Live auctions between people
Sawim is a live auction market for people in Saudi Arabia. Sellers list an item and set how long the auction runs; bidders compete on one price and one countdown that everyone sees at the same moment.
Men's steel watch — blue dial, original with box and warranty
Current price
SAR 12,400
Time left
1:08
M. Alotaibi leads · 18 bidders · 143 watching
Final minute: every bid resets the clock to 60 seconds · extension 0 of 20
Latest bids
Demo with illustrative prices
Men's steel watch, blue dial
SAR 12,400 · Riyadh
RTX 4080 gaming PC
SAR 7,800 · Dammam
iPhone 18 Pro Max
SAR 5,200 · Jeddah
Land Cruiser 2021 GXR
SAR 185,000 · Riyadh
Antique brass dallah
SAR 1,200 · Riyadh
Calligraphy wall panel
SAR 1,200 · RiyadhMarket rules
No balance to top up and no payments in the app. Every auction runs on a few fixed rules that the seller and the bidders know before it starts.
If a bid lands with less than a minute left, the clock goes back to a full sixty seconds, so everyone gets a chance to answer.
Twenty extensions at most, so no auction runs forever.
When a regular auction ends, the seller accepts or declines the price within 24 hours. Silence for the whole window counts as acceptance.
The countdown runs on the server's clock, not your phone's, so everyone sees the same time left.
How it works
A code arrives by text message — no password, no email. The first time, your account is created with that number.
Each bid raises the price by a step the seller set, and the app asks you to confirm before placing it. Price and countdown are the same for every user.
When the item sells, buyer and seller exchange contact details in the app and settle payment directly with each other at handover.
Screens are from the app, which is in Arabic.
Trust
Each outcome is known in advance and written in the Terms of Use (in Arabic).
The seller committed up front to sell at the closing price, whatever it is. The item goes to the highest bidder the moment time runs out.
Time runs out and the price goes to the seller, who accepts or declines within 24 hours. Declining costs no one anything.
Once an item has a bid, the seller can sell to the highest bidder before time runs out, closing the auction at once.
The auction ends without a sale and no one owes anything. Sellers can withdraw an item before its first bid.
Before every auction the seller pledges that the item is theirs and truthfully described, and that an accepted sale binds them. Bidding on your own item is not allowed.
Every item page has a report button — counterfeit, prohibited, or not as described. We review each report, and the seller never learns who sent it.
A winner who doesn't collect gets a mark that sellers can see. Two marks stop the account from bidding.
Showroom
Sample items at illustrative prices
04:12Sure saleCurrent priceSAR 12,400
19:40Current priceSAR 7,800
26:40Sure saleCurrent priceSAR 5,200
1:52:10Current priceSAR 185,000
00:47Current priceSAR 1,200
43:20Sure saleCurrent priceSAR 1,200
For sellers
Clear photos and an honest description, with a starting price of at least SAR 10. Location data is stripped from photos before they're shown.
Turn on Sure sale to commit to the closing price up front, and your item carries a badge that reassures bidders.
You're notified of every new bid, before the auction ends, and when it sells.
The app is in Arabic. Until it's out, we're glad to answer your questions.