Online Auctions in Australia
We now cover nearly 100 auctioneers who run both traditional in-person and online auctions, with weekly event updates for thousands of items that go under the hammer every week, and our search engine, where you can easily find specific upcoming items.
Finding upcoming auctions
If you are looking for lists of events in your state, both online and onsite, every week we curate and update pages for just that, see:
By State: Sydney NSW, Melbourne VIC, Perth WA, Brisbane & Gold Coast QLD, Adelaide SA, Canberra ACT, and Hobart TAS.
By Genre: Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Boats & Marine, Car Auctions, Classic Car Auctions, Caravans & Campers, Clearance Auctions, Jewellery, Liquidation & Surplus, Motorbikes, Bulk Lots, Police Auctions, Retail Returns, Salvage, Trucks & Machinery.
If you are looking for a specific item, you can use our auction search, which searches over 100 Australian auction sites.
Some Background on Australian Online Auction Sites
It’s been some time since I last covered the online auction sites in Australia, and a lot has changed. Some sites have grown, some have gone, and there are some new entrants at the time of updating this post in 2026. What’s most interesting is the traditional on-site auction rooms that are establishing in-house online auction sales. Almost across the board, auctioneers now have their own platforms or use a third-party platform to enable online bidders. Let’s take a look at some of those:
Pickles is one of Australia’s largest auctioneers, having locations in each state and now offering regular online auctions of cars, computers & IT, and general goods. You can view their upcoming sales here. Online car auctions are covered in more detail here.
Manheim is Australia’s major auctioneer of vehicles, with auction rooms across Australia. For some time, they have been offering simulcast auctions where their on-site in-lane sales are broadcast over the net and through their system, you can bid online at the same time as on-site buyers. Take a look here for a full description of their online services.
Allbids originally conducted on-site auctions of government surplus items in Canberra before opening an online bidding portal that has been growing ever since going online in 2004. There are regular sales and a quite diverse range of items that go under the hammer, check out allbids.com.au. Since that time, they have also opened CarBids and EHVA.
GraysOnline has become just Grays and has been one of the most successful transitions of a traditional on-site auctioneer to online auction sales in Australia (personal opinion! Albeit that they were recently liquidated and sold to Slattery Auctions). They offer a large number of concurrent auctions and a very diverse range of goods. Well known for their computer sales featuring manufacturer clearances and ex-lease laptops, and all sorts of IT equipment. They also have jewellery, homewares, furniture and more. Visit grays.com
Lloyds are the Gold Coast-based auction house that has found online success in hosting regular online sales of insurance claims, clearance stock, police seized goods and much more. Check out their current sales here lloydsonline.com.au
Over in WA, Ross’s Auctioneers and Valuers is one of the most well-known traditional auctioneers in the state. They also have online sales, which you can view here auctions.com.au
Interbid hosts webcasts of traditional auctions and online-only auctions for a number of established traditional auction houses, including Hassalls, MGS, Abbeys, Scammells and more. See their upcoming sales here interbid.com.au
Lawsons, the long-established Sydney auction house feature online sales of art, wine and up-market goods. More here lawsons.com.au
MGS, based in SA, have the occasional online-only sale. See their site for what’s coming up mgs.net.au
Slattery’s Auctions is one of the big players in the traditional auction to online auction transition in Australia; their site is serving a national audience and has been running for a number of years. There’s a broad range of sales changing from week to week, but electronics and computer auctions are a regular event. See more here slatteryauctions.com.au
eBay alternatives (where you can list your items for sale)
There have been many others trying to challenge the eBay dominance, but unfortunately, most have withered away. The latest, and let’s hope they are successful, is you.bid, which currently offers free listings.
The sites presented here, offer ‘Consumer to Consumer’ auction sites like eBay, e.g. where individual sellers can list goods for sale. “Whilst none of these sites come close to having the mass of eBay, it’s worth remembering that eBay has been online for over a decade while most of these sites are less than 2 or 3 years old and are solely Australian focused.” was what I wrote in 2020, here we are in 2026 and all are closed or no longer offering auctions, bar Allbids which has moved to a more Business to Consumer model, and, one new entrant which is You.bid.
You.bid – https://you.bid/
As of updating this page in early 2026, they are a very new entrant, still working to get that critical mass of auction listings and potential bidders. They are a 100% Consumer 2 Consumer (C2C) platform where sellers can post their item as an auction, buy it now or as a market place listing. A critical point of difference to eBay is that post auction completion, the buyer and seller are introduced to arrange the payment. Personally, I would hope that they add buyer protection policies in the future.
Update 2025
Allbids – http://www.allbids.com.au/
Update 2025: they have grown enormously and are less C2C focused than in the past (as in you cannot post your own listings, but you can still contact them to sell items on your behalf).
Formerly DOLA online auctions at dola.com.au, Allbids along with their own asset disposal auctions of government and corporate surplus also have a ‘consumer 2 consumer’ auction service. At the time of writing, they offer sellers no listing or selling fees, with an added benefit for sellers that potential buyers will be drawn from Allbids own auctions. Good and changing variety of items to be found for sale.
Now Closed – BidMate – http://www.bidmate.com.au
A relative newcomer to the Australian online auction space being online since 2007. In this short time BidMate does appear to have attracted a good variety of sellers, although, like AussieBid, there does seem to be a lack of bidding activity.
Update 2020
Now Closed – Quicksales – https://www.quicksales.com.au
local marketplace has thousands of items for sale including cars, clothes, pets, & instruments. Quicksales is quick, easy, 100% free to sell.
Now Closed – OZtion – http://www.oztion.com.au
OZtion launched in 2005 and has grown to become, as the OZtion team claim, the 2nd largest dedicated online auction website in Australia. The site states a membership of close to 400,000 people and an inventory of over 750,000 items for sale. In June 2008 OZtion was acquired by the ASX-listed company Jumbuck Entertainment (ASX: JMB). Just recently, OZtion and Jumbuck launched a new site, http://www.carbuddy.com.au, providing online car classifieds.
Update 2015 – these sites have ceased as online auction sites:
TradingPost Online – http://www.tradingpost.com.au
The online version of the Trading Post, a classifieds paper, added online auctions to it’s choices for buyers and sellers in mid 2008. The Trading Post is owned by Sensis, part of Telstra.
Aussie Bid – http://aussiebid.com.au
Online since 2003, AussieBid claims over 30,000 members and what appears to be an active community at their site forum. The site does have enough items for sale making it interesting enough to dig around through the categories, although there does seem to be a lack of bidding activity.
Auction Bidz – http://www.auctionbidz.com.au
Site is currently offering free listings and advertises having over 7000 members and 1440 items listed. Site might be yet to gain traction with the mass volume of members and listings required to look ‘busy’, although worth keeping an eye on.
BidSell – http://bidsell.com.au
Similar in layout and site structure to eBay. BidSell, as it would currently seem, is yet to gain critical mass.
The similarities between many of these sites and eBay are obvious with many featuring similar layouts, although not quite as well implemented, and similar functionality and lingo like ‘buy it now’. Again, these sites are not that old and you would like to think once they have established critical mass, if they do, that they would also forge their own unique offering.
