GoAntiques.com Announces PriceMiner(tm)
April 28, 2005 (PRLEAP.COM) Lifestyle News
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Antique buyers, sellers and appraisers now have an online tool to help them accurately price and value items based on consolidated historical data and current asking price. Called PriceMiner™, the Internet tool from GoAntiques.com is a powerful aggregator of pricing information from a variety of internationally recognized sources. By simply keying in attributes of the item you wish to buy, sell or value, PriceMiner performs a search through millions of prices and presents historical pricing information for the same or similar items. In addition, the service analyzes the data for you so you don’t have to sort through massive amounts of numbers.
“PriceMiner is the first product to combine historical data from multiple external sources with GoAntiques.com’s vast archive of merchandise sales information, perform analysis and then present findings on price averages and ranges,” said Jim Kamnikar, GoAntiques.com president and chief executive officer. “Antiques professionals as well as consumers will find PriceMiner to be an unparalleled pricing knowledge tool for accurately assessing the value of antique and collectible merchandise to buy or sell.”
In addition to GoAntiques.com’s historical price information, PriceMiner includes listing results from the vast eBay® historical database and online storefront sales provided by TIAS.com.
Search and sort criteria include price range, category, sale date, data source and currency, with the later being conveniently converted to dollars.
Other PriceMiner features include:
• The ability to use photos to closely match the item you are pricing.
• The option of saving individual searches for later reference.
• Links to merchandise for sale that match the search criteria.
• No-cost use for GoAntiques.com member dealers.
• Convenient subscription program for non-GoAntiques.com members.
PriceMiner subscriptions start at $9.95 a month or can be structured at $99 annually, both for unlimited use. In addition, an affiliate referral program is available that includes providing PriceMiner directly from e-commerce Web sites.
PriceMiner will be demonstrated at the eBay Live! conference and trade show, June 23-25 at the McEnery Conference Center in San Jose, Calif., in the GoAntiques.com booth #532, next to eBay Collectibles.
About GoAntiques.com
With offices in Columbus, Ohio and Yorkshire, England, GoAntiques.com is the largest and only virtual marketplace for art, antiques and collectibles offering an integrated, one-stop solution for storefront and live auction selling plus a host of marketing services for both dealers and buyers.
GoAntiques has developed a distribution network whereby it provides art, antiques and collectibles to AOL Shopping; Yahoo Shopping and BobVila.com. GoAntiques also offers a Wholesale Channel for member dealers looking to sell and source quality merchandise at wholesale prices.
GoAntiques.com offers over 400,000 items from more than 1,700 dealers in 24 countries. GoAntiques.com logs more than 2 million visits and thousands of transactions each month. More than 100,000 people are registered as GoAntiques.com buyers. Visit www.GoAntiques.com regularly for auction updates.