Overview
- StampAuctionNetwork® is the #1 resource for Stamp Auctions, often the only way to
find and purchase what you are looking for. Since 1994, it has been where you can...
- Bid in Stamp Auctions either before or during the sale.
- Search just about every auction firm in the world and Find what you collect or have an email sent to you when your search matches a new catalog.
- Check our Auction Calendar of upcoming auctions.
- See millions of images of single stamps and collections.
- Translate the entire site into 50 different languages.
- Research past prices realized.
- Read articles about bidding in Stamp Auctions and how they work.
- Narrow your experience using our Channels. For instance only see auction firms you bid with, or just look at French Auction Firms.
- Use our Directory of Auction Companies.
- StampAuctionNetwork® is THE
source of information on Stamp Auctions.
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What is StampAuctionNetwork®?
- StampAuctionNetwork® is the place where traditional auction houses can post their
catalogs and accept bids via the Internet.
StampAuctionNetwork® is not an Auction Firm. You should consider it an extension of
each auction house that is used to collect bids. When you bid with an auction firm
via StampAuctionNetwork®, you are accepting their Terms and Conditions.
- Universal Registration gives bidders at StampAuctionNetwork® the convenience
of a single user name and password with access to bid in any of a number of traditional
auctions by a variety of large and small auction firms.
- Auction Firm Registration sends a request to each auction firm you select,
asking them to enable you to bid in their auctions. They will register you in their
systems, assign you a customer number, and link to your Universal Registration user name.
They do not have access to your password. After you are registered with the auction
firm, you will be able to bid in their auctions.
- Anonymous Bidding. Just as in the traditional auction world, bidder
information is not disclosed at StampAuctionNetwork®. With the possible exception of
paddle numbers, no bidder information, patterns, identifying numbers, handles, etc...
are available to other bidders.
- Privacy Notice. The information we gather about you is only for the purpose
of maintaining your registration at StampAuctionNetwork®. Unless you check the box, "Do
not add me to your mailing list", you will be added to the StampAuctionNetwork® mailing
list. That list is only used by the StampAuctionNetwork® and is not shared with any
third parties. Once you register with an auction firm, your information is passed to
them, you are considered one of the customers, and you may expect to receive emails from
them also. We require that auction firms using the StampAuctionNetwork® will not
provide this registration information to other third parties.
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Types of Auctions at StampAuctionNetwork®
- At StampAuctionNetwork® there are a number of different ways auction firms
can conduct their sales. These are the definitions we use:
- Public Auction. This term is used in the traditional sense. Each lot
is sold one at a time in public, where bidders bid in person. Usually, bids can
be submitted to the auction firm before the sale and entered into the bid book, where
the auction firm will bid on your behalf.
- Live Bidding. The StampAuctionNetwork® term to indicate that bids can
be taken during a Public Auction via StampAuctionNetwork.
- Mail Auction. Also used in the traditional sense, to indicate an auction that
is awarded only to bidders who have submitted their bids by mail, telephone, fax or
email, and of course StampAuctionNetwork.
- Internet Only Auction. An auction where the only bidding occurs via the
Internet using StampAuctionNetwork.
- The "Book" or the "Bidbook". Consists of absentee bids, mail bids, phone bids
or any other type of bids that are submitted to the auction firm to be executed on
the behalf of the bidder by the auction firm. These bids are usually grouped together
by lot number and printed out in whats called the "Bidbook".
- Dynamic Openings. The StampAuctionNetwork® term to indicate that as bids
are entered, SAN recomputes and displays the current winning bid amount.
- Hidden Openings. The StampAuctionNetwork® term to indicate that bids are
taken before a Public Auction, but current winning bid amounts are not provided.
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