Haggle Auctions Online

To haggle is to negotiate back and forth over an item for sale. Auctions are mechanisms in which the highest bidder wins the item, typically at the last price bid in the auction.

Here is an alphabetized list of the top online auction sites where you can haggle for a bargain (check the sites directly for the live auctions and changes to the bidding procedures and as always, do your diligence on a site before bidding):

• Beezid.com: Beezid.com is a popular new shopping auction site in which you buy bids in advance, select an item to bid on, and the price and time increases with each bid made. When the time runs out without any new bidders, the item is yours.

• BigDeal.com: On BigDeal.com, you buy bids in advance and then use them on auction items. When you bid, the price of the item goes up by a specified amount and time is added on to the auction. The auction ends when the clock reaches zero. If you lose, you may be eligible to use the sum of the bid amounts to purchase the item at full price, or for gift cards.

• BidCactus.com: BidCactus is one of the most highly trafficked of the new auction sites. In similar fashion to the other penny auctions and haggle auctions, you buy bids in advance and then use them for a specific auction. When anyone bids, the price of the item goes up and the time remaining in the auction increases as well. The auction continues until the clock runs down to zero and the current high bidder wins.
  

• Ebay: One of the first and the biggest online auction site. You can bid for almost anything, set your high bid and hope it wins at the time the auction ends. You do not need to be present at the end of the auction in order to win.

• Haggle.com: On Haggle.com, you buy bids in advance and use them to bid on live auctions. When anyone bids, more time is added to the auction. When the time on the auction goes to zero, the current high bidder wins the item at the set price.

• Swoopo.com: On Swoopo, you buy bids in advance and then use them to bid on items sold in the live auctions. Every time someone bids, more time is added to the auction. If the clock runs down to zero, the current high bidder wins the item at the last price bid. If you don’t win the auction, you may be able to use the cost equivalent of bids used to get a discount on the item.