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title: 🔥 How to Use Hot Item and Good Deal Tags to Boost Bidding
description: Learn how Hot Item and Good Deal tags work in ClickBid, including how Fair Market Value (FMV) and bidding activity determine when these tags appear on auction items.
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# 🔥 How to Use Hot Item and Good Deal Tags to Boost Bidding

Understanding how **Hot** and **Deal** tags work can help you motivate bidders and highlight exciting opportunities during your event. These tags are automatically applied based on bidding activity and item value.

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### 🎟️ What Are Hot Item & Deal Tags?

These tags appear on auction items to signal value and bidding activity to your guests.

- **Hot Item** = High interest and strong bidding activity
- **Good Deal** = Opportunity to get a bargain compared to the item’s value

These tags are designed to **encourage more bidding** by creating urgency and highlighting perceived value.

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### ⚙️ Requirements for Tags to Appear

Before either tag can show, you must first:

1. Go to your item setup.
2. Enter a **Fair Market Value (FMV)** for the item.

- If **no FMV is set**, neither tag will appear.
- Once FMV is added, the system will automatically evaluate the item.

Heads up: *The **Deal tag** will only show 20 minutes to close. *

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### 🔥 How the “Hot Item” Tag Works

An item will display the **Hot** tag when all of the following are true:

- The item has a **Fair Market Value (FMV)** set
- The item has received **10 or more bids**
- The current winning bid is **greater than or equal to 60%** of the FMV

This tag signals that the item is popular and actively being bid on.  
![](https://support.cbo.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Mar-27-2026-07-41-32-9595-PM.png?width=339&height=534&name=image-png-Mar-27-2026-07-41-32-9595-PM.png)

**Tip: **Use accurate FMV values to ensure the **Hot** tag reflects real excitement and not inflated pricing.

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### 💡 How the “Deal” Tag Works

An item will display the **Deal** tag when:

- The item has a **Fair Market Value (FMV)** set
- The item has received **at least one bid**
- The current winning bid is **less than 60%** of the FMV
- Deal tag will display within the ***last 20 minutes** *of your auction.

This tag highlights items that are currently priced below their perceived value.  
**![](https://support.cbo.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Mar-27-2026-07-44-38-6797-PM.png?width=342&height=519&name=image-png-Mar-27-2026-07-44-38-6797-PM.png)**

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### 🔁 Automatic Tag Behavior

- Tags are **automatically applied and updated** as bids come in
- An item can switch between tags depending on bidding activity
- No manual setup is required beyond entering the **FMV**

Tags update in real time as bidding changes, helping keep your auction dynamic and engaging.

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### 🛑 When Tags Won’t Appear

Tags will not display if:

- The item has **no Fair Market Value (FMV)** entered
- The item has **no bids** (for Deal)
- The item has **fewer than 10 bids** (for Hot Item)
- It is not within the last 20 minutes of your auction (for deal)

Without an FMV, the system cannot calculate value-based tags, so be sure this field is completed for all auction items.

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