To place a bid on an item you must first register for an account and you must be signed in to place a bid. You will see a bid box appear on each auction item listing. Enter your bid amount (our site does use Proxy Bidding). You do not need to place a dollar sign and an implied decimal will be added if you place a whole number bid. You can backspace and add cents to your bid if you would like. 

You may confirm or cancel your bid at this point but if you want to place this bid select the “Yes, Confirm my bid” button. Our site uses proxy bidding so that you can enter your highest maximum bid and we will place bids for you automatically based on the bid increment amount shown. Only you will know your Maximum bid and it will require another bidder to bid against you to increase the price. There is no need to enter commas if your bid amount exceeds $999. Just enter the numerals. The earliest bidder wins when two bidders place the exact same maximum bid. It is always a good idea to add a few extra pennies to your bid to avoid a tie.

Example:

An item is currently at $1 with no other bids and you place your maximum bid of $22. The bid increment is $1 and there is no reserve. You will become the winning bidder at $1. Later, another bidder places a maximum bid of $10 and you will immediately become the winning bidder at $11. The other bidder increases his bid to $15. You become the winning bidder again at $16. The new bidder now places a maximum bid of $22 which matches your original bid of $22. You will remain the winning bidder at $22 since you placed your $22 bid first. When there is a tie, the earlier bid wins. Now the new bidder places a new bid at $25. He now becomes the winning bidder at $23.

Caring Transitions/CTBids.com will bid incrementally* for you up to your maximum bid. Your maximum bid is kept a secret from other users. *The exception to this rule is when your maximum bid is placed on an item with a reserve and your bid is less than the reserve. In that case, your maximum bid amount will be shown.

Extra time will be added when bids are placed near the time that the sale begins to close to allow all bidders the same chance to win the item.