3. Registration and Account Creation. In order to participate in any auction on this website, you must register and create an account. When you create your account, it constitutes a representation that you are an individual at least eighteen (18) years of age and are not a person barred from receiving the services offered under the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction. During the registration process, you must choose a username. Your username must not be offensive, deceptive or infringe upon the rights of third parties. By registering for an account, you also consent to allow us to access your account information to, among other things, investigate complaints or other allegations of abuse. BidPigs.com reserves the right to reject or revoke any user’s account at its sole discretion for any reason. You may modify your registration data by sending an email to records@bidpigs.com . Only one account is allowed per person. Your account is not transferable. You may not allow any other person to access your account, accept your merchandise or participate in any auction using your account information. Under no circumstances shall you allow or permit any other person or third party, including without limitation, any person under the legal age, to participate in an auction in your applicable jurisdiction.

4. Unavailability of Service. You are subject to the laws of the state, city and any other legal entity in which you reside and/or from which you access this website and use its services. The laws governing auctions, contests and tournaments are set up by individual states, not by the federal government. Use of this website and its services is VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW, as well as VOID OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. You hereby agree that BidPigs.com cannot be held liable if laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit your participation. BidPigs.com makes no representations or warranties, implicit or explicit, as to your legal right to participate in any auction offered on this Website. You agree to determine whether participation in this website and its services is allowed in your jurisdiction, and to abide by same.

5. Participation in the Auctions – The Right to Bid.

　　　　 A. Paid Bids. The right to participate in the auctions, or "bid", must be purchased, and paid for by you, before you can start bidding. Bids can be purchased at the currently set prices, which can be viewed on the website. Payment will only be accepted via PayPal Gateway or other payment methods published on BidPigs.com. Once a bid is placed in a given auction, the bid credit is deducted from your account and is considered expired and non-refundable.

　　　　　 C.　 Won Bids. Bids that are won following participation in an auction from items, such as "Bid Packages," or bid amounts that are added to a listed retail item, will be considered the same as Paid Bids.

        D. Coupon and Bonus Bids. BidPigs.com will occassionally offer special coupons, contests and other special discount bids to our customers and potential customers. These Bids will all be considered Coupon bids. Coupon bids are not held, calculated, nor valued in the same way as paid, regular bids. Coupon bids will always have an expiration date, by which they MUST be redeemed or they will be lost. Coupon bids have NO value for refund purposes. Coupon bids DO NOT count towards the Buy It Now option on any auctions. These bids are for promotional, coupon and contests only. Coupon bids in your account will always be the first bids used on an auction. Users will not be compensated for any unused coupon bids that expire.

6.　　Bidding Methods.

　　　　　 A. Manual Bidding. You can manually click on the bid button on any of the listed auctions. Remember that each time you click "Bid," the price will increase and one credit will be deducted from your account! The timer　will also add time for any bids that are placed　on the item with under two minutes remaining on the auction.　 　　　　　 B. BidHogs. The BidHog is an auto-bidder. The auto-bidder will allow you to automatically bid on auctions by setting up, in advance, bidding specifications with the auto-bidder. Each time　the BidHog places a bid it will also use a bid credit from your account, raise the price and effect timers under two minutes. You are prohibited from using any bidding software not authorized by BidPigs.com.

　　　　　 C. Last Second Bidding. Penny auction users have many different styles and strategies when participating in auctions. One of the popular styles is to place bids at the very last second on the timer. BidPigs hereby notifies it's users that this method is only to be used at the user's risk. Given the nature of the internet, BidPigs cannot, and will not, guarantee these last second bids will be able to be processed by our servers. BidPigs recommends that users place bids with 3 seconds remaining to ensure proper crediting of the bids. No refunds, bid credits or any other compensation will be awarded in instances where the auction database records show that auction ended correctly and late bids were not processed.

