Buyers

How to become a seller?

The following are the setps involved in registering with the Community Auctions website as a seller.

  1. The perspective seller has to have a Facebook account and a personal or a business Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com);
  2. The perspective seller visits the Community Auctions registration page;
  3. The perspective seller will be redirected to login into his/her Facebook account
    • The perspective seller will have to grant all Facebook permissions she/he is prompted for;
  4. The perspective seller will have to select a Facebook page whose identity the seller wants to use while posting auctions,
  5. The perspective seller then submits the request by clicking on the register button;
  6. Following a successful registration, the seller needs to purchase an allownce for posting auctions i.e. the seller needs to ‘Fill Up On Auctions’;
    These are sold individually (for one auction) or as more economical bundles of several auctions;
  7. Any person that has administration rights for the registered Facebook page can post auctions using the page’s identity (regardless of who has actually registered the page).

What are different roles a user visiting the Community Auctions website may take?

User of the Community Auctions website may be visiting the site in one of two roles:

  1. Seller
  2. Buyer

This is reflected in the main menu of the home page.

Sellers are people that offer an article for sale via an auction. They create an auction on the website.

Buyers are people interested in buying an article that is a subject of an auction. They learn about the auction by visiting the Community Auctions website and browsing the posted auctions. Buyers bid on an auction. The highest bid wins the auction.

How do users login into the DIY Auctions website?

Users of the Community Auctions website may be asked to login e.g.

  • Buyers, when attempting to put a bid in,
  • Sellers, when attempting to register or to manage their auctions.

The users login into the Community Auctions website by logging into their Facebook account. Basically, the user is redirected to the Facebook login page.