste. It looked like a cruel way to treat animals to me, at night my neighbors and I would hear a dog howling all night long. A week or so before he sold his house, we found a beautiful black lab roaming neighborhood with no tags or ID. I believe this was the dog that he had howling in that horrible piin, removed his collar and turned him loose in the neighborhood. My wife and I took him in and rescued him just before the neighbors called the pound to pick him up. He had clearly been mistreated and abused, but after a few months he turned into a wonderful loving member of our family, extremely protective of my wife and I. How can someone who claims to be a Christian treat an animal this way? I would rate a Dakil's auction service borderline criminal and would never use or recommend them again.