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Washington
1 review
9 helpful votes
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This is the best eCommerce site online. The interface is one of the most simple sites to use and their support is second to none. Highly recommend this site.

Date of experience: August 20, 2013
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Office 2013
May 2, 2017

Everything was great and timely. I was confused at first but they sent me the instructions and everything was fast and great and exactly what it was suppose to be.

Date of experience: May 2, 2017
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Little Guys Do it BIG!
January 11, 2018

I had never heard of this site before and was weary on placing an order, but I couldn't find any other offer like what one of their Sellers was offering (custom made stocking with an estimated delivery date well before Christmas). The process was smooth and the Seller was FANTASTIC to work with. The stocking arrived well before Christmas and was QUALITY work. Don't be so quick to pass over the little guy or the "unknown", it may be just what you are looking for!

Date of experience: January 10, 2018
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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There is no communication to help buyers with seller committing fraud. Buy else where or take the risk.

Date of experience: January 8, 2024
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They won't close your account-they do not update shipping addresses. Customer service is bad. No traf

Date of experience: December 25, 2023
California
1 review
17 helpful votes
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BONANZA BLOWS
November 14, 2016

If you open a free booth and are competing with a paid booth selling the same thing your account will be closed suddenly then they deem your account "HIGH RISK"

Worst part is they claimed I was selling a prohibited product on their site and apparently it was only a prohibited product for a free site to sell since the guy paying $200.00 a month for a booth is currently still selling the prohibited product.

Then there are the "low fees" they push the fact that they only charge a 3.5% fee for each item sold and that is true but you will get no advertising what so ever for that 3.5% which means Zero traffic to your booth, if you opt for the advertising on google shopping the fees jump up to over 9% per sale so you may as well stay with ebay at least you will get more traffic there.

Then there is the way they collect those fees, one would think you will be billed monthly No No No not on Bonanza every time your balance owed reaches $25.00 they go and hit your bank account with no warning even if you checked the box asking for notice before they withdraw fees from your bank account... that in itself is a warning that this is a shady company.

Customer service is a joke they call it the "zendesk" really? None existant help all replies are of a generic canned prewritten answer type, the whole site is riddled with sad attempts at humor which says a lot about the quality of the site itself.

My opinion is to stay as far away from Bonanza as you can... if it is too good to be true it probably is

Date of experience: November 14, 2016
Spain
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I am a seller on Bonanza. Have a booth in Etsy, lots of visits, favorites etc, without paying anything.

In Bonanza I pay for my membership, + turbotraffic + a good share of any sale for advertising. I also set up a google ads campaign pointing to bonanza, and a launch discount.

0 Visits after months. Turbo Traffic is paid but not being used, and driving 0 visitors. Customer support offers same pre made answer.

I google "bonanza scam" because it is what feels like now, and the net is flooded with bad reviews.

Possibly reviews from here are full of fake reviews from Bonanza staff, because looking at other results, there are sites with more than idk, 50 complaints both from sellers and buyers from bonanza, just this month.

This is the worse marketplace I put my feet into. Not recommended, put hunreds of hours setting up my booth, thinking it would work like Etsy, and bring me more visits from different users.

Also, now I do understand why so many negative reviews here, and so few on their trustpilot review site. I was gonna post this review there, but they require you an "transaction id" number which I don't know what is it.

Can't post without a valid one. Guess how you get one? Asking to bonanza, lol.

