PRELIMINARY STEPS TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR LIVE AUCTIONS

Register and Login

In order to participate in our LIVE Auctions an active account at karamitsos.com website is nesessary. If you already have an account please visit our website and log in by filling your username at the field (1) and your password at the field (2). Then press button “Log in” (3). If you don’t have an account, you have to register first by pressing “Register now” (4).

Below you can see our registration form that you have to fill in. Please fill in all the fields (Name, Surname, Username - Password - choose easy to remember username and password, Address, Zip-code, City, State, Country, E-mail, Phone number). Please fill in your primary email (1) in order to get all our notifications! You can choose, if you like, to get notifications for upcoming auctions (2), you can write down any special notes (3), agree with our Terms and Conditions (4) and finally register by pressing the “Register” button (5).


HOW TO BID IN OUR LIVE AUCTIONS

Postal Bids

You can place a postal bid in our LIVE Auctions by phone, fax, email and of course via our website. Postal bids are accepted until 3 hours before LIVE Auction begins. IMPORTANT: If you don’t have an account at karamitsos.com, when placing a postal bid in a LIVE Auction (via phone, fax, email) an account will be automatically created for you. In that case, if you want to place later any real time bids, please make sure to contact first info@karamitsos.com so as to learn your login details.

Real Time Bids

To start real time bidding, please visit our website at karamitsos.com the day and time of the Auction, login and enter our Auction by clicking on the auction’s cover (1) or auction’s title (2).

If the LIVE Auction hasn’t started yet you will be automatically redirected to a “pending page” where you can see when the Auction will start (1). If you want to participate you must log in to our new LIVE Auction Platform (2). The LIVE Auction platform will automatically launch when time expires

LIVE AUCTION PLATFORM

When the auction starts our LIVE Auction Platform will launch and you will be able to place some real time bids!

Above you can see our LIVE Auction Platform. You can see the number of the auction and the current lot (1). At the left section (2) you can see the photo of the lot, its number, its starting price and the description. At the rigth section, there is the message section (3) where you can see if you are winning the lot and any other system messages, the current highest bid and the its bidder (4), the countdown timer (5), the next step (6), the place bid button (7) and fi nally the log of the lot (8). When the lot will open there will be the indication “Accepting Bids...”. When the lot is about to close, the countdown timer will start and when there is a new bid the timer will be updated. The timer turns red when the time is ready to expire. As long as you are winning the lot, the system will not allow you to bid your self! You can change the next step fi eld at any price you want (no underbids allowed and the next step must be at leaset 5% higher than current bid). Finally, you can view the log of the auction for the current lot at the section below (8).
Our new LIVE Auction Platform will be continuously upgraded and new features will be added. For further information regarding our new LIVE Auctions and its features please visit karamitsos.com or email us at info@karamitsos.com