If you are talking about the "auctions", you join by purchasing your first pack of bids, you can see what is being auctioned at the time and near future by scrolling through their "auction" pages, or you can search or browse merchandise they will offer soon, if you choose to bid on something you must wait until the last 10 seconds then you click the bid button, you can and should book a "bid buddy" which you add as many bids as you want and let it bid for you, that way you won't miss the win due to bad timing. The sight will give pretty detailed instructions. The bid buddy will bid for you as soon as the timer gets down to 1 second. Once you win, you go to "your dashboard" and pay for the product and it is mailed to you. The price you pay is the total, no shipping or extra charges. Once you join, you will be able to buy bids at much lower rates than the initial investment. You can bid on bid packs too, which helps you have more bids to use on the higher priced items. It truly is fun and I have gotten some amazing deals, I have lost some too, can't win them all but I have been able to acquire everything I really wanted. Good luck.