Snake Launch Week: How To Actually Buy Furniture on LiveAuctioneers

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I’ll be publishing one of the above features every day this week. If you don’t upgrade right away the best newsletter in the world will be going away. It’s that simple. Today is an explainer. The topic is:

A step by step guide on how to actually buy furniture on LiveAuctioneers and put it in your home

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Steps:

1. Go to www.liveauctioneers.com

2. Sign up for an account on LiveAuctioneers, enter your name and credit card info, home info, shipping, and so on.

   1. Download the app on your phone and stay signed in—mobile web doesn’t have the best UI, and logs people out constantly.

3. Subscribe to my newsletter and read Snake Auction Observers every week, click on the auctions you like and want to buy:

   Then save them by pressing the heart button on the main thumbnail:

   

   which will turn red after you favorite the item.

4. This is important: register for the auction as soon as you favorite the item. The registration button is on the auction page, below the big Place Bid button, in small font. It looks like this:

   

5. Once you do that, you will get a pop-up confirming your credit card info and home address. If it’s correct, move ahead confirm the registration. You can choose to follow alerts from the auction house and sign up for SMS alerts from LiveAuctioneers. I usually don’t. After you click the submit registration button, you are good. You should get a notification—in the app, or an email—within a day whether you are registered or not. If you’re not, follow up with the auctioneer through the contact button. Usually it’s an oversight.

6. Set up shipping—this is also important. Set up shipping right after you bookmark the item and submit registration. You should do this a week or a few days minimum ahead of the auction. Not the day of. If you’re serious about buying a piece of furniture, get information about what it might cost to ship the item the day you favorite the item. There are four ways to do this.