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After conducting 204 monthly auctions, beginning in February 1999, Trade Card Place Auctions have been discontinued until futher notice. The descriptive text below no longer applies but is retained for reference purposes, as are other Trade Card Place pages dealing with these auctions.
The
Trade Card Place conducts
Monthly
Online Internet Auctions offering Victorian Trade
Cards and similar Paper Ephemera in a wide range of
categories and prices, for new and advanced
collectors alike.
A new auction opens
on the first Thursday of each month and closes 6
days later on the following Wednesday evening, unless otherwise
scheduled.
Bidding is done
online in real time, and you see the result of your
bid within a few seconds of placing it. GoTo Bids
are executed competitively, and lots with
Reserves are identified as such. No email,
phone, fax or mail bids are accepted.
At 9:00 PM Central
Time on the closing day an individual 15-minute
timer is assigned to each lot and starts ticking.
When a lot's timer ticks down to 0 seconds the
bidding on that lot is closed, but if a lot
receives a bid increase before that time then its
timer is reset to 15 minutes and starts ticking
again. This closing procedure is designed to
eliminate the last-second "sniping" that occurs in
some other Internet auctions.
Please click on
LotSearcherTM
to view the currently
offered lots.
More about Trade
Card Place Auctions:
- To place a bid
you must be registered as a bidder at Trade Card
Place Auctions. If you're not, an easy
Registration
process applies to the current and all future
auctions.
- Before you
place any bids please visit the Terms
page for a complete description of the
definitions used, the bidding process, and the
terms of payment. Your bid is considered to be
your agreement to these terms.
- To view the
offered lots your Internet browser must be able
to execute Javascript, a capability of all but
the earliest browsers. Go to the
Help
page if you're experiencing
problems.
- After you've
placed one or more bids, LotWatcherTM
gives you an
automatically updated bid status.
- Each auction
offers new lots together with unsold lots from
the previous auction. When an unsold lot is
carried over from the previous auction its
minimum opening bid is reduced by 7%. Lots that
remain unsold after being carried over once will
not be carried over a second time.
- Payments are
accepted in US funds only by cash, check, money
order, or credit card via PayPal (International bidders only).
- All lots are
authentic and are fully and accurately
described, including a large full-color image,
with a money-back guarantee if not as
represented.
- The Trade Card Place began
operation in May, 1996, and presently averages over 600 visitors
per day. Trade Card Place Auctions began conducting interactive, online, Internet auctions in February,
1999, with 204 auctions having been successfully
conducted since then, and over 10,000 lots have been sold. Over 350 bidders are currently
registered (including International bidders from Australia,
Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, and Japan).
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