Mark Putney and all the staff are very friendly and helpful. We have purchased from their auctions…read moreand sold items with them. I would highly recommend them.

I purchased a jar of marbles from them. I wanted to display them on a shelf in a curio cabinet I…read morehave. The glass jar was broken when I received it. I reached out to the seller and they replied "Did the marbles break? Send us a picture" I said that I was not a marble collector and wanted the jar with the marbles for a shelf display. No response. I reached out 3 more times. No response. HORRIBLE customer service. Stay away!

Daugherty Auction was hired by us to auction off my wife's grandfather's estate. I wish we would…read morehave checked references before we hired them, because they definitely lack professional behavior, especially after the sale. We had given the key to Daugherty so the broker could escort potential buyers through the real estate, but found out they were giving keys to interested parties and allowing them to walk through the house, unattended, with all of my wife's grandfathers personal property in it. They were asked not to do this when they were given the key. We feel very strongly that they totally rushed the last half of the auction because they were concerned about time, which really has an impact on per item peices. They did not auction all the items listed on the advertisement and said they forgot. They told us they were going to bring auction goers to the basement to auction off items downthere, that they didn't want to carry out before the auction, and never did, but then stated "they forgot". Because of this, we still have several items in the basement that could have been sold, but now we have to try to sell or dispose of ourselves. They sold items out of order so we feel that we did not get as good of a price out of them as we could have. For example, they sold the boat motors before the boat, but the person that bought the boat might have given a better price for a motor. We had a player piano with several boxes of scrolls for it. Chad (auctioneer's son) bought the scrolls himself and did not even try to sell the advertised player piano, so we would have had a player piano without any scrolls to play on it. Should have sold the piano first and then the scrolls or at least sold them together. When my wife asked why they sold the scrolls, but never attempted to sell the piano, he was extremely rude to her and basically the a temper tantrum and threw the scrolls on the ground and told his workers to take them off his bill. If course, this upset my wife and nearly brought her to tears! They sold the working Victrolla, but didn't try to sell any of the many Victrolla records that went with it! When we approached them to talk to them, they just turned their back on us and tried to ignore us. When we told him that we were trying to talk to him he said he was done and was getting the f*** out of here and going home, like a little kid! We continued to try to talk to Kelly (auctioneer, Chad's dad) and he asked why are were acting this way, since we had a nice auction. Like father like son, I guess, because he then turned his back on us and tried ignoring the situation, when were trying to work things out. We ttold them that they needed to apologize to my wife, which Chad did a little late, but then told them, "If you have any questions, call my secretary." Overall not a good experience at all! Based on my experience and observations that day, I definitely do not recommend their services at all! To be rude and disrespectful to the very people that hired you is kind of like drilling a hole in your own boat in the middle of the lake!

From the owner: Daugherty Auction & Real Estate Services, LLC. provides upcoming options, real estate at auctions,…read morereal estate results, auctioneer services, recent auction results, and appraisal services to Central Iowa and beyond; including Adel, Waukee, Des Moines, Ames, Winterset, Ankeny, Altoona, Indianola, and De Soto.

Two months since their Nov 2021 auction and I have received nothing from them. They have my money…read morebut have shipped nothing. This is now a criminal matter.

This auction house is ridiculously unprofessional. On the second day the auctioneer was screaming…read moreat the audience because they were not bidding.this was most disturbing considering the distance I traveled to get there will make me think twice. A bad experience.