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★ AUCTION WEEK INFO ★

We have less than 27 hours left of Auction Week, and bids are coming in fast. With the clock ticking down, we want to help bidders strategize for the final day.

If you can’t afford the auctions you want or you have a tight budget, here are three ways that you can still get or stay involved as a bidder:

  1. Look at our golden needle auctions, many of which have affordable minimum bids. We have only 13 remaining, down from 77 in just two days, that’s amazing!
  2. Go through individual categories on our Auctions page. Doing this makes it easier to see auctions that are within your budget; this is extremely useful for smaller categories such as podfics and digital works.
  3. Join a pod bid. For more information on how to start or get involved in a pod bid, click here. Many bidders have pooled their funds together to win a specific auction, and several creators have announced that they’re open to receiving pod bid requests for a variety of prompts such as sequels to existing fics or videos for someone’s OTP. To find existing pod bids, click here. If you organized a pod bid that isn’t on our list, please let us know so we can add it.

If you haven’t done so already, come join our Discord server, where creators can promote their auctions and match with interested bidders, and bidders can share ideas and check out auctions. Our Discord has been busy all week, and we know it’ll be a lot of (crazy) fun once we get into the final hours of bidding!

Forgot that you have plans during the last few hours of the auction? Enlist a proxy bidder!

Ask mutuals or friends who are also participating in the auction or don’t mind helping you bid to bid on your behalf (keep in mind that the auction ends at 11:59 PM ET on October 27 (what time is that for me?)). MTH mods will not proxy bid for anyone, but if you can’t find someone to help you, feel free to mention that you’re looking for a proxy bidder on our Discord.

You can’t take back a bid once it’s placed and should you win the auction, you must donate the winning bid amount, so try to find someone you can trust as your proxy and let your proxy know the highest amount you’re willing to bid on each auction.

To have someone bid on your behalf, you’ll need to give them your marveltrumpshate.com login info. Your account doesn’t include any personal information besides your username and is only used for bidding. The site automatically makes an account for you when you start bidding, and your proxy will need this information to login as you. You may not have needed to set a password, even if you’ve already been bidding, as the site attempts to remember you. If you’ve already done the password reset process because you received a “This email is already registered” error, simply give your proxy your username and the password you used during this process.

If you haven’t had to set a password, want to change the password you set, or you haven’t bid on anything yet:

  • Click the “Login/Reset Password” tab on www.marveltrumpshate.com
  • At the bottom, click “Lost your password?” or, if you haven’t bid on anything yet, click “Register”
  • You’ll receive an email with a link
  • Click the link and put in your new password. Remember to make your password something that you’re comfortable sharing with your proxy!

Your proxy can also create a new account for themselves (e.g., proxyfor[username]) to help you place bids if they would like, following the instructions above. Keep in mind that to make an account, you’ll need access to the email address used, so if you won’t be available, you may wish to use your proxy’s email address instead of yours. This means the winner emails will go to your proxy, who’ll need to forward them to you. Once the auction is over, you’ll need to contact us with your donation information and details on your proxy bid, so that we’ll be able to put you in contact with your creator(s).

If your proxy already has an account and would rather use their own account to help you place bids, they must be very careful in keeping track of which bids they’ve placed for you and which bids are their own. Your proxy will need to forward winner emails to you if they use their own email, just like they would if they created a new account.

Good luck with bidding, everyone! Keep an eye on our countdown clock, figure out your bidding strategy, and be ready for the madness tomorrow. We hope you’ll win your favorite auctions!

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