US appraisers accept Internet as a fact of life
As chairman of a discussion panel at the annual conference of the Appraisers Association of America in New York, MARK BRIDGE, found that the Internet is not the villain it was painted a year ago. He reports on the current attitudes to on-line valuation in the USA and the views of auctioneers experimenting with online bidding.
A YEAR ago the very idea of routinely valuing items unseen over the Internet aroused a horrified res…