# English If you're familiar with bidding on other marketplaces, the English auction is the standard. An English auction is a traditional open ascending price auction where bidders publicly bid against one another, with each subsequent bid required to be higher than the previous. The item is sold to the highest bidder at the end of the auction. Sealed improves on this type of auction by making bidding gasless and allowing bidders to set scheduled bids which are bots which will bid up price, thus automating the process of bidding so that user's presence is not needed. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.sealed.art/auctions/english.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.