Hard to believe that anyone would consign books of this caliber to Heritage without negotiating a deal. Getting them to waive the SP would be the starting point for the negotiations.
I believe it really depends on the extent of your collection and the overall estimated value of it.
If you only have 1 or 2 of these books (not talking about Action 1 or 'Tec 27 in this case) I seriously don't think you are going to get much of a discount (if any) from Heritage. If Heritage waives the fees the way some of you seem to think think here (i.e. for almost everything), it makes it sound like they are only charging the consignor 15% all in by the time it's all said and done which is something I don't really believe. Now, if you was John Veryzl's estate, Jon Berk, Bedrock, and the likes who have signed a contract to consign all of your collection through Heritage, I can definitely believe this 15% figure that seems to be thrown around here. For the rest of us poor smucks out here, not so much.
I was talking to somebody here who had consigned a whole bunch of Vancouver pedigree books to Heritage a few years back. I asked him what his fees were and if he managed to get back a portion of the buyers premium which seems to be the going theory on these boards here. He simply stated that he only had to pay the seller's premium and the buyer's premium had absolutely nothing at all to do with him since it was paid entirely by the buyer. No matter how I tried to explain that he was in fact indirectly also paying for the buyer's premium out of the final realized auction price, he simply could not understand that. Bottom-line: I bet you he ended up paying the full shot for the 19.5% buyer's premium along with probably the entire seller's premium whatever that turned out to be.
Since most of us seems to be buyers here, has anybody here ever actually consigned some book to Heritage and can tell us what kind of fees they had to actually pay?
I can maybe shed some light on this. I've consigned twice with Heritage, this one I am presenting was the 1st time I consigned with them, still trying to locate my most recent auction settlement. Again, this is a case by case basis. I'm sure elite consignors get a better % rate. But anyways, about 16% was deducted for seller's fees with 0% buyer's fees that I negotiated with at that time.