The day has arrived! With over $850,000 in active bids placed in the Marketplace, sellers can now start accepting bids! Here are some details to help you monitor and respond to those bids.
MonitorWe’ve built a several tools to help sellers monitor bids and, based on your early feedback, we’re hard at work improving them.
Bid alertsWhen you mark wine for sale in the Marketplace, you are opted-in to receive Bid Alert email notifications. This basic bid alert is sent in the form of a daily digest (by default) and notifies you of any recent bids that have been placed on your wine. Clicking on the Wine or Accept Bid button from the email links you to the VinCellar Marketplace detail page. Here you can view all active bids on that wine as well as other Marketplace details including other sellers and completed transactions.
You can change the frequency with which you receive the basic bid alert to Immediate or Weekly by going to “My Account” in VinCellar and clicking the “Alerts” tab.
Within this tab you can create additional alerts to further filter the bids you receive on a particular wine, saved search or keyword by:
- Bid price relative to your cost, auction or retail pricing
- Your asking price or private minimum price
- Minimum bid quantity (and other factors)
VinCellar Marketplace tab
You can access a holistic view of all active bids on your wine from the My Cellar Marketplace tab. Clicking on any Wine name from that tab will link you to that wine’s Marketplace detail page.
VinCellar Home page
Within the next few days we will be adding a Marketplace summary tile on the VinCellar Home page and we have other Home page alert notifications in development.
Respond
From VinCellar Marketplace detail pages, sellers can review all current bids, details on other sellers, completed transactions and can respond in a couple of ways:
Set an Asking price. Respond to low or $0 bids by entering an Asking price. Read more here:
Accept! Review all current bids from VinCellar Marketplace detail pages.
Ignore. Wait for a more reasonable bid.
So, get busy accepting and continue to let us know how we can improve your Marketplace experience!
