How collector offers work
Registration, increments, minimum prices and what happens when a round closes. The whole mechanism, in order.
2 July 2026 · 5 minute read
Offer rounds on Art Sutra are run by the artist, not by us. They set the opening offer, the minimum they will accept and the closing time, and they receive a shareable link to the work that they can send anywhere. Our role is to run the mechanism honestly and to hold the money until the work arrives.
To make an offer you register once. That means a verified email, a payment method on file and a one-time identity check — the same check artists complete. Registration carries across every future round, so you only do it once.
Offers are binding. Placing one is a commitment to buy at that price if the artist accepts it, and we will not quietly release you from it because you changed your mind. Offer the number you would be content to pay.
Increments scale with the current offer, so a work at fifteen thousand rupees moves in smaller steps than one at fifteen lakh. The next valid offer is always shown on the work's page; you cannot accidentally jump the price.
The minimum is the lowest price the artist will accept. It is not published, but the page tells you whether it has been met. If the round closes below it, the work goes unsold — it is never quietly sold off at a discount behind the scenes.
Any offer placed in the final two minutes extends the close by two minutes. This removes the advantage of a last-second offer and means a round only closes once genuine interest has stopped.
When your offer is accepted, payment is due within seventy-two hours. Funds are held until the work reaches you and you confirm it matches its description. Only then does the artist get paid, and only then do we take our commission.
If a work does not sell, it returns to the catalogue at a fixed price set against the curator's estimate. The work stays available. Nothing disappears because a round was quiet on a Tuesday.
