Cesar L
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Overall: So overall I've had a great experience BUT… So overall I've had a great experience with AuctionNinja, I've found some great deals (they are rare) and overall I've had good experiences with sellers. The one thing AuctionNinja does NOT have going for it is inspiring confidence in auction integrity. There is almost no way for an average user to determine if shill bidding/auction rigging is happening in any particular auction. I reached out to AuctionNinja to clarify this and was told AuctionNinja tracks the IP addresses of their vendors to ensure vendors are not bidding on their consignments. Anecdotally, I can attest that this is either not true or a flawed process. On one occasion I picked up an item I had one from one auctioneer only to overhear the female overseeing the property transfers claim to myself and at least one other person that they had also bid on our items because they were also trying to win those items. Whether she was trying to ride the price up or genuinely win those items is really speculation. There are things other platforms such as Ebay and Shopgoodwill do to give transparency to their process such as display auction participants usernames in the format of Cxxxxxxxxx7 where first and last letter of username are displayed. I understand nothing is foolproof but at least if AuctionNinja had this displayed you could observe an individuals bidding behaviors to determine if things look sketchy such as riding up bids but never winning anything/strategically avoiding high bid status and participating in predominantly the same auctions over and over.
