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Whether you’re brokering cars, boats, property or even industrial equipment, your fixed overheads can really eat into profits.

Running an online auction can help you shave costs and realise an item's full value by reaching buyers from across the world. Sensible Development creates robust online auctions systems that make it:

• easy for buyers to bid through
• quick for your staff to upload product details beforehand and reconcile payments afterwards
• clear for buyers to know when their goods are ready to pick up.

See an example of a online auctions site we built here:

Apex Auctions - selling industrial machinery to a global market.

If you’re new to online auctions, call Alan on 01273 621 110 for some sound advice on using this powerful technology for your business.

Six reasons to run an online auction

An online auction can help you:

1. Achieve higher prices by reaching a global audience of interested buyers.
2. Earn more commission through lower transaction costs.
3. Entice visitors to view certain items - by monitoring website traffic figures.
4. Get early bids placed before the auction begins - through wise marketing.
5. Win buyers' trust that the equipment they have bid on has been inspected so they won’t have any nasty surprises.
6. Save on storage space because buyers can pick up goods directly from sellers.

What makes a good online auction system?

Sensible Development’s online auctions system gives you all this and more …

• Real-time bidding - buyers needn't refresh the web page to see the latest live price and whether they’re winning or losing.
• Real-time 'profit and loss' monitoring for you via the back-end.
• Consistent branding with your own site. So buyers are more confident that the site is secure, and impressed with your professional image.
• Secure payment - crucial for both buyers and sellers.
• Options to set start prices, “win it now”, “ buy it now”, or reserve prices.

See the full feature list for our online auctions software

Custom options for our online auctions system

We can customise our system to give staff exactly what you need for your staff, customers and sector

• Integration with finance systems We can take the drudge out of reconciling payments with auction lots.
• Online sellers' accounts Updating your sellers on auction news, messages and special offers.
• Tracking items The seller’s account stores a history of items listed and sold.

If you'd like to discuss your vision for online auctions, call Alan for some sound advice on  01273 521 110.