Auctioneers' Features & Services
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1. Catalog Publishing - Our primary service is to prepare your business to trade on the World Wide Web. Lot descriptions, full-color images, estimated selling prices and your contact details encourage users to view your catalog before registering to bid. After your catalog has been published on liveauctioneers.com, anyone registered with LiveAuctioneers can view the lots and leave absentee bids, or wait to bid live on the day of the sale.
2. Online Absentee Bidding Capability - Once a user has found a lot that interests them, they can either contact you directly or place an absentee bid online. A simple bidding form on the lot-description page lets them leave a maximum bid before the sale, very much like traditional ‘left bids,’ ‘ commission bids’ or ‘absentee bids.’ The bid is then recorded, and presented through the ‘live applet’ when the auction starts.
3. Live-auction Bidding via the Internet - This cutting-edge service, lets bidders from around the world bid as your auction is actually taking place. The process is similar to a telephone bidding system but operates much faster and does not tie up your staff. Our experience has shown that providing live auctions online dramatically reduces the number of unsold lots and drives up the average hammer price of your sale. Also, it brings the potential of thousands of new customers to the auction house.
Auctioneers who use LiveAuctioneers’ services have access to many bonus features and a full complement of automatically generated aids that can be accessed through our password-protected ‘back end.’
The following features are exclusive to LiveAuctioneers clients.
- LiveAuctioneers Revenue-Increasing Function
- LiveAuctioneers Time-Saving Function
Staff Permission Levels
Set permission access levels for your staff within your LiveAuctioneers account 
Bidder Contact Function
Offers you the ability to contact bidders at any stage of the signup process
API Integration
Allows your software to seamlessly integrate with the LiveAuctioneers database
Self-Service Upload
Lets you upload catalogs directly into our system from excel, any day, any time, 24/7Invoicing
Frees you of the time-consuming task of invoicing and is available at the end of each auction session. Our fully automated system also allows the buyer to complete his or her purchase with PayPal, a credit card or another designated payment option
Nonpaying bidder status
Allows you to mark a bidder’s e-mail address so you can check status the next time they log in to one of your sales
Weekly electronic newsletter
Our acclaimed newsletter is sent out to LiveAuctioneers users who have signed up to receive it and features pictorial links to upcoming sale catalogs
Image processing and hosting
We can create three image sizes for you and we’ll include up to 10 images per catalog lot
Editing suite
Permits clients to quickly and efficiently edit live both catalog lot descriptions and images, 24/7
End-of-auction status
Clients receive sale results (lot number, buyer, hammer price and buyer’s premium) on any given lot.
Bidder approval flexibility
Allows you to set your own criteria to automatically approve bidders, with all contact information available for viewing
Block bidders
Lets you prevent nonpaying or nuisance bidders from accessing future sales
Regular bidders
Permits the LiveAuctioneers system to automatically approve bidders you specify
Stat tracking
Offers valuable, highly detailed marketing information on a sale, advising you as to how many times an item was viewed, keywords visitors used to search your catalog, etc. Stats include hits, visitors, searches, references and keywords, and indicate whether the user entered through a title/keyword or listing search
Help files
Answers questions to all issues involved in running your sale online, and includes demo videos as well as detailed steps and tool descriptions
Title builder, keyword assistance
Indicates those keywords that are used most often in searches
Complimentary catalog for your Web site
We provide an HTML-encoded electronic version of your auction catalog (customized by the auction house) that can be featured on your auction house website. Archived catalogs are also displayed.
Live help 24/7
A LiveAuctioneer account representative is always available to provide assistanceAdd lot
Allows you to automatically add lots and images to a live sale (lots are added within 3 minutes)
Condition reports
Allows you to add condition reports to a lot at any time
Suggested category
Provides suggested categories for each lot in a sale (available during the edit process)
Withdraw lots
Lets you withdraw lots through an easy-to-use interface
Catalog proofing
Gives you the opportunity to edit all elements - from catalog descriptions to individual lots - before a catalog goes live
Lot format
Lets you format the look of each lot (available during the proofing process) and add "boiler-plated" information that is constant throughout the catalog
Custom signup
Automatically generates a custom auction signup sheet
Sales tax
Automatically calculates sales tax on each winning bid
Winning bidder contact
Allows you to contact winning bidders with customized emails or invoices within minutes of the auction close
Invoice reminder
Sends reminder e-mails or invoices on overdue accounts
PayPal
Platform is fully integrated with PayPal
Accounting
Allows you to readily track auction accounting information
Auction comparison
Compares prior auction results
Sold-item management
Lets you easily manage sold and shipped items
End-of-auction export
Allows you to export End-Of-Auction reports and import winning items and bidder information into your in-house system
Cross-Promotion
Receive cross-promotion of lots within your catalog on LiveAuctioneers. Potential bidders are offered links to other lots within the same catalog
LiveAuctioneers now provides real-time Internet bidding capability to real estate as well as business and industrial auction houses. A new, customized applet that caters specifically to these types of auctions was introduced in 2006.
“LiveAuctioneers has helped struggling auction houses turn their businesses around. That has been particularly gratifying,” said Ellison. “On the other hand, we’ve played a role in helping some of the country’s most successful auction houses reach an international audience of bidders even they could not have gotten on their own. Our services can work for any type of auction house at any level, and we would welcome hearing from any auctioneer who wants more information on how to take advantage of the global Internet marketplace.”
