Swipe through the Auction Lots open for bidding, as well as those now closed to see what you might have missed! Look under ‘RBKA ONLINE > RBKA Virtual Auction’ for full details of how to sell and bid.
RBKA Virtual Auction – 10 Easy Steps
May 1, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Our annual ‘RBKA Auction of Bees & Beekeeping Equipment’ for 2021, has once again bern conducted as a virtual on-line event.
NOW CLOSED TO NEW ENTRIES – REMAINING LOTS CLOSING SHORTLY
How it Works.
- Read the Terms and Conditions
- To Sell
- Complete and Submit an online ‘Sellers Registration Form‘ providing details of the item you wish to offer for Sale by Auction.
- AND supply by email suitable photographs of the item(s) to the Auctioneer for inclusion with the published Lot details,
- Items accepted by the Auctioneer for ‘Sale by Auction‘ will be published as individual posts, identified as a Numbered Lot on this website, displaying:
- … information provided in the Seller
- … photographs supplied by the Seller.
- … an Opening Bid price, Latest Bid price or Hammer Price.
- … a Bid for this Lot form.
- All Lots open for Bidding will be displayed under the RBKA Virtual Auction > Auction Lots menu tab found under the RBKA ONLINE menu options.
- To BID
- From the post for the Lot you wish to bid for, scroll down to Bid for this Lot. If needed, click on [Read more] to fully open the post.
- Complete the Bid for this Lot form.
- If the price showing is an Opening Bid price, any (reasonable) Bid offer could be made.
- Bear in mind that the Seller may have set a Reserve Price that will need to be reached before any Bid could become a winning Bid.
- If the price showing is a Current Bid price, a greater Bid offer would be required.
- If the price showing is a Hammer Price, bidding is closed
- Submit your Bid offer if bidding is still open.
- The Auctioneer will routinely (but not necessarily instantaneously) update the status of live Lots to show the current highest value Bid received for each Lot.
- Where more than one Bid of the same value is received …
- the words ‘multiple bids‘ will be displayed after the bid value.
- in the absence of any higher bid by the time the Auctioneer closes bidding, the earliest received of same highest value bids takes precedence.
- At the Auctioneers discretion, the bidding will be closed after a reasonable period of time in which no new bids are received.
- Advance Notice of the imminent close of bidding may be indicated on the Lot post.
- The Auctioneers decision in final.
- Hammer Down
- The final accepted bid price will be shown as the Hammer Price and the Lot will be closed to further Bids
- The successful Bidder will be notified by the Auctioneer of the Sellers contact details and prompted to submit payment of the Hammer Price to RBKA
- The Seller will notified by the Auctioneer of the Buyers contact details and advised of the net sale price they will receive from RBKA in due course.
- Buyer and Seller arrange between themselves for delivery or collection of the item(s) as needed.
