Any visitor of IT Auction can view all the auction. Only registered users can bid on opened auctions.

An auction can be standard or dutch.

1. Select the auction where you want to sell a product.
2. Push the Place bid button.
3. Fill the your bid value, password, description and features document fields for standard auction. The description field and features document field are optional.
   For the dutch auctions you must enter your bid quantity.
4. After you save the bid, you can view it from the history screen of this auction.
   You can't change or delete a bid.
   
5. At the end of the auction, the buyer and the seller will receive a letter of confirmation with a link where they can rank each other and add comments about this auction.

To buy or sell on IT Auction, you must be an registered user. The registration is simple and free.

Press the Registration button and enter the requested information.
Your information will be kept under a severe security

After you enter the data you will receive a confirmation email. In this email you'll find a link and a code where you can activate your account. You can't use an account unless you activate it.

Note:
When you will win an auction you'll be contacted by phone.
It's very important that you'll insert the correct contact information.
We reserve the right to exclude any registered user who write incomplete or incorrect information!

You can modify and update personal informations from Edit Profile menu.
Any update to your contact information, except the password, will be notified to the IT Auction administrator.

After you register, you can setup your Preferences, where you can choose the categories where you are intereseted about.
You'll receive notifications whenever new offers will be posted in this categories.

Anyone is wellcome to view all the products offered through our IT Auction.
For this, you can use the select and search tools provided by our application.

Select category
On the left side of the page you can browse the categories.
Select by clicking on the category which interests you most and all the products from this category will be listed.
This is the simple way to limit the products shown.



Search for a product
The workarea is a tabel. At the beginning of this tabel you can find a gray row for sells, or a yellow one for buy.
This row is used to find auctions and products by auction ID, product name or the final date of the auction.

Ex:How to search for a monitor
We will enter the monitor word on this row. After this we will press the TAB key or we will click on the anyother place of the screen (we will try to lose focus from this field).
After that we will see only products that contain the "monitor" word on the title.
For this reason is very important how the auction was defined.


Products order
Pressing the title of a particular column we can order ascending the tabel by this column. Pressing again this title we will order descending the tabel by this column.
On the previous example we can order the tabel by the ID, Product and End column.

This button will activate the Place bid screen.
For more informations regarding how to place a bid please visit: Buy. Place bid or Sell. Place bid.

Proxy bid is a tool for auto bidding. You can bid with this tool only on the Sell section.
When a user is interested on a particular auction and has a fixed amount of money to win this auction, the easiest way to win this auction is to set the application to bid for him to his maximum price. If other user will try to buy the same object at a price greater than his maximum allowed value, than the application will no longer make bids for the first user. This user will be notified that his maximum price has been reached.
The configuration of this tool is simple and has no need for additional maintenance.

You must set the maximum value and the bid increment. The bid increment will be used to place the next bid greater than the last with this value. The Proxy bid will not bid when the last bid was put by the same user.
For the dutch auctions you must set the wanted quantity.

You can't set two proxy bids for the same auction.
For the same auction more users can setup a proxy bid.

Anytime you can stop any proxy bid started by you. Any bids made by the proxy bid before you will close it, can't be removed or changed. You can stop it by using the remove command from My Bids | Proxy Bid screen.

The application will record all the bids for any open auction.
In history screen you can view this bids. If the auction is closed, than you can view here informations about whos is the winner(s) of this auction.

If you found a great product and you want to inform a friend about it, you can do this very easy.

Any registered user can add comments or questions about a particular product.
In this forum, the seller or the buyer can give additional information about the product.
The forum is public, but only registered users can use it.

Using the Reminder list, the user can select a period to be notified just before the end of the auction.
Before the end of the auction with the period seted, the user will receive an email where he can find out when the auction ends.

The auction code	Any auction has a unique code. It's not required to know this number if you start an auction or when you bid for a product. You can find this code usefull when you want to easily trace a particular auction.
Username	Any registered user has a unique identification name. This username is the only public information about a user. After a auction ends, the user who started the auction and the winner will receive contact information about each others.
Product	When you insert an auction you must fill in a name for this auction. The choice of words for this auction is very important because is the first thing that anyone else can view. The text must be at most 40 characters long. For a description of this product there is description field, and there is document field and image field for more informations about the product.
Document	A product shown for bid can have a document for presentation or tehnical specifications. The type of this document must be .txt, .rtf or .pdf. Any other type will be ignored by the application. The maximum size of this document is 2Mb. Documents larger than this size will fail to upload.
Start date	An auction starts after is inserted. So the opening date of the auction will be setted to the date when you insert the auction. The minute is discarded.
End date	When you insert an auction you can specify the duration of it and the hour when the auction closes. The next periods are available to set the duration of the auction: +24 hours. The auction will begin now and will close the day after tomorrow at the closing hour. 3 days. The auction will last for 3 days. On the 4th day the auction will be closed at the closing hour. 1 week. The auction will last for 7 days. 2 weeks. The auction will last for 14 days. 1 month. The auction will last for 30 days. 3 months. The auction will last for 90 days. The auction will be closed at the end date only if there aren't any bids at the minimum close price of this auction. For the dutch auctions to close at the minimum close price the quantity requested must be equal to the quantity offered.
Method	An auction can be of type standard or dutch. The difference is made by how the quantity of the product is used. On a standard auction you can't bid for a quantity less than the whole quantity. On a dutch auction you can bid for the quantity you wish to bid. This quantity must be less or equal with the quantity offered. The winner is selected by his price and by the quantity offered.
Currency	The price of a particular product can be shown in one of this currency USD, ROL sau EUR. For a single auction you can't change the currency, or place bid on a different currency.
Starting bid	The starting bid is the price you must to offer to start the bidding.
Bid increment	When you place a bid, the value of this bid must be greater then the last offer with a minimum value equal with Bid increment. For dutch auction you can bid at the same price with the last bid if the sum of quantities from this bids [at the same price] is less or equal with the auction quantity.
Current bid	If no bid have been placed yet, then the current bid will be equal with Starting bid. Otherway the current bid will be equal with the maximum bid placed plus the bid increment.
The minimum close price	When you setup a auction you can set a minimum close price. When you place a bid at the minimum close price for a open standard auction you will win this auction. If the auction is dutch then the first user who place a bid at the minimu close price will be one of the winners of this auction for the requested quantity.
Reserved price	The user who starts an auction can set a value of reserved price. If an auction ends, and no bid is greater or equal with this reserved price, then the user who started the auction has the right to refuse to sell this product.
Delivery Terms	The user who started the auction can specify the Delivery Terms for the product.
Payment Terms	The user who started the auction can specify the Payment Terms for the product.
Description	The user who started the auction can specify a description of his product no longer than 32000 characters.
Image	The user who started the auction can attach a image of his product. There is no condition regarding the picture format. We recommend that you'll use one of this typee JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg), GIF (.gif) or PNG (.png)
Minimum bid value	The minimum bid value represents the minimum value that a user can place a bid with this value. You can't place bid lower then this value. Note that the value refers a single unit of product from this auction, not the whole quantity.
Your bid value	Your bid value is the price that you are willing to pay for the selected product. This value must be greater or equal with minimum bid value.
Password	Because of security reason you must specify the password whenever you make some modifications of the profile or when you bid. This password can be modified by user.
Maximum quantity	For the dutch auctions the maximum quantity specifies the maximum quantity that the seller want to sell.
Your bid quantity	For dutch auctions the buyer can request only an amount from the whole quantity. The requested quantity must be less or equal with maximum quantity.