The affiliate program can be found in the members section after you have registered.

Affiliate Program Details

Affiliate programs are common throughout the Internet and offer website owners a means of profiting from their websites. Affiliates generate sales for commercial websites and in return receive a commission for any new users they refer. In our case, in order to get started, all you need to do is to refer a new user to our site, and you begin getting paid immediately upon their signup, and their participation on our site!
Payments are made via site credit, and can be used instantly for any incidental charges you incur from the site.

New Auction Listings If your referral creates a new auction listing .25 USD

Relisted Auctions If your referral relists an auction listing .25 USD

Auction Purchases If your referral purchases an item listed .50 USD

Account Verification If your referral opts to validate and verify his identity .50USD

Store Subscription If your referral creates a Store Subscription .75 USD

User Registration When a user registers and validates their email address 1.00USD

Invite your Friends to join today!

You can start gaining referrals immediately. You can begin by inviting your friends and family to our site now. Once your referral registers for an account on our site, we will instantly credit your account with 1.00 USD for the signup referral! Duplicate invites can not be sent. You are limited to 1 account credit per friend invitation delivered.

Spread the love and Share some credit with your Referrals!

There is no fee to join Big Time Auctions. There is a $1.25 Verification fee if you choose to be a Verified seller. There is no fee for listing your item in a basic listing. If you choose to use any of the auction enhancements, there will be the following fees:

It is suggested, but not required, that members involved in a transaction on Big Time Auctions contact each other within three business days after the listing ends. This does not include weekends or holidays.

Please note that an emergency, illness, or computer problem may keep the seller from contacting you immediately.

If you are unable to contact the seller via email after a reasonable amount of time, you are no longer responsible for purchasing the item. At this point, you might consider leaving feedback to alert other buyers about your experience with the seller.

• If you are the seller of the item, you can contact the next-highest bidder to see if he/she is still interested in the item. After a week of trying to get in touch with the original high bidder, it's perfectly acceptable to move on, even if extraordinary circumstances have kept the bidder from responding.

• If you are the high bidder of the item, your obligation to purchase the item ends when the seller cannot be reached.

On rare occasions, a seller encounters a buyer with whom they have a very negative experience. In that case, they may actually fear the buyer bidding on their goods. Perhaps the buyer is late with payment, or the buyer left negative feedback to the seller on something relatively minor.

The banned feature protects the seller's goods from being bid on by anyone the seller "bans". We don't expect this feature to be used much. It, does, however, give the seller a bit more protection.

Further definitions:

Unsolicited - it must have been sent without the permission of the person who received it.
Commercial - it discusses the buying, selling or trading of any goods or services.

Please note that message board posts or instant messaging services that are not commercial in nature are not considered spam.

Spoof / Phishing Tips

As most of you know, malicious attempts to steal online account information is not just an issue with auction sites, this problem exists everywhere on all types of websites. Usually, access to sensitive information through email requests that appear to have been sent from a legitimate source are in fact not real. These emails are known as Phishing attempts and contain fake links in the hopes that you will click on the link and submit your personal information. These requests always include links to websites that request all sorts of personal information such as banking information, passwords etc.

Big Time Auctions will never ask you to provide passwords, social security numbers, credit card numbers or any other sensitive information through email or any other method.

If we request information from you this will be done via a phone call placed to you by an Big Time Auctions management team member easily identifiable to you. If you have received an email requesting your personal information it’s not from us.

Report Suspicious Email to Big Time Auctions. If you receive an email requesting your Big Time Auctions account information that you believe is suspect please forward the entire email including the message text and full header to us. When forwarding the message, do not make any changes to the suspect email.

Tips that an email may not be legitimate:

1. Sender's Email Address - Spoof email may include a forged email address in the "From" line, which are similar to but different than a legitimate Big Time Auctions address.

2. Account Status Threat - Many phishing emails will attempt to deceive you with the threat that your account is somehow in jeopardy and you stand the risk of suspension or account closure if you do not respond. Big Time Auctions has never sent emails of this type. As stated previously, a Big Time Auctions member will contact you by phone.

3. Links contained in an Email - Links which redirect you to a malicious website asking for personal, sensitive, financial, or other personal information.

4. Creating a Sense of Urgency - Most phishing or spoof emails will claim that Big Time Auctions is updating its database or your account information and needs additional information from you.

5. Do not click on email links that request personal information.
Do not click on a link embedded within any potentially suspicious email, especially if the email requests personal information. Instead, try starting a new Internet session with your browser, typing the Web address of the link into the address bar, and pressing 'Enter' to be sure you are directed to a legitimate Web site.