PriceMiner™ is a "Value Maximizer" for people who purchase, sell or appraise art, antiques and collectibles. It also serves as a tool for anyone looking to obtain a value for even a single item. Whether your patrons are a collectors, dealers, appraisers or have discovered something in their attic, this is how PriceMiner™; can help!
- Identify items by viewing photos of similar items
- Ascertain current value
- Determine maker or artist
- View items currently for sale matching your patron's search
- Find a venue to sell items
With just a few mouse-clicks patrons get powerful data that helps them price their item correctly and/or pay according to an item's true value. The information your patrons get is based on multiple data sources to ensure the highest accuracy, and best of all PriceMiner does the analysis for them.
Pricing information is currently provided from the following sources:
GoAntiques: Sales information dating back to 1998
eBay: Sales information dating back to Jan 2005
Tias: Sales information dating back to 1998
Here is how it works:
First, search by any combination of keyword, data channel (online auctions
and online retail sites), category, price range, sales date and sold
or unsold items.
From the results that are generated, you can read each description, view images if available and choose which items you would like to add to your analysis. In each analysis, data is displayed in both table and graph format and includes the following analyses:
Price Results (by data channel)
• Number of items in analysis
• Least expensive
• Most expensive
• Low estimate
• High estimate
• Average Price
Historical Price Trend
• Monthly average price
• Same price over time
Categories
• Number of items in each category
• % of total per category
Data Channels
• Number of items in each channel
• % of total per channel