Internet

Dreweatt Neate compared two different online bidding platforms side by side at two sales last week.

Book buyers on the internet are likely to face higher prices when the Advanced Book Exchange introduces new charges to booksellers on April 3.

For those collectors of Ronson lighters and Guinness Memorabilia who were unable to make the trip to Yorkshire in person, online bidding was the perfect solution to participate in Tennants sale of Saturday, March 18.

LIVE bidding from ATG's online service the-saleroom.com got off to a smooth start on March 15 at Donnington Priory.

On March 15 Dreweatt Neate are pioneering a live auction online with a difference at their Donnington Priory salerooms near Newbury.

SOTHEBY’S Institute are backing a new web initiative to improve interest and knowledge in art and antiques.

Surrey auctioneers Ewbank are now offering a live online bidding service and held their first such sale on July 7.

Invaluable, the provider of electronic art market intelligence, say it is business as usual despite news that the company is up for sale.

ATG have now updated the search capability of the price guide on www.antiquestradegazette.com, and it is infinitely faster than before.

THE trade are being warned of a new internet scam that risks involving innocent dealers in money laundering – and can leave them with large bills to pay.

More members of the trade than ever are using the internet as a business-getting tool but few are using it effectively.

THE ATG online price guide has notched up more than 500,000 individual prices for items sold at auction.

Responding to requests from auctioneers and site users, the pop-up images on antiquestradegazette.com are now bigger.

A New York jury has ruled in a legal case that has locked the horns of the two biggest names in real-time Internet bidding.

The ATG and many of the UK’s fine art auctioneers have fallen victim to a computer bug that has hit many firms in recent months.

THE gap between the French and American art markets has dramatically widened in the past two years.

THE Conservation Register, which provides detailed information on conservation-restoration practices from across the UK and Ireland, is now available on the Internet.

WHAT should the art world do when the going gets tough? Many in the trade sit back and whine. Others go into battle. Those who do get up from their derrières and practise a little innovation and lots of enthusiasm often do well in the most difficult of periods.

INTERNET enquiries do not always translate into bids but Golding Young (15% buyer's premium) received enquiries from as far afield as India, America and Australia for pieces among the 1100 lots illustrated on their website for their May 5 sale.

THE High Court has barred the former directors of now-bankrupt Interactive Collector Ltd from serving as directors of any British company for a period of seven years.