Seller's account
To list an item, click the 'Sell' tab. You need to have a seller's account in order to list an item.
For details of setting up a seller's account, please click here.

Fees
You can list as many different items as you like - there are no up front fees. All our fees are GST inclusive. A sale fee is charged after a successful auction ends or purchased using BuyNow. Sale fees are based on the final price. Listing upgrade fees apply if you want to upgrade your listing, and relist fees apply if relisting a listing after the Free Listing Period.
Click here to see our fee structure.

Category
Select an appropriate category to list your item. If you want to list in multiple categories, make sure you have multiple quantities of the item. Listing in the wrong category can result in removal of your item.

Title and subtitle
The 'Item title' should be descriptive to allow people to easily find your item. Try to use clear, concise and relevant keywords to describe your item to assist potential buyers when searching. The 'Subtitle' allows you to further describe your item (note the subtitle is not included in search queries).

Duration and start time
Decide on the Duration of your listing. You can select 3, 5, 7, 10, or 14 days for 'Auction' and 'Auction with BuyNow' listing formats, 45 days for 'Classified' listing formats and 60 days for 'BuyNow Only' listing formats.

Decide on when to start the item from the drop down list next to the Duration (which also determines the end time).

NOTE: If you edit the duration of an existing 'Auction' or 'Auction with BuyNow' listing, the new duration will not take affect until it is relisted. This is to prevent potential buyers coming back to make a bid only to find out the end time has changed.

If you edit an existing listing and change the listing format to 'BuyNow Only' the end time will be calculated as follows: Start Date + 60 days (for example: if the start date was 16 days ago and you change it to a 'BuyNow Only' listing, the listing will have a duration of 44 days left).

Auction Start Price and Bid Increment
The 'Auction start price' is the price of the item when the auction begins. You should set the 'Auction start price' at the minimum price you would accept for the item.
The 'Bid increment' is the minimum bid amount for each subsequent bid, for example if the start price was $5.00 and the bid increment was $0.20 the first bid would be $5.00, the second minimum bid would be $5.20.
The minimum 'Auction start price' and 'Bid increment' is $0.05

Note: If you want your item to appear in the $1 Auctions list, $10 Auctions list or $50 Auction list, you must set the start price to exactly $1.00, $10.00 or $50.00 respectively and list it as an Auction item (no BuyNow).

BuyNow (optional)
There are five listing formats:

1. Auction Only (Buyer has to place a bid)
2. BuyNow Only (Instant purchase)
3. Auction with BuyNow (Auction with an instant purchase option)
4. Multi-Item Auction (Auction with a quantity of 2 or more)
5. Classified (No online transaction occurs, potential buyers contact seller)

You can choose to offer a 'BuyNow' price with either method 2 or 3 ('Auction with BuyNow' and 'BuyNow Only') listing formats. Buyers can purchase an item immediately if they are willing to pay the 'BuyNow' price. When listing as 'Auction with BuyNow', the 'BuyNow' option is only available until a bid is placed.

Note: Listings with a BuyNow price will automatically include Make An Offer. Buyers can use Make An Offer to send you an offer, you can accept or decline offers. Learn more about Make An Offer

Quantity (when listing as a 'BuyNow Only')
If you have more than one (1) of an identical item, you can enter the 'Quantity available'. Multiple purchases can be made from one or more buyers until all have sold or the listing ends. After each purchase the remaining quantity are relisted as a new item.

Quantity (when listing as a 'Multi-Item Auction')
Multi-Item Auction listings allow a seller to offer two or more identical items in one auction listing. This means the auction can have more than one winner.

When a buyer places a bid on a Multi-Item Auction, they specify how many items they wish to buy and the maximum price they wish to pay per item.

Winning bids are selected in order of bid amount followed by in order of earliest bid time. For example a bid of $20 for 10 items takes priority over a bid of $18 for 20 items. If two bids have the same amount per item, the earliest bid takes priority.

Just like in a traditional auction, the bidder with the highest bid per item gets first choice of how many items they want, and the bidder with the second highest bid per item gets second choice of how many items they want and so on.

Auto-Bidding - as with normal auction listings on OZtion, bidders can rely on our Auto-Bidding system to place the lowest possible bid for them on their behalf. See Auto-Bidding for more info.

See Example

Important information for sellers:

• To list a Multi-Item Auction simply list your item as an Auction with a quantity of two or more.
• If the item ends with multiple bidders, the highest bidder will be allocated the original item number. Subsequent winners will each be allocated a new item number (a BuyNow item with the Price and Qty they won).
• If the listing ends with items remaining, the remaining quantity will be relisted as a new Multi-Item Auction once the highest bidder completes checkout.

Description
This is where you describe your item, try to include as much relevant information about the item as you can. For example: the colour, size, condition, specifications, history and other information which can help buyers. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is allowed and a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) HTML editor is available on the listing page. Learn how to use HTML

Pictures
Up to 3 free pictures for each item can be added using our picture uploader. The first picture will be shown in search results and category lists as a preview picture.

Picture Uploader Features:

• No file size limit
• Fast uploading times
• Upload up to 3 pictures at the same time
• Original picture size will be automatically reduced and optimized
• Requires Active X support
• Works with most versions of Microsoft Windows including Vista (separate link for Vista)
• Works with most browsers

Payment details
Select the payment methods you accept and state your payment instructions clearly. You can select Paymate, PayPal, Bank Deposit, Money Order, C.O.D (Cash On Delivery - A service offered by Australia Post), Credit Card, Cheque, Escrow, Cash or Other.

You can enter default details about payment methods and other information (Bank account details, refund policy, etc) in the 'My Preferences' section in 'My OZtion'.
To enter your default details, please click here.

Postage details
There are several postage options to help you specify the postage cost to buyer. Please read our Postage Price Helper. Select the 'Post to location' you are prepared to post to and explain any other 'Postage instructions'.

Promotional features (optional)
Increase the chance of selling your item and receiving more bids by upgrading your listing.

• Front Page Featured
• Category Special
• Highlight
• Bold

Exclusive features (optional)
Exclusive features are currently free.

• Auto-1-Min
  Auto-1-Min extends the auction time for one minute if a bid is placed within the last 60 seconds.

• BidNow
  The remaining time of the auction is hidden from buyers.

• Auto-Relist
  Item will be automatically relisted if not sold during the free listing period (60 days).
  Note: Auto-Relist is turned off after an item has been listed for 60 days. The item will then be moved to your 'Unsold' list the next time it ends. Auto-Relist cannot be used with BuyNow Only listings as the duration is already 60 days.

Submit listing options

• Save
  Up to 10 unfinished listings can be saved and completed later.

• Preview
  Preview a listing before submitting to make sure it looks correct.

• Submit
  Submit the item to be listed immediately.

• Submit and create another
  Submit the current item and create another new item. The new item will not have any information pre-filled except the category.

• Submit and sell similar
  Submit the current item and create another item with exactly the same details (price, description etc). If you are selling a lot of similar items, this is a convenient way to list similar items.