Heritage Auction Galleries

We are proud to provide our Heritage Live!^TM software on all auctions marked as . This software allows you to participate in a live Heritage auction from the comfort of your home or office over the Internet. You will be able to browse and BID LIVE during the auction event against other Internet bidders and floor bidders.

Heritage Live! will be featured on all future Signature Auctions (Grand Format Auctions for Heritage Historical), as well as with all Signature Session. All Signature Auctions offer live streaming audio, and Signature Auctions that take place in Dallas will include live streaming video as well!

To participate, please go to www.HA.com/Live during the live portion of the auction. Just enter your Heritage user name and password, and you can use the new Heritage Live! software to begin bidding. We strongly suggest you leave proxy bids at www.HA.com before the live session in the event either side experiences internet problems during the live auction.

First, a peek at the Heritage Live! interface layout:

1. Choose your auction!
2. The current lot. Watch as these change!
3. Lot Details: The important information about the current lot.
4. Message Log. Watch this to follow the bidding and to see whether you've won the lot.
5. The bid button. Click here to bid Live against the floor!
6. Watch (and listen to) the auction live! Only available for Signature Auctions.
7. Proxy bidding section. Track and place bids on future lots.

To go to Heritage Live!, type in "HA.com/live" into your browser's address window, or simply click on the icon. Sign in using your membership information, then choose the auction you wish to participate in. When you see the icon, the auction is open for bidding.

To bid live, watch as the lots pass, and when an item you like comes up just click on the red Bid Button. Your live bid will be communicated to the auction floor.

Watch the message log to ensure that your live bid was accepted; after all, there may be floor bidders and other HA.com/Live bidders interested in the same lot! When your bid is accepted, a message will appear in your message log stating that your bid was placed. If you are the high bidder, the bid button will change color and tell you that you have the winning bid.

Watch the message log until another bid is placed or the lot is closed. If you win the lot, the message log will automatically tell you!

Heritage Live! is an outstanding way to place a bid during the live portion of a floor auction or Final Session. However, we know that sometimes you may not wish to sit at your computer for a long stretch of time waiting for an item to come up for bidding. To that end, Heritage Live! also offers Proxy bidding, where you can enter a bid to be placed on your behalf once the lot comes up for auction.

To place a proxy bid through Heritage Live!, just scroll down the lot listings for the current session to the item you want. From here, there are two ways to place bids. Similar to traditional batch bidding, you can enter the dollar amount you want to bid in the box next to the appropriate item(s), then click on the "Bid Live/Proxy" button to place your bids.

Or, if you wish to take a closer look at the item before placing your bid, just click on the image or description of the item. This will bring up a small window dedicated to the specific lot. From here, just enter your bid into the "Live/Proxy Bid" box, and click the "Bid Now" button.

You can track your Heritage Live! proxy bids, as well. Just click on the My Bids/Tracked Lots pane to review all of your proxy bids. From here, you can modify or even cancel any Heritage Live! proxy bids at any time before the lot comes up for auction. IMPORTANT: This screen does not show any bids you may have placed through the traditional methods at HA.com. In addition, Heritage Live! proxy bids are not reflected in the Current Bid amount.

Heritage Live! will send the high proxy bid to the auction floor when the lot comes up for auction. Then, watch the lot come up for bidding if you wish. If you're outbid on the floor, you still have the chance to place another bid with one click!

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1. LiveProxy - The LiveProxy feature allows you to quickly and easily enter bids to be placed live before the auction begins (or before the respective lot has come up). These bids can be edited, changed, or deleted up to the time the item goes live. LiveProxy will bid live for you to ensure your bids get through, and if you are outbid while following the auction live, it allows you to continue bidding using the LiveBid button.

2. Last minute bidding insurance - Heritage Live!^TM offers you a "second chance" to win. If you bid on HA.com and you are not winning when Internet bidding closes, you can still win the lot by going to Heritage Live! and either leaving a LiveProxy bid as detailed above or bidding live once the lot opens. If you have the winning Internet bid but are concerned you will get outbid during the live event, you can put in a LiveProxy bid for a higher amount. Or, if you watch the Live auction, you can place your bid directly against the floor. In either case, Heritage Live! has automatic safeguards to prevent you from bidding against yourself! It’s an additional opportunity for you to win even if you don't attend the Live Auction.

