Foreign bulletin boards and online auctions. Russian auctions, the best selection for the right choice

Are you not satisfied with the eBay online auction and are you looking for an alternative? You are lucky, we are ready to present to your attention the largest online auctions in the world and more

Hello dear friends. Today we will talk about online auctions and earnings on them. There are a dime a dozen auctions on the World Wide Web, and their number is growing every day. But finding worthy projects that have been around for a long time, where people from all over the world trade (and, therefore, it will be easier to turn goods into money) and so that they are allowed to sell goods from the CIS, is not an easy task.

Of course, as in any market there is a monopolist, so in the Internet auction market there is an undisputed leader. He is none other than the world famous - eBay. However, despite the popularity of this online auction, there are quite a few dissatisfied. This is due to a not very ideal product search system, various restrictions and, in general, the often incomprehensible policy that the auction leads. For this and not only the reason, people are looking for some kind of alternative.

That is why today I will not tell you how to make money on online auctions, what are the best products to sell, etc. Today I will present to your attention a list of the largest online auctions in the world, which really do everything for you to sell your product.

Top Online Auctions

1. Etsy.

3 Artfire.

4. Bidstart.

5. Ebid.

6. Offer.

The list turned out to be small and maybe others would add a few more projects here, but I advise you these auctions and believe me, for good reason.

All of the above sites are in English and this is the first problem (of course, this is not a problem for everyone) that you will encounter. The Google Chrome browser will help you solve it, in which it is possible to translate pages into Russian (see the screen below), although it does not translate very accurately, but you can catch the essence of what is written, and this will be quite enough.

Now, about people who are completely satisfied with eBay, good with sales, etc. You probably read the article and thought that you wasted your time and you don’t need this list in FIG. Here you are a little mistaken, as you never know what kind of force majeure situation is waiting for you around the corner, especially when dealing with a foreign auction. They block the account, they don’t really explain the reason, and you won’t prove anything to anyone. That's when you will look for such a list of alternative online auctions.

Basically, that's all I wanted to tell you today. If you have questions, then leave them in the comments. , there is still a lot of useful information ahead. and get cash prizes!

“People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."

(With) Zig Ziglar

Sooner or later, every numismatist faces the question of where and how it is more profitable to sell or buy a coin. Of course, the easiest way is to go to the market, to the numismatic store or to the places where collectors gather. But this was true 20 years ago - today auctions are leading, including those held on the Internet.

Of course, in this case (as in any other) there may be a risk of buying a fake, so we conducted a study and prepared a review of the most famous and reputable auctions.

Coin store "IMPERIAL"

It all started in 2001, when the first full-fledged printed catalog of coins with prices appeared, released by the Konros publishing house. At the same time, the auction house was going to start developing its own Internet site, but at first it remained not particularly visited for a long time. At that time, the first large Russian Internet trading platform molotok.ru (now closed) ruled the Internet. Finally, by the end of 2002, after a series of weekly online auctions, https://auction.conros.ru/ became a truly sought-after and popular resource among numismatists.

Today, all coins offered by Konros as lots, and after the sale, go to the new owner with a guarantee of authenticity from the trading house. Today, this Internet resource gathers about 2500-3000 unique Internet users every day, which indicates its relevance and popularity.

To participate in the auction, you need to register, indicating the exact postal address with an index and a contact phone number, after checking the data, you will be given the opportunity to bid on the current auction. The commission from the buyer is 10-15% of the price of the lot at the end of the auction, the seller is charged 15% of the sale price of the lot. In addition to weekly Internet auctions, Konros also conducts monthly and semi-annual (the latter are held in St. Petersburg) auctions.

Auction «Wolmar»

It offers 2 types of auctions: VIP - for investment, rare, collectible coins, as well as awards and medals (the cost of the lot is over 1000 rubles). For inexpensive coins of different countries and periods, Standard auctions are organized. In both cases both the seller and the buyer are charged a commission of 10%. You can also sell antiques here - separate auctions are organized for this.

Auction "Efimok"

Volmar's main rival is also operating since 2006.

He held more than 180 auctions, to participate in the auction you need to be over 18 years old and pre-register on the website www.efimok.ru, be sure to indicate a contact phone number and postal address. The final price of the lot includes the cost, commission (10%) and postage.

