Sold Auctions

Once your account is approved to create auctions, you'll see a "Make an Auction" button at the top of this page. When you click that, you'll be able to add important information about the product you're selling including the name, description, starting price, desired end time, and upload an image of your product.

If the auction uses Escrow with Raremarq, the buyer is expected to remit payment within 24 hours of the auction ending. Once payment is in Escrow, the seller will be notified that they can ship the order. Once the piece is delivered, the buyer has up to 48 hours to report any issues. If Raremarq does not hear from the buyer or the buyer confirms the order is delivered without issues, the seller will receive a deposit of their funds from escrow. To learn more about guidelines for buying and selling, click here

If you're a Pro subscriber and you choose to handle payment outside of Raremarq, then the owner of the auction and the winner of the auction will get an email containing each other's contact information at the end of the auction. The two parties can then email one another to close the deal however they like. Since payment is handled outside of Raremarq, we are not responsible for payment, delivery, and/or a successful transaction to occur. We strongly recommend you do your own due diligence before moving forward with payment and delivery. Please do not ask Raremarq to moderate a transaction or disagreement that might occur as we are not responsibile for a successful transaction to occur.

Once you've created a Raremarq account, you can start bidding on auctions. You do not need a paid subscription to bid, and all bids are binding. If you are the winning bidder and you are unable to make payment, your account will be at risk of getting frozen for violating our terms of service.

We want to make it as easy as possible for buyers to bid and win. This is why we have our easy slide-to-bid button that allows you to bid the next increment with the swipe of your finger. We use increments to make it easier for you to bid and also prevent situations where a piece is $6,000 and someone keeps bidding above you by $1. Our bidding increments are:

• Below $30: $1
• $30 - $50: $2
• $50 - $99: $3
• $100 - $299: $5
• $300 - $999: $10
• $1000 - $1999: $20
• $2000 or more: $50

To see more about our bidding increments, you can read more at this blog post.

Our auctions have a rolling close, allowing more fans to win! So, if anyone bids in the last 5 minutes of an auction ending, we'll add 30 seconds to the end time so that the auction keeps going.

There are three key things that make auctioning on Raremarq unique

1. We extend the auction by 30 seconds when bids are made near the end of the auction. This allows bidders more changes to win and helps sellers earn more for their art.

2. Our seller fees range from 2.5-6% versus 10-20% from the other platforms. This means more money goes back to the seller's pocket.

3. There are no buyer premiums on Raremarq.

If the auction uses Escrow with Raremarq, the buyer is expected to remit payment within 24 hours of the auction ending. Once payment is in Escrow, the seller will be notified that they can ship the order. The seller is expected to add the shipping tracking information as soon as they have it. Once the piece is delivered, the buyer has up to 48 hours to report any issues. If Raremarq does not hear from the buyer or the buyer confirms the order is delivered without issues, the seller will receive a deposit of their funds from escrow. To learn more about guidelines for buying and selling, click here

If you're a Pro subscriber and you choose to handle payment outside of Raremarq, then the owner of the auction and the winner of the auction will get an email containing each other's contact information at the end of the auction. The two parties can then email one another to close the deal however they like. Since payment is handled outside of Raremarq, we are not responsible for payment, delivery, and/or a successful transaction to occur. We strongly recommend you do your own due diligence before moving forward with payment and delivery. Please do not ask Raremarq to moderate a transaction or disagreement that might occur as we are not responsibile for a successful transaction to occur.

If the auction uses Escrow with Raremarq, the buyer is expected to remit payment within 24 hours of the auction ending. Once payment is in Escrow, the seller will be notified that they can ship the order. The seller is expected to add the shipping tracking information as soon as they have it. Once the piece is delivered, the buyer has up to 48 hours to report any issues. If Raremarq does not hear from the buyer or the buyer confirms the order is delivered without issues, the seller will receive a deposit of their funds from escrow. To learn more about guidelines for buying and selling, click here

If you're a Pro subscriber and you choose to handle payment outside of Raremarq, then the owner of the auction and the winner of the auction will get an email containing each other's contact information at the end of the auction. The two parties can then email one another to close the deal however they like. Since payment is handled outside of Raremarq, we are not responsible for payment, delivery, and/or a successful transaction to occur. We strongly recommend you do your own due diligence before moving forward with payment and delivery. Please do not ask Raremarq to moderate a transaction or disagreement that might occur as we are not responsibile for a successful transaction to occur.

Escrow with Raremarq is our new service that allows buyers to bid and sellers to ship with confidence. When an auction using Escrow to handle payment, an email is sent to the seller and winning bidder of the auction when the auction is finished. The buyer will then deposit funds into Escrow using one of our payment options. Once we've confirmed we have the funds, the seller can ship the order, and once the order is delivered, the seller receives their funds assuming the buyer does not report an issue. With Escrow, you can focus more on buying and selling art and less on weeding out fraudsters and scammers.

If an seller is on the Pro plan, they can list an auction and choose to figure out payment with a buyer off Raremarq, and those auctions do not have transaction fees. If a seller is not on the Pro plan, then the auction will use Escrow with Raremarq to handle payment, which does have a small, single-digit transaction fee for this service, which includes handling, securing, and sending funds to protect buyers and sellers. Visit our Membership Benefits page to learn more.

Yes! If you click "Add to Watchlist" or bid on an auction, we will send you alerts for that auction. Some alerts include outbid alerts if you were recently outbid on an auction and an alert sent about one hour before the auction ends. If you're on our Free plan, your alerts will be emailed to you, and if you're on one of our paid subscriptions, we can also text you auction alerts.

Auctions on Raremarq is for verified sellers only. If you would like to apply for verification, please fill out this form and tell us more about yourself.

Check out our "How Raremarq Works" page which should answer more questions. If you have more questions, email us at [email protected]!