Help Using the iComTrader Members Area

Buying Tools

• My Messages

This is where you can click to get to your message box. When you first sign, it normally takes you there first. The only times it won't take you there first is: 1) the system needs to remind you if there is something you need to do,  2) if you were logged in before and your session has expired, and you click on any link, it will ask you to log in again, and then it will take you to the place you requested before, instead of your message box.

Once you click on "My Messages", you will see any new messages from sellers or the system administrator in the middle, and on the right you will see a box that shows all of your folders. You can click on them to read any messages there. Once you click "File Message", it will go to the "Filed" folder and then it will be deleted permanently after 60 days.

By clicking on the other folders you can see active messages that you have sent/received by type of message.

• My Offers

This part of the system is not being used, at this time.

• Bid Tracker

This shows all the listings you have bid on, or that you are tracking. If you want to keep an eye on a particular listing that is not your own, when you are viewing the listing, just click on the "Watch Listing" link and it will appear in your "Bid Tracker" section so you don't have to go find it in the categories section every time you want to see it.

• Invoices for Purchases

This is where you can find all pending invoices for purchases that you have made on the site.

Selling Tools

• List Item

Click here to list an item that you want to sell. You must have a membership package before you can list.

• My Listings

This is where you can see all listings that you have, either pending (saved but not active in the system yet), current (active in the system), closed with no bids and reserve not met (nobody bid on it and the ending date has passed), closed with reserve price met (somebody bid and the reserve price was met).

If you want to make any of the inactive listings active again, just click on the appropriate link. You will see all of the listings that pertain to that group, and you can relist or remove them one at a time, or all at once (by using the "Select All Items by Checking This Box" feature. (Please be careful - once you remove a listing it will need to be re-entered all over again. There is no "undo".)

• My Messages

Same as "My Messages" in the Buying Tools section, but it will list first any new messages you have received from buyers or from the system administrator.

• Sales Tracker

This is where you can see all sales that you have made.

• Invoices for Sales

This is where you can see all invoices for sales that you have made.

Account Tools

• Update Contact Info/Change Password

This is where you manage your contact info and password. Be sure to change your password from time to time, for security reasons. Use a safe password that you can remember. It should include both letters and numbers, and not be something that is easy for people to guess. If you lose your password you can recover it on the Login page by entering your email address in the box to the right side of the screen and clicking on "Lookup Password".

• Newsletter/Email settings

This is where you manage the settings for the types of newsletters you want to receive. Click to put a check in the boxes of the ones you want, and click to remove the check from the ones you do not want. Then click "Save All Settings".

• Seller Tools

This is where you manage your iComTrader web page, payment settings, PayPal address (to receive payments from buyers), etc. 

• My Account