Bidder Features

LiveAuctioneers, broadcasts traditional floor auctions online, providing bidders worldwide the opportunity to compete in real-time with floor bidders for auction lots. In addition to broadcasting the auction event, LiveAuctioneers provides an array of services to enhance the online auction experience for bidders:

Absentee Bidding

If you’re unavailable during the live auction, leave an absentee bid up to two hours prior to the live event and you will still be in the action with your competitive bids

Live Online Bidding

Bid live from any internet-connected computer on thousands of lots being sold at the worlds finest auctions

Online Catalogs

Find the world’s top auction houses' full catalogs online including complete auction house descriptions, images, estimates and more

Detailed Imagery

Almost all auction lots include at least one image, and many include several images with detailed and alternate-perspective shots to give you a clear picture of the item

Search

Find thousands of items up for bid using keywords or descriptive terms

Archived Database

Free access to 4 million auction results illustrated by 30 million images means the ability to establish a contemporary value for the items in your collection

User Dashboard

Shows you all the auctions you’re currently signed up to participate in, plus your approval status, allowing you to easily manage multiple auctions

Alerts

Set these so you notified when similar items to those that interest you are added to the database

Tags

Mark items to help you sort them for bidding or research

Similar Items

Because sometimes what you’re searching for may not be exactly what you want, this tool finds exact matches for your query as well as related items

Email To A Friend

Lets you notify anyone when an item they collect, or you find interesting, becomes available for sale

RSS

Use your newsreader to monitor upcoming auctions worldwide, free

Weekly e-newsletter

Our newsletter includes links to individual auction catalogs for dozens of upcoming auctions, as well as observations and highlights from the previous week’s sales and upcoming auction lots of particular interest.

Ask Auctioneer a Question

Request more information on a specific lot, enquire about your approval status and more

Help Links

Answers to questions related to the live online bidding process using pictorial descriptions of key processes

Consign

If you’ve got an item that you would like to consign, fill out the consignment form, and LiveAuctioneers will contact a client auction house with expertise in your property category and/or within proximate location to evaluate your items