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Recently bid and won a 2011 International CE decompression school bus listed through West Ada school district in Meridian, Idaho. The auction had no reserve but said subject to seller comformation. They do not respond to emails on a regular basis and when I got a decline email they acted like this was a normal occurance. So I called West Ada Schools Transportation office and spoke with RD and he said that they will decline based on the value of the bus vs the final bid. If that is the case a minimum bid reflecting closer to what needs to be received to buy this bus or a reserve or both. This is the absolute shadiest way to do buisness and to let people think they won then tell them they didn't. The auction house allows this. If you want a specific dollar amount out of an auction put a reserve or put the minimum bid at close to what you want to get not $500. If the reserve isn't met no problem decide then if you are going to accept a bid or not. If the final bid is subject to seller comformation there should absolutely be a reserve imposed on the item. The seller is bait and switch to avoid incuring reserve fees or rates. The listing had a minimum bid of $500. This was met and superseded with a $2100 final amount. This is beyond shady. Buyers beware of this legit company that supports shady buisness dealings.

bought a lot of 9 snowblowers and they all were no good. not even repairable ( within reason of cost ). the picture shown showed snowblowers in good shape and the ones that they gave me were in the far back of picture. each snowblower had tags on them showing whats wrong with them but non of those tags were shown in any pictures. only one picture of a bunch of snowblowers were shown.they were all unk. reached out to the company as well as Elie who is the rep. manager for the Boston area and no response.how do you people sleep at night knowing your scamming people who are trying to make a living.

I was interested in bidding on 2 sales on Gov Deals but I asked too many questions so was locked out of bidding by the vendor. Actually the same question a number of times because no answer was provided. Given this is an online sale, people need to know what they are buying because they have to PAY for it, PAY to have it picked up, packed and shipped and PAY whatever Customs, Duty and Tariffs are being applied. Therefore they would like to know if what they are buying will be marketable once they get it. But NO, you're not entitled to that information and will be blocked from bidding if you insist on ASKING. The most disrespectful site to buyers. I complained to Customer Service but do not expect a response. And as an update, I never received a response from Gov Deal's Customer "Service" because it's not there for the buyer.

Fraud and deceptive business practices. The auction is supposed to end at a fixed time. They extended the end 10 times (3 min at a time). I had the winning bid and they manipulated the time for their preferred buyer. Finally they knocked me off the system so their preferred buyer could have the truck. The truck was from Patrick Space Force base. I’m guessing the base commander would not like the fact that their auction house is dishonest.

You’d be better off sending your money to a Nigerian Prince. First of all the sellers are private businesses and corporations along with a few government agencies. The items sold are misrepresented and defective. Read the other reviews, all bad, except for the several good ones, all posted within a few days of one another thus making them highly suspicious. Stay away, the site is a total scam but legal because of the multitude of disclaimers their lawyers advised them to include.

Great site. Many bargains available here.

Called customer service line and had issues with website, and back and forth regarding once AGAIN I found something on the particular category and wanted to go back to catagory there was no way to go back until I closed the search and then went back to same site again without having to reopen the catagory for the listings again! Very cumbersome and unnecessary and time consuming! They told me to click onto something that didn't show up on the page I was looking at!

Complete sham.I won an auction with no reserve. My winning bid was $4k. After waiting 2 days with a note on the auction of waiting approval. My offer was declined and the item relisted. After I spent hours trying to get a reason the seller said he wanted $7K. Complete slimy used car sales mentality. I accepted all the risk but the seller who is unwilling to set a reserve will continue to relist and waste buyers time.