When becoming a verified seller or bidder you become verified for both and verified thruout our network of websites TropicalFishAuction.com, EggAuct.com, ReptileStation.com and Insectauction.com. Registration is required on each site. Just contact us that you have registred on another one of our network sites with your username and we will apply verification on your account.

A seller has to become verified by sending TropicalFishAuction.com a $5.00 paypal payment. If the seller is a verified paypal or Google Checkout member, they will receive an icon next to their username. The $5.00 payment will be credited to their account balance and can be used for auction enhancements. While this is not foolproof nor gaurantee a sellers reputation or business practices, at least the buyer will know that the sellers bank information and address have been confirmed.

Protection for sellers:

A seller can post requirements in their auctions for potential buyers such as:

1. Must Bidders must be a verified paypal or Google Checkout member.
2. Only accept Money orders or paypal. or Google Checkout.

Another issue we are addressing is multiple registrations with different usernames. This is usually done for the purposes of posting positive feedback on themselves, raising bids or to hide a bad reputation. We do log all IP addresses of new members and will terminate any account caught using deceptive practices. There is a "Report Abuse" button in the member control panel which can be used to report any suspicious activity, failure to pay, failure to ship, etc...

Again, these are not all foolproof remedies but should help to protect buyers and sellers.

Thank you for making us one of the highest ranking aquarium auction sites on the internet!

Great news selling items at tropicalfishauction.com is now free. We have waived all fees untill further notice. Thank you.

As of 12/7/2010 stores with 0 items wont be shown on the stores page on the front end.

• Display winners/sellers username on the purchase invoice
• Ability to assign custom fields to subcategories
• [add all] or [select all] button in the invoice creation process.
• Add counter to site status to display number of open/active stores
• Ability to "create similar listing" from a closed listing (sold or unsold)
• Listed time column added
• Browse tabs added
• New browsing pagination option added
• Brand new bulk listing method
• Improved image/media uploaded using Ajax (no page refresh etc)
• Added wanted ads to browsing categories
• Stop buyer/seller bid retraction when the item has twelve or less hours to run
• Let the seller chose if he wants to display the item views counter when he creates the listing
• Free category change when the item has not received any bids
• A Large volume seller has no easy way to see items that are pair or not paid for - allow the status column to be sortable
• Add delete option for combined invoices on the [Sold] section of the members area rather than having to go to [Invoices Sent]
• Reputation percentages on stores directory
• Combined store setup page
• Password protected stores
• View auction option added when completing the listing process
• Ability for seller to chose to show/expose his offer range
• Revamped browsing with custom fields/standard fields introduced for narrowing browsing/category pages
• Ajax direct payment fields
• User data handling updated to support PayPal
• Integration of USPS, UPS, Fedex
• New page for offers so buyer/seller can see what offers have been submitted and the status (declined, pending, accepted; currently declined offers deleted)
• Saved searches
• Seller vouchers
• Feedback reminder added
• Ability for buyer to include or exclude insurance on their shipping cost
+More minor changes/additions

All of finvillage registered auction users will be moved into tropicalfishauction.com. If your account was already moved to tropicalfishauction.com and you are having trouble login in because of incorect password just click on forgot password and a new password will be emailed to you. Then you can go into your account and change it to whatever you like.

Great news tropicalfishauction.com is now the new owner of finvillage.com. All of finvillage registered auction users will be moved into tropicalfishauction.com. Congradulations to tropicalfishauction.com for our new 800+ sellers and buyers. Thank you finvillage for making our family bigger.

Great news opening a store at TropicalFishAuction is now free.

Hey guys and gals got an extra pump, skimmer, heater or an over stocked tank? Or maybe your just switching from freshwater to saltwater and need to find a new home for those fish. just list them on tropicalfishauction.com the greatest aquatic auction site for all aquarium hobbyist.

Tropicalfishauction.com has donated in response to the earthquakes that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. To provide comfort and hope to disaster victims across the affected region, helping to meet critical needs such as for shelter, food, relief supplies and other emergency assistance.

We will soon be integrating with USPS, UPS, and Fedex with our shipping options. It will auto calculate the weight of the item set by the seller with the actual shipping cost. The buyer chooses the shipping method and it is auto calculated.

Register now on tropicalfishauction.com and get your Free TropicalFishAuction.com round stick shaped fish pen. Limited time only so hurry up and register now. After registration just give us and email using our contact form that you have registred and we will send your free gift.

When selling on TropicalFishAuction, you can place certain types of links within your item description to help promote or sell your item. You can't link to personal or business websites from your listing.

What's a link?
A link is anything that takes a user off the TropicalFishAuction site, including text, images, logos, or icons. A link can be a URL, such as "www.mysite.com", or text, such as "please put a 'www' and a '.com' around my user ID". These types of links are not allowed.

Make sure your listing follows these guidelines. If it doesn't, it may be removed or edited, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including restrictions of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.

If you would like we offer link exchanging located on our links section

These are the new features
•Combined invoicing (buyer/seller created)*
•Combined/reduced shipping**
•Ability to edit/preview invoice
•Real time currency conversion
•Support for currency symbols i.e. $, £, € as opposed to USD/GBP/EUR
•Listing steps reduced (will expand on selection)
•Ability to remember login
•Require instant payment on buy out purchases
•Support for embedded content (Youtube url's etc)
•Store subscription payments retained (any existing store credit left when upgrading your store will be carried over)
•Bid retraction notification to both parties
•Instant new message notification on login
•Make feedback/reputation private
•Improved user banning (user end)
•Ability to end an item early and assign winner
•Edit sale price (reduction only)
•Ability for seller to add custom invoice notes
•Additional shipping calculation method (set rate for first item and second rate for all other items purchased in the same invoice)
•Amazon Payments
•Ability to set national/local shipping rates (percentage or flate and based on country/state)
•Free shipping icon on listings
•Mass feedback reply

1. We use professional well supported software not homemade software that locks up, freezes and crashes.
2. TropicalFishAuction.com runs on private dedicated servers using intel proccessors and are always running 99.99% since we started 3 years ago. We have not had any downtime at all.
3. We use the latest direct payment methods. No real need to contact buyers after auction closes they can simply pay using the direct payment methods you choose. Like Paypal, Google Checkout, Worldpay, 2Checkout, Nochex, Ikobo, Protx, Authorize.net, Moneybookers, Amazon Payments and Paymate.
4. Our customer service support answers questions right away.
5. We do not use advertisements on our site that will pose a virus threat to your computer. We never had any complaints about malicious viruses, popup's or adware on our site ever.
6. Ask other users from other sites how are their services and software? You will hear nothing but problems with page lockups, freeze ups crashes page slowdowns and headaches.
7. Our software utilizes the latest php technology.
8. We sponsor and support many forums, clubs and society's. Are others doing the same?
9. We are also hobbyist just like you we keep a variety of tropical fish.
listings and so on. You never pay for non sold items.
10. Our auction has many features like wanted ads, Item swap, featured items, featured category items, and more.
Even if you don't see any items of interest today signup so that we know your with us.

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