Auction Houses: Does Thailand Have Them?

[Smithson]

I was wondering if Thailand has auction houses similar to other countries? Places were for auction a wide variety of goods such as surplus stock, unclaimed goods, personal items etc. These places are common elsewhere, but I've never seen any in Thailand. Does anyone have further info?

[Heng]

For general goods, no, but I've seen and regularly attend antiques auctions at River City. Usually a decent turnout with quite a variety of pieces.

There are a couple of outfits that do vehicles, but haven't attended any of those.

[chiangmaibruce]

I went hunting for the same thing in Chiang Mai a while back (was looking for 2nd hand office furniture). No luck. The closest thing I found was a government dept that does periodic auctions of stuff that has been repossessed for non-payment of debts (I guess debts to the government). It is in a building very close to the Ping Payom entrance to the air force base here (Wing 41).

They couldn't say when the next auction would be held - depends of when they get enough stuff in the warehouse. Got the impression that they are not really set up for individuals to come along - perhaps a few cosy relationships happening (?)

[andy1308]

Believe there was big auction event this past weekend at Muang Thong Thani. From what my Thai GF told me it was a Customs and Excise event and was pretty heavily advertised on Thai tv and in Thai newspapers. I didn't see anything about it in English - even the mention on the IMPACT website is in Thai.

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