Trade Pile

A big part of Ultimate Team consists of buying and selling players. Some people just sell players they don't need, other buy and then sell for profit.

The Trade Pile can hold 30 cards at once and is where all your selling will happen. You can sell not only players but contracts, healing cards and many more.

Auction.

Selling your item starts by creating an auction. As you can see in the image above, this Gareth Barry was purchased for 500 coins. To start an auction you need to fill in a start price. This is the price you are looking to get for him at least. This is the price people can start to bid at. It is possible that people bid on your item more than once so it is possible that a player that was put up for 500 start price ends up getting sold for 1000 coins. The auction ends when the time runs out. You can set the duration of the auction using the "Auction Duration" box. When an item receives an offer in the final 15 seconds, it resets the timer to 12 seconds every time.

Under that there is the "Buy Now Price" option. This option is not required but can be usefull. By setting a Buy Now price (commonly abbreviated as "BIN") you can set the price for which another player can buy him instantly. This way you don't have to wait for the auction to end.

Trade Offer.

A trade offer is when a player makes you a special offer on one of the items on your trade pile. These offers can consist of up to 4 items and/or an amount of coins. This amount can't be higher than the start price.