{"id":1696,"date":"2015-09-11T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/destinationthailand.tv\/wp\/collingbourne-auction-house-an-expat-pattaya-success-story\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:39:08","slug":"collingbourne-auction-house-an-expat-pattaya-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/collingbourne-auction-house-an-expat-pattaya-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingbourne Auction House | An expat Pattaya success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 6 Years ago when John Collingbourne, an auctioneer and showman with an interesting accent from Wales, decided to sell his hotel business and start a new auction house in Pattaya.<\/p>\n<p>John had missed being an auctioneer and through his passion was able to find a gap in the market.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn&#8217;t looked back.<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;I hit the button and the business took off&#8221;. An amazing place where you can find almost anything from real antiques, cars, electrical equipment and many fascinating items that people bring to sell.<\/p>\n<p>John tells us that the people who come to the auction house range from collectors to traders and to people simply addicted to just keep coming back!<\/p>\n<p>#pattaya #pattayaexpat #expatlife #auctioneer #auctionhouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 6 Years ago when John Collingbourne, an auctioneer and showman with an interesting accent from Wales, decided to sell his hotel business and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6201],"tags":[1366,2429,2430,2431,2432,37,2433,2434,2435,2436,7,563,2437,2438,2439,227,2440,2441,2442,26],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-videos","category-pattaya","tag-auction","tag-auction-house","tag-auction-house-in-pattaya","tag-auctioneer","tag-auctioneer-in-pattaya","tag-capital-tv-bangkok","tag-collingbourne-auction-house","tag-collingbourne-auction-house-an-expat-pattaya-success-story","tag-collingbourne-auction-house-based-in-pattaya","tag-collingbourne-auctions-in-pattaya","tag-destination-thailand","tag-expat-life","tag-john-collingbourne-auctioneer","tag-john-collingbourne-from-wales","tag-john-collingbourne-pattaya","tag-pattaya","tag-pattaya-auction-house","tag-pattaya-auctions","tag-pattaya-expat-success","tag-thailand","has-post-video"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4.jpg",480,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4.jpg",480,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4.jpg",480,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4.jpg",480,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6xc3cTSGkD4.jpg",480,360,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Laszlo Nyerges","author_link":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/author\/laszlo-nyerges\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/category\/all-videos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">all videos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/category\/travel\/pattaya\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Pattaya<\/a>","tag_info":"Pattaya","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webengine.work\/DTN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}