In 2002, the NYC-based company formed a marketing partnership with eBay to introduce eBay Live Auctions. LiveAuctioneers revolutionized the industry from the start. All bidding takes place via a secure bidder network, which keeps your maximum bids for upcoming sales private until the item is opened on the day of the sale.
Leave an absentee bid, or fully engage in the live-auction action-it's up to you. With fascinating objects up for bid in more than 50 countries-instantly translated to your language and currency-LiveAuctioneers is a worldwide marketplace with treasures waiting to be discovered, whether you're an avid collector or first-time visitor.īy hosting thousands of auctions in real time via the Internet, the site allows unprecedented access to remote sales, and savvy bidders can often land desired items at very desirable prices. All that counts is money and a polished MBA pretense of human decency. all these terms are becoming totally irrelevant at this point. To give a specific example: items that have been paid and delivered years ago, on 's won items page, it may say "invoice pending" or "payment due." Common sense dictates that no auction house would ever release a lot unless it was fully paid (I do have all the paid invoices and shipping records carefully kept on file) yet, on, I may have lots from three years ago showing as "invoice pending." I have totally given up about addressing this basic issue with this so-called "customer service." Honor, shame.
I have some issues that are more than three years old which have never been resolved. In reality, the service is mostly composed of young interns that are trained to use precooked corporate lingo to tell end-users that the company does everything right and that if there is an issue, it has to somehow originate from end-users (I understand that the section of customer service dedicated to auction houses is much more down to earth and competent). There is a department using officially this name so that the company can have a sort of evidence that it cares about end-users. Customer service for buyers is quasi non-existent (yes, those tangible end-users that provide the actual money to the corporate entity).