For those bidding on items:

• All bids listed will be anonomous to the public, just like in a real auction, the seller and bidder will be known only to darksphere. This is done to avoid direct contact between those using our services for selling items, and the bidders...as well as privacy for all buyers. Once an item has been sold, and the necessary fees and information exchanged with the seller, the name of the winning bidder will be posted. Those items with sold status, but pending this tranaction will be listed as pending.
• Items that have been sold will remain on the auction bord for one week before being removed.
• If you place a bid, withdrawl of that bid will be allowed only at the discretion of the seller. Allowing withdrawls is not at the discretion of darksphere.
• Bids will be considered in the order that they are received by darksphere. For example: If two bids of equal value are received on an item, the bid received earliest will be the standing bid, the bid received later will be considered a matching bid, and will not be posted.
• All bids received must be at or higher than the price listed as the minimum bid (mb). Bids received that are lower than the minimum bid will not be considered.
• The only official record of the bidding on the auction will be the darksphere auction page. It will be the responsibility of all parties to ensure that you reload the page, and or delete your web browsers cache to ensure you are looking at the most current update of the auction.
• As bidding of items progresses, item will be noted with the following indicators of their status: going once, going twice, fair warning, sold.
• If an item is listed as sold, and you placed the winning bid, you have seven (7) days to pickup and pay for that item. If you are unable to meet this obligation to the satisfaction of the seller, the bid will be considered invalid, and the item will be placed up for auction at its orginal minimum bid.
• All bids must be emailed to [email protected] we will not be responsible for bids sent to the wrong email address, or to emails that are lost before receipt by darksphere due to technical problems or acts of god.
• All bids placed must include your email address, your Gemstone III characters name, the code number for the item you are bidding on, and your bid amount. To aid in contacting you, your screen name for AOL Instant Messenger should also be included. You will only receive email from darksphere informing you that the auction has been updated.
• Darksphere will not be held responsible for items that have been described incorrectly by the seller. We are only offering the service of posting and updating auction items.
• Darksphere can not guarantee that sellers using our services will make good on their offers of items for auction. Darksphere only makes such guarantees for items sold by or known by members of darksphere, or close friends of members. Those items are listed with the 'darksphere' symbol next to them. All other items are sold on a 'buyer beware' basis
• Darksphere reserves the right to dishonor bids, or remove items if it comes to our attention that either the bidder or seller is unscrupulous.
• Darksphere reserves the right to remove items from the auction if they are somehow lost do to technical problems in Gemstone III.
• Sellers bidding on non-darksphere guaranteed items must also read and understand the requirements of the sellers, described in the section below. Darksphere will not be responsible for unsuccsessful sales due to the seller failing to complete their obligations to darksphere.

For those wishing to sell items on the darksphere auction:

• All are welcome to sell items on the darksphere auction. There is a nominal fee which must be paid in order to have your item listed.The fee structure is as follows:
  • an upfront fee of 1000 coins will be charged for all items. This fee is required to process the information for the auction.
  • once the item is sold, a fee of 3% of the winning bid will be collected from you, the seller, at that time, the name and contact information for the winning bidder will be given you.
  • You are responsible for arranging the transfer of your item, and collection of money from the winning bidder. Darksphere will in no way be responsible for this. Once an item has received sold status, and darksphere has given you the contact information, we are removed from all responsibility. If you are unable to successfully make the transaction, and wish to have the bidding restarted on your item, this will be done at no charge, however the 3% fee will be collected on the next winning bid, and no refund can be given on the previous 3% fee.
• To sell an item, please email the information about your item to [email protected], along with the minimum bid you want listed, and your full contact information: Gemstone III name, email, and AIM screen name. You will be contacted promptly for the fee, and your item will then be posted.
• Darksphere will inform you by email when your item has been posted. And inform you when the item has been sold, along with the amount of the winning bid, and the amount of the fee owed to darksphere. At that point you must complete the requirements listed in the fee structure above.
• If you are unable to pay darksphere the required fees, you will not receive information about the winning bidder, and your item will not be reposted.

This auction is for Gemstone III silvers only!

Any questions or comments about the rules above should be directed to [email protected]. If you are unclear about the information above, it must be clarified prior to bidding on, or submitting an item for sale.

If you need to contact us about the auction for any emergencies...please IM LordMakaze, this is only for EMERGENCY questions about the auction.