sliBuy

My 2nd time bidding on here and I majorly messed up not seeing that one of the items did not have a set shipping cost, but to request. The shipping cost for the same product, quantity & weight was $20 and the other $267 bucks. Option to “ask question” must be for show cause it does nothing. Not on the app or the web site. If it’s shipping out from the same place why is one $20 and the other 267? W/ no way to talk to anyone on the matter guess my account will become deactivated for non payment. When having read a lot of reviews, I see a lot of claims that ppl don’t get products, and that products aren’t actually tested. So closed my account shall be. The lack of customer support to be found isn’t helping the claims either. Love the idea of the app. Like it better than eBay even. As pricing starts out better than eBay seems to be nowadays. Items go for impeccable pricing often. I will say I’m inclined to believe a bit of botting could be happening when it comes to bidding. How else could it be, no matter what I’m bidding, what appears to be the same user on multiple items continues to immediately outbid the second I’ve bid. Not even for a second does it say I’m the highest bidder. I’d guess it’s their way to get their bottom dollar they’d want for the products. As well. Starting bid pricing I’ve witness changed, was $1, say within the final 8-6 hrs & no one has bid yet on it, the starting price is $3. Closer it becomes to end w/no bid that starting price may be $5. Which kind of confirms my theory of bot bidding to achieve bottom dollar they want for an item. But I’ve also seen no bids happen and starting stay at $1 and ppl win bins for $1-$2 on items as well. They do have an option for anyone to sell w/them. so maybe some bot some don’t? Something was fishy with it fo sho. But I don’t now definitely so. Just observations I’ve made.

I had been a long time lurker on the app but finally started placing bids recently. Unfortunately a medical emergency happened in my life during one of the same days I placed some bids, I guess I won a bid and didn’t realize because at the time I was in the hospital dealing with my own personal health issues. I was not able to pay for obvious reasons but did have the intent to, I was not expecting anything to happen to me. A few days later, still in the hospital, I see that not only has SliBuy banned my account but it costs 25$ to reactivate it. I’ve never seen any like this before. I understand it’s a hassle dealing with people bidding and not paying, but on other bidding sites/apps they usually temporarily/permanently ban you or give you a certain amount of strikes until you get banned, however they don’t request payment. The UI of the app is horrible also. I couldn’t even make an account when I first started using the app because it said that I reached my limit on pressing buttons? The limit was 5. What does that even mean. Cool concept but shady and scummy stuff happening. Glad I’m banned.

Great concept, great employees that work there, but trying to return items with missing parts, or returning items that are broken can be a hassle. I was told the last time that I attempted to return something that wasn’t what was advertised (parts missing), the clerk at the counter told me that I was only entitled to what was listed in the picture shown in the app - even if the parts that were supposed to be inside of the unit were missing. Don’t get me wrong, I have had way more good luck than bad luck with my purchases, but I’ve ended up having to throw some of these purchases straight into the garbage because they were so damaged. - also, FYI - be careful of anything that requires you to have it shipped to you.