To list your item simply click on the “Sell” link found on the header navigational bar. The listing process is split up into several main sections, notably:-

• Category selection
• Item Details
• Auction Settings
• Shipping and Payment
• Listing preview
• Listing confirmation

The listing process is developed in such a way that you are guided through every step seamlessly.

During the first part of the process you are asked to choose the category you wish to list your item in. Ths can be revised at any time by using the “Previous Step” navigation button.

Step two enables you to enter your item title and description, a full wysiwyg editor is in place to enable you to use HTML descriptions. Please make sure to use up all characters within the title box (65 characters). Remember that this is your marketing instrument towards potential customers. Same applies to the description box where you almost have unlimited space and options to describe your item.

If you have a voucher code to redeem this can be entered just below the description field.

Moving on to step three, this is the biggest stage of the listing process. You are now able to set following:-

Auction Type

• Standard Auction

This is a single quantity auction

• Dutch Auction

Dutch auction enables you to list a multiple quantity of products in auction style. E.g.: If you have 100 pens to sell you can list all of these together in a single lot. Bidders will be able to select how many they wish to bid for.

Currency
You can select your preferred auction currency using the drop down menu available

Quantity
This field is only active if listing a Dutch auction, please see above for an explanation of this listing type

Auction Starts At
This requires you to enter the minimum bid you are willing to accept, you can also set a reserve price to ensure you do not sell the item for this amount. Please see below for more information on this.

Reserve Price
Enabling a reserve price affectively means you will not sell the item for less than the amount set, for example you can set the start price at 5.00 but only accept winning bids over 50.00, should a bid be placed for 49.99 the item will close without a winner.

Buy out (if available)
Buy out allows you to set an amount you are willing to sell the item for – straight out. For example you can set the start price to 10.00 but offer interested parties the option to buy the item immediately for 100.00.

You can also list buy out only auctions, these auctions remove all bidding options meaning the listing can only be purchased for a set amount. To set a buy out only auction you need to set the buy out value to be exactly equal with the start bid.

Offer-Range (if available)
You can set a price bracket within which you are willing to accept offers, for example if you set the price brackets from 15.00 to 100.00 interested parties will be able to offer you an amount within this range. You will be notified automatically via the integrated mailing system (members area) about pending offers. It is up to you to decide whether to accept or decline these offers at any time.

Bid increment
This option can be used to set your own custom bid increment if preferred.

Item featuring (if available)
The following options are available to you (fees may apply), these will highlight your item on site to ensure they reach more visitors:

• Home page featured
• Category featured
• Bold text
• Highlighted background

Set start/end time
You can either opt to list your item right away or you define your own custom start/end time. In both cases you decide on a defined number of days, weeks or months for which your offer shall last live within the system

Private Auction
Private auction will hide the bidders identity on the item details page

Image upload
To accompany your item you can either upload images from your local computer or enter the URL of an image(s) hosted elsewhere

Media upload
If option is enabled by administration, you can additionally also upload media files. Please note that only .avi/.mpeg/.mov are supported.

Auto Re-List
For convenience you can opt to have items automatically re-listed. Select whether the item should be re-listed if sold and how many re-list attempts should be made.

The next step will let you set your shipping and payment preferences including shipping rates and availabe delivery methods.

Review your entire listing and make changes if required. Please note that you are even able to edit your listing once it has gone live. The relevant function is available within the members area. As soon as an auction has received a bid, changes are limited to adding information to its description.