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Top 10 Online Auction Tips

Quick, convenient, and safe describe the online shopping experience. Online super sellers know that the Internet is a retail heaven with secure servers, credit verification programs, and direct shipping. But, how does the Average Bob cash in with just a click?

Tip #1: Know your Stuff
Most importantly, find out what you have and what it’s worth. Knowledge is power and you need to know the correct description of your item and its true value. Example: You have a stuffed toy monkey that you are willing to sell for £5. Are you sure that your £5 stuffed animal is not a vintage Steiff stuffed toy monkey worth £1,200? Know what you’re selling and its value before you sell online or off.
Tip #2: Get Unbiased Information
Get this appraisal from an unbiased, expert who does not have a financial interest in your item. I think that someone who evaluates your item’s market value should NOT have a financial interest in that item. I think that an art and antiques appraiser should NOT offer to buy the item from you. Someone wanting to buy an item may undervalue that item in order to pay a low price for it.

Tip #3: Recognize an Ethical Appraisal
Ethical art and antique appraisers are required to base their appraisals on actual sales records showing the client where similar pieces sold. A certified written appraisal must include actual comparative sales records. If your appraisal does not describe the item or simply lists a numerical value without any supporting evidence for that value, get another appraisal. To meet standards set by the UK government, art and antique appraisers are required to also certify that they have not made an offer to buy an appraised item and have no present or contemplated future interest in the item.
Tip #4: Determine & Set a Price
Determine the value of your item. Your asking price is the amount of money that you would be happy receiving if your item sold. You can set a reserve price. A reserve alerts potential buyers that you won’t part with the item for less than the reserve amount. This attracts serious buyers, not just casual shoppers. Example: If you would be happy getting $750 for your vintage Lladro figurine worth £1,500, set your reserve at £500, not at £50.

Tip #5: Know your Market
Certain items sell better in certain markets. Impressionist landscape paintings sell better here than they do in America. Think broadly about potential markets. Trying to sell a ruler online? Market to school kids and carpenters, but also advertise to TV weather reporters covering a winter snowstorm.
10 Online Auction Tips

Have you been thinking about selling some unwanted antiques online and don’t know where to start? Do you want to take advantage of a worldwide audience? Selling online is easy for the big corporations, but how do regular folks generate some extra Internet cash? Tip #1: Find out what you have and what it’s worth!
Tip #6: No Camera? No Computer? No Problem
Not a shutterbug? Can’t tell a computer mouse from a church mouse? You can still sell online. You can get digital images from an inexpensive disposable camera. Take regular photos and have them developed, at the grocery store or pharmacy, onto a Picture CD. Presto, you’ve got digital images. No computer? Hire an online auction assistant. For a fee, these businesses will photograph your item, post it online, and monitor your auction. It’s easy!

Tip #7: Avoid the Dummy
An auction dummy is a bidder for hire. Auction dummies exist in traditional and online auctions. Some sellers at auctions hire bidders or auction dummies to bid against interested bidders to drive up prices. With no intention of buying, the auction dummy creates a bidding war. Auction dummies typically use free web based email accounts. Most auction dummies have few winning bids, they can be difficult to spot online.
Tip #8: Advertise your Sale
Market online to your global audience and off-line to everyone else. Drive people to your online auction with phone calls, postings on other web site, and emails. Create frenzy. Example: When you host a car boot sale, you advertise by calling friends, posting signs in the area, and buying classified ads in your local newspaper. It’s the same online.
Tip #9: Don’t be Fooled
Some unscrupulous buyers may try to undermine your marketing by discrediting your item or its price. If you receive such emails, that “potential buyer” may be trying to get you to reduce your price. Stand firm.
Tip #10: You can do it!
Follow my tips and be confident. You probably have something that you want to sell online and probably know someone who sold an item online with positive results.

Art music is considered primarily a written musical tradition, preserved in some form of music notation, as opposed to being transmitted orally, by rote, or in recordings, like popular and traditional music. In some modern or experimental forms, within the definition of "art music" is based upon the intention of the composer for the experience created by the music and upon the method of the composer in communicating the substance of the music to the performer. In other words, while the notation may not be formal or traditional.

Music Art represents and acknowledges today's CD cover designers. Artworks come along way to help publicise and sale the CD. In fact since the first vinyl records where produced the creative talent and professional design on music covers has very quickly grown in to it’s own art form that no CD has ever been released by a top producer without giving it’s full attention to it. Artists like Madonna and Kylie Minogue are just as influential as Elvis and The Beatles were.

We don’t copy a design but further enhance the image by adding more effects and computer design until we have changed the image into a new peace of artwork that will look good blown up and painted on a canvas with totally new and different colours

This makes the work unique and the Artist’s talent takes control on the outcome of the painting, change shades, colour design, adding or leaving out parts. In fact many versions of the same design may be produced.

How to clean paintings on the cheap!
Some of the older paintings need to be cleaned since the colours are not as bright anymore. If they're not like museum quality and you just want to keep them clean. We can suggest a way to clean them without hurting the paint? If you don't think you will be able to afford professional cleaning, you can wipe clean an acrylic painting with a damped cloth? As it is basically a plastic or latex type media I would think you could use warm water with just a couple of drops of dish detergent or a slight amount of TSP(trisodiumphosphate)and wipe with a soft dampened cloth, and then finish wiping with a clear water dampened cloth. As far as oil paintings, it is more complex. Various solvents are used depending upon the surface condition, whether it is varnished or not, etc. I would not advise cleaning these without a conservator. Paintings with a wax medium are even more tricky.