How to Sell in Orchid-Bids

Here are the steps to start selling in Orchid-bids.

Once you have registered and verified your account do the following:

To enable direct payment for your items through PayPal or another supported online payment provider such as Authorize.net or MoneyBookers, you must first activate online payments for your Orchid-Bids account by doing the following:

• Log in.
• Click on "Member's Area"
• Click on "My Account"
• Click on "Manage Account"
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your provider account details (for PayPal, your PayPal e-mail address) in the boxes provided.
• Click the "Submit" button

If the physical address you have stored with PayPal is different from the physical address you provided on Orchid-Bids, you may override your Orchid-Bids address by filling in the top of the form provided on this page.

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.


The first part of the process 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 enables you to enter your item title and description, a full WYSIWYG editor is in place to enable you to use HTML descriptions.


Step three is the largest stage of the listing process. 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 orchid pots 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 outright. 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 and 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 to the start bid.


Offer-Range (if available):-
You can set a price bracket in which you are willing to listing an 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, 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, or you may define your own custom start/end time.

Private Auction:-
Private auctions will hide bidder 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:-
In addition to images you can also upload media files, please note only .avi/.mpeg/.mov are supported.

Auto Re-List:-
For convenience you can opt to have your items automatically re-listed for you, 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 that you can still edit your listing once it has become live via the members area.

The final step provides you with listing confirmation.

Cheers,
BD

PS: More information is available in the HELP section of Orchid-Bids.

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