Short answers, taken from the same rules the platform enforces. For the detail, the bidding rules and fee page go deeper.
No. Anyone can browse auctions, see current prices and read listings without signing up. You need an account to bid, watch, list or review. That is what lets BidBlitz enforce the rule that a seller cannot bid on their own auction.
Yes. A bid is a commitment to buy the item at that price if you win it. BidBlitz does not let you retract a bid because the price moved past what you expected. A marketplace where bids can be undone is just a suggestion box. If you are not sure, do not bid.
Anti-sniping extends the auction. A bid placed near the close pushes the end time out so a last-second bid cannot simply outrun everyone else. The extension is applied on our servers, not by your browser, so it affects all bidders equally.
The server. Price, winner and end time are decided in the database; the countdown on your screen is a visual guide. When the official clock reaches zero, the result is final and further bids are rejected.
No. It is blocked, and it is checked in the database rather than hidden in the interface. A seller bidding on their own listing would push the price up for everyone else, so it is refused outright.
Not to change a result. Anti-sniping may extend the ending while bidding is still open, but once an auction closes, the outcome stands. A seller cannot edit the terms of an auction that already has bids.
Sellers pay one fee: 5% of the winning price, and only on an auction that actually sells. Listing is free, bidding is free, and an auction that does not sell costs nothing. The fee page has a worked example.
No. The buyer pays the winning bid plus whatever their payment provider charges to process the payment. BidBlitz does not set, mark up or quote that provider charge: it is calculated by the provider on its own payment page.
The auction moves to your buying dashboard as a sale with the amount due and a payment step through the connected provider. Paying outside BidBlitz removes every protection this site provides, so the payment always happens through the sale.
No. BidBlitz is not a bank and does not custody funds. Payment goes through the connected provider between buyer and seller, and the sale is marked paid only once that provider confirms it. Nothing on this site should be read as an escrow promise.
Payout is a separate, controlled step. It does not fire automatically the moment a buyer pays. The buyer's payment is confirmed first, the fulfilment is confirmed, the 5% platform fee is applied, and the payout is then released and recorded so its status is visible. That deliberate gap is what makes a dispute possible before money has already left.
No. An auction that has bids runs on the terms buyers saw when they bid. That is the whole point of writing the rules down first.
No. BidBlitz does not ship items, does not set delivery prices and does not promise an arrival date. Collection or delivery is agreed directly between buyer and seller in the private message thread on the transaction. If a listing does not say how the item is delivered, ask the seller in that thread before you pay.
Raise it through the dispute process. BidBlitz keeps the record: the auction terms as they were when you bid, the payment state as the provider confirmed it, the delivery confirmation and the message thread, and a person reviews it. There is no automatic refund button, but there is a real record to judge from.
There is no automatic return window. Bids are binding and a win is a sale, and Zimbabwe's Consumer Protection Act excludes transactions conducted by auction from its cooling-off provision. Problems after a sale go through support and the dispute process.
Every auction has a report control on its page, and messages on a transaction can be reported too. Reports are read by a person, not auto-actioned. A listing flagged for review is held while it is checked rather than shown unchecked.
Only the buyer and seller of a completed transaction. Reviews are tied to real sales, so neither side can review an auction they were never part of, and nobody can buy or farm a rating.
No, and BidBlitz does not claim otherwise. Profiles show only what the platform genuinely knows: whether the email is verified, how many sales have completed, and what previous counterparties wrote. There is no identity, phone or address verification badge, because that check does not exist yet.
Public profiles show a display name, username, avatar and the marketplace record above. Email addresses, payment details and private messages are never public. The privacy policy lists exactly what is collected and why.
Browsing, watching and listing are free. The only charge BidBlitz applies is the 5% seller platform fee on a sold auction, plus any fee your payment provider charges to process a payment.
No. BidBlitz is a new Zimbabwean auction marketplace. It has real listings, real rules and real transactions, and it does not dress itself up as anything larger. Read more about what BidBlitz does and does not do.
Not answered here? Ask. The help pages cover fees, bidding rules and settlement in full, and how BidBlitz works walks both journeys end to end.
See also: Privacy policy, bidding rules and fees.
