Every auction platform demos fine. The difference shows up after the sale — in whose bidder list it really is, who keeps a slice of the hammer, and whether you can prove what the consignor agreed to. Here’s the honest comparison, one competitor at a time.
A platform can bring you bidders and still leave you feeling like a tenant — good crowd, but the list and a cut of every hammer belong to the house. Three places that’s genuinely different here.
Bring your bidders to a big marketplace and, as of 2026, they mostly become names on the marketplace’s list. Here the bidder site is branded to you, and you can export the whole list any day of the week. Leave, and you leave with it.
A percentage of every hammer price, gone to the platform, adds up quietly over a year. We never take commission on your hammer — not once. You pay a published monthly rate (Solo $99, Growth $299, Scale $799) and keep the rest.
The fear that the AI makes up a price and burns your name is a fair one — so a second AI checks the first, both put a confidence number on every guess, and it says “I don’t know” on coins, jewelry, and art instead of inventing a figure. You approve every lot. And the consignor’s contract is e-signed and fingerprinted, so when the split gets questioned six weeks later, you can show exactly what they agreed to.
Comparison pages usually stack the deck. This one won’t. Some of these tools do things we don’t, and we’ll say so. Here’s the straight read, head to head.
As of 2026 their bidder pool dwarfs ours, and there’s no arguing that. The question is what happens after the hammer falls: whose list it becomes, and who takes a cut. Often it’s a “both,” not an “either.”
Where you can see what it costs before a sales call, and shoot a lot with your phone instead of typing every field into a form on a Sunday night.
Two current tools that look alike from the outside. Where our no-login capture link, recall checks, and running the whole thing from ChatGPT actually differ — and where they don’t.
As of 2026 the marketplace brings real reach in some verticals — credit where it’s due. The trade is cataloging speed and a bidder list that stays yours, not theirs.
Shoot a few, watch it draft the catalog, run a settlement. 30-day money-back — and if you walk, you walk with your whole bidder list.
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