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How to read an Auction Sheet

  Below is a Sample Auction Sheet for NIKON S3 Year 2000 Anniversary version.
  You can study and understand how to read an auction sheet.
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  Let us break the top portion of the page into 3.
Auction Item Name & Specified Subcategory
Auction Item Name:

This is the Auction name and an essential portion of the auction page because it's used for indexing items in the specified auction category and used as keywords when searching items. The maximum length is 30 Japanese letters or equivalent to 30 Japanese letters. Many sellers put as many attracting keywords as possible.
The seller's Information
Seller ID:
The seller's ID.

Evaluation:
The seller's evaluations of the past transactions. You can see how good and how smoothly the seller has taken care of the past auction dealings. Some buyers may put an evaluation late for personal reasons. Pay attention to bad evaluation and see why it was bad.

Other item of the seller:
If the seller is selling other items, the link page shows the items.

Evaluation:
Same as Evaluation.

Inquire to the seller:
A link in order to ask the seller about more information of the auction item.
The Auction Information
Auction sheet3
Current Price
Bid Unit
1 to 999
10
1000 to 4999
100
5000 to 9999
250
10000 to 49999
500
50000 or greater
1000
 Current Bid: Current bid.

Time left: Remaining time. The meanings of Japanese character are as follows.
"日" is a Day or Days.
"時間" is an hour or hours.
"分" is a minute or minutes.

Contender: If there is a bid, the highest bidder's ID is shown.

Quantity: Quantity. Usually 1.

Numbers of Bid: It shows cumulative numbers of bids placed for the auction item.

Starting price: Starting price.

Bid unit: It is a Bid unit. A unit varies depending on the bid price range at the moment. See left table.

Location: Location of the seller.

Starting Date: Starting date. 2月8日 1時28分 is Feb. 8 1:28 JPT

Ending Date: Ending date. 2月14日 22時28分 is Feb. 14 22:28 JPT

Auction ID: It is the auction ID.
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