Bonavendi Reviews

This WOULD have been a fabulous app if all had worked according to plan. I should have read these App Store reviews before downloading. What an incredible adventure in frustration! Bonavendi came highly recommended from an article I read as a means to sell my CD/DVD collection by simply scanning in the UPC codes and receiving offers from as many sources as I was willing to accept. All went well as I managed to scan in the first bin of about 150 CD’s. I was given an estimate of how much I would be offered by various vendors (sometimes pennies; sometimes dollars; sometimes nothing; sometimes multiple vendor offers for one item; sometimes one vendor; often no offers at all). Then I went to the this app website (where you MUST go if you actually wish to process ANY sale), and I watched the original number of possibilities dwindle in the blink of an eye. Ok, it was a day later than the original scan; maybe those sellers were no longer interested in a particular item (I’m trying to remain positive about this). But the total for 15 CD’s dropped in one day from $30 to $.10! Across any of the 15 potential vendors/buyers! Even if I were to live with and accept this as is, and say that tomorrow is a new day (being Monday and the start of a new business week), I now have hit another snag: I am unable to scan any of my remaining discs in a second storage bin (error message: item unrecognized)! Additionally, an error message has been coming up for the last two hours in different areas of Bonavendi : “The server is not reachable. Make sure you have a working internet connection and try again.” I have zero question regarding my internet connectivity, so I attempted to reach out to the support team, where I was automatically shunted over to their website, and again, I received that error message. They are clearly having some sort of technical difficulties, but there is no indication as to how long the system will be down or whether or not this is even a temporary situation. After all that time I spent scanning those discs, I will NOT be happy if I’m back to square one. It clearly DOES pay to read reviews first. (This was the first time ever where I blindly jumped into downloading an app because of a good article review, but without reading consumer reviews. Lesson learned.) I hope someone else learns from my misadventure, but more so, I hope that tech support contacts me to advise what to do to correct the problem! While I don’t mind donating these CD’s and DVD’s, I really could use a few extra $$ in my pocket right now (who couldn’t?!?). UPDATE: two days later: everything SEEMS to be fully functional. (I gave back one star for increased functionality, but I am holding one back for the fact that the UPC codes do not always scan correctly! (How does Boston’s first album 💿 become “Ethnic Groups in Comparative Perspective”?!?) Many times I’ve had to sit and type in the UPC numbers manually until the disc was correctly recognized. Ridiculous! I’ve no idea what happened over the last couple of days to the this app system or why it took so long to be remedied, but there was no explanation or contact from developers. I will update one last time when I jump through the final hoop and brave the attempt to process a sale. The ease of the sale process will determine whether I give one or two stars back (if any at all). Fingers crossed. 🤞🏼

It is a good app but it takes too long for results to appear. Would help if the latest update had an “intro” button after you put in manual ISBN number..... you can not look it up manually

I spent a ton of time putting DVD’s and video games into their app. When I got to the point of moving the titles to the buyers site, the buyer took none of it, after this app quoted huge sell prices for me from the buyer.

Doesn’t recognize the email I signed up with. Bye.

So I tried to sign up so I can sell my DVDs. It asked for my email and nickname but no password? Than the next page after you sign up it asks for the email and password to login? It never asked me for a password and there's no forgot your password. Don't waste your time it's another useless app and the company is likely just as worse.

If you have trouble setting up an account, email their support crew and wait patiently for a response. It took a few days, but I did receive an answer.

Now that the account is set up, I can properly give Bonavendi a test... but that hasn’t quite happened yet.

Awesome app, super convenient when scanning books, dvds and video games you want to sell back. Items go straight into the price comparison and show who offers the most, really great stuff!

All it does is check SecondSpin offers. No other sources.

I verified this by finding several DVDs I knew Decluttr was interested in. For example: “Battlestar Galactica - Razor” for $0.16. When I scanned it using this app, it only showed SecondSpin for $0.05.

The only buyback source that ever appears is SecondSpin. So since it’s basically a redundant SecondSpin app, Bonavendi is useless.

Nothing scans. Kind of ruins the point of using Bonavendi for fast inputting if the scanner doesn't work. And you have to completely exit out of Bonavendi to get out of the scanner. Hitting "cancel" does nothing

Thanks for fixing Bonavendi . My reselling work is now much better.

It scans CDs properly but only shows up prices from SecondSpin. Doesn’t seem to deliver on its promise of checking multiple buyback sites. Is this a bug, or is Bonavendi bought out by SecondSpin?

It used to be my favorite app. But it hasn’t been working at all lately and it’s impossible to contact anyone to help!

Scanned a bunch of stuff on Bonavendi , then for checkout to the website. But on the website none of my items are now qualified. Emailed, no response.

App doesn't work. It will scan an ISBN but doesn't get bids for book. Useless.

Great idea... But only if it worked

Don’t try to sell anything here on moment tells you the dvd can be sold you log into computer and then says no offers false advertisement and a wast of time

love it

Worked fine for a couple of years. In the last few months, it does not work at all. You can scan your books, you can get a supposed quote from the buyers, but it does not transfer the books over to the selling site and it will not complete the sale. So if you want to sell, you have to go to the selling site completely outside of Bonavendi and enter all the ISBN‘s. Making Bonavendi completely irrelevant and useless. There is no response from this app. I am wondering if they have gone out of business.