MadBid Sneak-a-Peek!

Welcome to Sneak-a-Peek; an exciting new function we've introduced to enhance your bidding experience.

Have you ever wished you could find out more about your bidding opponents? Do you want to know:

• Their Bidding Times
• Their Bidding Categories
• Their Auction Win History
• Their Bidding Activity

Well now you can! For just a few bids you can now access all this information. Dont want others to spy on you? Then try our 'Stealth mode' click here to find out more.

All the information that's available only contains bidding activity – we will not be providing any private/personal information that could breach our privacy policy in any way.

The Toolbar

When you log-in to the website you will see a a bar right at the bottom of each page that looks like this:

This is the main Sneak-a-peek navigation and you can access all of the information here.

Sneak Function

Allows access to 30 days history and available for 30 days viewing. You can see:

• Bidding times – view what bids your target has placed in which part of the day i.e. do they usually bid in the early morning.
• Bidding categories – view your opponent's top 5 bidding categories.
• Auction win history – view a list of the last 5 auctions that your opponent has won, what type of auctions (gold, silver, platinum) and what the highest bid was for each.
• Bidding activity - find out when your opponent first joined MadBid.

To Sneak-a-peek on someone:

1. You can click on their username name wherever it shows on the website
2. When you click on their name you have 2 options
   
   • 'Sneak Now' - Take a peek at their information
   • 'More Info' - comes to this information page
   
   Has someone sneaked-a-peek at your user info?
   If so, you will see a red number notification next to the sneak icon on the toolbar. Click this icon to see exactly who has been snooping at your info. You can then see all the users that have been taking a peek at your information.

3. In the Sneak-a-peek navigation bar you will see an option to see 'Who Sneak-a-peeked me'.
4. When you click on 'Who Sneak-a-Peeked me' you will see a list of users, click on one of these users to see the details
5. When you have clicked on the user you can see when this user Peeked at you and if you have peeked at them.
6. From this page you can also see all of the users that you have Sneak-a-Peeked by clicking the link 'My Sneak-a-Peeks'

My Auction Peeks

Allows access to 30 days history and available for 30 days viewing. You can see:

• Last 24 hours bidding history – view a list of bidders for the last 24 hours of an auction.
• Auction closing prices – view the past performance of a particular product and also the closing price of the last 5 auctions of that product.
• Similar auctions - See the closing prices of similar auctions

1. When you are in an auction page, click the 'More Auction Info' button
2. A box will pop up with more information on - in this box you can click on 'View More Details' and it will take you through to the Auction peeks page.
3. On the auction Peeks page (shown below) you can see all of the products you have peeked at in the last 30 days.
   When you click on a product you can see:
4. 'Recent Auctions' of the exact product that you are viewing
5. 'Similar Auctions' of items that sold that are similar to the one you are viewing.
6. You can also access this page at any time by clicking on the 'My Auction Peeks' section of the 'Sneak-a-peek' bar.

Stealth Mode

If you don’t like the idea of others sneaking-a-peek at you, then opt for stealth mode.
You can hide all your information from your rival bidders for 7 days at a time. Try as they might, your opponents won’t be able to see a thing!

1. Just click on the 'Stealth' link on your toolbar, you will then be asked whether you want to go steath.
2. Click the button to make this happen.
3. Whenever you go back to the Stealth page you will be able to see if you are currently in Stealth mode

We really hope that you enjoy our Sneak-a-Peek function, HAPPY MADBIDDING!