Registration is simple, absolutely free and only takes a matter minutes. To start the signup process, click on the “Register” link at the top of this page. Only users with the age over 16 years are able to register.

The next step is to fill in all your information, failure to supply all the required information will result in an error. Please note that a valid email address is mandatory.

Mandatory fields include:

• Name
  
• City
• State/Provins/County
• Zip/Post Code
• Phone Number
• Birthday
• Username & Password
• Email Address
• Confirmation of the Terms & Conditions acceptance
  

By clicking on the “Register” button from the bottom of the page, you will be redirected to a page with a link to the payment gateway if the signup fee is activated, or to a confirmation page, if signup is free.

Your account will be activated as soon as we check your details, and you receive a confirmation email.

When you receive the confirmation email, you must click on the link to activate your account. Please note that if your Internet Browser is blocking pop-ups, the link may not function, so either deactivate the pop-ups blocker so that the link can be activated, or right-click on the link and select open in a new page.

Should you encounter any registration difficulties please contact us.

Once you have successfully logged in using the login forms from the main page or from the login page (click on the “login” button from the page header), you will be redirected to the members area page. Thereafter, you may access this page at any time by clicking on the tabulation “Members Area”. This page is divided into four tabs:

a. Messaging

On this page, you can access all the emails that you sent or received. The messages can be classified by From (or To),Subject, Date. A few options are then also available for each email.

b. Bidding

On this page, you will be able to access the following information:

• Current Bids: The items that you are currently bidding on,
  
• Won Items: The status of the items you have won,
  
• Invoices Received: You can access and pay the invoices that you received for the items you won.
• Watched Items: This section controls the items you put on a watching list. This doesn't oblige you in a´ny way to purchase the item, but simply keeps in a bookmark for future easy access.
  
• Favourite Stores: You can bookmark your favorite stores for an easy access in the future,
  
• Keywords Watch: You can set up keywords for items that you might be interested in. For example if you are looking for a “Playstation 2” you could enter in those keywords from within your member’s area. Each time a new auction is listed containing the term “Playstation 2” you will be notified via email. You can enter in as many keywords as you like.).

By clicking on the “View Details” link from the “Won Items” area, you will be able to see the details of the seller, and make contact with him in order to perfect the sale.

c. Selling

There are different areas on the selling subject accessible from this page:

• Open Auctions: All the details about your auctions which have running, but without any offer.
• Items with Bids/Offers: All the details about your auctions which have currently offers.
• Scheduled Auctions: All the details about your all your scheduled in time auctions.
• Closed Auctions: All the details about your already closed auctions.
  
• Draft: In this area you can create or modify draft auctions that can be activated at a later stage.
  
• Sold Items: This area allows you to access all the information about your already sold items.
  
• Invoices Sent: There you can control all the invoices that have been sent.
  
• Fees Calculator: This utility has been created for a better clarity in our fees! We are proud of our low prices, and we ant to make sure that people understand that there is no catch... So here you can easily check in advance how much an auction would cost you.
  
• Prefilled Fields:This was created for people wanting to submit always the same format and same text for each auctions. You can predefine all the fields, allowing you to save time and effort over your auctions set up.
  
• Block Users: This section allows to control your blocked users, and to add new ones if necessary.
  
• Suggest a category: We always want to improve the context and the look of our web site, therefore we are open for suggestion for improvements. Here you can suggest new categories to be added, or old ones to be moved into more appropriate categories.
  

d. Reputation

From this page, you will be able to see your reputation status, and leave comments to other users. It is very important to participate actively to the reputation feedbacks in order to allow users to know how good or bad the seller/buyer is.

e. Bulk

By selecting the Bulk section, you will have a possibility to download the Bulk Software to allow you to easily and fast add bulk auctions on 1pauctions.co.uk. On this page, you have also a very detailed explanation on how to use it.

f. About me

You can enable an "About me" page in order to provide more information about you to the other users. There you can add informations in the text editor available.

g. (Optional) My Store

If you decide to own a Store on 1pauctions.co.uk, then this section will be activated for you, in order to easily manage your store. Please note that you need to have an existing account with us so to be able to activate a store, and also that when you own a store, you will always have the possibility to place items on sales under your store OR simply under your account.

Under My Stores section, will be able to manage the following:

• Subscription Setup: Here you can modify the Store subscription account you would like to have.
  
• Main Settings: This section allows you to control the main settings of your store, as well as the Logo and the Design.
  
• Store Pages: A few options for the stores pages are available here.
  
• Custom Categories: For those who wish to add categories to better fit their stores, they can do it in this field.
  

h. Wanted Ads

By clicking on the “Wanted Ads” link, you will be able to add keywords and other information for auctions yourmight be interested in. You can also view from this section all your Opened and Closed "Wanted Ads". An email will be sent to your email address every time an auction that will contain the keyword in its name or description will be submitted.

i. My Account

You can edit your personal information using this page, except for your username. You can also change the password for the account. If the password and confirm password fields are left empty, then the password will remain the same.

