
How a timed online estate auction works
A timed estate catalog lets you preview lots, place a paddle bid on a clock, and pick up at the house after settle — not a live floor shout.
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House of Bid houses the sale. Listing boards post a few sales a year; they do not run the bidding software. We bring the clock so the week is shorter: you commit to the auction, bidders bid, and what sells, sells. Warehouse auctions, estate weeks, and driveway yard sales share that clock. Preview a catalog, register a paddle, then pick up at the dock or at the door.
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Lots are photographed in place — warehouse floor, estate room, or yard — then published for preview. Independent catalogs keep their own look on sale pages.
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Email starts a paddle. Timed lots take proxy bids. Floor lots are clerked in house ops. Watchers who never bid do not burn unique capacity.
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Warehouse winners get a dock window. Estate winners wait at the front with a pass — staff fetch by tag. Items stay where they were photographed. The seller signs lot-complete, then leaves.
Families
Walk one room at a time. Yellow means sell. Stick a QR on those pieces, photograph in place, then list. After the clock, leave lots in that section. Only staff walk the house. Buyers wait at a front staging place. The seller says we are good, signs, and leaves. Print the sheet or the pickup card.
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Start at the door and work clockwise. Do not skip closets. A mixed pile in the hall is how lots get lost.
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Yellow sell, pink keep, green donate, blue trash. The color is the decision. Write a short name on the note if two yellows sit together.
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Our pack, the Amazon pack when that listing is live, or a sheet you print. Stick it where a phone can see it. The code is /t/<code> until someone binds the lot.
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Do not move the object after the photo. The sticker should be in frame or on the next shot of the same piece.
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Scan from crew capture or list on Sell. A bound tag opens the lot. An unbound tag tells the scanner it is not in the catalog yet.
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Who it is for
Browse the map. Register once. Bid on any housed catalog.
Explore nearbyPhotograph the house. Post the estate, build awareness, then clock the rooms. Listing boards do not run the bidding software — we house the sale. Estate and yard are one-time SKUs — not a house retainer.
Our estate salesKeep your name, your consignors, and your brand mark. Run timed sales under this roof, and every registered bidder can bid your lots. Managed House is the repeating business plan.
Auction housesFamilies who do not want to run the sale hire a company that photographs in the rooms. Companies list here after review.
Find a companyHost other sellers on sub-houses, license the whole stack white-label on your own domain with no revenue share, or have Creytix build the website and wire the auction engine into it.
Work with usWatch, bid, and pick up on your phone
Add House of Bid to the home screen. Watchlists, invoices, pickup passes.
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Getting started

A timed estate catalog lets you preview lots, place a paddle bid on a clock, and pick up at the house after settle — not a live floor shout.
Read the guide
Email starts a House of Bid paddle. Bidders explore immediately. Guest paddles are off.

Bid now places the opening amount. Raise takes the next increment. A max bid is a private proxy ceiling the house uses for you.

Warehouse lots use a dock window. Estate and yard lots stay at the sale address. A pickup pass issues after settle.

Families list an Event estate or a Yard weekend. Repeating auction businesses join as a housed seller after invitation and approval.