Advanced Auction Features

• Multiple Auction Types
  SMT Daddy supports a few different types of auctions to best suite your needs:
  
  
  • Standard Auction - This is the most popular type of auction where the auctioneer sets starting bid amount and the bidders drive the price up. 
  • Multiple Item Auction - The Multiple item auction (also known as a Dutch auction) is extremely common. It is used when you want to offer multiple items but do not want them to be grouped together as a single lot. 
  • Fixed Price Auction -  Fixed Price auctions allow the auctioneer to sell an item at a predetermined price to the first bidder.
  • Turbo Auction - A Turbo Auction, which can also be known as a "$1-No Reserve Auction".  This allows the auctioneer to auction low priced items and possibly garner quick and enthusiastic bidding on highly desired items. 
    
    
• Equipment Wanted Alerts
  This feature allows users to register an interest for items they want. When items meeting their criteria are listed, they will be notified via Email. Additionally, users have the option to make their Equipment Wanted Alerts public. This is a way your users can influence the type of items offered for auction; Auctioneers can use public auction watches to decide to list a matching item.
  
  
• Saved Auctions
  This allows users to save auctions in one central place to keep track of all the items in which they are interested.
  
  
• Bulk Uploader
  The Bulk Uploader feature is a powerful tool that allows advanced users to list a large amount of auctions at one time. 
  
  
• AutoRelist
  The auto-relist feature allows your auctions to be automatically re-listed for a certain number of times if they close unsuccessfully.
  
  
• Bulk Relist
  The bulk re-listing feature allows users to manually re-list a large number of auctions with one click of a button.
  
  
• Price Drop Option
  An auctioneer can select the Price Drop auction in order for the starting bid to decrease at intervals if no bids are placed. The auctioneer can decide the minimum threshold, and the starting bid will never go beneath that point. This can be useful if the auctioneer isn't entirely sure of the market value of their item.
  
  
• Flash Buy
  Auctioneers can decide to set a price which they are willing to accept for an item if a bidder decides he must have that item immediately. The Flash Buy feature allows the bidder to pay a special price to end the auction early and to avoid competition from other bidders. 
  
  
• Reserve Price
  The Reserve Price allows an auctioneer to specify a minimum price the auction needs to meet to close successfully. Although the Reserve Price is not shown to bidders while an auction is in progress, they are aware that a reserve price is in effect.
  
  
• Proxy Bidding
  Proxy bidding allows a user to specify the maximum amount they are willing to bid. When a proxy bid has been placed, the current bid will be posted at the best bid price possible while the actual proxy amount will be hidden from other bidders. When another bidder attempts to place a bid, the previous bidder's proxy will go into effect in an attempt to foil the new bidder.
  
  
• User Ratings & Feedback
  An auction site is most successful when it can generate some feeling of community. To encourage users to feel more secure about who they might be dealing with, users can rate and leave feedback on each other. This public comment system encourages honesty and fair deals since problem users are quickly pointed out. To avoid artificially inflated ratings, users can leave a rating and comments only on other users with whom they have conducted a transaction.
  
  
• Automatic Activity Email
  SMT Daddy is designed to help keep you informed of auction activity for items you have either posted or bid on. SMT Daddy can automatically send out email notices to auction participants when an auction ends and when a bidder has been outbid on an item. SMT Daddy can also send out status emails to keep you reminded of what you have active on the site. 
  
  
• Searching
  Since many people do not have time to sit and browse through lists, SMT Daddy provides comprehensive search functionality.  You can search with multiple keywords either within a category that interests your or else within the entire auction database. You can search for items by many fields and can specify as many or as few of these fields as you want. 
  
  
• Comprehensive Help
  We've strived to make SMT Daddy as intuitively easy as possible to use. However, since certain options or terminology might not be clear to new users, pop-up help windows are used extensively throughout SMT Daddy's user interface for added guidance. By clicking on the help links conveniently located next to a user option, you will see a pop up window with an explanation. 
  
  
• Account Management
  SMT Daddy users can manage their own account details. You can also update and change your billing information (new card expiration dates, change accounts, etc).
  
  
• Image Uploading
  If you want to include an image in your auction(s), many online auction sites require that you find your own place to store and host these image files. With SMT Daddy, you can upload 5 images for your auction directly to our server.  This is a free service.
  
  
• And More!
  Of course, just reading through a list of features and functionality cannot compare to the experience of actually using SMT Daddy. So join now and start selling your equipment today!