3. Extend bid (exclusive to Heritage Live!) - Tired of losing by just one bid increment. Heritage Live! lets you specify that we can increase your bid by one increment if it is necessary to win the lot.

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You may have noticed that the Heritage website is always able to keep track of you once you've logged in. For security reasons, this is done with cookies, small pieces of data that are usually stored as files in your system, but that in this case are stored within your application's memory. For the vast majority of Heritage customers, this works without a hitch.

However, for some people, this system may prevent them from being able to log into the website and using features such as MyBids, MyInvoices, and the Permanent Auction Archives. Most of the time, this will happen because the user's cookie settings are too restrictive. Bidding is NOT affected.

To change your settings on Internet Explorer version 6.0, choose Internet Options from the "Tools" menu. From there click on the "Privacy" tab.

You will see a dial that will allow you to set your cookie privacy settings for all sites. In general, the Heritage site will work if your settings are set to Medium.

If this doesn't work, or if you wish to have more stringent settings and still be able to fully use the Heritage website, click on the "Sites…" button below. Here, enter the website you wish to allow content from, in this particular case, use "HA.com". DO NOT use the "www"! Once you've entered the name of the website, click on "Allow".

The procedure from AOL browsers and from Internet Explorer version 5 is very similar to the above, although you will need to change your settings through the "Security" tab rather than the "Privacy" tab. However, we've found that some people have simply not been able to set their browsers no matter what settings they change, and that Compuserve users are hit particularly hard. In this case, we recommend using a different browser than what you're accustomed to. For example, if you're a Compuserve or AOL user and changing your settings does not work, you can still connect to the Internet normally, but once connected you should use Netscape or Internet Explorer to access the Heritage site.

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In order to make a bid over the internet in any Heritage auction, follow these steps:

1. Log onto HA.com.
2. Search or browse for the lot that you're interested in. You can do this from the HA.com home page, from the Auctions home page, or from the home page for the particular auction you wish to participate in.
3. Click on the link or the photo icon for the lot that you want to bid on.
4. In the middle of this page, you will see a box, which allows you to place a bid. You will need to enter your secret maximum bid, your user name, and your password (the latter two will appear once you've clicked the "Place Absentee Bid" button). The secret maximum bid is the maximum amount you are willing to pay for the item you're interested in. However, your current bid at any time will be the lesser of your maximum bid or one bid increment above what any other bidder has bid on your item. Click on the button marked "Place Absentee Bid" again to continue.

5. You will be taken to a page entitled "Please Confirm Your Bid". This page will show you the name of the item you're bidding on, the current bid, and the maximum bid. When you are satisfied with your bid, click on the button marked "Confirm Bid".

6. You will be taken to either of two pages. If your bid is the current high bid, you will be notified, and given some information on what might happen with your bid over the remainder of the auction. You will also receive a Bid Confirmation notice via e-mail.
   
   If your bid is not the current high bid, you will be taken to a page that will notify you of that fact.

7. Continue with the Heritage Live!^TM Tutorial.

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Note: Increasing your maximum bid when you are already the high bidder will NOT result in an increase in the current bid.

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The current bid on any item in a Heritage Auction will always be calculated as the lesser of:

1. The maximum bid on the item, or
   
   
2. One increment above the second highest bid on the item.
   
   

If a reserve has been posted on the lot, the current bid may not be less than the reserve

In our Signature Auctions, we receive bids from many sources, such as faxes, mail bids, absentee phone bids, and podium bids - written bids left by someone present at the auction site. These bidders may not know the current bid at the time they place their bid; however their bid must be on-increment or at a half increment (called a cut bid). Any podium, fax, phone, or mail bids that do not conform to a full or half increment will be rounded up or down to the nearest full or half increment.

The rules for Internet bidders are a little different. Internet bidders need only bid an amount equal to or greater than the next increment. Internet bids greater than the minimum required next bid can be any whole dollar amount. It is possible under several circumstances for winning bids to be between increments, sometimes only $1 above the previous increment (see below).

