How To Use Globalfish.net
The Globalfish.net web site is for use by professionals. It has been structured to be as simple as possible to navigate the many details involved in buying and selling fish, seafood and fish meal products.
When you register with Globalfish.net, enter as much detail as possible so that your auction and trading partners get to know you. The more details you provide about your expertise and qualifications, the greater the comfort level will be of prospective Buyers or Sellers to do business with you.
You will be asked to create a name or alias by which you will be known to other users. This name cannot be changed, except under special circumstances, so you should choose your alias carefully.
You are also required to provide at least one of the products you handle, including specifications. For optimal exposure, make sure to enter all of the products you handle, one product at a time. Product profiles need to be entered only once, and may be further detailed or removed from the site in your Watch List, once you have successfully completed the registration process.
The Globalfish.net web site is designed to produce the maximum results with the least inconvenience. To ensure that your Offers and Requests for Offers are directed to other members interested in buying from or selling to you, you will be prompted to create a list of Product Profiles, one product at a time, which must include the fish name and species, your status as a Buyer or Seller, and other product details.
All product profiles entered are automatically posted as Requests for Offers or Public Offers to Sell in the Trading/Search for Listings section on the Globalfish.net website, depending on your status as a Buyer, Seller or Buyer and Seller, ready to be matched with those of other market participants.
Auto-listings are conditional listings and do not contain any information concerning quantity, price, packaging details or documentation; they are marked as
"Incomplete" in your
Watch List where they may be further edited or removed from the site.
Using The Site After You Have Registered…
Upon successful registration, you will receive a
Globalfish.net welcome mail, which contains your login, passwords, corporate account number and other useful hints.
As a default setting, entering your login and password will take you to your
Watch List located in the
My Activity section of the site.
Your Watch List shows all of the auction and trade listings that you have either created or responded to. Listings which have been automatically created and posted on the Globalfish.net site may be viewed here, edited or removed from the site, unless another member has responded to them.
To view all listings, regardless of their type, refer to the Trade/Search for Listing section.
Your Watch List also displays the following additional information:
- The number of companies in the Globalfish.net database, which buy or sell the same products you do;
- Any invitations you may receive to participate in a Private Auction or Trade;
- Reminders to submit documents pertaining to a trade or auction you are involved in.
All of your listings on the Globalfish.net site, regardless of their type, will be matched with any other market participant positioned to meet your needs.
Listings which are marked as Incomplete on your Watch List are defaulted to expire after 360 days; they do not contain any information concerning quantity, price, packaging details or documentation. You may Edit your incomplete listings to replace your automatically generated listing with the newly edited version.
The menu tabs at the top of every page offer the following options:
- Email/VoIP displays messages from other users or from Globalfish.net and allows you to contact other users by telephone using our "Click-to-Call" VoIP system. You can speak directly with anyone with whom you are negotiating or with whom you have completed an auction.
- VoIP Registration offers click-to-call services (subject to a monthly fee of USD 12.95, not including airtime).
- My Feedback allows you to view how your on-line business partners rate you.
- Leave Feedback for Others allows you to rate the reliability and past performance of your trading partners.
- Update Personal Profile allows you to view and edit your personal and company information.
- Corporate Account allows you to apply for a corporate account and view your statement.
- Update Credit Card Information allows you to view and edit your credit card information.
- Product Profile allows you to change the specifications of the products that you buy and sell.
- Watch List displays all the products that you would like to follow on a regular basis.
- Initiated By Me displays all transactions that you have initiated.
- I Responded To/Invitations displays all transactions that you have responded to or have been privately invited to participate in.
- Completed displays the details of every successful transaction.
- Relist allows you to easily relist previous postings that you have made.
- Search for Listings allows you to search for auction listings and filter the results displayed.
- Create Listing allows you to initiate a forward or reverse auction.
- Relist allows you to recreate any previous auction listing with the click of a button.
- Search for Listings allows you to search for trade listings and filter the results displayed.
- Create Listing allows you to initiate an Offer to Sell or a Request for Offer.
- Relist allows you to recreate any previous trade listing with the click of a button.
- Create and archive document-supported supply chains for product bought or sold on the site, through all stages of production, processing, transportation, storage and distribution.
- Creating a Listing describes in detail the steps in posting a listing.
- Auction Center describes the specific details for posting or bidding in an auction.
- Trading Center describes the specific details for posting or responding to a trade.
- General Information offers other details about the site.
Market Watch (available December 2010)
- View information on the quantities and prices of products most recently sold on the site.
- Search worldwide references to storage facilities, couriers and quality control providers. Forwarding/customs brokerage services are provided by DB Schenker, one of the world's leading logistics providers
Contact Us, Terms of Agreement and Privacy Policy
- Contact us with questions or suggestions
- Access from the bottom of any page on the site.