Here’s the detailed guidance for sellers on how to place your item/ product on 5miles Bid.
- Open the app and login to your 5miles account.
- Click the ‘Camera’ button at the bottom center of the Homepage.
- Add a photo and select the correct category.
Please note that the following categories cannot be placed for bidding:
- All subcategory under Automotive.
- All subcategory under Community.
- All subcategory under Services.
- All subcategory under Housing.
- All subcategory under Jobs.
- Click ‘Next’ and provide the following information (title, description, offer price, condition and location). Offer price will be irrelevant if it is listed as a 5miles Bid item instead of a local item.
- Click ‘Next’ and complete the options to post your item for bidding:
- Starting Price – Set a starting amount and let buyers compete for your item.
- Sell & Ship Nationwide – If toggled off, shipping fee will be unavailable. This means you do not choose to Sell & Ship Nationwide, so you need to sell via “meetup”, your item will be only visible to the local buyers;
– If you choose “Sell & Ship Nationwide”, buyers within the entire United States can all see your items.
- Shipping fee – 5miles offers shipping label for a fixed and low rate which will be added on the buyer’s invoice. Select a shipping fee and we will email you the shipping label when your item sells. You need to print it out for the carrier to scan.
- I will ship the item myself – You must agree to pay all shipping fees and provide tracking information. The item will be free shipping for buyer.
- Ship within 72 hours (3 days) – Shipping commitment: If a buyer pays for the item, you have 3 days to ship the item or the order will be cancelled. Please ship the item as soon as possible and get paid once buyer confirmed item was received.
The order will be cancelled by the system if overdue. This is regarded as that you intentionally cancel the order.
- Serious Bid Guarantee – With this guarantee, both the seller and buyer need to pay a $5 guarantee deposit to join the bidding. It will be refunded when the deal is completed.
- When one party breaks the deal, his $5 deposit will be compensated to the other user.
- Service fee is 10% - Joining 5miles bid is free. You will only be charged a service fee after an item is sold (10% of the order price).
- Hit the publish button and Congratulations! Your listing is published!
Note:
- If approved, your listing will be displayed for about 24 hours before being put on auction. When your listing is live for bidding, you will be reminded with a push notification.
- The more "Likes" your listing get, the higher ranking it will be.
- You cannot change item details after it is approved. But you can delete or unlist the item and getting the listing’s deposit released to your payment card. Kindly note that if its auction goes live, nothing can be changed.
- If no one bid on your item before the auction ends, it becomes local listing and cannot join 5miles Bid once more.
- If buyers keep on bidding towards the end, your item will proceed to the next 5-minute round (maximum of 20 minutes for 4 rounds only).
- Credits cannot be used in 5miles Bid.
- If it is an order with deposits and if either party cancels the order before the item is shipped, the other party get his/ her deposit back as well as a $ 5compensation.
- Non-national shipping items for local meetup pickup are only visible to nearby users.
- If orders got cancelled 3 times in a row due to a user’s action or inaction, his/ her account will be blocked for 7 days and banned from participating in 5miles Bid.
Comments
27 comments
How do I bid an item
No there is not an option to make a bid listing. Article incorrect not even a sign up form since the first day
In fact the only category to sell on is electronics smh
These instructions to post an item for bid are incorrect...do we have to sign up somewhere?
Leslie yes the instructions are wrong 🥺
I thought i was the only one I hate when an app advertise something that's not there
Need to sell an item
Wrong wrong . I can’t even see option bidding while I’m listing an item . Please be more accurate.
Super wrong
So what’s the right way?
I want to sell items for bid. Is there something I have to do first. The instructions are incorrect. What am I missing?
There is no option to place an item for bid! These instructions are wrong!
Agree instructed not useful on how to sell and ship where is the link???
Where are these guidelines set/posted for future reference,, I've been waiting to try the auction selling but can't seem to find any icon of how to,, I somehow pulled up these guidelines but afraid when I close this page I'll lose info lol.. plz advise
Where are these guidelines set/posted for future reference,, I've been waiting to try the auction selling but can't seem to find any icon of how to,, I somehow pulled up these guidelines but afraid when I close this page I'll lose info lol.. plz advise
What the heck how do I sign up to post an item for bidding? Very unhelpful!
How to sell on bid instruction is wrong can you do better
iPhone
iPhone
So I was reading through all this non sense how come nobody can give a right f###### answer like how do you bid your stuff or items off does anyone work here customer service suck the big one
What's the customer care contact number or email address. Please share it.. I would like to place few items for bidding.
Thanks
Was anyone able to figure out how to list an item for bidding?
Wow all this time and still no correct info on a way to sell and ship nationwide on here or even auction your items?
Your items have to be approved by staff before going into auction.
I found this;
HOW DOES IT WORK? Fill in and upload your company information to be reviewed and granted as a Dash Merchant. After being granted as a Dash merchant, you can log in 5miles Dash Merchant Central with your 5miles account. Publish your products and wait for approval.
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I have tried several times to put my products on Bid. The instructions do not work.
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