Invaluable Auctions Reviews

InvaluableAuctions is plagued with problems. It freezes, crashes, partially loads, stops responding, randomly signs you out, won’t remember your password.... basically every issue an app can have, this has it!

I love using the invaluable bidding platform online, but why won’t they put more development into InvaluableAuctions ?! I’ve emailed their tech support many times with screenshots of many of these problems and they just reply with some generic response like “Sorry to hear you having trouble using our app... please view our FAQ page here to learn about resetting your password”

FIX YOUR APP PLEASE!

Consignor’s and buyers beware. I’ve seen buyer’s premiums as high as 210% for lower value items.
The auctioneer charges 21.4% but Invaluable as a platform thinks they deserve an additional 188.6%? I can think of zero added value this platform adds compared to others, which are flat rate % and not based on the price you pay.
In addition there’s
no access to past results without paying additional subscription fees, and no bidder watched item statistics.
Who’s running this company?

Too many times I have lost auction items due to app failure. InvaluableAuctions claims you are “high bidder” when actual you are not and it does not inform you that you have been outbid. You are left thinking you are the high bidder and when auction closes it still says you are high bidder. And guess what happens? You didn’t win. The sale went to others that have the exact amount of your bid. Something is wrong with InvaluableAuctions’s software. Wrote to InvaluableAuctions owners still waiting for a reply.
My advice: use InvaluableAuctions to review items and place bids directly with the auction houses.
Something is wrong. I challenge InvaluableAuctions owners to review my bid history and explain. Writing directly to you doesn’t gain a response. Here’s your opportunity.

When the problem was researched further the auction house claims my bid was not received until the auction ended. Funny I placed it 12 hours before the start of the auction. What caused the claimed delay? Again, no response from Invaluable.

I am not letting this go until a full and complete explanation is given. Oh your customer service is nonexistent.

Thank you.

This has always been the single worst app I use. The new update continues the almost unfathomable stupidity of the designs previously and with most of the same bugs. Why not have Saved Items be sortable, as on the website? Or if not, don’t just display them in a jumbled order so that soonest auctions are buried in the middle of distant ones! Auction catalogue listings usually blank out randomly after a few screens. Past results and previously saved items frequently display as “no results”. Searches cannot be sorted or limited by item type, date, price etc. The list goes on. It’s an app seemingly designed by people who have never used any sort of commerce app. Truly, it is the single worst Collectibles or e-commerce app of them all!

AVOID AVOID AVOID. First of avoid Amelia Jeffers auction house. They never sent me an invoice for bids I won even with multiple messages on to them send me an invoice. It has been over a month and they still have not sent me an invoice. I then messaged Invaluable to look into this and it says these losers have put a UPI strike against my account for what and invaluable says there is nothing they can do. So this Auction house Amelia Jeffers ignored all my messages about my invoice for my won bids and then preceded to put a strike on my Account. Unbelievable. They tried to sell my bids for a high price but couldn’t and that could have explained why they never got back to me

I have purchased items using Invaluable and never had an issue until last week. I mistakenly chose not to bid through the auction house website and chose to use Invaluable because of the simplicity. However, it backfired on me in a terrible way and it lost the item that I really wanted. My proxy maximum bid was 3X what the item sold for. For some reason, Invaluable failed to bid in accordance with my authorization even though I had placed the initial bid a week before the auction. I’m not sure what went wrong on their side, but it screwed me. now I use InvaluableAuctions LiveAuction and it was very reliable today.

All these auctions are manifestations of criminal organizations, people who buy here do not understand or do not know where to go and trust criminals, do not you realize that they are filling their pockets by selling you pieces of very low grades, I have looked at the pieces they sell and I have presented some and they do not respond because they themselves compare cheap and sell you cheap garbage, they do not know that they themselves are using you, look at the best place to sell and buy is called eBay, here they do not discriminate against you and it is a much safer place, but these places like HiBid, Heritage Auction, and stack roundabouts, are organizations that buy themselves on eBay what is cheap to sell it to you expensive and you fill their pockets, it is time for them to rent, say enough is enough!!!.