Auction "Hermes"

Working on the Internet since 2010 and very well established among numismatists.

Auction "Numismatist"

Internet project www.numismat.ru also holds auctions for more than 90 times.

Here they accept materials for bidding 2.5 months before they are held, after which a very high-quality color catalog of lots is prepared. The commission is 15% of the total cost of the lot reached as a result of the auction. You can also sell medals here.

Auction «NumizRus»

The price of the lot includes the maximum bid, commission (10%) and shipping costs. You can pay and pick up the won lot at the Moscow office. Delivery is carried out only on the territory of the Russian Federation. Lots are sent to the buyer after 100% prepayment, and the costs of transferring money for the purchased lots are borne by the buyer.

Auction «RusNumismat»

Also, auctions, and not only on the Internet, are held by LLC " Russian Numismatic House» (www.rusnumismat.ru) - not only coins, desktop medals and banknotes are put up for sale, but also awards, antiques and old and rare books.

More than 40 auctions have already been held, for participation in which you need to go through a free registration and pay a commission fee based on the results of the auction - it is 5-10 percent and is charged both from the buyer and from the seller.

Good old "Molotok" (now closed)

A popular trading platform that also exhibits collectibles (coins, medals, bonds) is molotok.ru.

This is one of the very first and largest online trading platforms, which began its activities back in 2000. However, despite the huge popularity, here the risk of running into a fake is higher than that of highly specialized sites.

Other auctions

In addition, it is worth mentioning that many large Internet resources for numismatists, in addition to those indicated, also have their own shops and coin auctions - these are Russian Coin, the newspaper Treasure Detector and Gold Miner, and others.

Among the “live” (outside the Internet) auctions from the house “Alexander”, the company “Coins and Medals”, the company “Gelos” can be noted - they are held both in Russia (the first two) and in Europe (“Gelos”).

The most famous in the USA are Dmitry Markov's auctions("Markov"), held annually in early January - it is here that the prices for Russian coins for the whole year are determined. By the way, they usually coincide with one of the main events in the world of numismatics - the International Numismatic Show, held in New York.

Today, unlike in the 80s or 90s of the last century, buying or selling a coin is not a problem. Abroad, almost every numismatic store has its own auction, and today Russian portals have picked up this trend, which indicates the active development of the coin business in the country. If you want to sell coins yourself, then watch the video tutorial on how to do it.

Now it is already difficult to imagine how the search for buyers took place in those days when the global network had not yet brought us as close to each other as it was possible. However, in some aspects, people remain old-fashioned and valuable things (at least those that they consider valuable) to this day. We will get to know the ten most popular of them below.

1 Christie's - the most luxurious

Christie's has long been at the top of the list of world leaders in luxury goods auctions. 43 countries, twice as many offices, two headquarters in London and New York and the largest offline auction revenue in Europe, in the billions of dollars.

2 ebay - the most electronic

You may not find celebrity jewelry or priceless art here, but you can buy just about anything on ebay. Where, for example, could you buy the very first Superman comic book? Only here. And, moreover, the electronic nature of the auction does not interfere with transactions of millions: the same Superman was sold for 3.2 million dollars.

3 Tsukiji - the most odorous

You can, as they say, turn your nose, but the Tokyo fish auction is also hugely famous! And the stakes here are serious. Just a few months ago, a 212-kilogram tuna sold here fell short of $1 million, and in 2013, an even larger fish was sold for $1.7 million.

4 Heritage Auctions - the most diverse

The world's largest auction, which sells a wide variety of collectibles, is located in Dallas (Texas, USA). Bidding takes place both online and offline, and the auction house sells art, antiques, books, coins, banknotes and stamps, comics and everything related to them, site names, rights, music, posters, entertainment items, jewelry and accessories, meteorites, minerals, sports collections, houses, wine and many other things.

The world's largest art dealer is known for the scandals that accompany its activities. Price collusion with Christie's was no match for the storm that erupted in 1997, when it was revealed that some of the items sold at auction were, to put it bluntly, of dubious provenance. After that, there were more copyright scandals, but it seems that in recent years Sotheby's has decided to live honestly.

6 Poly International Auction Company - the largest

And here we have the largest auction house of art in the world, formed in 2005, selling mainly Asian art. The company is headquartered in Beijing and, although it has far fewer offices than Christie's or Sotheby's, the company's revenues far exceed those of these 300-year-old auction houses.