　　　　　 D. Bid Bots and Shill Bidding. Some other penny auction sites out there will bid against their users for their own profits. BidPigs.com will not participate in, nor allow, any type of shill bidding against the customers of this site. Employees of Rabideagle Enterprises, LLC, and their immediate families, are prohibited from bidding or participating in auctions. For purposes of this part, "immediate family" shall only include members of the employee’s family that reside in the same household with an employee.

7. Retail Items up for Auction. The price of the item(s) up for auction increases with each bid placed, per the amount specified, for that auction. If no amount is specified, the price of the item will increase 1 cent ($0.01) per bid. A bid submitted by you, constitutes your willingness to enter into a binding contract with BidPigs.com and, in the event of being the last bidder in the auction, you agree to purchase the item won in the auction under the conditions set forth in the auction. The contract to purchase the item does not come into effect until the auction is finished and the purchaser has followed all the steps, as set forth, to complete the purchase. An auction is deemed to have ended when the website shows that the auction is closed. The bidder who was the last to bid wins the auction and the right to purchase that item. All other bids placed on the item expire and will not be credited back to a user's account or be eligible for a refund, except in the event of a site malfunction. The purchaser of an auction item is determined by provider based on its records and such determination shall be made at the sole discretion of BidPigs.com.

* Because BidPigs.com tries to have lighting fast shipping, winners must email support with the auction number, item and preferred swap method immediately after payment for won auctions!

　　　　　　 3. Contact support@bidpigs.com following auction win,　prior to payment, to make arrangements to pay the actual shipping price, with certified receipt, to the address outside the continental U.S.

　　　　　 A. Reporting Malfunctions. Any problems encountered during an auction which may cause the auction to be invalidated must be reported immediately to support@bidpigs.com . Failure to report the malfunction, or discrepancy, immediately　upon discovery, will constitute your consent to continue and cause your continued use of the site, or participation in an auction, to be at your own risk. No refunds for bids or bidpacks will be awarded in that instance.

　　　　　 B. Malfunctions discovered while Auction is in progress.　For the purposes of this part malfunctions shall be considered to have been discovered during auction in progress when BidPigs is properly notified, or finds, a valid malfunction and pauses the auction prior to it's end.　When verified malfunctions of this type are found BidPigs will make every effort to repair the problem and resume the auction. In the event　the repair will require more　than 10 minutes from the pause, BidPigs will not resume the auction, without the consent of all bidders currently having bids placed in the auction. If all bidders are unavailable to agree to a restart, Bidpigs will　email notice to all bidders of the date and time for the re-start with no less than 48 hours notice.

In the event that the malfunction occurs after placement of bids that are correctly accepted, the auction will be reset to the last correct bid level upon the restart. All bids found to have been placed after the malfunction will be credited to the user account prior to the restart.

　　　　 C. Malfunctions discovered after auction end. For purposes of this part, a malfunction discovered after the auction end will be any auction in which a malfunction is reported after the timers have ended or an auction in which a malfunction is reported prior to timers end, but BidPigs is unable to pause the auction prior to its end. When verified malfunctions of this type occur BidPigs will invalidate the auction and credit all used bids back to the user bid accounts.

　　　　　　 D. Other issues.　All other problems encountered during the use of provider's services, including those with regard to auctions, your account, etc., must be reported, within thirty days, to support@bidpigs.com 　to be considered for any bid credit refunds.

1. Admin Emails. Users creating accounts at BidPigs.com will be assumed to have agreed to receive email notices from BidPigs.com regarding auction wins and other site related issues. A users sole remedy to cease acceptance of these emails is account closure.

2. Newsletter and Promotional Emails. All users will be prompted to agree to receive newsletters from BidPigs.com at time of account creation. Users may unsubscribe from the newsletter emails at any time by visiting the My Profile pages following log in and selecting Unsubscribe. Newsletter emails also contain directions for email request for removal from this service. It is the users responsibility to confirm email requests delivery for removal in this manner.