Online Bidding with Greater Giving
How to Start Bidding
All bidding for our virtual fundraiser will use Greater Giving Online Bidding, which is a paperless bidding system. If you haven't already received an email and/or text with a "Welcome to Online Bidding" message and link, you will need to get yourself set up to bid.
Watch this short (1-minute) 'how to' video to learn what to do, and then
go to the Rose Festival's Bidding Page to click the "Start Bidding" button and go through the steps you saw in the video.
The Mechanics of Online Bidding
You will bid using your smartphone or tablet (or on your laptop or desktop computer with access to the internet) on ALL auction items. Also, you can easily track Packages by “following” their activity without having to continuously return to a table or bid sheet.
How to Bid with Greater Giving Online Bidding
- Register your email, mobile number and credit card information on our registration page in advance of the event or upon arrival using the "Start Bidding" button on the Rose Festival's bidding page.
- When the auction is open, you will receive an automated ‘Welcome’ email and text with your bidder link.
- After clicking the link in the email or text, begin searching for packages by name, number, or category
- Select the package you wish to bid on.
- You can Bid the next increment or Bid More than the next increment
- If you choose to Bid More you can choose to set your Max Bid. If your max bid is the highest, the system will automatically bid in your favor until you are outbid or until the silent auction closes (very similar to eBay). If your bid is lower than the highest max bid on that package, you will be prompted to enter a higher bid.
- To purchase a package at the Buy Now price, select the Buy button.
- To "watch" a package, select the star icon on the package.
- To make a donation, select the Donation button on your home screen and choose a preset amount or select the Custom Amount button to enter the amount you wish to donate.
- If you’re out-bid at any point before the silent auction closes, you will receive a text message (note: our system is only set up to send texts, not emails, when you're outbid).
- To view packages you are bidding on, click the menu button and select Bids.
- To view packages you are watching, click the menu button and select Favorites.
- Once the auction closes, the guest with the highest bid will win.
- Under the Bids area you can check your winning packages.
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