LOGGING IN and REGISTRATION:
You must log in to bid. You cannot bid without a registered username. To get a login
name, just fill the basic information, including your full name and email address
(required), try to choose something other than your real name for you’re your display
name and also chose a password. Once logged in, you can bid on one or more items.
BIDDING and CLOSING:
MINIMUM BIDS AND INCREMENT BIDS: The minimum bid for the first bidder is the starting
bid of $10 unless indicated otherwise after the first bid you can chose the amount
you would like to bid. By default the increments are by $1 or $2 but you can place
your bid as you desire.
CLOSING: The items will close at their appointed times, UNLESS a bid is placed within
ten minutes of the closing. In that case, the auction will extend (jump forward)
by ten minutes and live bidding will continue until a ten minute time gap occurs
between bids. In other words, DO NOT LOG OUT ASSUMING YOU HAVE WON AT CLOSING TIME,
WITHOUT HITTING REEFRESH TO SEE IF ANOTHER BIDDER MADE A LASTMINUTE ENTRY AND RESET
THE TIMER TO TEN MINUTES!
NOTE: EACH ITEM closes individually and each item will feature its own independent
countdown clock. Please be sure to look at the time on the clock which may differ
from your own time zone!
Please contact me for payment if you are a new customer. Unclaimed auction wins
will be released to the next bidder down after 2-3 weeks.
PROXY BIDDING
Proxy bidding is a way to bid on an item without actually being present, or at least
without paying constant attention. Simply enter the highest price you are willing
to bid for a particular specimen, and the auction software will automatically bid
incrementally on your behalf against other bidders up to that maximum price. The
computer will outbid other auction participants so long as they bid under your proxy
amount. If a new bidder exceeds your proxy bid amount, please note that you would
lose the item unless you enter a higher manual bid or proxy.
Some advantages of proxy bidding:
- You need not be present to bid!
- If the auction closes at an inconvenient time, the computer can bid on your behalf!
- If you want to bid on multiple items, this reduces the need to watch all of them
constantly, so you can concentrate on the priorities.
EXAMPLE
A) Auction current bid is $30.00
B) User 1 comes along and doesn't want to play the bid-war game, or cannot attend
the end of the auction, and so he/she PROXY-BIDS for $100. The current bid is updated
to $35 (i.e. raised by one increment) and User 1 will win the specimen for $30-100
depending on competing bids, so long as nobody else bids higher than $100.
C) User 2 comes and bids for $35. Because $35 is less than $100 , there is a bid
added for user 2 for $30 and a PROXY-BID added for user 1 for $35, and therefore
the auction current bid is updated to $36 under the username of user 1.
D) User 3 comes and bids for $105, user 3 is now the high bidder. User 3 possibly
tested the limits of the existing proxy by getting up to $100 in increments so he
knew all he had to bid to win was $105, but nevertheless finally found the number
to win!
SHIPPING
If you buy more than one specimen we are going to combine the shipping. Combine
shipping will save you money. We also charge an extra fee for the insurance of the
specimen and shipping and handling.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US AT:
THEBIGROCKSHOP@WOH.RR.COM
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