Buying and Selling Easy Lycos Auctions and Tripod Auctions are designed to make it easy to get started for both buyers and sellers. Ability to search by buyer, seller, specific product name or keyword, product category, price point or geography. Comprehensive search results pool items from everyone in the auction individuals, personal homepages, small businesses and major merchants network-wide. When searching for computers, for example, the search will yield information about all the computers being sold from all the different venues. Buyer s comments positive or negative on sellers.
Users can find out how others have rated a particular seller before making a purchase.
Customized MyAccount desktop dashboard manages the auction experience. Buyer-created watch lists track auctions of specific items to let buyers know when the item they want comes up for auction. Buyers are sent automated e-mail notification with his or her bid results. Ability for members to list auction items in the main auction areas on Lycos or Tripod and promote them on users personal homepages or My Lycos pages. Ability for members to monitor auction activity from their homepage or My Lycos, tracking items they are selling or bidding, or those on their watch list.