Having trouble with all the new words and terms used within the Biker Bids community? Look no further! Our Biker Bids Auction Glossary will make you an on-line auction expert in no time. These terms are arranged alphabetically, but you can quickly jump to a specific term by selecting its first letter from the index of the knowledge base glossary below.

Sellers and buyers can share information with one another on their Biker Bids AboutMe profile page. This is a great place to put contact information and sales policies, or to indicate what types of items you collect or sell. To edit your profile, login to the Members Area and click on the "AboutMe" link.

The following is a list of abbreviations that are commonly used on auctions and their meanings. Condition of item: BSN -- Brand Spanking New M -- Mint OTS -- Off The Shelf NM -- Near Mint VG -- Very Good VF -- Very Fine F -- Fine U -- Used SB -- Sealed Box NVO -- Never Opened RSB -- Re-Sealed Box Status of item: VR -- Very Rare HTF -- Hard To Find OOP -- Out Of Print Misc. NR -- No Reserve

This option for IDV sellers automatically resubmits your auction if your item is not sold when the auction closes. The auction reopens with the same information. If you wish to edit the auction once it's been resubmitted.

Under certain circumstances, you may want to block specific bidders from participating in your auctions. You can enter the Biker Bid IDs of users you want to block from participating in your auctions, add also decide whether to Show your Reason. By checking Yes in the Show Reason, the reason will be showed to the blocked user through out your listings.

An offer of price for an item up for sale.

A historical list of all the bids made on a particular auction during or after the auction.

The standardized amount an item increases in price after each new bid. Biker Bids sets the increment, which rises according to the present high bid value of an item.

Bid retractions or cancellations are permitted only under extraordinary circumstances. Once your bid is placed, you have an obligation to complete the transaction if you win. Keep your User name and password confidential, so that other users cannot access your account. If you believe you have an extraordinary situation (for example, you typed an extra digit and bid 1000 instead of 100), please contact customer support.

Posting extremely high bids to protect the lower bid of an earlier bidder, usually in association with the bidder who placed the shielding bid. Because Biker Bids bidders cannot automatically retract their maximum bids, Biker Bids auctions are not subject to this kind of auction fraud.

The Bulk Loader is a tool that allows you to load a batch of auctions all at once. Instead of submitting individual auctions one by one, you can submit all of your auctions in CSV file format and send that information directly to us. The Bulk Loader then uploads multiple auctions, saving you valuable time and effort.

Buy Out or Fixed Price Sale listings have a fixed price set by the seller and buyers simply choose to buy the item at that price.

The practice of buying all quantities of an item during a Dutch auction. This is typically done for resale purposes.

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When a seller has multiple, identical items offered for sale. The bidder will enter a maximum bid he is willing to pay for an item, and the number of items he wants to purchase. The highest bidder(s) will receive the number of items they have bid on, and the remaining bidders will receive the number of items still available.

Buyers or sellers can choose to be notified by email when something happens in one of their auctions. Learn how to set up your preferences for event notification in the Members Area.

Sellers can choose to close their auctions early if they're satisfied with the current bid price and wish to sell the item to the current winning bidder.

An escrow service can be employed to help you carry out a transaction once the winner of the auction is decided. Internet escrow services ensure the buyer and the seller that their transactions are secure and that the shipped items arrive safely and efficiently.

Auction listings placed prominently on the home page and category pages. Only available to Biker Bids ID Verified members. The Featured Auctions are are disabled for Trial Sellers.

One member's public comments about another member in regard to their auction dealings. Feedback comments posted on Biker Bids cannot be removed or changed once submitted unless comments are not transaction-related.

A term used to describe the occurrence of a page being viewed. The number of hits on a listing page indicates that the listing has been seen by that number of viewers. The number of hits are a reasonable indication of interest in a listing.

The introductory page of a website. The home page typically contains hyperlinks to the various components of the site.

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is the publishing language of the World Wide Web. HTML is easy to learn and you can insert it into any text description to make your listings and webpages stand out! Biker Bids provides some basic information and helpful links to HTML education sites to help you get started.

Any icon, graphic or text in an electronic document that is connected to a specific location within the same or to a different document or resource. "Links" are the feature that create the Web for countless computers and networks.

A person who has registered as an IDV Member of Biker Bids and paid the IDV fee. Biker Bids requires the registration of valid contact information prior to buying and selling.

A section of the Members Area that saves the buyer’s item of interest. Items can be added and removed from the Item Watch List at anytime.

The number of days people can bid on your auction. You select a length of time from 1 to 30 days.

The seller's "listings page" is a publicly accessible page where all of the seller's current auctions are listed.

This is the worst kind of bidder - especially for sellers. They are the ones looking for the super-bargain (which no longer exisits in today's on-line auction environment). Lowballers only bid one or two times (though nibblers can be considered a varient of lowballer), and will bid only the lowest amount necessary to become the high bidder in an auction. When they loose, especially to a Sniper, they whine and complain on message board forums about the unfairness of life. A lowballer will never win an auction unless they are the sole bidder for the item.

