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free2auction
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It is free to bid and purchase items, list a basic auction,
store item, or configure and open your store on free2auction.
The only circumstances where you will be charged a fee
are:
- You successfully sell an auction or store item
- You list your auction, store item, or store in a 2nd
category
- You add a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th picture to your auction
or store item
- You select to list your auction, store item, or store
in bold or in the preferential featured tables
- You choose a predefined icon or upload your own icon
to an auction, store item, or store
End price fee
If you successfully sell an auction or somebody purchases
a store item from you, you will be charged a fee scaled
according to the purchase price:
if your end price or
sell price is less than
$100 you will be charged
3% of the price.
if your end price
or sell price is more than
$100 and less than
$1,000 you will be charged
2% of the price.
If your end price
or sell price is more than
$1,000 you will be charged
1% of the price.
Featured auctions:
If you selected to feature your auction or store item
then the above end price fee is doubled.
Multiple quantity purchases:
The above end fees is calculated on each sold unit (multiply
the above fee times quantity purchased).
Additional sell feature fees
When completing the sell item form you may chose the
following additional features that have fees attached
to them:
List in a 2nd category:
$0.20 plus double any of the following features.
Additional pictures:
Your first picture hosted on the free2auction
server is free, additional pictures cost $0.15 each.
Bold auction listing:
$0.15 Your listing will appear in boldface in search results
and browse listings.
Featured listing:
$1.00,
and in the event of a successful sale end price fee is doubled. Your
listing will appear in a special section before standard
listings in search and browse results.
free2auction icon:
$0.20 You can choose one of the standard free2auction
icons to appear beside your listing in search and browse
results.
Upload your icon:
$0.40 List a unique icon next to your item in search and browse
results. Icon must be .gif format 16x16 pixels.
Store items fees
Store items are charged the above additional sell feature
rates on a 14 day billing period. If at any time during
the 14 day billing period your store item is enabled
and configured with any of the above additional features
then you will be billed for those features at the end
of the 14 day billing period. The billing periods begin
from when you first list an item so you will not be
charged any fees when the item is first listed, but
the fees will come 14 days later. If you close a store
item during a billing period you will be charged any
accumulated fees at the end of the 14 day period.
Stores fees
From your options page you may enable and edit your
store details, including 2nd category, bold, featured,
free2auction icon, and upload icon options. These
options incur the additional sell feature fees on a
30 day billing period. If at any time during the 30
day billing period your store is enabled and configured
with any of these additional features then you will
be billed for those features at the end of the 30 day
billing period. The billing periods begin from when
you first enable your store so you will not be charged
any fees at this time, but the fees will come 30 days
later. If you disable your store during a billing period
you will be charged any accumulated fees at the end
of the 30 day period. Your store may only have one picture
uploaded which also creates your stores thumbnail, this
picture is free. To feature a store the charge of $1.00 is charged each 30 days, no other fees apply to being
featured. The additional sell features you select for
your store only apply to your store and not to your
store items, if you select bold for your store it will
appear bold when people browse and search stores, but
your storeitems will only appear bold if you select the bold feature when listing
them.
Listing in international currencies
If you list an items in a currency other than USD, any
end price fees will be converted to USD before calculating
the end price fee. The conversion occurs at the time
of sale using the current free2auction exchange
rate at that time.
End price fee examples
A standard auction is listed and successfully ends with
a final price of $56, the end price fee to the seller
will $1.68 (3% of $56).
An auction is listed with a reserve price of $75 and
ends with a current bid of $68, there will be no end
price fee as the reserve has not been met and the auction
does not have a successful winner.
A store item is listed with a price of $122 and a buyer
purchases a quantity of one, the end price fee for this
purchase will be $2.44 (2% of $122).
An auction is listed with a buy it now price of $1400,
and a member uses the buy it now feature to end the
auction early, the end price fee will be $14.00 (1%
of $1400).
Additional sell feature fee examples
An auction or store item is listed in only one category
with no uploaded icon, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th picture,
the bold, featured, and free2auction icon setting
have all been left unselected. No sell feature
fees will be charged for this listing.
An item is listed in a second category, and the seller
has uploaded their own icon, the sell feature fees for
this item will be $1.00 (user icon fee is $0.40 which
is doubled by having a 2nd category to $0.80, plus the
2nd category fee of $0.20).
An item is listing as featured and bold, the additional
sell feature fees will be $1.15 (bold fee $0.15 plus featured
fee of $1.00).
Multiple quantity end price fee examples
An auction is listed with a quantity of 10 and ends with
two winners, an end price of $12. One winner wins a quantity
of 4 and another wins 3, a total of 7 items won at $12
each. The end price fee for a single item is $0.36 (3%
of $12), the total end price fee for this multiple quantity
auction is $2.52 ($0.36 times 7 items successfully won).
A store item is listed with stepped pricing of $15 for
1-20pcs, $12 for 20+ items. One member purchases 8pcs
at $15 each, the end price fee on this purchase will
be $3.60 (3% of $15 is $0.45 times 8 items purchased).
Another member purchases 50pcs at $12 each, the end
price fee on this purchase is $18 (3% of $12 is $0.36
times 50pcs purchased).
If the store item is then amended to be featured, and
another member purchases 8pcs at $15, the end price
fee would be doubled to $7.20.
Store item fee examples
A store item is listed on 1st January with bold and
featured additional sell features selected, at the time
of listing this item no fees are charged to the sellers
account, but on 14th January the fee of $1.15 will be
charged.
If the seller closes this store item on 3rd January,
the fee of $1.15 will still be charged on 14th January.
If the seller adds a second picture on 4th January,
the additional sell feature fee now equals $1.30, which
will be charged on 14th January. If on 10th January
the seller removes all additional sell features, on
14th January the fee of $1.30 will still be charged,
however on the next billing date, the 28th January,
no fees will be charged.
If after listing the store item on 1st January and then
closing the store item on 3rd January, if the store
item is opened again on the 13th, the billing date will
continue to be 14th January, then 28th January. However
if the store item is closed on 3rd January and not opened
again until 1st February (after the existing billing
date), then the new billing date will begin on the 14th
February.
Store fee examples
Store examples work in a very similar way to store items,
except that the billing period for stores is 30days
instead of 14days, and for stores only 2nd category,
bold, featured, free2auction icon, and upload
icon options are available and charged a fee.
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