7 Copenhagen auction is the most hated

The fur trade in recent years has earned a huge mass of negativity that comes from public figures protesting against the industrial keeping of fur animals. But protests are protests, and the fur auction in Copenhagen remains the largest place where furs are traded, and they trade quite successfully. At each auction, at least 7 million mink skins are sold, not to mention other types of fur.

8 Mecum auctions - the most driven

Up to 1000 cars are sold at a time at the Mecum auction, known as the largest in America, and maybe in the world. Auctions take place in major US cities such as Las Vegas, so buying a luxury car is a good reason to travel.

9 Drouot - the oldest

One of the most famous auctions in the world - Drouot (Drouot) - is also the oldest. It is not surprising that during its existence it has acquired its own newspaper (and now a website, of course), and is located in a hotel called Drouot-Richelieu, on Drouot Street.

10 Silk Road is the most illegal

The most famous darknet marketplace, Silk Road, traded in a variety of prohibited goods until 2013, when it was covered by the FBI. But after the closure, of course, other sites came to its place, where illegal auctions take place. They sell accounts, trade secrets and much more dangerous things here.

The purpose of an online auction is not to sell, but to bring buyers and sellers together. Online auctions provide a convenient sales channel for individual traders and small companies. Large companies also use auctions to quickly sell the goods accumulated in the warehouse. Online auctions can be used for test sales to determine initial demand and market price for a new product.

Usually, when talking about online auctions, they mean private Internet commerce, referred to as C2C - Customer-to-Customer, but if the seller is a company, they also use the B2C - Business-to-Customer designation. The government can also be a seller at an online auction (G2C Government-to-Customer model), for example, the US Treasury sold government bonds at an online auction.

The largest trading platform in the world. Ebay was founded on September 4, 1995 in San Jose (California) by programmer Pierre Omidyar.

The main idea of ​​eBay is to provide sellers with an online platform to sell any product. The eBay company itself acts only as an intermediary in the conclusion of the contract of sale between the seller and the buyer. Payment for the goods and its shipment takes place without the participation of eBay. Sellers pay a fee to use the platform, usually consisting of a listing fee and a percentage of the sale price. For buyers, using eBay is free.

Since eBay's profits directly depend on the volume of sales made using this platform, quite liberal conditions apply on it. Any goods and services that do not violate the laws of the country in which the corresponding eBay affiliate is registered and are not blacklisted by eBay are allowed for sale.

The second largest auction in the world. The company was founded in 1994 by American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, and the site was launched in 1995. The company is named after the Amazon River, the deepest in the world. Initially, the site only sold books.

The largest online auction, has a wide representation on all continents of the world, millions of registered users in many countries of Asia, Europe, Africa, America. The scale is second only to eBay. The auction site is multilingual (upper right corner of the page in desktop view), but there is no Russian support yet. Despite the fact that the auction positions itself as eBid vs. eBay, opposing even in the name, yet it is more a copy of the auction leader than an innovative bidding scheme. However, there are differences, but to understand where is better and what is worse, you need to work on both resources.

When you visit the site, you immediately understand what lots are being traded here: paintings by old masters and modern authors, antique objects, antique bronzes, exclusive porcelain, unique jewelry, gold, diamonds, products of oriental craftsmen from Asia, India and the Middle East. In a word, luxury items. Pleasantly pleased with the presence of support for the Russian language, however, there is a section of Russian art. Auction items are only authentic and, accordingly, very expensive. Everything for true connoisseurs.

Catawiki

European Mega Auction. Founded in 2008 in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 2010, Kataviki received the prestigious Accenture Innovations Award for his innovative web auction concept. The auction site is not only trading in numerous categories of lots, but also a platform for communication of collectors of various directions from all over the world, mainly works of art, antiques, various antiquities, rare cars, jewelry, postage stamps, coins and bonds, as well as various exclusive items . The site is multilingual, but there is no Russian support yet. You can log in to Catawiki using your Facebook social network account.

Polish platform for electronic trading of the world's largest auction portal. Allegro is the strongest European competitor to American online retailers Amazon and eBay. Millions of lots, thousands of trade transactions daily, sections of the portal are auctions of electronics, real estate, clothes and shoes, sections for collectors, motorists, antique dealers.

