Cottone Auctions Sam Cottone Broken Agreement & Threatened Their Client Geneseo, New York

MARK IS MY FRIEND AND HE DROVE TWENTYFOUR HOURS FOR ME TO GET MY PAITNING BACK FROM THE COTTONE AUCTIONS. THOSE PEOPLE AGREED TO SELL MY PAINTING ON A CERTAIN DATE AND THEY DID NOT DO WHAT THEY AGREED TO WITH ME AND SELLING MY PROPERTY LIKE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO. YOU ARE NOT PRIVILEGE TO ANYTHING BETWEEN ME AND THSOE COTTONES UNLESS YOUR NAME IS COTTONE. SO YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT UNLESS YOU ARE TRYING TO COVER UP FOR HOW BAD THE COTTONES WERE TO ME AND TO MARK. YOU HAVE A BAD CHOIC OF FRIENDS. I GOT HUNG UP ON TWO TIMES BY MATT COTTONE AND MY FREIDN MARK WENT ALL THE WAY FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO NEW YORK TO GET IT BACK BECAUSE THEY DID NOT DO WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO AND I NEEDED MONEY LIKE THEY KNEW TO PAY TAX PAYMENT ON MY HOUSE. WHAT WOLD YOU DO IF SOMEBODY TOOK OFF WITH YOUR PAINTINGS AND WOULD HANG UP ON YOU. I AM TOO OLD TO BE DRIVING TO NEW YORK AND MY FRIEND MARK DID IT FOR ME ON HIS OWN AND BROUGHT TI BACK AND SET IT DOWN IN MY LIVING ROOM SO WHEN I GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING IT WAS WAITING FOR ME THERE INT HE LIVING ROOM. HE PUT HIS SELF IN RISK FOR ME GETTING IT BACK WITH THOSE COTTONES THREATENING HIM ON TAPE. HE GOT ANOTHER AUCTION TO SELL IT FOR ME TO GET MY MONEY. BECAUSE OF THOSE COTTONES I HAD TO BORROW MONEY TO PAY MY TAX PAYMENT AND KEEP MY HOUSE. MARK GOT MY PAINTING SOLD WITH A CHECK MADE OUT IN MY NAME AND PUT IN MY BANK TO PAY MY TAX PAYMENTS. SO YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT. MARK IS MY GOOD FRIEND AND NEVER ASKED ME FOR ANYTHING BUT HELPED ME. HE IS A HONORABLE HONEST AND FAIR MAN AND YOU HAVE GOT NO BUSINESS SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT SOME BODY YOU DO NOT KNOW ANY THING ABOUT BUT YOU ARE FREINDS WITH THOSE COTTONES WHICH SAYS LOTS ABOUT YOU FRIEND.

I HEARD THIS WHOLE THING ON TAPE AND NONE OF WHAT YOU SAY YOU HEARD WAS SAID. YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKINGG ABOUT. I AM SORRY YOU HAD PROBELMS WITH COTTONE AUCTION AND I AM NOT SURPRISED AND I AM GLAD YOU WORKED IT OUT BUT I AM 89 YEARS OLD LIVING ON A FIXED INCOME AND THESE PEOPLE DID THERE BEST TO IGNORE ME AND HANG UP ON ME AND SWITCH MY PROPERTY TO ANOTHRE SELL WHEN THEY NEVER AKSED ME FOR MY PERMISSSION. I DO NOT THINK YOU WERE THERE OR WERE NOT LISTENTING. NO ONE ON THIS TAPE SAID ANYTHING POTTY MOUTH NOT MARK OR THOSE COTTONES. THE ONLY ONE THAT GOT LOUD WAS SAMUEL COTTONE AND HIS SON MATT. I HEARD BOTH OF THOSE COTTONES THREATEN HIM WHEN HE TOLD ONE OF THEM THAT THEY HAD TREATED US BADLY AND THE OTHER ONE THREATENED HIM AND THREATENED TO PUT HIS HEAD DOWN ON THE GROUND. HE WAS NOT YELLING OR BEING DISRAPTIVE AT ALL AND HE DID NOT THREATEN A SOUL. THOSE COTTONES NEED TO RUN THEIR BUSINESS LIKE A BUSINESS MAN SHOULD AND BE GENTLEMEN. MY FATHER WAS A METHODIST MINISTER AND IF I HAD BEHAVED THAT WAY AND THREATENED A MEMBER OF HIS PARISH LIKE THAT MATT COTTONE HE WOLD HAVE SKINNED MY HIDE. HE SOUNDS LIKE A BAD APPLE TO ME THREATENING A MAN WHO CAME TO HELP SOMEONE AFTER HE WAS THE CAUSE OF ALL THE TROUBLE. THEY HAD BETTER LEARN TO DO BETTER. YOU DO NOT THREATEN A MAN LIKE THAT AND EXPCT A GOOD OUTCOME. BUT YOU I HEARD IT ALL ON THE TAPE AN DYOU DO NOT KNOW SQUAT ABOUT IT. 

