Other On-line Catalogue Services
Catalogue Host’s service is complementary to those of Invaluable and the Antiques Trade Gazette. These two companies offer users simultaneous access to thousands of catalogues from auction houses around the world. Their aim is to increase the number of visitors to their own sites and gain subscribers for their paid services; auctioneers benefit in that their catalogues are exposed to a wider than usual audience.
Catalogue Host serves an entirely different need, offering auctioneers the prestige and practical benefits of having interactive catalogues on their own web site. An auction house is no longer in the position of being forced to send users who wish to view sale catalogues away from their own web site to another company’s site.
Some other services are tied to particular auction-management software products. Catalogue Host offers superior features and is available to any auctioneer.