Sotheby’s Website Adds Some Killer Apps

Sotheby’s today announced its planned spring launch of mySotheby’s, with a vast array of new online services, including “secure 24/7 access to buying and selling history and open balances with real-time account updates, pre-registration for bidding paddles, instant magnification of lot images, personalized lists of upcoming lots, saved searches, robust communications tools and paperless options for invoices and statements.”
In addition, starting in New York in May, you can watch evening sales in streaming video. (Do we get to see the happy faces of the winning bidders?)
Meanwhile, the stock closed yesterday at $40.15, Sotheby’s highest closing price since May 13, 1999.
Here’s the complete press release, detailing the coming technological enhancements.