How It Works
It’s easy! You complete our online submission form and check out. Within 48 hours, your USPAP-compliant appraisal signed by a qualified appraiser will be transmitted via email in the report format you have chosen.
Scope of work and methodology: Our appraiser identifies and determines worth based on the item’s value-relevant characteristics provided by the client via photographs and information entered in our submission form. Online appraisals take into account the limiting condition that the appraiser did not personally inspect the property leading the appraiser to make “extraordinary assumptions”. These will be included in your report.
Appraisals are opinions based on documented market data. The appraiser will provide an opinion of value ranges reflecting the property’s fair market value (what a seller most often accepts and a buyer most often pays for comparable items, often within the online or onsite auction markets) as well as its replacement value (what the seller would probably have to pay from within the retail market to replace the subject item with a comparable item within a reasonable amount of time from within the most convenient marketplace.)
Zeitgeist Artifacts’ iValue appraisers (or ANY appraiser, for that matter) cannot guarantee that an item will be sold for the appraised amount (items may sell for more or less), nor that a comparable item can be purchased for the appraised amount (a buyer might have to pay more or less).
Prohibited and restricted Items not to be submitted for appraisal: pornographic material, items deemed to be counterfeit or fake or made with the intent to deceive, property which illegal to own, transport across state lines and/or to commercialize (i.e. buy or sell) including but not limited to:
- Endangered species of US flora or fauna (ref: Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act)
- Items taken from Native American or Hawaiian Indian archaeological sites or grave sites (funerary objects, sacred objects, cultural patrimony) (ref: An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities and Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA))
- Parts of marine mammals or items made there from. (Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972)
- Items relating to endangered species of wild fauna and flora worldwide ranging from live animals and plants to a vast array of wildlife products derived from them, including food products, exotic leather goods, wooden musical instruments, timber, tourist curios and medicines. (ref: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES))
- Any other property type deemed illegal to own or illegal to commercialize. Some of the above items are NOT illegal to own but they cannot be commercialized. They may be donated to a museum (which is not considered commercialization), but cannot be bought or sold (considered to be commercialization.)