How To Place a Bid
To place a bid, you must follow the steps below:

1. Login to your account – If you have not registered will need to do so before placing a bid.
2. Visit the description page the item is located at.
3. At the bottom of the description page will be a bidding box, you may also use the shortcut link to the bidding box if you wish.
4. Enter your bid. Please be sure to bid above the minimum bid required.
5. Click on the place bid button.
6. You will then be asked to confirm your bid, once you have done so your bid will be entered, if successful, you will receive a confirmation message. If your bid fails to outbid the current high bidder you will be offered the option to place a higher bid.

Proxy Bidding

Proxy bidding can aid your chances of winning an auction and prevents you from being outbid at the last moment. To place a proxy bid enter the maximum price you are willing to pay for the item. If another user places a bid on the same auction automatic bids will be placed on your behalf in accordance with your maximum bid amount. With proxy bidding you will pay the lowest possible price until someone else places a higher bid.

Buy It Now Auctions

Buy it now prices are set by the seller, if you agree with the set price, you can click on the “Buy Now” button which is displayed on the auction details page. After clicking the button, you will be re-directed to a confirmation page. Standard purchased auction items will then be listed as sold.

Dutch Auction

Dutch auctions are items available in quantities greater than one. If you purchase less than the total available, the auction will remain open with the number of items left available after you have purchased the amount you have selected.

Once you have signed up for an account, you will be able to sell items through the site.

In order to do that, you will have to click on the “Sell” link, and you will be redirected to a page, you can then select the main category of the product or service you want to sell. This feature has been made in order to ease the subcategory choosing process. No items can be sold by choosing only the main category; you will have to choose a subcategory for it.

The second step is entering the auction details, settings, payment methods available, and choosing a category. An image that will come with the auction is free of charge, but the admin may charge for adding additional pictures.

On the Auction Settings tab, you can choose the type of the auction, the start price, whether to activate buy now or set a reserve price.

Also, you will be able to choose what type of bid increment to use, the progressive one implemented into the site (that can be edited from the admin area), or a custom one. If you choose the custom one, you will have to enter an increment value.

You will also be able to choose whether to feature the item, and the duration of the auction.

After setting the location, shipping and payment and subcategory, and by clicking on the “Next Step” button, you will be redirected to Step Three, where you can review the auction before submitting. If everything is in order, you can click on the “Submit” button, and will be redirected to the payment page, or a confirmation page, if no fees have to be paid. The auction is activated once the payment is confirmed by the payment gateway, or instantly, if no fees need to be paid.

If you are registering to purchase and/or bid, your account will be activated instantly. If you are registering to sell, your account registration will be reviewed and you will receive a confirmation within 7 business days.
To begin the registration process, click on the Register link at the top of the page. Only users 18 years of age or older can register.

Complete registration by filling in all required information. Failure to supply all of the required information will result in an error.

By clicking on the Register button at the bottom of the page, you will be redirected to a page with a link to the payment gateway if the signup fee is activated, or to a confirmation page, if signup is free.

Once in the members area, you will have successfully logged in using the login forms from the main page or from the login page (click on the login button from the page header), you will be redirected to the members area page. The members area page is divided into four tabs:

1. Bidding

On the bidding page, you will be able to see the items you are currently bidding on, as well as the status of your bids, items you have won, and your watched items. By clicking on the Auction Watch link, you will be able to add keywords for auctions you are interested in keeping track of. An email will be sent to your email address every time an auction that contains the keyword in its name and/or description.

By clicking on the View Details link from the Won Items area, you will be able to see the details of the seller, and contact the seller in order to complete the sale.

2. Selling

There are three areas on the selling page.

My Opened Auctions

This is where you will see details of auctions you currently have open; if no bids have been submitted on an open auction, you will be able to edit the auction.

My Closed Auctions

This is where you may view your running and closed auctions. You may choose to edit, delete or re-list a closed auction.

Sold Items

This section is where you will see the items you have sold. By clicking on the View Details link, you will be redirected to a page where you will see the details of the buyer. If an end of auction fee is set from the admin area, the seller will then have to pay for the end of auction fee in order to see buyer details.

Once seller contacts winning bidder, you may reclaim the end of auction fee. By clicking on the Claim back end of auction fee link, a claim back request will be sent to the site’s administrator for evaluation and approval.

3. Feedback

From the feedback page, user will be able to see the feedback received, and will have the ability to reply to other users.

4. Personal Account Info

You may edit your personal account information, including password, except username. If the password and confirm password fields are left empty, the password will remain the same.

Dutch auctions are items available in quantities greater than one. If you purchase less than the total available, the auction will remain open with the number of items left available after you have purchased the amount you have selected.

Once a sale has been processed, both the seller and the buyer will be able to post feedback to each other. The feedback rating is from one star to five stars, and a feedback comment can also be left. The feedback can be left from the Feedback tab in the Members Area. The feedback can only be submitted once, and cannot be edited afterward it has been posted.

Site administration reserves the right to delete malicious or untrue posts.

The item watch feature allows users to keep a close eye on any auction without having to place a bid on the item. This feature allows users to be kept up to date status reports of an auction and allows users to place a last minute bid. You may watch any auction by clicking on the Watch this item link on any auction page.

The auction watch feature notifies users of newly listed auctions which contain “keywords” the user has chosen. For example, if you are looking for a “Thong,” you may enter the keyword after logging in to the member’s area. Every time a new auction is listed containing the word “Thong” you will be notified via this web site. You may enter multiple keywords.