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AUCTION RULES
WHAT IS IT?
It's the Online Trading Site for Fancy Pigeons! Sellers reach hundreds of qualified buyers on a daily basis, and realize an excellent, low-cost opportunity to market their stock. Buyers are presented with excellent deals on outstanding flying kits and breeders - all the excitement of a pigeon auction from the comfort of your own home!
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Top quality pigeons are entered on the pigeonauctions.com/fancy site; thousands of qualified bidders see the birds, read over the information, look at pictures (all online) of the birds and place bids on the ones that catch their fancy. When the auction closes, the seller and highest bidder (winner) are notified by email. The winner makes payment and the seller ships the bird(s) to the winner. pigeonauctions.com/fancy is not responsible for any technical failure beyond our control (such as power outages or server problems). If an outage occurs during final bidding we will decide if it is necessary to repost those lots.
GETTING STARTED:
All you need is a connection to the Internet and a web browser (any kind will do), a working email address and a form of payment. If you've got all three then you can just point your browser at www.pigeonauctions.com/fancy and click on the "Register" button. You'll be signed up in under a minute's time. If you have problems, call (405) 478-5155 (during operating hours ¬ 8-5pm M-F). We'll either help you right then or call you back shortly and get you up and running in no time. Remember, please call Monday through Friday if you need help registering. We are closed on Weekends.
There is NO CHARGE to register ¬ we do ask for your credit card or payment information when you register. This is how we ensure that you are who you say you are. We need to do this to protect the good people who enter birds for sale on our site, and to protect the integrity of the auction itself. Please keep your information current.
WHAT ARE THE COSTS FOR WINNING BIDDERS?
Winning Bidders/Buyers are responsible to pay to the seller whatever they bid for their winning bids in the auction plus shipping fees. Shipping usually costs about $50 per bird, $10 per additional bird (US) for an approved shipping container and US Postal Service Express (2 day) service (within the US). These prices apply if shipping is handled by pigeonauctions.com/fancy though in most cases the seller and buyer will make their own arrangements when the seller is shipping directly to the buyer.
SELLER'S CONDITIONS AND COSTS?
1) We charge a $10 insert fee per lot for lots selling from $1-$99; $100 and above, the fee is 10% (the listing fee of $10 is waived for birds selling for over $100 and a straight 10% is charged instead). This only applies to lots that receive bids. Immediately after the auction closes, pigeonauctions.com/fancy deducts the $10 or 10% posting fee from your credit card in your registration file. (We will only deduct the $10 or 10% if the lot sells.) The seller is entitled to run each lot 3 additional times if it does not sell after the first posting.
2) A lot is defined as one pigeon or one pair (cock and hen). Sellers are required to pay pigeonauctions.com/fancy 10% of total sale price on lots with winning bids. The posting fee will be excluded on any birds listed with a 100% donation to American Pigeon Museum and Library. There will be no refund of the $10 posting fee if the lot sells. Effective September 15, 2011. Rates are subject to change*
PICTURE SIZE:
Pictures must be 640-480 pixels, this is the same size as a 4 X 5 or 3 X 5 picture. Pedigrees must be 700-900 pixels, this is around an 8.5 X 11. When creating a lot put the picture in the 1st browse box and the pedigree in the 2nd browse box. If there is only a picture or only a pedigree, it would go in the 1st browse box. There are two browse boxes on the create lot page. This is very important to remember when posting your lots. The system automatically downsizes pictures and pedigree to the proper size. The system cannot increase the size. All image boxes are clearly marked "Bird Image" or "Pedigree Image." Please use the proper image box when posting pictures and pedigrees.
GRAPHIC FEES:
If Pigeonauctions.com is required to perform graphical work (edit photos, edit pedigree, scan in pedigrees, switch the pedigree and picture, etc...) we have a $10 per photo/pedigree graphics fee. Our auction is set up to allow you (the seller) to input everything yourself directly onto our website - you can upload your pictures, pedigrees, and type in the exact descriptions you'd like for your auction lot. If you want pigeonauctions.com/fancy to create your lot and photograph your bird, we must charge $20. If there are problems with your upload and we must make corrections to post your lot, we ONLY charge the graphics fee IF the lot does not meet the requirements and we must make corrections or edit your lot.
SELLER REQUIRMENTS:
1) All lots must have the band numbers of the birds listed. It is not acceptable to list kits, or any other birds until you have the very birds available for sale. (Unless stated in the description). Lots must be posted before Wednesday of each week, or they will not be posted on that week's auction.
2) The seller must be ready and willing to send the bird(s) to the buyer upon notice from pigeonauctions.com/fancy that the auction has closed. Please have a postal service approved shipping container ready for each bird or lot (as appropriate) before you start your bird on the auction. The birds must be sent using the postal service's "Express Mail".
3) The seller must guarantee all birds to be reproductively sound. If the birds will not lay or cannot produce fertile eggs (or fill eggs in the cock's case) - you must be willing to replace the bird for the first 60 days after the close of the auction. pigeonauctions.com/fancy is in no way responsible for any default on the sellers part. We are here to offer a place to buy and sell your birds and in no way can guarantee what others sell.
COLLECTING PAYMENT FROM BUYER:
After the lot closes and an email is received by the buyer and seller stating that the lot is close, it is up to the buyer and seller to make all arrangements for payment and shipping to their mutual satisfaction.
PRIVACY RIGHT:
We will never divulge any of your personal information (including credit card #s, phone numbers, address etc.) to anyone. Period. Many sites on the Internet sell the data they collect on their sites to advertisers, or other sites to make money. We WILL NEVER DO THAT. The information you enter on our site is guaranteed to be 100% safe and secure.
Pigeonauctions.com/fancy is in the business of hosting the best Online Trading Site for Pigeons on the web.
Special pigeonauction.com/fancy features you won't find on any other site (until they copy us that is ....)
- Sellers can enter the information about their birds (text and pictures) directly on the site themselves. Therefore the seller is in complete control over how their birds are depicted on the site, how much the opening bid must be. This puts the seller in complete control of his or her own lots.
- Auctions will not close while bidders still want to bid! All auctions will have a scheduled time to close. When the auction reaches this predetermined close time, it will remain open until such a time, as there are no more valid bids for a period of 4 (four) minutes. This is the way auctions work in the real world, we've never seen an auctioneer close an auction while people still have their hands in the air! We won't either.
- $10 flat fee to enter birds on the site (only applies if the lot sells or more than two re-postings are requested).
- Shipping can be difficult at times in some areas. It may get better or could get worse. Remember if the seller has difficulty shipping to your area please be patient and work together to resolve the problem/s. Shipping prices are for states within the U.S. that do not require any additional costs above the normal. If to get your lot/s to you requires extra costs the buyer must cover those costs (NO EXCEPTION).
- All changes go into effect immediately unless otherwise stated.