HiBid

While I’m obsessed with this app, it leaves much to be desired in terms of functionality and usability. It crashes 75% of the time, conveniently when you’ve scrolled through about 75% of an auction’s inventory, forcing you to have to restart and scroll all the way to that position again if you want to view the rest of it. Speaking of which, it does not let you start where you left off. Also, you have to go through many steps before you can view auctions that you’re interested in. It’s a very old school app that was probably designed by a junior developer who has long quit the job because they were being asked to do everything and not getting paid enough for it. HiBid needs to invest in their developers…

I like HiBid, I’ll start there. But this app does not perform well as a live auction bidding platform. Several times now, I have had the highest bid, and watched the lot close just to exit the app and return later to find that I was actually outbid on the item. This is extremely frustrating. The search function also does not work according to basic logic and reason. I’ve had to learn by trial and error how to execute a valid search. The last two complaints I have are minor but it would be nice if the payment/pickup terms and shipping options were easier to see on the auction catalog and lots page. This would make bidding much quicker and more organized. And finally, the method for adding items to the watchlist is difficult and the area to click is very small so there’s a lot of unintentional clicks into items. Adding a swipe feature to the lots would solve this issue and would also be an easy and useful option for placing a quick bid. And for goodness sake, add some item descriptions.

Hibid should be ashamed of itself. To start the website does whatever it wants. I was 500 items scrolling down and hibid decided to freak out and go back to the home page. And if you think you’re going to bid for some last minute pricing, guess again the page constantly refreshes and you can never get back to where you started in time to win your auction. You think maybe just put the whole bid you would like down first, but because they show that information to the auctioneer so they always stay a dollar underneath your bid. all the inconsistencies with auctioneers verbal abuse. It’s wild. Today was a first with HiBid, but not a surprise. I ordered a lot of costume jewelry and inside the box. They filled it with rocks. I’m guessing to make a little more on shipping. There’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. good luck getting a hold of anybody. The only time I see them trying to make right is in the comment section.