Online Bidding is the way of the future in the auction world, and we offer it in almost every auction we conduct.
Offering your loved one’s Estate or your private collection, or even a few items, in an auction that includes online bidding, opens the market of bidders worldwide! Online Bidding is a great convenience to Buyers with an average of nearly 7,000 registered bidders and countless views in each of our online auctions. With the accessibility of bidding at their fingertips, regardless of location, your property is getting the exposure you want, leading to the fairest market values possible.
An increasingly popular auction method is our Online Only Onsite Auctions. These timed, Online Only Auctions are more efficient and less expensive to the Seller. Offering online only bidding, with items being cataloged, photographed, and sold directly out of the home or current holding place, this method proves to be a faster turn-around and voids all moving expense with less opportunity for possessions to be damaged in transit. It is a great way to liquidate an Estate and is most ideal when both the Personal Property and Real Estate are offered at auction. Coinciding with this method, we also conduct Online Only Auctions from our Gallery, with different expenses involved. Following the close of the auction, itemized invoices are emailed to their respective Buyers. Easy and organized pickups or shipments of merchandise are then conducted once payment is received.
Another option we offer is to include your collection for auction from our Gallery with both a live in-house crowd as well as online bidding participation, in these live, in real time auctions. While some bidders are happy to bid from their home, office or even while sitting at a Penn State basketball game, other bidders prefer to attend in person.
Our Annual Memorial Day Weekend and Pre-Christmas auctions as well as our Firearms and Related auctions, are the top contenders for this style of auction. Traditional Onsite Auctions with live in-person attendance is also still an option if the situation is suitable for such.
Regardless of the style of auction that will suit your needs, ROAN Inc. is here to serve you. If you are interested in learning more about our different options, please call today to speak to one of our staff!
Online Bidding Instructions
1. From your internet browser, type in www.roaninc.com
2. On our home page you’ll see ‘Upcoming Auctions’
3. Find the auction you’d like to participate in
4. Click bid online (under the auction icon photo) *THIS WILL TAKE YOU TO AUCTION ZIP – IF YOU DO NOT ALREADY HAVE AN ACCOUNT, YOU WILL NEED TO REGISTER.
To Register: (if you are a registered bidder on Invaluable or AuctionZip this step can be skipped)
A. Click on the blue button Register to Bid
B. Create a Bidder Account (click the blue button / right side of the screen)
C. Fill out all required information; failure to fill out all the information will leave your registration incomplete, and we will not receive it for approval –Note: you may want to write your Login Credentials (email address and the password you create) and save them in a safe spot for future auctions.
D. Once you’ve successfully created your account, click Submit. This will send us your information to be approved to bid (this action does not happen automatically and may take awhile for you to get a response)
ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN APPROVED TO BID BY ROAN INC. YOU WILL RECEIVE EMAIL NOTIFICATION STATING SO.
To Place Bids:
5. Login to your account – this is where you need your email/username and password that you created.
6. To place a bid, click either the picture or text of the item number you are interested in. This will open the individual item.
7. On your screen you will see what the Current Bid is and a drop-down menu of bids to choose from
8. Click the amount you’d like to bid and then click the blue Leave Bid. A drop-down menu will appear for you to Review Your Bid. This will show you will be paying including the Buyer’s Premium (15% added to the bid)
9. If you are the high bidder, a new screen will appear telling you so. If / when you are outbid, you will receive an email or text message (if you provide your number at the time of placing your bid). You can continue to place or raise your bids as you wish.
Notes:
As the auction starts to close usually at 7PM, with lots spread out in 15 second intervals….it will take a window of a few hours for the entire auction to be finalized.
Each lot will have a countdown clock showing the time remaining until the clock times out and the lot is closed.
First time bidders, you may want to place your MAXIMUM bid and allow the computer to handle your bidding for you. There is time to bid during the closing countdown, but first-time bidders may be confused or overwhelmed by the process.
Invoices will be emailed to the winning bidders within 24 hours following the close of the auction.
Do not wait to register and get approved. DO IT NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! We do not want to miss you!
