[prostheticvamp]

Have you used that site in the past? I see a lot of listings saying something like “24 ea” to describe a lot of 24, but can’t find what the ea means. I’d think it might mean “bid is per item,” but that makes no sense (I’m seeing bids at multiples of what the individual items are worth).

[jandrese]

Exactly. I look at a lot like this:

https://www.go-dove.com/asset/65/17113

And see monitors of various sizes and vintages, listed as "24 ea". Do you win all the monitors if you win, or is it first come first serve for the 24 highest bidders?

I'm guessing it's the former, but it's not like any of the FAQs on the site are going to clue you in. Instead they tell you that their web guys don't know how to scrub input properly:

  Message received:

  "Your bid is not in the correct format"

  This means you have entered a dollar sign, or comma. 
  Here is an example: (Correct) 1000 (Incorrect) $1,000.00

I found another doc that may have the answer:

2. Items that have no tag number and are of identical kind and condition may be grouped on one SPMD-1A. Example (25 ea. chairs, wood w/arms).

https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/rules/0690/0690-02.pdf

Suggests that you are bidding on all items with one bid--if you win you get all of them.

[jcrawfordor]

Typically in an auction, a situation where you are bidding price-per-item for multiple items would be described as "24 times the money" or "24 x money". Only some auctioneers do this because it is confusing to novice bidders. Seems to be more common in live auctions than online.

"24 ea" would generally mean that you're bidding one price for all 24.

Your price may be increased by a buyer's premium as well, but again, this is more common in live auctions than online auctions. Typically it would be in the paperwork you sign to register for the auction (...which online auctionhouses often don't do at all).

[2000YearOldMan]

The site is horrible in a sense of trying to figure out what you are buying. Also things like hard drives are usually removed, so you may be looking at a pallet of desktop towers that are unusable until you do some work to them.

I never purchased anything off that site but I did turn stuff into the department that had the responsibility to list stuff on that site.

[krallja]

ea is short for each