Date of experience: March 29, 2017
Illinois
2 reviews
37 helpful votes
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So many bad reviews on this site. (smh) One of the problems is i think, The "Go To" place is ebay. If you can find it on that hell forsaken site, why look anyplace else? I know, i sell there also. But i sell on lots of sites, ebay has taught me not to "put all my egg's in one basket, so to speak" however, I do feel most at home on Bonanza. Sales all depend on what someone is looking for... if they find it on ebay, that's it. Why look any further, UNLESS you bring them there. Yes, we have to tweet, and pin and advertise our items like crazy. But i do get sales out of it. And never, not once, have i ever received a return on an item. Also, Bonanza has recently gotten many "Ebay refugee's" and if something does not sell right away, they get all mad and complain and leave. Well, in my opinion, one day ebay will either no longer be there or will run the small seller out of town, as they have been trying to do... Then maybe these sellers will learn how to tweet and pin their own items. There is nothing underhanded about this site... it IS free to list items, fee's are less than ebay, customer service is awesome (if anyone tell's you different, sorry its just not the truth) sales are not as good as over there, but its alot less hassle. I love Bonanza.

Date of experience: July 7, 2015
West Virginia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Was selling for 6 month, 3 sales, $48 total. Traffic is poor, I checked weekly, sometimes no visit in a week.
Finally they sent a mssge suspending my account for some items that I have that were not in compliance with their policies, proceed to removed as they asked, waiting for weeks to reopen it, mails ignored.
Today after 2 weeks, they told me without an explanation that will not reopen my store, not even can sign it and get my data back or erase my personal and financial information. NOT A GOOD PLACE TO DO BUSINESS,
CAN CLOSE YOUR ACCT AT ANYTIME WITHOUT A REASON.
TRAFFIC IS BAAADDDDDDD

Date of experience: February 22, 2017
Illinois
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Recently I purchased some items from Ps_youwontforgerme with amount $434.00, suddenly Bonanaz send email said my account is lock, they are unable to open it for me, I tried to contact them and attached my roof purchased with Psyouwontforgetme, Bonanaz customer service never answer back to me, I sent out 2 email to Psyouwontforgetme to discussed about item I bought, and would like PS... me process the service, Ps... me did not answer me either, I called PayPal and asked for dispute, PayPal customer service had sent out email to contact Ps... me and gave them 3 days to resolve the issue, to day is a third day, if Psyouwontforgetme do not answer back to PayPal and me, I am going to dispute for all. $434.00 is huge money
I have tried everythings I could and politely I contact and very patience, either Bonanaz and Psyouwontforgetme are not cooperating with me, so I had to have PayPal involve, or legal action

Date of experience: July 22, 2015
Jackson B. Bonanza Rep
over a year old

Bonanza has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Texas
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Bad for Sellers
July 16, 2016

I have been a seller on Bonanza.com for approximately 3 months. They do have some good features pertaining to selling on this site but not many people know about the site so most of your buyers will be first time visitors due to online google ads they place which they charge you for. The site support is atrocious. They don't allow you to call them, only if you signed up for certain memberships (Titan $200 mo.)will they allow you to place a phone appt with them. If you use their escrow account to receive credit & debit transactions they don't always pay you on the date it says the fund are to be released, sometimes your paid the next day from the release date but most of the time it's 2-5 days afterwards, it's like they don things when they get around to it. Get this, I sent a message asking how do they pay out and why is it inconsistent and they put my escrow account to "inelgible status" and removed the release dates on the $1,000 I still had remaining in escrow because someone got in their feelings. This site seems to be run by one family out of their house or something. Customer service does whatever they want to. I upgraded by membership from a Pro to Titan for an extra $130 mo. And don't receive any better traffic than before so I canceled the upgrade. Other sites offer much more support than this one.

Date of experience: July 16, 2016
Kentucky
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A nice place to shop
September 19, 2017

My lawn mower deck messed up and Bonanza.com had a very low price on on a rebuild kit now my old mower mows like new thanks Bonanza I save a lot of money

Date of experience: September 19, 2017
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've had a booth at Bonanza for many years. Excellent help when needed. Good customer service. Thanks.
Cindi/comfortcreamline

