Features
Everything the AuctionHub marketplace does for buyers, sellers and the deal between them. Each feature is explained step by step in the guides.
Ways to sell
Rising-bid auctions
Start price, optional hidden reserve, fixed duration or exact end time, tiered bid increments, automatic (proxy) bidding and an optional 120-second soft close against sniping.
Dutch auctions
Falling price in fixed steps at fixed intervals down to a floor; single or multiple units; the first acceptance wins at the current price and fixes it for the remaining units.
Fixed price
Sell one or several units at an asking price, with or without offers.
Buy Now
An instant price on top of an auction or a fixed-price listing.
Offers and counteroffers
Buyers propose prices, sellers accept, decline or counter; auto-accept and auto-decline thresholds; up to 3 offers per buyer per listing; offers expire after 48 h, counters after 24 h.
Seller and after-sale offers
On a listing that accepts offers a seller can send a price to a watcher (on an auction, before the first bid), and offer the item to the highest bidder after an auction ended below its reserve.
Listing management
Scheduled start, photos, condition and location, lower the reserve while the auction runs, cancel before the first bid, relist an unsold item in one click.
Buying
Automatic bidding
Enter your maximum once; the platform outbids others for you by the smallest increment, never above your limit, and never reveals it.
Fair closing rules
Soft close (unless the seller chose "sudden death"), published increments, retraction only within 5 minutes of your last bid and never in the last 12 hours.
Live listing pages
Current price, bid count, reserve status, time left and bid history refresh without reloading.
Search and filters
Full-text search, category tree with subcategories, sale type, "ending soon", "accepts offers", price range and five sort orders, all applied instantly.
Watchlist
Keep an eye on listings you have not decided on yet.
Follow categories, personal feed
Follow any category or subcategory; My feed shows only the live listings in them.
Notifications
Outbid, won, offer answered, sale made, message received, second-chance offer: all in one place, with unread counts in the header.
Second-chance offers
If a winner does not complete, the runner-up may be offered the item at their own maximum bid.
After the sale
Deal room
A private conversation per sale: conversation list, message thread and the item side by side. No other messaging exists on the platform.
Payment and delivery terms
Either side proposes how to pay (bank transfer, cash, PayPal, card, other) and how to deliver (pickup, handover, post, courier), with shipping cost and address; the other accepts or declines; the agreed terms stay on record.
Ratings
One rating per party per deal, positive or negative with a comment; counts and percentages on public profiles.
Cancellation with a record
3 days after a sale that is still not completed the seller may cancel, rate the buyer's cancellation and offer the item to the next bidder (48 h to accept).
Public profiles
Ratings, cancelled deals, live listings and, if the member allows, location.
Account, privacy and communication
E-mail activation
New accounts open when the e-mailed link is used (valid 48 h); a new link can be requested at any time.
Profile
Display name, telephone, city and country, a short "about"; everything editable.
Privacy controls
Share phone with counterparts, share e-mail with counterparts, show location on the public profile: each on or off.
Security
Password change, password reset by e-mail (link valid 2 h), and "sign out of all other devices".
Your time zone
All times are stored in UTC and shown in the zone you choose, or in your browser's or location's zone until you do.
Newsletter
Optional at registration and switchable any time; e-mails needed to run your account (activation, password reset) arrive regardless.
Invite a friend
An invitation e-mail with a registration link in your name; the new account is linked to you (up to 20 a day).
Share a listing by e-mail
Send a live listing's title, price, end time and link to up to 5 addresses at a time with a personal note (up to 30 a day).
Clear terms
The Terms and Conditions state what the platform does and does not do, and every member accepts a recorded version at sign-up.
Plans
Free
Unlimited buying, bidding and offers; 5 listings per month as a seller; no commission.
Basic
15 listings per month for regular sellers; everything else identical.
Pro
Unlimited listings for members who sell continuously.
Simple payment
A paid plan is requested monthly or yearly (a year costs 10 monthly fees), in EUR or USD, paid off-platform against a reference and switched on by an administrator; it ends automatically. See the prices.