Is Eggbid a Scam??? I know alot of you use it...share your experience

[Keri78]

I tried my first attempt at trying to sell a few of my birds on eggbid and thought it was "the place" to sell birds!

Well, I got no action on my listings(so whatever...no biggy)...but then during the last few minutes of the auction this guy bid $50!!! I was excited until I noticed that his name was "John Doe" and he lived on 123 Mickey Mouse Drive. in FL and to make matters worse his email was slickrick(something) @aol!!!

Well, by him bidding it caused me to have to pay 10% aka:$5 !!!! So after looking into this a little further I noticed that multiple people have dealt with this same guy for over the past year and they have all made complaints to the "owners" of eggbid so they are absolutely aware of this dude and "eggbid" has YET to even acknowledge this guy or a least ban him from their site! I wrote eggbid an email explaining the situation and asking them to please ban this guy and informed them that I would not be paying the additional fee. I told them that if they corrected this problem that I would LOVE to use their site in the future. Well, it's been over a month and I've heard NOTHING back!!! It almost makes me think maybe their in cahoots with this guy or this "guy" is them or maybe the whole DAG on thing is a scam!

I'm not sure but I would LOVE to hear from others who use eggbid and your experieces with it. I think it's a great site to gets you exposure to alot of folks who you wouldn't normally come across. Sorry for the rant..I'm usually a pretty positive person. Blessings, Keri

 

[Cara]

It's not a scam, there's just no management going on or enforcement of rules.

 

[Keri78]

So how do they enforce the payments? I paid what I owed them b/c I'm an honest person and I appreciate their site...just not the "slickrick" DUDE!

 

[EweSheep]

Oh I have heard of this slickrick dude before and do not pay ANYTHING to Eggbid. No one is really moderating that site. I have not paid even one bid has been made on my bird which I would not ship but the bidder did it anyway. So I fired off an email and refused to pay anything to Eggbid.

 

[Penturner]

Wonder if it is a scam? What would it take to convince you? That really is a serious question. A person that has been doing this for however long, that has been complained bout multiple times and nothing has been done about it. I am certain to the point I will not even consider I could be wrong that many many people do pay that fee so Eggbid is also fully aware that they cash in on this persons behavior. And this is not enough to convince you there is a scam going on. SO I guess I am not really sure what would qualify as a scam. Is eggbid knowingly collecting money from people that have been taken advantage of. yes. In fact I think it should be investigated.

 

[easttxchick]

I'm sure there are a lot of honest people on Eggbid, but based on some of the things I have heard about them, I choose to not frequent their site and will only buy from the people here on BYC or someone local.
Sorry you had a bad experience.