If you would like to place a bid on any item , you can do so by
following these steps:
1. Login to your account
2. Click on an item's photo or title to see the Item Detail page for that auction,
which contains a detailed description
and photos.
3. Next to the picture or towards the bottom of the
auction description page you will see a “Bidding box”.
4. Enter in
your bid, note you must bid above the minimum bid required
5. Click on "Place bid” button
6. You will then be asked to confirm you bid,
once you have done so your bid will be entered, if successful you will
receive
a confirmation message. If you bid fails to outbid the current
high bidder you will be offered the option to place a higher bid.
Proxy
bidding can aid your chances of winning an auction and help avoid you
being outbid at the last moment and is
a convenient way to automatically bid on your items without
having to continually return to your computer to check on your auctions.
You should determine beforehand the most you are really
willing to pay for an item and then enter a single bid at that
amount in the Bid
Amount field. Your maximum bid amount will not be shown to other bidders but
will be used
by Proxy
bidding system to place bids automatically on your behalf.
To place a proxy bid enter in 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 .Proxy bidding is a convenient
way to automatically bid on your items without
having to continually return to your computer to check on your auctions.
The goal when using Proxy Bidding is to
win an item at the lowest successful price.
For example, if the bid increment is $1 and you bid $30 on an
item, but the high bid prior to your bid was only $10,
the system will only bid
$11 on your behalf, incrementing up to your maximum bid as necessary. The amount
the system will bid
also depends on the bid increment. There is another way of bidding:
Buy Out auctions. Buy Out prices are set by the seller, if you agree with that price, you
can click on the “Buy Out” button
which is displayed on the auction
details page. After clicking on the button you will be re-directed to a
confirmation page.
On a standard auction that auction will end
instantly as the item has been sold via Buy Out.
Bid Extend feature: if an auction receives a bid within 3 minutes of the scheduled auction closing
time, the auction will be
extended for an additional 3 minutes. The auction
will continue until 3 minutes have passed without a new bid.
Bid Extend feature ensures that bidders
will have a chance to respond on bids placed in the last minutes .
It also prevents practice called “sniping” in which bidders place very small bids in the last seconds.
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