CharitybuzzReviews of charitybuzz.com

Review Title: Misleading Advertisement – Poor Quality Necklace and Bracelet I purchased this necklace and bracelet from Charitybuzz because the product description made it seem like a high-quality piece. It was advertised as “ Diamonds” not lab diamonds and They advertise the items over $50,000,” A tennis necklace at $35,000 A “diamond” necklace at $24,000 but after taking to a few Jewelers, came to find out it was not that expensive. That the diamonds were Clearly lab. it is not what they they claimed. The pictures also made it look much more elegant and well-made, but in person, it feels cheap and flimsy. For the price, I expected something much better. Spoke to a person via email Scott Lomando, who kept telling they can’t do anything about it. They inflate their products to get high price. They also have bots to try and push the price up on you. Horrible what they are doing and supposedly for charity. This company should be investigated. This was very disappointing, and I feel like the company misrepresented the product. I would not recommend buying unless they are more honest about the materials and quality.

Auctioned off Taylor Swift's love story music sheet. I won took 1 month never received item, after many emails they admitted they never had the item in their possession and that is a new "charity" and they never sent them the item. I asked why you were auctioning off items you didn't have in your possession. This was a $2000 item, and Christmas was ruined Do yourself a favor. Don't bid on this stuff! It's bait and switch company.

The fees are outrageous!!! A shame, a disgrace to the charity itself. If they knew how much money you profited off of their charity, I cannot imagine how this is allowed to continue. Absolutely absurd & greedy!! I would not recommend charity buzz for anything ever!!!

These people need to be shut down. I "won" four tickets to Real Time with Bill Maher at a price of more than $1300. I was se of swag containing a couple of tumblers, a Tshirt, a hat, and an envelope containing a notice telling me I should complete my trip by a certain time, March of the following year, and I had an email stating something similar along with the address of the contact person responsible for getting the tickets on the dates I was to request. NO RESPONSE TO ANYTHING WAS RECEIVED. EMAILS WENT UNANSWERED LIKE I NEVER EXISTED. DO NOT BID ON ANYTHING THESE THIEVES PRETEND TO OFFER! "Charity" probably means a photo op and a token donation while >90% of the grifting goes to "salaries".

Athletes should not use Charity Buzz to sell their items for charity. Charity Buzz charges crazy high shipping prices to ship items won. Bidders are starting to figure this out and won’t bid on items, therefore not much money is being raised for charity. I bought a baseball bat for charity with a winning bid of $150. I was the only bidder. Charity Buzz charged a $30 hammer fee and then a $90 fee to ship the item. So, $150 for the item and then $120 in fees. Charity Buzz is a rip off, bidders are figuring this out and not much money is being raised for charity. I let the athlete know this, who donated his items to Charity Buzz.

I would have to say this was not a good experience. My fault for not doing all the due diligence. But I don't think Charity Buzz was as upfront as they could have been. When I reviewed the item up for bid, the listing had both a minimum bid and estimate,that after I won the bid, I found out exceeded the FMV. In the case of the estimate it was $2k higher. In addition fees and taxes added 25% to the final cost. I think Charity Buzz needs to be WAY more transparent with customers when placing a bid. Lesson learned by me. I will never use this site again

I have been trying to get a VIP experience to see a live taping of The View scheduled for almost 2 months and it still is not scheduled. Emails either go unanswered (until I have to follow up) or are very slow. I also utilized their "Contact" form on their website to post a complaint. No response thus far. I will most likely end up disputing this charge with my CC company because I have zero confidence in Charity Buzz at this point. Keep in mind that there is an expiration date on these experiences so with each month that passes by without getting this scheduled, the higher risk of me not being able to utilize the experience. Not a good look for a first time customer!

Uses SB’s (auction industry terminology for “Shill Bidders” - please google search “Shill Bidders”) So Trust Pilot asked me to be more specific and some details. So look. Okay so they don’t use fake bidders all the time. Like not every single auction. That’s a no brainer. That would be too obvious right? But they use them when they feel they can. Like about maybe in about a quarter or a third or so of their auctions especially when it’s a big one. So I read about fake bidders and how to look for all the signs that that’s what’s been going on here and there when they think they can do it and not be too obvious about it. So just read up on shill bidders and fake bidders and know what signs to look for and what to watch out for in some situations. It really will help.