TIAS.com

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TIAS.com (The Internet Antique Shop) is an online retail marketplace for antiques and collectibles. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Garden City, New York United States in the New York City area. The company is privately held.

TIAS.com
Company typePrivate
IndustrieEinzelhandel
Gegründet1995
HauptsitzGarden City, New York, United States
Key people
Phillip Davies, President & CEO
Produkteantiques, collectibles
Websitewww.tias.com

Business Profile

TIAS.com inventory consists of antiques and collectibles for retail sale by member dealers. TIAS.com runs additional internet properties related to the antiques and collectibles trade including curioscape.com, antiquearts.com and collectoronline.com . The company also operates earthling.com where non-antique & collectible items may be listed by members.

Along with GoAntiques and Ruby Lane it is considered one of the 3 major online antique malls. [1]

As of August 2007 the site lists more than 500,000 items from thousands of dealers in the United States and Canada.

History

TIAS.com has been online since April 1995 [7] and was an early provider of member inventory to eBay [2]

In 2000 TIAS acquired online antique mall AntiqueArts.com [3]

In 2003 TIAS.com acquired online antique mall CollectorOnline from AOL. [4]

In 2008 TIAS.com acquired 400 merchants from Architecturals.net [5]

In 2012 TIAS.com acquired 250 merchants from Tabletopsetc.com [6]

References

  • "Business Description". TIAS.com - Intro. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  1. ^ [1] Antique Mall comparison from about.com
  2. ^ [2]. eBay article from thestreet.com
  3. ^ [3] Direct Newsline Article
  4. ^ [4] AuctionBytes News Article
  5. ^ [5] Auctionbytes News Article
  6. ^ [6] Ecommwire