You have the option to group and sell items from the Webcast Console during a live Webcast auction if you wish. There are several options, which are explained below.
Sell as One Money
Sell Group with Full Choice
Full Choice - Floor Bidder Wins
Full Choice - Internet Bidder Wins
Sell Group with Numerical Order Choice (not currently supported)
Numerical Order Choice - Floor Bidder Wins (not currently supported)
Numerical Order Choice - Internet Bidder Wins (not currently supported)
Sell as One Money
Selling as "One Money" is a term commonly used in U.S. live auctions and describes selling a selected group of items for one fixed price, i.e. the amount of money being offered is the total for all items sold within that group. The winning bidder would successfully win all items within that group and has no choice to select specific items from that group.
Select the lots / items to group in the Lot Listing window by highlighting them with a tick box
1.
Click Group
Set the Choice dropdown to None
Set the Bidding dropdown to One Money
Click Create to group the items/lots together and sell as one
2.
You should now have the items grouped together as follows:
3.
These lots will now be sent to the ring as one group as follows:
4.
Sell Group with Full Choice
Selling with Full Choice means the winning bidder will be given total freedom to select the items they want to purchase within the group
Select the lots / items to group in the Lot Listing window by highlighting them with a tick box (see image 1 above)
Set the Choice dropdown to Full
Set the Bidding dropdown to Per Lot or Per Item
Click Create
Full Choice - Floor Bidder Wins
Once you click the Sell button the button itself changes to Confirm Choice
Select (tick box) the items to sell on the lot listing window and click Confirm Choice
Please Note
If the items have not been selected properly, the Confirm Choice button's text will turn Red
The items not selected should now be left in the ring for bidding
Full Choice - Internet Bidder Wins
The Internet bidder bids on the items as per the usual Webcast front end bidding
Once the winning bid sells, the Internet bidder will get a pop up notification confirming their winning bid
The Internet bidder will then have Lot/Item choices populated in the Item Information box, which they can tick to select - then click SEND to confirm the choices to the Webcast Clerk
The Internet bidder's chosen Items/Lots then show in the Webcast Console as below
Click Confirm Choice to allow the sale of these Items/Lots
The items not selected should now be left in the ring for further bidding
Please Note
Should the internet bidder not respond to their choice request in a timely fashion, it may be advisable to send them an online message.
In extreme cases it is possible to click Undo (see above image) to return the lot back to the ring and public bidding
Sell Group with Numerical Order Choice (not currently supported)
Numerical Order Choice means the winning bidder has the choice of items / lots but must choose them in numerical order - e.g. Lots 1 to 3 of 5 lots available. They cannot select lots 1 and 4, for example, but they can take lots 1 to 4.
Select the lots / items to group in the Lot Listing window by highlighting them with a tick box (see image 1 at the top of the page)
Set the Choice dropdown to Numerical Order
Set the Bidding dropdown to Per Lot or Per Item
Click Create
Numerical Order Choice - Floor Bidder Wins (not currently supported)
See Full Choice - Floor Bidder wins.
Numerical Order Choice - Internet Bidder Wins (not currently supported)
See Full Choice - Internet Bidder wins.