Date of experience: April 20, 2024
Kentucky
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Imma start this off with the only reason this website is getting one star is because I have to too! I ordered a pair of Nike shoes from the a seller from their website in hopes that this website was going to be like most AMAZON, Ebay ect! Well I purchased the shoes 5 days later never received anything. I go to tracking and it says my shoes had been delivered in person at my house I never received the shoes. So I contact seller about this he calls me a liar and says contact bonanza support so I did. They told me they don't deal with any shipping, orders, or anything. Like what in the hell kind of selling website is this! They don't back anything so if your order gets lost or delivered to the wrong place your $#*!ed! So I'm screwed out of $94 and a pair of shoes! I swear I wish I would have known or read reviews about this $#*!hole website! DON'T BUY OFF THIS WEBSITE AND DON'T BUY FROM TITANIC MARKET!

Date of experience: October 10, 2021
Michigan
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Stay away from bonanza
January 24, 2018

I ordered complete season of the dukes of hazard, and the seller on bonanza stole my money on my credit card, and didn't send me nothing. So bonanza don't care one bit, just tells me to work it out with pay pal, but pay pal didn't steal my money bonanza did.
DONT DO BUSINESS WITH THESE THEIVES

Date of experience: January 24, 2018
Georgia
1 review
20 helpful votes
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I'm reporting the Company and I used to like it from a seller standpoint. I apparently had a less than $5 user bill and had medical issue. I was unable to even get online. Once I got back, I saw the bill and tried to login. They suspended the account and no email as to why, no email that they were going to do that, just plain nothing. I email support trying to pay them because I'm supposed to pay but no way I can pay! I was a member when they first started where half the features I suppose now weren't available back then. I get an email over the weekend saying it'll be $25.00 and some paypal address to send it to... I was livid. I explained my situation and they didn't even care. I told them you all didn't tell me anything and I get nasty messages. All I want to do is pay the $4.21. They just keep sending me a paypal address. I will be reporting them for their practices. I still want to pay the bill but I'm not paying an extra $25.00 for something I couldn't control. I could honestly even understand if I was ever late on a payment, completely, but this is just plain ridiculous.

Date of experience: November 15, 2014
Jackson B. Bonanza Rep
over a year old

Bonanza has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Excellent place to sell. Here you can see honest sellers. And of course like a flea market, swapmeets, ebay, amazon and other places to sell you can found bad sellers but for me works fine.

Date of experience: April 2, 2013
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Rip-off
November 1, 2022

Waited two years for an item because of covid and now the seller has shut down his account.
When I asked about the item, a year ago I got the Gettysburg address for an answer.

Date of experience: November 1, 2022
Georgia
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Bonanza is a joke!
September 22, 2016

I sell on Etsy but things have been a little slow lately so I decided to look at other options and ran across Bonanza. I imported all my info from Etsy but still had to invest another six hours to put in missing information. Perfect... right?!?! Well... after I spent all this time, for some reason I had to log out to update my computer, etc. and when I tried to get back into Bonanza, it didn't recognize my username and/or password so I had them resent my password and they sent me a link to do so and when it went into Bonanza again, all it would says was "you have been successfully logged out" and nothing else. I then tried to reregister and then it have me a "163 error" and no other explanation. Can't reregister, can't talk to anyone, no one communicates back. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! Go to
Ecrater or BluJay! Also, I've read elsewhere that unless you actually pay for a monthly membership with Bonanza, you won't get ANY traffic whatsoever on your site plus, unless you pay for the top of the line membership ($200 per month), you will not be able to communicate with the sites at all. WHAT A HEADACHE!

Date of experience: September 22, 2016
Tennessee
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Everthin you need
January 29, 2016

GREAT WEBSITE! Low priced items fast delivery on shipping and very smooth transactions five star customer service. Will shop here again I highly recommend this website.

Date of experience: January 29, 2016

Overview

Bonanza has a rating of 2.1 stars from 942 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Bonanza most frequently mention customer service, credit card and phone number. Bonanza ranks 569th among Marketplace sites.

service
177
value
158
shipping
139
returns
125
quality
141
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