• Personal Information: Section allowing you to modify different settings (Main Settings, User Account Settings & Direct Payment Settings)
• Manage Account: Section allowing you to modify different settings (Paypal Address Override & Direct Payment Settings)
  
• Account History: Here you can access the Account History, providing the details of your Status, payment mode, Registration Date, Balance, Max Debit authorised. A detailed description of the fees is also available (please do not forget to select the period that you wish to have on display)
  
• Mail Preference: You can set which emails you would like to receive from us (for e.g. Sold item email, Won item email, Outbid item email...). You can very easily modify this section by a simple click!
  
• Report Abuse: You can report any abuse you find by giving the username of the user and the description of the abuse.

If you have spotted on item you would like to place a bid on you can do so quickly and easily by following these steps:

• 1- Login to your account – If you have not registered you can do so within 5 minutes,
• 2- Visit the auction page,
• 3- Towards the bottom of the auction description page you will see a “Bidding box”, you can use the shortcut link to the bidding box if you wish,
• 4- Enter in your bid, note you must bid above the minimum bid required,
• 5- Click on the “Place Bid” button,
• 6- You will then be asked to confirm you bid, once you have done so your bid will be entered, if successful you will receive a confirmation message. If you bid fails to outbid the current high bidder you will be offered the option to place a higher bid. Proxy bidding can aid your chances of winning an auction and help avoid you being outbid at the last moment. To place a proxy bid enter in the maximum price you are willing to pay for the item. If another user places a bid on the same auction automatic bids will be placed on your behalf in accordance with your maximum bid amount. With proxy bidding you will pay the lowest possible price until someone else places a higher bid.

There is another way of bidding: Buy it now auctions. Buy it now prices are set by the seller, if you agree with that price, you can click on the “Buy Now” button which is displayed on the auction details page. After clicking on the button you will be re-directed to a confirmation page. On a standard auction that auction will end instantly as the item has been sold via Buy it now. On a Dutch auction, you can enter the amount of items you wish to buy (depending the quantity available).

If you purchase less than there are available in total, the auction will remain open with the number of items left available after you have purchased the amount you want.

If the option is available you can use “Buy Out” to purchase the item immediately without having to place a bid. Some sellers offer such an option which can be used at any time until a bid has been placed over any applicable reserve price.

The “Buy Out” option will appear on the item details page, you will be asked to confirm your intention to buy out the item before the sale is concluded. Buy out’s cannot be retracted.

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.
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. 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 items 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.
• 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 you can still edit your listing once live via the members area.

The final step provides you with listing confirmation.

The item watch features lets you keep a close eye on any auction without having to place a bid on it. This feature means you can be kept up to date on how an auction is doing and prepares you to place a winning last minute bid. You can watch any auction by clicking on the “Watch this item” link on any auction page.

The auction watch features notifies you of newly listed auctions which contain keywords you have chosen. For example if you are looking for a new Digital Camera you could enter in those keywords from within your members area area. Each time a new auction is listed containing those keywords you will be notified via email.

“Wanted ads” are a new and increasingly popular feature. As an advertiser you can list adverts for items you want and sellers can submit offers for items they are selling. It’s a quick, simple and hassle free way of sellers being able to meet buyers demands.

Advertiser (Buyer)
List a new wanted ad and wait for sellers to contact you with offers. If you receive an offer your happy with you can bid on the item!

Sellers
Browse the wanted ads and if you see one that matches an item your selling make an offer and tell the buyer you have just what they are looking for!

On a Dutch Auction, the auctioneer has more items of the same product for sale. The bidder will enter a maximum bid he is willing to pay for an item, and the number of items he wants to purchase. The highest bidder(s) will receive the number of items they have bid on, and the remaining bidders will receive the number of items still available. Buyers are able to bid more than once for the same item.

If you decide to own a Store on 1pauctions.co.uk, then you need to have an existing account with us so to be able to activate the Store option.
Once your account has been activated, you must log in into the Members Area, and go to the section My Store.
Firstly, you must go in to the Main Settings area, in order to set up all the main basic details of your future store:

• Store Name,
• Store Description,
• Store Meta Key,
• Store Logo,
• Store Design.

Do not forget to click on PROCEED, otherwise your details will not be saved.

Then, please access the Subscription setup, and then enable the store by clicking in the corresponding box, and then choose which subscription you wish to join.
Then click on the Proceed button to be taken to the payment process.

Once your Store account is set up and paid, you can access the Store Pages, where you can modify the following details of your Store pages to suit you best:

• Number of Store Featured Items,
• Number of Ending Soon Store Items,
• Number of Recently Listed Store Items,
• About this Store,
• Store Specials,
• Shipping Information,
• Company Policies.

Finally, you can add Custom Categories. This was created for those who wish to add categories to better fit their stores.

Please note that when you own a store, you will always have the possibility to place items on sales under your store, or simply under your account, or even both! This is possible to do when you start the sell process: you will have the following option:
List in

• Site
• Shop
• Both

Simply choose what you how you want your auction to be defined!