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Information for Buyers
Art Brokerage was designed to make buying and selling fine art safe and easy. We sell original paintings, limited edition prints, sculptures, and jewelry from more than 1000 artists including Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Frederick Hart and Ed Ruscha and 1000 more artists. Buyers may register to receive real time market alerts of new classified listings for up to 20 artists of your choice at no charge. There is no buyers premium. Art Brokerage protects both the seller and the buyer. Purchasing on the secondary market is safe and easy. If you are aprehensive about purchasing on the Internet, we will refer you to other satisfied clients and provide references when we are ready to formalize a sale. Art Brokerage would like you to work with us on a long term basis. Buyers reserve the right to inspect their purchase fully before Art Brokerage will release funds to the seller. Buyers pay shipping, sellers pay packing and crating costs. Sellers are responsible for shipping fees when the buyer rejects the sale due to non-disclosed damage. Browsing images and purchasing fine art from Art Brokerage is EASY and there are no subscription fees! Looking at artwork is educational and fun... just follow the three easy steps! (Click To Open)Step 1. Browse and Search the Art Brokerage site
To browse our site click on the A-Z bar located across the top of each page, then scroll down the page alphabetically by last name until you find the correct artist. On each artists page there will be a menu across the top which allows you view our listings in 5 different formats including normal, condensed, thumbnail, slideshow, and a printer friendly view. In addition many artists have biographies and catalogue raisonne pages.
To search for a specific piece by an artist please type in the artist's last name and the title of the piece in the search bar located in the upper right corner of every page. You may also search for keywords like landscape, oil on canvas, elephant, sports, or surrealism. If you wish to search listings that are marked must sell please click the check box located next to the search bar. Typically must sell listings will have a lower than wholesalel asking price. You may also click on the advanced search tab for more options. Use the slideshow option to quickly scroll through photos of available listings for a particular artist. You can also search the slideshows by original paintings, prints, or sculptures for artists with many listing,s by clicking on the appropriate slideshow link underneath each medium heading on the artist's page. (Click To Open)Step 2. Purchasing art work
To make an offer or request more information on art listed on our site please click the PURCHASE button located on our artist and photo pages. This links the buyer and seller info and submits your query into our database for our sales directors to review. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE AN OFFER OR TO GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED. An email offer will not be answered. Please ask your questions by using the purchase request form. Our team of sales directors handle purchase requests 7 days a week. In many cases we will respond in real time. If you are a serious buyer please state so in your request and be sure to give us your phone number and time zone. Please review the listings before asking any questions. Our listing staff works hard to provide as much information as possible. When you submit a purchase request you are registered into our database as a buyer. When our staff has reviewed and answered your purchase request you will be notified via email, at which point a link will be provided for you to login to your account and view our reply. After the initial request is made you will need to login to your account to view and reply to our messages regarding your transaction. Art Brokerage will never trade, share, or sell your information to any 3rd party. Your information will only be used to contact you in reference to your inquiry, we respect your privacy. (Click To Open)Step 3. Payment and arranging shipping of your new art
Buyers are responsible for shipping costs, sellers are responsible for packing/crating costs. Please do not ask us or the seller to pay for shipping. We will assist the seller with packing and crating to make sure the art arrives to you safely. Buyers who need additional time to inspect artwork or to have a third party inspect artwork must make such arrangements prior to finalizing the transaction and shipping. Art Brokerage welcomes international transactions. We ship to more than 220 countries and territores. Please note, there will be an additional fee for processing international shipping paperwork. Buyers are responsible for all customs, taxes and duties, please check your country's applicable laws. We accept credit cards up to $10,000.00, over $10,000 must be paid by wire or check. For more information on international shipping and rates please visit UPS.
(Click To Open)Buyer FAQ - Below you will find answers to common questions
1. I would like to purchase art from your site but the asking price is more than I am willing to pay 2. If I purchase from the site who pays for the shipping? packing? 4. I am a serious buyer and would like to make an offer on multiple listings, do I have to fill out the form each time? 5. I am a serious buyer and would rather speak on the phone? Where can I find your phone #? 6. Are there any additional fees beyond the asking price of the artwork and the shipping? 7. Do I have to register with your site if I want to buy? (Click To Open)Additional information for buyers and sellers
In the last 10 years Art Brokerage has handled many transactions over $100,000 and up to $1,000,000. YES! High end artwork is now being sold via the internet. At this level it becomes highly personal. We are available for curating and liquidating personal and corporate collections. We have a private section for very high end artwork which is not available to the search engines.
We will do everything for you except determine the value of your art. Art Brokerage will handle the entire transaction and assist you with shipping. We act as the escrow for the art and collect the funds before we have asked you to ship the art. Art Brokerage will provide bank and client references when a sale has been consummated. Art Brokerage does not have the staff to assist with pricing. Please remember it is not up to us to determine the value of your art. We are not appraisers. It is our goal to sell your art. This policy is in place because if we price the art too high and it does not sell the sellers get upset. If we price it too low and it sells too quickly the seller will think we priced it too low. This creates a conflict of interest for us. For more information please read through our pricing guide. Art Brokerage will allow you to list your art for free but we ask that you be willing to sell your art at fair market value, and not at retail gallery prices. Realistic pricing is what makes our site the number one fine art classifieds site on the web. If you are trying to sell at retail prices...you should not list. There is a 20% commission on all sales above our minimum of $5,000. Anything priced below $5,000 will be sold with a 25% commission. We do not accept listings with a fair market asking price below $3,000. You may see a few listings below this price...these are for clients who have a long term relationship with us, before we changed our policy. Art Brokerage has 50 years experience in the art business and 13 years with a web presence. (Click To Open)Contact
For technical listing support with any of our site features please email thomas@artbrokerage.com
If you have art you wish to sell and have related questions please contact artsales@artbrokerage.com |
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