Anyone can launch an auction on Memorabid: a collector, a private or professional seller, a company, a club or a charity organization. Our team of experts will guide you to the collaboration path that best fits your profile, your requirements and your goals.
Memorabid offers a constantly renewed selection of the best memorabilia, promoted and guaranteed by the platform. Alongside it, any supplier can upload their own auction for an item or an experience, from a PC or a phone, using our technology, our know-how and the visibility of a platform that brings together collectors from all over the world.
The fee is a percentage of the winning bid and is charged to the seller, never to the buyer. You decide how much to hand over to us.
You submit your lots to Memorabid and we handle every step of putting them up for auction.
You publish your listing in the Marketplace Auctions section and manage every step on your own.
In both cases Memorabid adds 3% to the fee to cover the processing costs of digital payments (buyers can also pay with PayPal), plus VAT as required by law.
Move the slider to the winning bid and pick a plan.
Assumptions: a 15% or 10% fee plus 3% processing costs, both on the winning bid; 22% Italian VAT applied to the fee and processing costs. This is an estimate: the terms of your agreement with Memorabid prevail.
= Exactly the same amount: no buyer's premium
On Memorabid there is no buyer's premium or any other service fee charged to the customer: the winning bid is exactly what the winner pays, plus only shipping and mandatory insurance.
Competing platforms typically charge a 20% commission to the seller, plus a 15% service fee, for a total that exceeds 35%. Even when the fee is presented as paid by the customer, it is money that comes out of your sale: when the customer pays more to the platform, you receive less.
Out of €100 spent by the buyer, how much reaches the seller (excluding VAT)
How we get to €69.57: with a 15% service fee paid by the buyer, €100 spent equals a winning bid of €86.96; minus the 20% seller commission, €69.57 is left. For Memorabid: €100 minus the fee (15% or 10%) and 3% processing costs.
When customers find out only at checkout that they must add a service fee, they may feel frustrated and give up, and the whole sale collapses. Time lost for you and for them.
This almost never happens here, as you know. No surprises at checkout: second thoughts are kept to a minimum and sales go through.
The competitors' model, even when it looks cheaper, hides extra costs that lower the final value of the auction. Even when the fee is charged to the customer, the seller is the one who pays it.
For charity auctions, Memorabid's ethical choice is to give the entire amount to the charity organization: only the service fee is deducted, with no exceptions. Sometimes Memorabid waives that too and gives the full proceeds to the charity, as part of its corporate social responsibility.
Memorabid is not just a charity auction house, but it is also a charity auction house, with full transparency: if an auction reads "Charity auction supporting…", at least 85% of the proceeds go to the charity.
MemorabidNOW is our silent auction technology: guests bid from their phones, screens in the room tell every bid, and the world can challenge the room online.
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Tell us what you or your organization would like to auction, add your social media links if you like, and tell us as much as possible about yourself. Our team reviews every request and gets back to you with the best path.
We will review it and get back to you at the email address you gave us, with the best path for your lots.
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Meanwhile, see how Memorabid worksThere are no fixed costs. You pay a fee only if the lot sells: 15% with the all-inclusive service, 10% in the Marketplace section. In both cases 3% is added for digital payment processing, plus VAT.
Always the seller. There is no buyer's premium on Memorabid: the winner pays the winning bid plus shipping and mandatory insurance.
14 days after the winning buyer has received the item, net of fee, processing costs and VAT. We pay sellers by bank transfer on the 1st and 16th of each month.
Memorabid Auctions (gold) are promoted and authenticated by the auction house, with the lots already in our warehouse. Marketplace Auctions (light blue) are uploaded by sellers and approved by our team before going live. Read how they work.
With the all-inclusive service the lot is already with us. With the Marketplace, if the lot sells you ship it promptly to Memorabid: our team checks that it matches the listing and sends it to the customer.
Yes. In charity auctions at least 85% of the proceeds go to the charity. For events and gala dinners there is the MemorabidNOW silent auction, at a fixed price and with 100% of the funds raised going to the charity.