Invaluable was once a great place to go for online auctions. Much like eBay one could follow auction lots, bid if desired, and then see the final sale price of the item when it closed. Invaluable now expects the average person to pay a monthly or annual subscription to see closed lot sales prices. This is a shameless money grab. Would you shop at a retail store that hides the price tags? You would not. I recommend avoiding Invaluable until they come to their senses.

It’s always something if it’s not the auction houses selling fake channel bags they rip you off in shipping. Shipping is an open scam for them because you don’t know shipping cost before the bid so they hit you with exorbitant shipping prices $600 to ship a “36 x 36” painting from Gilbert az to Las Vegas what a joke. And if you don’t pick it up within 10 days you’ll lose the item you just paid for …..Tik tok tik tok the vultures are circling.

Not sure where the fault lies but I find it ridiculous that when I click the ‘See current bid’ link in an email. It doesn't take me to that item to show me the current bid (as the link promised)it instead takes me to a random Invaluable page. That’s bait and switch.
Frustrating enough that in this day and age I have to then type in the item and go through other similar pieces to locate it. Very lazy of the developers. Seems small but results in a lot of wasted time if you use their app/emails to locate items on a regular basis. Which I used to before this problem.
Have now stopped even checking their emails.

Very nice app but with an email contact problem.

I tried to contact invaluable or auction company several times via in-app email contact, it failed every time. I then realized InvaluableAuctions is picking up wrong email app (Mail) instead of my default email (gmail). I googled this issue and found that this indeed is an app problem, it suggests to contact app developer. Here this goes, please fix this issue.

App version: 2.6.7; iOS version: 16.4.1

The search feature on the mobile app has poor functionality. You cannot search for art by price, time remaining, or location. The pictures are often pixelated more so than those on their website.

Not invaluable’s fault, but many auctions have unclear shipping policies, or are slow to approve registrations. Unfortunately you cannot leave an absentee bid on an item if your registration is pending - this lost me the opportunity to bid on a few items.

Perks: access to auctions, ability to view auctions in real-time as they occur.

InvaluableAuctions has the widest selection of auction houses to buy from out of any house I have seen. Good companion app for following auctions that you are visiting in person. It often has more images of the items than the paper catalogs.

I like InvaluableAuctions . The filtering settings could be better, but the lack of customer service and communication is appalling. I won an item 3 weeks ago and still haven’t received it. Called the company and no answer. Then I check the reviews. One month, two month wait times to ship or the wrong item shows up. I’m giving it another week and I’m calling the transaction is as fraud to my credit card company. Word of advice folks, stay away from this site. Use eBay or whatever else but you have been warned.

You can find anything you’re looking for on InvaluableAuctions. You might even get lucky and be the highest bidder. It’s educational just to look at what’s available and what people are willing to pay for certain items.

I bought an item in auction. Was told I had 60 days to request a refund.
I wrote at least 5 times and never got a reply.
The item did not live up to the pictures and here it sits in a box. Won’t even give it as a gift.
Very dissatisfied with this site and won’t do business again, sorry to say!!!

The overall look and interface is great. Very easy to search and save lots. The issue is that it constantly has software issues. I have to sign in each time and it force shutdowns when I’m in the middle of searches. Hopefully the next update will fix this!

I liked the way App is designed. Especially search feature listing “Suggested items”.

Used to have quite a few bugs and seems like the feedback is taken and it now has much better performance. Have used it for participating in live auctions.

I use variety of platforms for buying watches, probably 10 or more. What I like about this platform is the simplicity, great photos, the text reminders and many items are exclusive to Invaluable.

Payment is simple as well. They have discovered how to make this a fun, easy to understand selling / buying platform.

I use several auction apps and this one seems the most user friendly and easy to use. I now do most of my buds & purchases through it.