Maximum Bid is Biker Bids proxy bidding system. Biker Bids will bid at the lowest possible increments on your behalf until your maximum bid (the most you are willing to pay) is reached.

Whether you are a buyer or seller, your Members Area is a unique and efficient focal point for all your Biker Bids activity.

A New Listing icon (Yellow Sun) indicates an item posted within the past 48 hours. New listings can be found grouped together as a link from the homepage.

The nibbler is someone who only bids the minimum amount necessary to place a valid bid, and does so several times in a row until they become high bidder, or the current bid amount is more than they are willing to pay for the item. People new to on-line auction bidding generally use this method because they do not understand proxy bidding and think that whatever amount they enter will be the amount they will have to pay for the item. There is no advantage to Nibbling as anyone who places a proper proxy bid or a snipe will end up beating a nibbler's bid 99.99% of the time. This is way Sniping has become so popular - by placing your bid at the very last moment, nibblers cannot run up your bid amount, and if you see an auction has a nibbler as the high bidder, you can be fairly certain that their max bid amount is not more than a few dollars higher than the current required minimum bid, so don't have to break the bank in order to beat them.

The opening bid price sellers set for their auctions

The mandatory starting bid for a given auction, set by the seller at the time of listing. An opening bid should be either the maximum you would be willing to pay for that item or the opening amount plus the increment shown on the item page

To submit a maximum bid that is higher than another buyer's maximum bid. You will be notified by Biker Bids if your maximum bid has been outbid.

Photo Upload is a feature for adding photos to your auctions using the Biker Bids Auctions submission process. IDV Members can upload as many as 10 photos. Trial Members can only upload 1 photo to their listing.

This is the type of bid you can place on an active auction at any time during its run. A proxy bid is placed by bidding a fixed amount for the item you are interested in. The auction server will then determine how much of that amount is needed in order for you to be the high bidder for the auction, using all other bidder's proxy amounts and the bid increment. The server will then raise the amount of the bid (up to, but not exceding your initial amount) as needed for you to remain the high bidder. The total amount of a proxy bid is known only to the person who places it - the seller and other bidders have no way of knowing what your maximum bid amount it unless an amount that is higher is placed. A proxy bid has the advantage of not requiring you to be on-line at the time the auction ends.

In order to place a bid or sell an item you need to register on Biker Bids. Registration is free and it is required. This helps provide all participants with a safer environment to buy and sell. Your registration information is private. You can find out more about how Biker Bids handles your personal information by reading our Privacy Policy page.

A "reserve" is a price that must be met by a bidder before the item can be sold. It is usually higher than the starting bid price, and not revealed to bidders.

In a Reserve Price Auction, the seller has the option of setting a Reserve Price, below which the listing will not sell. The Reserve Price is higher than the Opening Bid amount. If the seller has set a Reserve Price you will see either "reserve not met" or "reserve met" depending on whether the current bid price is above or below this.

Shipping and handling charges relating to the sale of an item.

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A Snipe is the type of bid that is placed during the final seconds of an auction. Similar to a proxy bid, the snipe bid has the advantage (if well timed) of not allowing anyone the chance to place a bid after it. People who use this bid method are referred to as Snipers, and often use a special software program that will place the bid for them, so they need not be on-line at the time the auction ends. The Snipe also allows you to avoid the dreaded "Nibbler".

Buyers bid until the auction ends. The item is then sold to the highest bidder at the end of the auction period.

The starting price or opening bid price the sellers set for their auctions

A legally binding agreement that outlines Biker Bids operating policies. All registered Biker Bids members must agree to abide by these terms and conditions when using our services.

You do not have to be IDV Member in order to buy on Biker Bids, but doing so makes you a more appealing buyer. Sellers have an option of disallowing Trial Members from bidding on their auctions. Trial sellers are limited to listing 5 items and have several major listing features disabled. This is our "Try before you buy" account.

A Uniform Resource Locator is a way of specifying a resource, i.e., an Internet address. Every electronic document that is accessible via the Internet has a unique URL. A URL consists of a protocol name, a colon (:), two forward slashes (//), a domain name, and a path to a resource (using / as a separator). For example, the Biker Bids home page might be found at the URL http://www.bikerbids.com/.

A program which replicates itself on computer systems by incorporating itself into other programs that are shared among computer systems.

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A character string that is used in text searches to make finding a match easier. An asterisk (*) usually means find any character or set of characters.

A global (Worldwide) hypertext system that uses the Internet as it's transport mechanism. In a hypertext system, you navigate by clicking hyperlinks, which display another document which also contains hyperlinks. You are using the worldwide web right now to view this site.

An acronym for "What You See is What You Get". What you see in your document in a WYSIWYG HTML editor is pretty much what you'll see when you review the resulting HTML file on the Web in your browser. The HTML code stays hidden beneath the page you create