I HAVE NEVER KNOWN A BETTER MAN THAN MARK OR A MAN WITH MORE HONOR WHO DID WHAT HE DID FOR ME WITHOUT ANY PROFIT AT ALL AND LOOKD OUT FOR MY PAINTING. I DO NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT UNLESS YOUR NAME IS COTTONE YOU DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT THE COTTONES DID OR WAT THIS YOUNG MAN DID TO HELP ME. HE DROVE FOR TWO DAYS TO BRING MY PAINTING BACK AND THE COTTONE PEOPLE WOUD NOT EVEN TALK ON THE PHONE. THEY WOULD HANG UP ON YOU. I CALLED THEM TWICE. MARK WENT TO GET MY PROPERTY BACK BECAUSE COTTONE REFUSED TO RETURN IT TO ME AND TOLD ME TO COME AFTER IT IN NEW YORK. I AM 89 YEARS OLD AND I CAN NOT DRIVE FROM NORTHCAROLINA TO NEW YORK. YOU TRY TO DRIVE THAT FAR AT MY AGE SON AND SEE WHERE YOU END UP. YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOUA RE TALKING ABOUT AND I AM THE VICTIM HERE NOT YOU. MARK DID HIS BEST FOR ME AND AFTER HE BROUGTH MY PAINTING BACK HE PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LIVING ROOM FOR ME SO WHEN I WOKE UP IJN THE MORNING THERE IT WAS WAITING FOR ME. MARK GOT A NEW AUCTION COMPANY FOR ME TO AUCTION MY PAITING AND THEY DID AND I GOT EVERY PENNY IN A CHECK MADE OUT IN MY NAME. YOU OWE HIM AN APOLOGY AND YOU MUST BE WORTHLESS IF YOU ARE STANDINGUP FOR SOMONE TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A MAN ON A FIXED INCOME. I LIVE ON A FIXED INCOME AND I NEEDED THIS MONEY FOR MY TAX PAYMENT. DO YOU LIVE ON A FIXED INCOME? YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THAT HAPPENS TO BE LIKE. COMMENT ON SOMETHIGN YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT AND DO NOT INSULT MY FRIEND WHO HELPED ME. COTTONE DID NOT HELP ME. 

Mark A**** is a true disgrace of a human being.

If any of his outlandish claims were true he would be pursuing other options than internet slander.

Anyone who has come into contact with Mark A**** knows he is a fake and a fraud.

I've heard from a couple antique dealers around the area "you should see the review cottones got". I logged on to check it out, as far as what happened leading up to the event described I cannot speak to. However, I was there when the event described occurred..

the gentleman (and I use that term loosely) came the day of an auction during the preview. As myself and a bunch of elderly old women stood around viewing paintings he stormed in demanding a painting from Cottone. Sam went to the back room and got the painting, the guy was screaming things like "this guy never fucking returns calls!" At Matt Cottone, then he flung the painting over his shoulder bowing the canvas, and slammed the double divider door. I was standing next to a statue that nearly vibrated off it's wooden base. Paintings on the walls rattled and I'm shocked nothing was damaged. 

Then the man was in middle of the galleria by the entrance..... Those "goons" he described were security guards on site for the auction. Matt did in the heat of the moment tell security to "If he don't get out of here put him on his fuckin head"..... Which I don't blame him I'm 25 and I was wondering if I should have stepped in. The guy was liable to break something and he had all the elderly patrons scared. As for the guy making himself sound "tough" with training etc. He was fluffy and old. Security would have mopped up the floor with him.

Im unbiest I'm a young antique dealer and had a crock in that auction myself. No buisness is perfect and I've had problems of my own with Cottones, which we've resolved in a calm manner. Simply put its a beautiful auction house, Sam has done well for himself. Cottones is a valuable asset to local dealers and the community as it brings people and revenu into an otherwise econoimcally deprived area. I enjoy going you get to see museum worthy pieces every auction.