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How to Create an Online Furniture Auction Website?

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Online auction websites, especially auction marketplaces, are increasingly popular in our times. To ascertain these words, you can look at the brightest examples of online auction marketplaces: eBay, AtomicMall, Bonanza, eBid and much more.

As Statista claims, up to 1,7 billion consumers visited furniture and decor websites in March 2020, the time when world-wide quarantine has started.

Furniture merchants also can take advantage of selling on online furniture auction marketplaces, and this article will describe why.

Let’s start with online furniture auction formats:

  • New furniture auctions.
  • Antique furniture auctions (such auctions are in great demand among lovers of the antique).
  • Furniture liquidation auctions (the retailers are frequently large companies that sell pre-owned furniture of dissolved organizations in bulk).
  • Restaurant furniture auctions.
  • Hotel furniture auctions.

Now let’s review trending technologies in online auction development that can significantly improve user experience.

  1. Artificial intelligence. It is an efficient instrument that allows investigating user behaviour, analyzing big data that forms the basis for further marketing strategies.

  2. Augmented reality. Using augmented reality in your furniture business, you have the possibility to create online catalogues to help clients imagine if a certain piece of furniture will fit into their interior.

  3. Mobile app. Since the era of mobile gadgets have come long ago, it is high time to adopt mobile first strategy and develop your own mobile app for online furniture marketplace and please mobile users.

If you are still looking for the answer on how to develop a successful online furniture auction website, welcome to this article to find a step-by-step guide.

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