Registration is simple and only takes a matter minutes. To start the signup process, click on the “register” link at the top of this page. Only users with the age over 16 years are able to register. The next step is to fill in all your information, failure to supply all the required information will result in an error. By clicking on the “Register” button from the bottom of the page, you will be redirected to a page with a link to the payment gateway if the signup fee is activated, or to a confirmation page, if signup is free. Your account will be activated instantly if there is no signup fee, or once the payment has been confirmed by the payment gateway.

Once you have successfully logged in using the login forms from the main page or from the login page, you will be redirected to the members area page. This page is divided into four tabs:

a. Bidding
On this page, you will be able to see the items you have purchase, as well as the status of the bids, items you have won, and watched items. By clicking on the “Ad Watch” link, you will be able to add keywords for ad listings you are interested in. An email will be sent to your email address every time an ad listing that will contain the keyword in its name or description will be submitted. By clicking on the “View Details” link from the Won Items area, you will be able to see the details of the seller, and make contact with him in order to perfect the sale.

b. Selling
There are three areas available on this page. The “Opened Ad” area, where you will see details of ad listings you currently have open; if no purchase were made yet on an open ad listing, you are able to edit the ad listing. The “Closed Ads” area, where you will see the ad listing submitted by yourself, and that were closed. You can choose to edit, delete or re-list a closed ad listing. On the “Sold Items” area, you will see the items you have sold, and by clicking on the “View Sold Item Details” link, you will be redirected to a page where you will see the details of the buyer. If the seller made a sell on from your listing, the seller will have to pay for the end of sales fee in order for he/she to see the buyer details. If, after the seller has contacted the buyer, and no sale has been made, the seller can claim back the end of sales fee. By clicking on the “Claim back end of sales fee”, a claim back request will be sent to the site’s administrator, and will be evaluated for fee refunding.

c. Feedback
From this page, you will be able to see the feedbacks you have received, and leave feedbacks to other users.

d. Detail Page
You can edit your personal information using this page, except for your username. You can also change the password for the account. If the password and confirm password fields are left empty, and then the password will remain the same.

Once you have signed up for an account, you will be able to sell items through the site. In order to do that, you will have to click on the “List Ad” link from the top menu navigation, and you will be redirected to a category selection page. You can then select the main category of the product or service you want to sell. This feature has been made in order to ease the subcategory choosing process. No items can be sold by choosing only the main category; you will have to choose a subcategory for it. The second step is entering the ad listing details, detail settings, payment methods available, and other sales lsting related options. An image that will come with the ad listing is free of charge, but you will have to pay a small fee (15 cents) for additional pictures. You will be able to upload up to 4 additional pictures.

On the Ad Listing Settings tab, you can choose the type of the ad listing, the start price, etc. You will also be able to choose whether to feature the item, and the duration of the ad listing. After setting the location, shipping and payment and subcategory, and by clicking on the “Next Step” button, you will be redirected to Step Three, where you can review the ad listing before submitting. If everything is in order, you can click on the “Submit” button, and will be redirected to the payment page, or a confirmation page, if no fees have to be paid. The ad listing is activated once the payment is confirmed by the payment gateway, or instantly, if no fees need to be paid.

If you have spotted an item you would like to place a bid on you can do so quickly and easily by following these steps:

(1) Login to your account – If you have not registered you can do so within 5 minutes
(2) Visit the ad listing page
(3) Towards the top of the ad listing description page you will see a "BUY OUT" button. Just click on that button if you would like to make a purchase on the item.
(4) After clicking on the button you will be re-directed to a confirmation page. On a standard ad listing that ad listing will end instantly as the item has been sold via Buy it now. (If the ads indicates that it requires "sales approval", you will have to wait until the seller approves your order. He/she may reject your order if he/she wishes.)

Once a sale has been processed, both the seller and the buyer will be able to leave feedbacks for each other. The feedback rating is from one star to five stars, and a feedback comment can also be left. The feedback can be left from the “Feedback” tab from the Members Area. The feedback can only be left once, and it cannot be edited afterwards.

The site admin will reserve its right to delete malicious or untrue feedbacks.

The item watch features lets you keep a close eye on any ad listing without having to place a bid on it. This feature means you can be kept up to date on how an ad listing is doing, whether it has been sold or not. You can watch any item by clicking on the “Watch this item” link on any ad listing page.

The ad listing watch features notifies you of newly listed ads which contain “keywords” you have chosen. For example if you are looking for a “miniature schnauzer” you could enter in those keywords from within your member’s area. Each time a new ad is listed containing the term “miniature schnauzer” you will be notified via this web-site. You can enter in as many keywords as you like.

Wanted ads are a new and increasingly popular feature.  As an advertiser you can list adverts for items you want and sellers can submit offers for items they are selling.  It’s a quick, simple and hassle free way of sellers being able to meet buyers demands.

Advertiser (Buyer)

List a new wanted ad and wait for sellers to contact you with offers.  If you receive an offer your happy with you can bid on the item!

Sellers

Browse the wanted ads and if you see one that matches an item your selling make an offer and tell the buyer you have just what they are looking for!

Subscription Membership:

All subscription memberships and ad listing fees are deemed intangible goods and services and are therefore non-refundable. The following are deemed subscription memberships and ad listing fees on this website:

1) Dog supply store
2) Dog breeder store
3) Premium access subscription
4) Ad posting fees

Purchases from Ad Listings:

When you make purchases from an ad listing for a dog or supplies, you are not purchasing from PuppyBud.com. Instead you are purchasing from a third party seller. Please refer to the return policies of the third party seller. If they do did not post a return policy, you should contact them and get it in writing. PuppyBud.com will not be responsible and liable for problems related to return supply items or dogs between buyers and sellers who participate on this site. We just are just a service provider.