Two journeys that meet at one closing time: the buyer who wants the item, and the seller who wants the price.
Start on the home page (ending soon, live now, recently listed) or browse by category, price and ending time. Adding an auction to your watchlist sends you its updates without committing you to anything.
Every auction shows the current bid and the next minimum. Bidding accepts that minimum or higher, and bids are final: there is no retracting one because the price moved. The item page shows how many bids have landed and exactly how long is left.
When the countdown reaches zero, our servers decide the result. If someone bids in the final minutes, anti-sniping extends the ending so a last-second bid cannot simply outrun everyone else. See the bidding rules.
The highest bidder at the close wins. A sale opens on your dashboard with the amount due and a payment step through the connected provider. The sale is only marked paid once that provider confirms it. BidBlitz does not mark a payment paid on hope.
The transaction page opens a private message thread between you and the seller. Collection or delivery is agreed there, directly, before you and the seller complete the handover.
Once the transaction completes, both sides can review the other. Only people who were actually part of this sale can. Reviews are tied to transactions, not to anyone's opinion.
Write a specific title, describe the condition honestly, add real photos and set a starting bid, a reserve if you want one, and a closing time. A draft saves as you go; publishing puts it in front of buyers. Start a listing.
Bids arrive in real time and the current price updates on every screen. You cannot bid on your own auction, and you cannot edit the terms of an auction that has bids. What buyers agreed to is what they get.
At the close the highest bidder wins. They pay through the connected provider, and the sale moves to paid only when the provider confirms the money, not when the button is pressed.
Hand the item over as agreed in the transaction's message thread, then mark it delivered. Confirming delivery is what lets the next step happen, and it is recorded as a fact rather than assumed.
Payout is a separate, controlled step. It does not fire automatically the moment a buyer pays. BidBlitz applies the 5% platform fee and releases the rest to you, and the payout is recorded so you can see its status on your dashboard.
Completed sales and the reviews they produce show on your public profile. That record is the only reputation signal BidBlitz displays: there are no purchased badges and no unearned ticks.
The server has the final say. Price, winner and end time are decided in the database, not in your browser. The countdown on your screen is a visual guide; the official clock is the referee.
Anti-sniping protects the ending. A bid placed in the final moments extends the auction, so nobody can win by waiting until the last second to jump in. The extension is applied server-side, and it is not a courtesy your connection has to earn.
Closed means closed. Once an auction ends, further bids are rejected. There is no quiet extension for a favourite buyer and no reopening because the price was disappointing.
Drafts, cancelled and moderated listings never appear. Only listings a seller has published are visible to buyers, and a listing flagged for review is held rather than shown while it is checked.
BidBlitz charges sellers one fee: 5% of the winning price on an auction that sells. There is no listing fee, no subscription and no fee on an auction that does not sell.
The buyer pays the winning bid plus whatever the payment provider charges to process the payment. BidBlitz does not set, know or quote that provider charge: it is calculated by the provider on its own payment page, so what you authorise there is what you pay there.
The seller's 5% comes out of the sale, and the payout that follows is a separate, deliberate step. The fee page shows a full worked example with both sides of the transaction.
Payment wording on this page is deliberately provider-neutral: the provider actually connected to BidBlitz is named on the help pages and in the site footer, where it is read from live configuration rather than written into a document that could drift out of date.
Delivery is arranged between you and the seller. BidBlitz does not ship items, does not set delivery prices and does not promise an arrival date. Specifics live on the listing if the seller provided them, and in the transaction's message thread if they did not.
What BidBlitz does provide is a 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 between the two parties. If something goes wrong, the dispute process reviews that record. A person looks at it, not a refund button.
BidBlitz is not an escrow service and does not hold your money while you argue. What it holds is the evidence, which is what a dispute actually needs.
New here? Read the bidding rules and fee example first: both take about a minute. Then either browse live auctions or list something to sell. The frequently asked questions cover the rest.
See also: Privacy policy, bidding rules and fees.
