Shopping basket
Our Shopping Basket feature has two main purposes. Firstly, it acts as a place where you can store lots that you are interested in without any obligation to bid on them. Secondly, if you do want to bid on a lot you must add it to your shopping basket first- as it is only from here that you can send it to your bid sheet!

How to add lots to your shopping basket...

Click the Add to basket button on the lot details pages to add the lot to your shopping basket. Immediately after clicking the button, a message will be displayed at the top of the page informing you that the lot has been successfully added to your basket.

To view the contents of your shopping basket, simply click the Shopping Basket link on the top toolbar. Your shopping basket will contain all the lots you have added so far. These lots are simply your interests at this stage- they are not bids!

Next to each lot you'll see a check box in the Proceed to bid sheet column. If you want to send a lot to your bid sheet you must ensure that this option is checked. Next, to move all the selected (checked) lots to your bid sheet click the Proceed to Bid sheet button at the bottom of the page (any unchecked lots will remain in your basket).

The lots will be then be removed from your shopping basket and placed on the appropriate bid form (lots from different auctions are put on to different bid sheets, you must fill out a bid form for each auction).

Remember, you have not bid on these lots yet! See the tutorial on How to bid for more information.

Once an auction close date has passed, any lots that are left in your shopping basket from that auction will be removed (this also applies to lots on your bid forms).