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One of the oldest American auctions. Classic categories and options, maybe a little outdated compared to other sites, but for conservative auctioneers, this is what you need. The categories are also classic: postage stamps, postcards, bijouterie, bonds, coins, medals, tokens, badges, photographs, engravings, porcelain, faience, bronze, glasses, all kinds of baubles and knick-knacks. Of course, household appliances, telephones, televisions, radios, furniture, clothing, musical instruments, records, DVDs, set-top boxes, books, etc. and so on.

Bid or Buy

South African online-auction of the universal direction. In terms of popularity, it is second only to eBay and eBid affiliates, however, as in most countries, purely national sites lose to auction giants from the United States. The scheme, interface and functionality of the site are built on a completely classical scheme. The number of lots is more than 100 thousand.

Heritage

All-American auction house Heritage. Huge number of lots. Users are offered the Heritage Life application, this software allows you to participate in Heritage auctions online, via the Internet. The main direction of the lots is art objects from classical works to modern products of the American mass media, coins, antiques, all kinds of out-of-category exclusive items, things, products, devices.

Karl&Faber

Carl & Feber, the oldest antique auction house in Europe, is on a par with such auction houses as Christie's and Sotheby's. On the site you can see the lots offered at offline auctions, and you can register and take part online via the Internet. The lots of this auction are paintings by old Dutch, Spanish, Flemish, Russian masters, as well as masterpieces of modern and postmodern painting.

The largest online platform in Belarus for the sale and purchase of goods. Electronic auctions of goods and things: electronic and household appliances, books, music, photographic equipment, video, cell phones, computers, tablets, iPhones, iPads, players, music, movies, children's toys, commemorative collectible coins, vintage blocks, clothes, furniture, antiques, samovars, rare enamel, antiques and collectibles, art gizmos, figurines, vases, interior items, graphics, sculptures, photography, painting, porcelain, crystal, glass, bronze, jewelry, real estate, plots, bijouterie, numismatics, philately, postcards. Trade via the Internet.

In the current conditions of the development of the global network by leaps and bounds, international Internet auctions have begun to gain immense popularity. And this is no accident, because such an offer is not just tempting - it really attracts with its benefits. Internet auctions of the world have long found their audience, and every day this audience is only increasing and increasing.

Sources: http://a-cto.narod.ru, uic.unn.ru, belmarket.by, wikipedia.com

The material was prepared by a 3rd year student, gr. DGZ, Aksenevich Anna.

The popularity of online auctions is due to several factors:
- the opportunity to buy goods, the variety of which is not limited to the assortment of the retail network;
- rather low prices compared to the cost of a similar product in stores;
- the possibility of buying rare and exclusive goods;
- Excitement and satisfaction from the conclusion of the transaction.

Among the registered users of online auctions there are not only professional sellers, but also those for whom the sale or purchase of goods on the Internet is analogous to going to a thrift store. Russian users prefer both foreign and domestic online auctions.

The advantage of working with foreign sites is a larger number of participants, and Russian auctions attract with a clear interface and low shipping costs due to the absence of customs costs.

The most popular foreign online auctions

The most popular platform for buying and selling goods on the Internet is Ebay.com. This is not only the first site of its kind in the world, but also the largest audience to date. In many countries, including Russia, the company has representative websites, through which you can read the descriptions of goods in translation.

Also one of the oldest and most popular online auctions is Amazon.com, where purchases can be made both directly and through intermediaries. The site combines the properties of an auction and a classic online store.

No less successful among Russians are online auctions specializing in the sale of Chinese goods. The most popular Chinese auction site is Taobao.com, which allows you to purchase good quality goods at domestic prices.

Since the registration process on Taobao.com requires the number of one of the Chinese mobile operators, and descriptions can only be read using an online translator, a large number of intermediary sites have arisen.

The most popular Russian online auctions

The leader of the Russian segment of online sales is the Molotok.ru auction. Although the number of registered users is significantly inferior to giants like Ebay, this site in most cases allows you to successfully find the right product at an affordable price, or you can act as a seller yourself.

In addition to the leading auction, domestic users use the services of such sites as Meshok.ru, Astra24 and 24au.ru. Despite being less popular, quite exclusive lots can be found on these sites.