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.

Step One, This step is to choose the category you wish to list your item in, this can be revised at any time by using the Previous Step navigation button.

Step Two, Here you to enter your item title and description, a full wysiwyg editor is in place to enable you to use HTML descriptions.

This is also the most important step when listing an item.

The site uses certain information to automatically promote your listings for you, Via:

* Google Base,

* Vast.Com,

* MSN Live,

* RSS feeds.

Here are the parameters:

The entire title is used as well as the first ten words of the description.

So you title should clearly describe your item the way someone would search Google for it.

Good Title Example:

Taylor Made R7 XD Irons. New.

NOT:

Good Description Example:

Taylor Made irons R7XD 3 thru pitching wedge new free shipping.

BAD:

Brand new in the box very nice condition free shipping.

No one will search Google for “LOOK!!!” Or “Brand new in the box” and will most likely never find your item.

Step Three, On this step you can set the following:

Auction type

Standard Auction

This is a single quantity auction

Dutch Auction

Dutch auction enables you to list a multiple quantity auction, for example 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 in which you are willing to listing to offer, 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 these brackets, you can opt whether to accept or decline these offers at any time via the members area.

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 and set a defined number of days for it to be live for or you also have the option to define your own custom start/end time.

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

Auto Re-List

For convenience you can opt to have your items automatically re-listed for you up to 99 times, options are available to allow you to select whether the item should be re-listed if sold and how many re-list attempts should be made.

On the next step you can set your shipping and payment preferences including your shipping rates and available methods of delivery.

Proceeding on, you can then review the listing and make changes if required, please note you can still edit your listing once live via the members area.

Final Step, provides you with listing confirmation.