I met dean Kruse last yr. early 2009, I came down with stage3 cancer & was going through cemo & radiation,I thought I was dying so I needed to sell my home cars & collectibles, I called Kruse, an he flew his Jet here to Vero Beach fl to go over the merchandise, we planned the auction & the deal was to bid on the home you had to put up 250,000 deposit, he told us he had a list of bonified bidders, and talked us into selling the contents of the home fist, then proceed to the homes, well he sold our furniture and antique advertising for 100,000 way under the reserve his excuse was he would make it up thru the sale of the homes, then he started selling the cars,saying they sold over the internet well he sold approx 250,000 in cars, everything way under reserve prices, stating same excuse, i stopped the auciton and demanded to start the realestate auction, thats the only part we were interested in, kruse talked us into selling off the collectibles, saying we wouldnt have anyroom for them after the sale of the homes, there were no real biders, the house was appraised at 10million, and it brought under 2million way under the reserve of 7million, well neither of the 2 oceanfront homes sold, but all of our contents were mostly gone! There were hundreds of people here they wrecked the place and Kruse took off with 265,000, & I am being sued for 200,000 from a buyer that bought my motor home under the reserve sent the money to kruse and he took off with too, also I have alreay spent 25,000 legal fees trying to collect from this scumbag, he tried to steal my hemicuda convertible, but i wouldnt realease that to a flatbed transporter the next day, unless I saw some money.He also tried to steal stuf, that he bid on secretly.
The next day, I caught his people trying to load up his trailer,with some of my best things, he is nothing but a low life criminal!!

This is an awful story and I am so sorry for the stress Mr. Kruse must have cause for you in an already difficult time. It really is a shame that things like this happen and I am sure there are countless instances of shady dealing spanning the life of the company. If there is any one else out there with a similar story don’t hesitate to contact us.

Well I still have not been paid for my classic Lincoln limo sold on September 8th 2009 to Hyman ltd. for $30500. I would like you to check out the forum here. You can get a feel for some of the people involved with this story.

A few days ago we posted an article discussing a lawsuit filed against Kruse auctions for shill bidding, and today I found a full length article here, discussing the same practice happening at B-J auctions but on a much larger scale.