Guidelines and Costs for Submissions to
StampAuctionNetwork

Why your auctions should be at StampAuctionNetwork.

• Increase traffic to your website. We will send an announcement of your sale to 25,000 Stamp Auction Bidders!
• Increase sales in your auctions through increased participation from StampAuctionNetwork bidders and underbidders. You get access to over 16,000 registered bidders who spend real money!
• Increase the recognition of your auctions. Your sale will be promoted at the #1 web site for stamp auctions, right along with and equal to every other stamp auction, from small to big. StampAuctionNetwork is where stamp collectors go to see new auctions, bid at auction, and track results at auction. You need to be there!
• Increase your Search Engine Exposure. StampAuctionNetwork is positioned #1 at Goggle and Yahoo when searching for "Stamp Auctions" in non-sponsored results. When you advertise at StampAuctionNetwork, you gain the benefit of our top positioning. Search Engine results are increasingly measured by relevancy, which can result in your own web sites' positioning rise solely due to its presence at StampAuctionNetwork.
• Instructions for How to List your First Sale

Accomplishments

• 1994 - First to offer complete auction catalogs on the Internet
• 1994 - First to offer complete prices realized from a major auction firm on the Internet
• 1994 - First major presence for Auctions on the Internet
• 1997 - First fully Illustrated auction by a major auction firm
• 1997 - First to log over 10,000 visits in a month
• 1998 - First complete US Collection offered on the Internet - Zoellner Sale
• 1998 - First to reach over 1 Million Lots offered on the Internet
• 1998 - First to reach over 500 complete Auction Catalogs on the Internet
• 1999 - Received the highest award for any auction related Internet site for the 2 first Internet Competitions.
• 1999 - First to reach over 2 Million Lots offered on the Internet with 1,000 catalogs offered
• 2000 - Dynamic Interactive Bidding started
• 2000 - Live Internet Bidding Introduced - First conducted at Nutmeg's Confederate sale
• Fall 2005 - Live Internet Bidding accepted by Stamp Auction Industry
• Fall 2006 - Live Internet bidding passed $1 Million in one month
• Spring 2007 - Live Internet bidding passed $3 Million in one day!
• to date - over 80 different auction firms have posted complete catalogs at StampAuctionNetwork
• to date - over $1.5 billion offered at auction. (More than twice the estimated revenue for eBAY in the same period.)
• to date - we maintain the most comprehensive auction calendar.
• most comprehensive auction directory (over 300 entries worldwide).
• and the most complete linked list to auction firms with web sites (over 180)

• $1200.
• Internet Only. 5% of sales - minimum of $600.
• In-Line Images - Call for pricing.

Includes Auction Management Software (AMS) - $6,000 annual fee waived for 1st six months. AMS includes easy interfaces to your own systems. Variety of auction formats to choose from. Mail, Public, Internet, Dynamic Close, Fixed Close, Retail Close, Delayed Close, Live Public Auction, more.... We are the leading software vendor to Stamp Auction Firms and we will get you set up right.

• Offer up to $500,000 - no lot limit - $600
  
• Offer up to 1 million - no lot limit - $900
  
• Offer over 1 million - no lot limit - $1,200
  

1. Using "Camera-Ready" Software by Droege Computing Services. This is the best, fastest method and produces the most consistent web pages. (NO SETUP Fee Charged)

2. Provide data on diskette in DBF format. Data must be provided in DBF formatted files according to the HTML and Database Specifications. Call if you have any questions about what should go in any of the fields (they should be fairly self explanatory) You must include one record in the profiles.dbf, any category codes that you are using, and 1 record for each item in the catalog file. See the end of this message for basic DBF formats. ($150 Setup Fee -- may be waived if you do a good job).
   

3. Provide Web Pages to our specifications. See sample Web pages that follow. ($150 Setup Fee -- may be waived if you do a good job) HTML and Database Specifications
   

4. Provide your own web pages. HTML and Database Specifications
   

5. As a direct link to your catalog as stored at another web site. Fill out this form Auction Calendar Submission Form.

6. You provide ASCII files or another format for which we must convert or reformat. ($150 - $400 Setup Fee depending on the amout of work we must do).

If you do the Scanning: Files should be saved as GIF or JPG files and copied to a DOS formatted zip disk or CD. Files should be named "9999.gif" or "9999.jpg" where 9999 is the lot number. Do not 0 fill (ie 279.gif not 0279.gif. Final Stamp image size should be in the 10K to 30K range. Final Cover image size should be in the 40K to 70K range.

If we do the scanning: Provide the best quality color photographs, xeroxs, or prints as possible. Specify very clearly which lots are to be imaged and linked to your catalog.