Sealed Bidding Auctions - Bidding Platform

Overview

Sealed bidding is proven to be more successful than normal incremental bidding. Our results show that on average an organization’s profit increases by 166% when using sealed bidding.

So often runner up bidders go away empty handed and disappointed. With sealed bids they don’t have to, so if you can sell multiple amounts of the same item then sealed bidding is for you! And with ‘keep it FREE!’ you get to use it 100% free of any fees.

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How it works!

Sealed bidding allows guests to submit their sealed bids, so nobody knows how much they have bid. Our platform then simply displays the number of bids placed on an item, not the name or amount, so other donors keep bidding higher amounts to ensure they win.

At the end of the auction, the prized auction item goes to the donors who have submitted the highest bid.

Use sealed bidding and raise significantly more for your nonprofit – inquire today!

What is 'keep it FREE'?

‘keep it FREE!’ is Givergy’s new initiative that makes our platform 100% free to you, meaning 100% of money raised goes to your cause.

We enable this by inviting your donors to voluntarily contribute at checkout, which covers all platform fees and payment processing fees, ensuring all funds go directly to your good cause.

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Key Features

Increase engagement

Guests bid their maximum amount and make multiple bids to ensure they win!

Multiple items

The best and fairest way to sell multiple items! Maximising your fundraising in a fun and authentic way!

Anonymous bidders

No one can see who has bid and by how much so everyone can take part!

Combat fundraising fatigue

It's new and engaging and proven to raise more so make the change and break the same same!

FAQ

Sealed bidding involves only showing the number of bids placed on an item, as opposed to the highest bid, helping to increase audience participation and encourage bidding. It is also a fully transparent and ethical way to multi-sell items if you have more than one of the same item.

Our reports show guests’ participation increases by 9% and on average, a charity’s profit increases up to 166%.

Yes! You can have different bid modes on your auction items throughout the list – we recommend having a mixture of sealed bids, standard incremental bids and buy it now items.

Absolutely! Through a fully transparent and ethical process, we’re able to easily sell the same item to, for example, the top three bidders at the end of the event, meaning that your charity profit is instantly tripled. We are very upfront in our visuals that we may sell to the top ‘x’ bidders if multiple items are available. We also recommend adding a sentence to the item description to be fully transparent.

Yes. Our platform is 100% free to you, meaning 100% of money raised goes to your cause.

We enable this by inviting your donors to voluntarily contribute at checkout, which covers all platform fees and payment processing fees, ensuring all funds go directly to your good cause.

I found the Givergy system very intuitive to use. Hannah was very good and worked hard to sort everything out. She was good at explaining how things worked which we really appreciated

Jeremy Pilkington, Director

The Pilko Invitational

Great service as always! The event ran smoothly with great auction prizes and happy guests! It’s tough to run a quiz event and serve a three-course menu simultaneously, so the timings were very tight, but all worked well.

Event Team

The Forward Trust

Sealed Bidding