The Dlala Notebooks

Guides to understand online auctions, read a lot page, and prepare a sale when you are an auction house.

For collectors

Online auctions: how a sale works
Timed and live sales, your account, bidding and the end of a sale: what to know before you bid.
Estimate, starting price and reserve price
Three different prices around a lot: what each one means, and what it does not.
Reading a lot page and a condition report
Description, maker, period, dimensions, condition report: what a lot page contains and how to read it before you bid.

For auction houses

Auction houses: preparing an online sale
From an object's consignment to the published catalogue: the steps of an online sale, and what Dlala's professional workspace handles.