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In June 2012, the okcBIZ website named QuiBids the third best small company to work for in Oklahoma. [ 3 ] In November 2013, QuiBids officially re-branded itself as an entertainment retail auction site, [ 4 ] selling products such as consumer electronics, home and garden products, apparel and jewelry.
I've been attending auctions for years and have compiled this list of red flags based on my own experiences, chats with legitimate auctioneers, and media reports on fraudulent auction houses ...
DealDash, as with other bidding fee auction websites, has faced criticism for misleading advertising and marketing, from consumer organizations such as Consumer Reports and Truth in Advertising. The criticisms state that the prices listed on the DealDash site, and in their advertisements, are the vastly lower-than-market price the successful ...
The original owner recovered her item and reported the theft to the police. [48] Also in 2019, a robber in Cleveland listed an iPhone XS Max for sale on OfferUp; he then stole passports, cash, a wallet, a watch, and other items from two victims who intended to buy it. [51] Shoplifted items have been listed for sale on OfferUp. [52]
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
A bidding fee auction, also called a penny auction, is a type of all-pay auction in which all participants must pay a non-refundable fee to place each small incremental bid. The auction is extended each time a new bid is placed, typically by 10 to 20 seconds.
Contact your bank to verify recent transactions and, if necessary, cancel cards or file claims.“You may consider reporting the incident to the FTC at ftc.gov/complaint,” Kingsley recommends ...
The auction caught the attention of a local newspaper. However, after day 6 of the auction, eBay removed the item stating it was against their policy to sell "intangible items or items whose existence cannot be verified on receipt of them, such as ghosts, souls, or spirits". [67] [68]