The bidding structure was so easy to follow! The bidding structure was so easy to follow! In real time as each item counted down, it was a sense of excitement to see if I was indeed the highest bidder. I really enjoyed this type of platform. Others are a bid and wait to be notified, usually on the following day, type deal. This was a welcomed change to online bidding for me.

This auctioneer Pasadena/Prime Bids is… This auctioneer Pasadena/Prime Bids on the HiBids site is a schyster. He often posts inaccurate auctions on HiBids. This time I bid on two auctions, one for a large Christmas bow, and 39lbs of epsom salt. The bow was much smaller than the description measurements both written and image. And, I got a winch in a box labeled epsom salt. I emailed the auctioneer and he told me that “I failed” to research the Amazon complaints for the bow- and that “I failed” to accurately discern what I was bidding on regarding the winch. Therefore no refund would be given for the bow at all. I was also told that I must drive 2 hours back and forth to return the broken winch to receive a $20 refund- and that I would not be receiving the epsom salt because that is not what I bid on, even though the title, written description and 5 pictures showed the epsom salt, only 2 depicted the winch. The winch was not in the title or in the written description.

Everything went well Everything went well. I was bidding on 4 different auctions. I got my pick-up dates confused, but the auctioneer at Taylor Auctions called me at closing to remind me of the pick-up I missed. He then waited 1.5 hours for me to get there, Chad is a very nice guy. I will be doing business with him again.

Well here we are again... Well, this happened today with HiBid.... I was approved twice today to bid then out of nowhere, after I won a lot or two, I was NOT approved so I have sent this email to them copies of the two approved notices attached to a previous email. I am starting to believe that I was not the problem here. I received many "unpaid" invoices upon request that I had not received initially. Invoices that were dated the day I requested them, not the date of the auction. I emailed the auction houses asking for said "unpaid" invoices since another auction house took the time to tell me about "multiple unpaid invoices", ( yes I saved the emails, I save everything). That is how I know I hadnt recieved the original invoices that remained "unpaid". I also contacted and auction house earlier today looking for an invoice for a won lot, ( a book) that I still havent heard back from. I seriously doubt that I am the real problem here, since I am only having issues with 2 affiliated auction houses. I dont care if you dont want to believe me anymore, this auction site is NOT worth the stress and running around, even changing banks, that I have experienced in the last month of my initial "registration" on said site. Now, just today, I have received TWO notices that I can bid again, only to find out that I am NOT approved to bid again. Im pretty sure THIS wasnt of any fault of my own. ALL my invoices aside from the one I requested earlier today are 'paid in full'. I have not received any invoices from HiBid or any of their auction houses today or at anytime since paying them all off. earlier this week. I have gone through so much in order to abide and stay on top of any won lots and monies owed (for these two auction houses), only to find out some invoices were never emailed to me until I contacted them. Something is not right somewhere and all the other auction houses seemed to have very little problem getting paid immediately. Do with this what you want but I felt I should have my say in all of this, since I was the one to catch the dirty end of the stick over all of it.

Validate to bid I love to browse auctions and when I find the deal I didn't know I needed, I strike. The only thing that would make Hi-bid easier is if Hi-bid would prequalifyus for the individual auctions by some manner. I.e. if bidders had to pay $100.00 by credit card and leave on deposit then that buys them into auctions of a set estimated value. The price of deposit would increase commensurate to the estimated cost of the auction determined by the company selling. However to browse every auction should cost nothing unless a bid is want to be aubmitted.