When the auction closes, the winner of the item will be the person with the highest bid, but the hammer price of the item will be the calculated current bid on the item, regardless of what the actual high bid was. This allows you as a bidder to win items for less than your maximum bid. Our Signature Auctions open up on the auction floor at the Current Bid. We will execute the high Internet bidder's secret maximum bid on his behalf until he either wins the lot or is outbid.

Bidding increments in Heritage auctions follow this table. Note that this is calculated without regard to the current bid; if an item has a current bid of $175, then the next bid will be $180, then $190, $200, $220, $240, etc.

Sometimes, astute Internet bidders will place a bid between increments with the idea that they may be able to win a piece for less than a full increment above another bidder. Take the example of a bidder looking at a lot that he thinks is worth roughly $110 plus the 15% buyer's premium. The current bid on the piece is $1, which always means that there is only one bidder on the item. Our bidder has no way of knowing what the actual maximum bid on the item is, but he decides to place a bid of $111. This bid is designed specifically to outbid somebody that might have already bid $110. Once our bidder has placed this bid, he will see one of the following:

1. If the previous maximum bid was $109 or less, the new bid will become the high bid and the current bid will become the bidding increment above the previous bid.
   
   
2. If the previous maximum bid was exactly $110, the new bid will become the high bid and the current bid will become exactly $111.
   
   
3. If the previous maximum bid was between $111 and $119, the new bid will be immediately outbid, and the current bid will become the previous bidder's high bid.

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1. Track the items you're interested in bidding on. You can do this from either the full auction listing, or from the page for each individual lot.
   
   
2. Once you have determined which items you wish to bid on, and the amounts of your bids, go to the "My Bids" page, located under the "My Heritage" tab. Choose "Items I'm Tracking".
   
   
3. This will bring you to a complete listing of items that you have chosen to track and have not yet bid on. Enter the amounts that you wish to bid for each item on which you wish to place a bid. At the bottom of the page, enter your user name and password.
   
   
   
   
   
4. A dialog box will appear, asking you if you wish to confirm the bids you just entered. If you wish to confirm the bids, choose "OK". This will enter your bids.
   
   
   
   
   

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If you wish to keep track of lots in a Heritage auction for later bids, you can do so through our website via the Tracking feature. This gives you one location to find everything your interested in, as well as allowing you to Batch Bid from that page.

There are two ways to track lots. On each individual lot page, there is a link on the upper right-hand corner that reads, "Track this Lot":

Click on this link, and Heritage will track the lot for you:

If you have a lot of items to track, tracking each individually in this manner will take forever. For this reason, we also offer you the ability to track items en masse. From any Heritage search page, you can track as many items at a time as will appear on a page. If you're interested in Carson City Dollars, for instance, you can browse or search through the Morgan Dollar listings until you find something you're interested in. On the right-hand side of the search listings is a "track" button, and in the column below are checkboxes corresponding to each item in the list.

To track any items, click the corresponding box. Here I've chosen all 1882-CC and 1883-CC dollars grading MS-64. Once you have chosen which items to track, click on the "track" button. This will simultaneously add all of these items to your tracking list, and any subsequent searches will note that you are tracking the item.

To see a complete list of the items you're tracking, go to MyTrackedLots. This is available from the drop-down menus under My Heritage on any page on the website; directly from the My Heritage page, or from the My Bids page via the link "Show Items I'm Tracking." The tracking list looks quite similar to MyBids:

From this page, you can watch the progress of the bids on these items, remove the items from tracking, or even place a batch bid.

Note that MyTrackedLots only covers items that you have not bid on, because it's designed to allow you to watch items that you are interested in for any reason but may not have any intention of bidding on. Once you place a bid on any tracked item, it will not show up on the MyTracks page, but will be available normally from MyBids.

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Internet Explorer 6.0

Netscape 7.0

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This feature works with most calendar programs. There is a known issue with certain installations of Outlook 2000. If you are experiencing problems with that software, please use the steps below to take advantage of this feature:

1. Click the "Add Calendar Reminder" link
2. Click "Save" when prompted
3. Save the .ics file to a familiar spot on your computer
4. Open Outlook 2000
5. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
6. Click to select Import an iCalendar or vCalendar file (*.vcs), and then click Next.
7. Click to select the .ics file that you saved in Step 3, and then click Open.

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