Kastner Auctions

Good place to buy mattresses. You come on Saturday to view items up for auction. You come on Sunday to bid in person or can do online. Autos, furniture, antiques are plentiful. Can be fun to kill a few hours on a Saturday/​Sunday.

The storage auction last Saturday was a fiasco. They only had one poor girl doing all the order taking and registrations. Over 100 people showed up to bid on about 40 lockers and vehicles.
When people bought something they had to wait till the end of the auction to pay and start loading. They had a number system, I was 14. I waited an hour then wend out for a drink. Came back to find that she scrapped the number system. I loaded and left and phoned in my payment by credit card. A friend of mine waited 4 hours, what a waste of a Saturday.
I have been to many storage auctions. Usually they will have one staff manning the office taking payments as the auction continues. This eliminates the 4 hour lineup at the end for customers.
The auctioneer took off at the end of the auction leaving this poor girl to do all the work. She was only able to process about 4 people per hour.
I hope their next auction is more customer friendly. This one was a disaster.
I have been a long term customer and usually the auctions at the main office are great.
This was just a bad day I think. The auctioneers should have seen what was going on and stayed to help the poor girl.
I look forward to a huge improvement next time.
The auctioneer was great as usual, funny and pleasant.

I have been watching this auction house for awhile now. Something is just not right here. The place is very very seedy looking not organized at all. What I’m am concerned about is I keep seeing some of the same items carried over from one auction to another from week to week even though it was supposed to have been sold. I could see if it didn’t sell but I was in attendance and saw various items sold and then the following week they were back under a new number. I thought maybe it was a duplicate item but we marked it for id just to see and it was the same items back again. If they are bidding items up and then dumping them that is highly shady and very illegal. All I could say is buyer beware, I still will shop here but I am very cautious on bidding and have somebody watch the audience and the internet to stop dubious bidding. If I see any thing I immediately walk out.

This place isn’t for me. I was really upset a few weeks ago when they had an electronics auction and bid several identical TV with different numbers on the auction numbering sheet all in one bundle saying, «4 TV’s, 4 times the money!» Then auction all 4 individually numbered TV’s as one to the highest bidder! One guy paid $ 400.00 more than the sale selling price on 2 of 4 55″ LED TV’s. they did however ask the audience if anyone else wanted to buy the remaining 2 TV’s for the same inflated price… plus 10% buyers fee… My friend and I walked out and bought a TV off kijiji instead. The experience was totally unacceptable in my books and I will NEVER again spend money or my time at this place. I did however get a deal one time. I bought a used chop-​saw for $ 23.00.

I have been attending Kastner for years on and off and this is one auction in the city that is pure quality! The staff are amazing, I have gotten some amazing deals as well! Highly recommend Kastner auctions !

Unlike most auctions I’ve been to (and for reference that’s not a large number) the selection of stock I saw was much more useful than most. I won’t say they’re «high quality» but I will say if you’re looking to find something cool for dirt cheap they’re worth checking out. I was tempted to buy a leather couch today… But where would I put it? Damn.
The shop itself is a little shaggy. I know it just needs to be a place that sotres junk, but I like a little effort to show through. In the end, really this is small stuff.

great auction house with some good stuff for a great deal. staff is friendly as long as you can stand the auctioneers childish/​rude comments they make every so often (depending on how well they feel or mood)
all in all a great place