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OfferUp

Marketplace

“The correspondence between the buyer and the seller”

5/21/20

I've never seen such a poor way the correspondence between the buyer and the seller is handled with OfferUp, all the calls went to junk mail, didn't notice until the next day, very annoying, missed the buyer completely, I wouldn't write this if I wasn't pissed off, because it happened a few times, it seems they don't care.

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MaxSold

Auction

“It's a joke!”

3/7/19

Do yourself a favor, find another hobby it's all fake. You are bidding against a computer as soon as you bid the computer outbids you to raise the price, and it goes on like that until the final minute, if they don't get their prices it gets extended, wasted time it should be illegal.

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MaxSold I. – MaxSold Rep Over a year old

It’s disappointing when we haven’t made our transparent bidding process clear to a customer. Bidders on Maxsold are never bidding against a computer. They are only bidding against other (non-seller) bidders - just like fair and transparent auctions have been run for centuries. Some of the more savvy bidders use Maxsold’s ‘Maxbid’ feature. Clarification on this can be found in these two FAQ articles:

1) Why do I get immediately outbid sometimes:
https://support.maxsold.com/hc/en-us/articles/203144324-Why-do-I-get-immediately-outbid-sometimes-

2) How do I enter a Maxbid:
https://support.maxsold.com/hc/en-us/articles/203143774-How-do-I-enter-a-maximum-bid-MaxBid-and-can-I-outbid-my-own-bid-if-I-increase-my-maximum-bid-

So long as another bidder has a higher maxbid, underbidders will continue to drive up the hammer price while remaining ‘outbid’, just like if a bidder in a live auction kept their paddle in the air for the auctioneer while other bidders attempted to outbid them.
When a bidder has concerns, Maxsold is able to share the bidding history (scraped of names for privacy reasons) with the bidder. If the bidder felt compelled to meet an actual winning bidder, they would find them at the pickup (where 98% of everything is sold and removed on average - further demonstrating that bidding is occurring among other valid bidders only and without intervention from Maxsold).