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Online auction web sites, where you are able to buy great value products, are increasingly becoming an attractive alternative to conventional online shops, as well as a visit to your local shopping centre or a high street shop. There are now a number of such online auction web sites where it is easy to secure a bargain on a wide variety of products - you can in fact find used car auctions on all of the above highlighted UK online auction sites underlying their importance within this sector.

An auction is a public sale of goods or property in which the prospective buyers bid until the highest price is reached. Online auction Websites, which generally operate in a similar manner, provide a further alternative to help you find the best price for what you are looking to buy.

We are sure you will have heard of somebody or know somebody who managed to get an extraordinary deal on eBay and that is why eBay is featured throughout our web site. We only however display "Buy It Now" items on eBay, (because the majority of shoppers are more comfortable with them) but to see all eBay auction prices for any particular product, simply click on "Search".

To bid for a particular product or service you have to make what's called an auction bid, which in effect is an offer to buy the product or service at a higher price than the previous auction bid. Bidders are bidding against each another and each successive action bid should be higher than the previous bid. Unlike an offline auction, which ends when no further bids further are received, on eBay you are bidding against the clock and the auction ends at a pre-determined time, which is known to all bidders - watch for a rush of activity when an auction is about to close on a popular product.

No matter what you are looking to buy, Compare, Buy and save, and get the best deal on product as well as price.

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Ebay is the number two destination for shopping in the UK (after Amazon) and while items for sale on Ebay are reflected in our price comparisons (as indeed are items for sale on Amazon) and throughout CompareBuyandsave we make it easy to compare eBay prices by using our eBay Price Check to obtain eBay price comparisons for what you are looking to buy, there are a large number of items for sale on eBay that can only be found by browsing directly through the eBay shopping web site.

Check your seller's feedback
And go through it carefully. The percentage of positive feedback is useful, but also look at the individual comments – especially the "neutral" or "negative" comments which can indicate how things could go wrong. Sometimes, fraudulent sellers arrange for fake positive feedback.

Be wary of international transactions
Often fraud is international because it is harder to chase the criminal. If the seller is listed in one of the countries notorious for fraud, such as Nigeria, China, or Russia, exercise extreme caution.

Read the listing carefully
If it is littered with spelling or grammatical errors, it is probably written by a foreigner pretending to be British. Or a teenager.

Tell-tale signs
If they refuse to accept Paypal, make unrealistic claims for a cheap item and it's a one-day listing where the seller asks you to complete the transaction off eBay, it's very dodgy. One-day listings are commonly used so that the seller can dupe and disappear. Often, they come about as a criminal takes over a genuine seller's account to sell as many items as possible, harvest all the cash and then run away without sending any of the goods.

Pay with a credit card for top protection
Paypal is convenient, but doesn't offer the same level of fraud protection. And don't touch anyone who asks for a Western Union or Moneygram wire transfer.