The Auction House is an anonymous trading point.

Bidding

To make a bid, just press the "Make Bid" button next to an auction. Your bid amount must be at least equal to the minimum bid, or if there are existing bids then 10% more than the current bid.

Auctions will lock at a random point during the last 20 seconds, when this happens no more bids can be placed. This is to help prevent last second bids.

If someone places a higher bid than yours, you'll receive an alert and your bid amount is returned to you. You can choose whether your bid is refunded to your cash balance or bank account when making a bid and the game will remember your last used option for future bids.

Game auctions

Some auctions are created by the game. The source of these auctions is:

• For bullets and credits: Assets which have been sold on the "Sell" tab of the Black Market in recent days.
• For vehicles: A random portion of the vehicles players have sold from their garage in recent days.

Game-created auctions do not contribute towards your Trade Limits. You can read more about this and how to identify whether an auction contributes towards your Trade Limits below.

When these auctions don't sell, they're immediately relisted with the minimum bid slightly reduced, until a bidder is found. This helps the game to identify the market rate for the item.

Player auctions

All other auctions are created by other players.

Player-created auctions do contribute towards your Trade Limits. You can read more about this and how to identify whether an auction contributes towards your Trade Limits below.

Starting an auction

You can start auctions for bullets, prison bribes, credits or perks from the Auction House on the "Start Auction" tab. Just select the item you want to sell, a minimum bid, how long to list the auction for and how many of the same auctions you want to start at the same time.

When your auction ends, if it has received bids the earnings are paid into your bank account with a 10% fee deducted, otherwise the item will be returned to you.

Note: To sell a vehicle or perk, it must be classed as transferable.

Vehicles

You can auction vehicles from the Your Garage screen by selecting the vehicle(s) and using the "Auction Vehicles" action.

Auto relist

Note: Certified Gangster exclusive feature.

Enabling the auto relist option means that if your auction doesn't sell, it will be automatically placed back in the Auction House for the same period of time, up to 10 times in total before ending.

Closing an auction

You can close your auction early if no bids have been made. You can do this by going to the Auction House, finding your auction and pressing the Close button.

Trade Limits

Trade Limits apply to the Auction House, you can read more about them here.

Send limits

Send limits apply when starting certain auctions.

You can avoid send limits by selling assets in the Black Market instead.

Receive limits

Receive limits apply when bidding on auctions with a red bid button.

You can avoid receive limits by only bidding on auctions with a black "Bid" button.

Statistics

The Statistics tab lets you view the average winning bids per bullet, credit and vehicle over the last 24 hours as well as the last 7 days. This can help you when deciding what to set your minimum bid at.