Rob G.

I have had several bad experiences with EBTH. I will only buy items with local pick-up. The first that comes to mind is when I bought three 1 oz silver coins from one sale with no local pick-up. I was charged $14 shipping on each even though they came from the same place. I asked about combined shipping and was told all items are pre-packaged and this is not an option. Total shipping was $6.39 but I was charged $42. Even with the time to package and materials, this could not have cost more than $10. They obviously use shipping as a revenue stream but denied it when confronted. They said it was shipped at cost. I call BS on this.

Yet another bad experience I had with EBTH was the time I bid on a piece of art/sports memorabilia. When I found the item there were no current bids. I entered $10 on the bid thinking it would default to $1 then if anyone else were to bid it would increase until reaching my max. Silly me, that did not happen. The $10 bid was accepted and immediately became my bid. I emailed support asking for my bid to be retracted and was told by the auctioneer that it's a nice piece and I am lucky to get it at the $10 bid. This obviously left a bad taste in my mouth.

Now that I only buy items that are available for pick-up I do have to say that the crew working down at the main location near Lunken are always very kind and helpful. The Blue Ash crew, not so much. They are all rude, clueless and very unorganized. The occasions I have picked up items in Blue Ash the staff acted like they were doing me a favor for fetching my item. They actually refused to get me my other item that was scheduled for pick up the next day because they were too lazy to go look for it.

Needless to say, I try to avoid EBTH. I typically will hop over to ebay and see if I can find items I like. I wouldn't be surprised if they were guilty of shilling. I have seen items go for 5 to 10 x of what I can "buy it now" on the bay. Buyer beware!