What Is Going on with Bidz.com?

customers noting that they got their purchases in time and were happy with the results.)

As of Thursday afternoon, the company had an F rating from the Better Business Bureau, which cites the following as the reasons for the failing grade: 149 complaints filed against it; failure to respond to four complaints filed against it; 32 complaints filed against it that went unresolved; and the fact that Bidz.com has “failed to resolve underlying cause(s) of a pattern of complaints.”

The BBB said it contacted Bidz.com on March 27 in regards to “concerns about the amount and the pattern of complaints (they) have received,” but received no response.

I tried reaching out to Zinberg and Danielle Zinberg, with whom I worked for the 2015 story and helped put the new management team together after relaunch, and sent out a few emails to some of the generic contacts listed on the business’ site, but received no responses by press time.

The website doesn’t make it clear who is on the company’s management team anymore, and the LinkedIn profiles of those involved in buying the site’s IP back in 2015 indicate they have moved on.

It appears that, despite the complaints, auctions continue on Bidz.com, though without the aid of regular social media support.

The Bidz.com Facebook page has two recent postings but, prior to that, hadn’t been updated since August 2017. There aren’t many comments on the page either, except some recent activity.

Its Twitter account has been inactive since February 2016 and no posts have been added to its Instagram since a year before that.

In addition to the complaints mentioned on the BBB website, there are a number of other places with negative reviews of Bidz.com.

On the Consumer Affairs website, the company is averaging less than two stars from 69 ratings submitted in the past year. There are 97 reviews and complaints of the company posted there, many of which are negative.

One from a customer in Las Vegas who posted in April states: “Bought 2 watches from BIDZ.COM and over a month later still no merchandise. Called their one customer service phone # 17 times and no human contact. Their Co. voicemail remained full (3 & 1/2 weeks) so leaving a message was impossible. Finally received an email back telling me they were not sending me my merchandise nor were they going to refund my money yet they are still currently selling the same watches on their website!!! I will never do business with these scammers again. Buyer Beware!!!”

There are more negative reviews on the websites ComplaintsBoard.com, SiteJabber.com—where 124 out of 191 reviews gave the company only one star—TrustPilot.com and even Yelp.com, where the company’s rating has been trending down since the start of 2018.

Given the fact that Bidz already ran into trouble once and had to be dissolved, it’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of all this.

We’ll keep you updated if they get in touch or we hear anything else.