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Express Bids offers the ultimate sealed ebid (electronic bid) online auctions where there is no need for any auctioneers. There are three variations of our ebid auctions on our auction site, namely: Low Bid auctions (Reverse Bid auctions), High Bid auctions and Dream Prize Raffles, which brings a unique, progressive, interesting and fun way to bid in an online auction. When our electronic auctioneers hammer falls you could win for yourself a new, technological advanced and high demand product, which carries a full manufacturer’s warranty at a fraction of the price you would purchase the product at an online retail store or department store.
Why buy when you can place ebids and win in our fantastic online auctions. All products listed in our auctions, have been carefully selected after extensive market research by our team.
Express Bids is established as a Limited Company and registered with Companies House in the United Kingdom. Express Bids carries the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) accreditation to give you our valued customer, the peace of mind that your personal details are securely stored within our database and will not be distributed to any third parties without your prior consent.
Five percent (5%) of ALL entry fees received during the bidding process across our three online auction platforms namely: Low Bid auctions, High Bid auctions and Dream Prize Raffle auctions, will be divided equally between Express Bids charities, namely: Cancer Research UK and World Vision which are listed on the homepage of our website.
Our continued focus is on customer satisfaction and enjoyment and to ensure that you leave our website happy, excited and wanting to return to bid again. Throughout our entire auction cycle, the bid process is aimed at being as simple as possible for you our valued customer.
As you navigate around our website you will find three variations of Auction type platforms, namely:
Low Bid Auction – Also known as Reverse Bid Auctions where the Lowest Unique ebid will win the auction. There is a set number of ebids required in order for bidding to close and each bid will carry an entry fee, which will have a value dependant on the value of the product being auctioned. Once the required number of bids is reached, the Lowest Unique ebid which no one else has bid will win the auction.
High Bid Auction – The most common online auction design where the highest ebid when our electronic auctioneers hammer falls will win the auction on a set auction closing date. There is a set entry fee of £5 for each bid placed in this auction process.
Dream Prize Raffles – Works in the same way as the Express Bids Low Bid auction platform except that there is no ebid but rather only a entry fee and works just like a raffle, with the winner being drawn at random. The auction period will close when the required number of entries which are continually displayed throughout the auction are reached.
You the bidder are only required to pay only your entry fee into the online auction initially and not your ebid value in our Low Bid auctions and High Bid auctions, unless come the end of the auction you are the successful bidder. Should you be the successful bidder at the end of the designated online auction period, you will then be required to pay your bid value in order to receive the product which you won in our online auction.
We encrypt your bidding information using SSL and industrial strength security measures to ensure that all your personal information stored within our site are safe. We are running our site using 2048-bit encryption and SSL v.3.0, fully certificated by Comodo CA Ltd. http://www.comodo.com
Our site is hosted on a dedicated server by a leading website hosting company in the UK and our dedicated server is hosted behind a managed ASA Cisco firewall to help protect against hackers as well as running the latest addition of McAfee Anti-Virus software.
All products which are auctioned on our website are brand new products and carry a full manufacturer’s warranty.
Good Luck and Happy Bidding!
Express Bids Team