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It was great and o found a lot of wonderful stuff and useful things that I can use and needed

I have enjoyed going to live auctions for many years, and had a large collection of antiques. Over the past several years I have started using online auction services. I like using this service as it is multiple auctions in any place you may be in at any given time. Mostly, I love searching for things I can use at a lower price than buying from a store. I am having a great time using this, and have found some amazing deals!

Apparently somewhere on Hibid, sellers can leave feedback about the buyers. I apparently have some negative notes. When I tried to address/see them there is NOWHERE for me to go, and Hibid couldn't help get the information. Other auctioneers can see them but not me. I admit to occasionally forgetting I have a bid but I always try to pay and usually offer to compensate for the inconvenience. This is wrong, cause the auction houses are denying registering for auction based on this information, that I can't see or address. I will not use a company that is spreading such negative information about me. Makes me fill like I need a lawyer.

It is an amazing site that I am absolutely loving! It's perfect for my personal and business needs. It is time saving and extremely user friendly.
Thank you

It was very helpful and efficient in promptly reimbursing the state sales tax, which was greatly appreciated.

I bought over $10.000 worth of stuff from HiBid auctioneers and always paid for the merchandise yet I am told that my "HiBid score" is low and many auctioneers do not let me bid on their merchandise. Moreover, am not allowed to to sell there. I am switching to BidSpririt.

HiBid enables fraudulent shill bidding practices by allowing sellers or auctioneers see maximum bids. This promotes the sellers to bid up to your maximum bid without the intent of buying the item. SHAME ON THEM FOR ENABLING UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR.

New rule od anything under$20 os final sale whether it's not working or missing parts is terrible
And items over$20 they still will not return
Do not deal with this criminal organization

Learned a lot of lessons. Just because it says 'shipping available' means nothing. The Canadian Auctions are the worst, ignore them. They like to sell your winnings by emailing you the invoice, then say you paid late. They keep your money, resell your win, and report you for being a late payment. The other one that does this are the Kentucky ones. There are some good ones, though. The Hibid site only takes Auction complaints, not the bidder. I left this site after too many losses and very rude Auctioneers.

HiBid.com is like the Wild West with even less accountability. Many auction houses post purposely misleading, broken and outright counterfeit items. Not only does HiBids not hold them accountable but as a buyer you can not leave reviews, reporting them to HiBids does nothing because their customer service is equally distasteful and malcontent. Seller's not only can get away with fraudulent practices, they leave little to no descriptions, put as is, mislabel and mislead, shill bid and price gouge shipping. To top all of this off Seller's can leave reviews on buyers that only sellers can see, and they can do it anonymously, so not only can they leave bad reviews about buyers for any reason under the sun, but a buyer can be shut down from bidding- unable to know what, why, from whom, contest or defend themselves, unable to receive refunds, absolutely nothing. HiBids customer service response is the same, "there's nothing you can do, back track all of your auctions you've bid on and speak to each one individually and see if they will admit to a negative review and change it otherwise make a new account with a different email address". It baffles me how a site like this not most of its shady auctioneers aren't neck deep in legal issues. The whole structure in place is completely one sided on purpose and HiBids is content with it as long as they get their cut of the profit because they knowingly exploit all of the legal loopholes and don't even deny it when you eventually speak to one of their representatives. I highly recommend avoiding this site thoroughly or limit yourself to local in state auctioneers that you can inspect for yourself in person assuming they let you, alot of the deceitful auctioneers are catching on and making bidding online only with no in person inspections, pickups or payments all under the guise of "COVID Safety". Tread very carefully for the sake of being scammed and retaliated against.

In my limited experience with HiBid and online auction houses is that HiBid doesn't seem to vet the auction houses; thus my 2-star review.
I've done one transaction with a local (to me) auction house, and it was perfect. I got exactly what was described and the costs were exactly as I expected.
Round 2 began when I started bidding on silver from the other side of the USA. I asked a question of the auctioneer that seemed to make them bid on their own auction. In fact, of the 100 or so lots I was watching (bidding on a few), the price magically jumped to just under my Max Bid on one auction, I was outbid on the others up to about retail price, and the ones I was only watching were bid up to retail as well. Of those 90 or so lots I was watching only, bids suddenly appeared on ALL of them too, and the bidders' anonomized names were conspicuously absent. Instead, the listed bidder was "Other Website, Phone, Mail in, absentee bids". That's clearly bull$#*!. What just happened is the auctioneer bid on their own listings to protect the auction item from selling too low or at all, even though they list $1 starting prices and "no reserve".
In short, if you're going to bid via this portal called HiBid, check the selling auction house for honesty, integrity, and history. I checked this seller (unnamed) before the auction closed, and it was an UGLY picture. Their reviews were horrible, so I made sure they could not charge my card BEFORE the auction closed. I'm glad I did...
I think HiBid should vet these auction houses before allowing them to use HiBid as a portal to rip off consumers, but that's just me $.02 worth... I hope it helps some unsuspecting buyer out there.

If you're like me, you're not just shopping an auction for good deals, but because you like the thrill of the auction itself. I have participated in two auctions with Texas HiBid and I can promise you that I will not do it again. Most recently, I purchased 3 items (2 microwaves and a heat lamp), it has been 3 weeks and the items still have not shipped. Every time I call, someone tells me that they should be going out any day now & they would ship with FedEx. Someone told me 4 days ago that they would push the items through. Today someone told me they would look into it & after I pleaded with him to please take care of it, he promised he would. Well he just called back to say they have charged me for the shipping, but they are having trouble with their FedEx labels, so he has no tracking info for me. Guess what…. Shipping cost more than the items! So here I have been waiting for 3 weeks and they haven't even shipped, but charged me MORE than the items cost to ship them from Austin to Fort Worth. So. If you are thinking of purchasing here, be kind to yourself and DO NOT DO IT.

https://carrellestatesales.hibid.com/catalog/*******/estate-coins-and-jewelry-auction/?cpage=2
I sent an email twice to this auction advising them of the fake coin, with an additional link for them to verify the truth in what I presented to them. Have they pulled the coin from the auction? NO! They show the weight in a photo (link above) to be.250 grams; The reference link shows a correct weight to be more of a quarter troy ounce of gold. http://numismatics.org/collection/*******363 My advice to those that pay an overly amount of fees in buyer's premiums, in part to Hibid and in part to the auction company, should expect truth and originality to the item(s) being auctioned. My advice to participants would be to, read and research, as much as you can, on items to protect yourself against the Fraud that exist in these auctions, the buyer's premiums 10-20%+, excess shipping costs and "mostly the items!" Take some time to point this out to your friends and associates. They are many other places to find most anything, besides throwing your money away!

This people on ONE STOP AUCTION SHOP want to charge me 108.00 DLLs for shipping.for 4 small collectibles cars 7 inches long and a barometer like 1 foot long and a clock box around 1 foot long.108 DLLs for shipping.this items weight around 4 lbs.all together.DO NOT BUY ANYTHING IF YOU GOING TO GET IT SHIP.they will screw you on shipping.this people can't be thrust.