You can search for items on the Home Page or browse items by category. To place a bid or sell an item you must register for an account.

Auction - A Traditional Auction listing allows you to sell items to the highest bidder. You specify the start price, and people bid against each other in specified bid increments. Traditional Auctions allow the Seller to set both a Reserve and Buy Now price. When listing a Traditional Auction, the quantity of goods is equal to one.

• One pair of shoes has a quantity of 1.
• A lot of 5 different men’s shoes have a quantity of 1 because they are all sold together as one item.

Fixed Price - A Fixed Price listing does not allow bidding. The seller specifies the only acceptable price for the item(s). You can sell one item or multiple identical items with one Fixed Price listing. Because there is no bidding on Fixed Priced listings, all items are Buy Now.

Swap - A Swap listing allows you to exchange goods or services with another user. You can choose to accept or decline any posted offer. When listing an item for a Swap, you only have to enter the shipping cost. Since the goods are not for sale, you will not be asked to enter a price.

Buy Now - When listing an item, you may have the option of setting a Buy Now price. The Buy Now feature allows instant purchasing.  The Buy Now feature is available for Traditional Auctions.

Reserve - The Reserve price is the absolute minimum dollar amount the Seller will accept for an item. Buyers are notified after placing their bid if it is below the Reserve price.If a Buyer's maximum bid is greater than the Reserve price, the Reserve is automatically met and that user is the high bidder. The ability to set a Reserve price is only available to Traditional Auctions.

Best Offer - allows you to make an offer to buy items at a price that you select. The seller can accept your offer or reject it.  If your offer is accepted the auction ends immediately with and you have won the item at that price. You should make an offer when you're sincere about purchasing the item at your Best Offer price. If your offer is accepted by the seller, you're required to complete the transaction and make the purchase.

Google Shopping

One of the many benefits of listing on If The Shoe Doesn’t Fit our Google Shopping integration.

What is Google Shopping?

Many people, when shopping for shoes online, start by typing their search term in the search box. Traditional Google search results are returned and in addition Google Shopping results are typically shown right near the top of the page, depending on the competitiveness of the term searched.

Benefits of listing in Google Shopping:

There are many benefits to having your items included in Google Shopping. These include:

·        Google Shopping makes it possible to be on the first page of a Google search.

·        Google’s worldwide user base performs over 100 million searches a day. This presents an enormous opportunity for If The Shoe Doesn’t Fit Sellers to introduce their products to potential customers across the world.

·         If The Shoe Doesn’t Fit automatically submits data feeds to Google Shopping. This keeps our Seller's product content up to date within the Google Shopping database.

·         Each feed includes product details such as name, description, photo, URL, size, brand and price.

·         Google Shopping provides very specific results and they include the images of the products so customers see what they are looking for.

Google Shopping Policies and Procedures

The rules of Google Shopping can be complicated; what you can and cannot have in your title and how it is formatted is very important.  Here are just a few key points to remember:

·         No promotional text is allowed in titles, such as “Free shipping”

·         Titles cannot be in ALL CAPS

·         Do not use Exclamation Points in titles!!!

·         Avoid repeated punctuation or symbols in titles ***$$$

For more information about Google Shopping policies follow the link below: http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61118

Searching
There are two ways to seach for items,
Basic Search and Advanced Search.

Basic Search - Accessible from both the Home Page and Browse.

• Enter Keywords, Item #, or Username
• Select appropriate search parameter
  • Title
  • Title & Description
  • Item #
  • User
• Click "Search" button

Advanced Search - Accessible by clicking the "Advanced Search" button on the Home Page

The following options are available for the Advanced Search:

• Load Saved Search - Use a previously saved search.
• Category - Select a specific item category or "All Categories."
• Search - Enter Keywords or Item #. To search Title & Descriptions check the appropriate box.
  
  The following options are available for keyword search:
  • All of these words
  • Any of these words
  • Exactly these words

• Item Options-Used to search custom item fields such as: gender, shoe size, or width.
• Refine Your Search- Narrow the search. Reduce the number of search results by setting specific searchable properties.
  • Price Range
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Words to Exclude
  • Listing type
    • Auction
    • Fixed Auction
    • Swap 
  • Listing Options
    • Completed
    • Buy Now! only
    • No Reserve only
    • With Pictures only
• Display Format- How to organize the items your search returns.
  • Items Ending First - Items with the least ammount of time left first.
  • Items Ending Last - Items with the longest ammount of time left first.
  • Newest Items First - Items with the most recent start date.
  • Oldest Items First - items with the oldest start date.
  • Lowest Price First
  • Highest Price First
  • Most Bids First
  • Least Bids First
  • Alphabetically
  • Reverse Alphabetically

Press "GO" to activate Advanced Search.

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