Didn’t win? Here’s what happens
Use Buy It Now. You get the item at its regular price, and every bid you placed on that auction comes back to your account to use again.
How Buy It Now works
- Someone else wins the auction. It happens: each auction has one winner.
- Choose Buy It Now on that item. You pay its regular retail price.
- Get your bids back. Every bid you placed on that auction is returned to your account, ready for the next one.
- Retail price
- $299.00
- Bids you placed
- 30
- Someone else wins
- You Buy It Now for
- $299.00
- Bids back in your account
- 30
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Don’t wait too long
Buy It Now stays available on the auction page for a limited time after the auction ends, so check back soon after it closes.
Why it’s there
Buy It Now means trying an auction is never wasted. If you bid on something you wanted anyway, you either win it for a fraction of retail, or buy it at the regular price and keep your bids for next time.
Second place has perks too
Look for Runner-Up auctions. The second-place bidder gets a personal 50% discount on the Buy It Now price, and every bid they spent comes back, just like a regular Buy It Now.
Your bids keep working
Even when you don’t win, every second you spent as the highest bidder counts toward Time as Highest Bidder. Fill the progress bar and you collect free bids for your next auction.
Same perks as a win
Buy It Now orders ship free like every other order, with full tracking and easy returns.
Tip: bid on things you’d buy anyway. That way Buy It Now is a good outcome too.
