written by on 26/02/2013
I've been on Bonanza since 2010 and all I can say is it's like high school all over again. It's a popularity contest with other sellers and if you try to be nice in the forums, most of them will be rude to you, report you, etc. If you aren't in their little posse click, you will be shunned, and treated as such... And most of the time, the bonanza crew will take their side, leaving you clueless and alone. Great stuff... I was there to sell and make money, not to be buddy-buddy with everyone and win a popularity contest. Start treating your clients equality, bonanza. you lost a long time client..
written by Krisde on 29/12/2012
I drop shipped 100% of my items. Sold everything from high-end beauty and fragrances to Iphones and designer clothes. Took 3 months to list several hundred expensive items and yes,I sold items after giving out coupons and discounts and advertising heavily on Google. In 3 months that I was selling,I made 24 sales....if that. After discounts and coupons were used,I either barely made profit on a sale or I lost money. It's the place where you have to spend 100% of your time listing,promoting your sales or hiring promo staff to advertise for you. Just not worth it for me and after 3 months,I no longer cared about the customers as I wasn't making money off their pathetic little $50 sales here and there. I finally called it quits and closed my booth. I was sad to have wasted so much hope,time and energy,not to mention money on a lost cause.
written by piperhot on 10/04/2012
reviews are like ...well you know. Seems like everytime you go to read reviews of sites 99% of them are written by those that created it. It is so obvious bananza, really, almost all your reviews read the same or start out the same. Give me a brake. So tired of this crap. I have been selling online for over 15 years, have a degree in computer science and have authored plenty of websites for personal use as well as for clients. Let me tell you if you think selling online is a matter of finding a place to advertise or if you think your going to find the perfect auction site or the perfect advertising plan, forget it, they don't exist. It takes work, as in SEO and marketing and plenty of both. The problem with no name auction sites is just that, there is no familiarity, no confidence in the ability for the buyer as of yet or the seller that the auction site will live up to their end of the deal. Cheap or low fees is not the answer so stop harping on that bonanza. Good product and marketing and especially,familiarity is most of the equation. I would never personally buy something from a site that I knew nothing about or was not familiar with, just like anyone else. Not to say that bonanza isnt as good a place as any to add to your advertising venues, but the ole adage still rings true..."buyer beware"
written by on 08/04/2012
I WISH YOU WOULD ADVERTISE SO PEOPLE WILL HEAR ABOUT YOU MORE SALEWS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES SLOW VERY SLOW ANY IDEAS HOW TO MAKE YOUR AUCTION SITE BETTER. ANY PLANS FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AS I REALL ENJOY YOUR SITE BUT WISH IT WAS MORE KNOWN
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Chrisj67's Response to piperhot's Review
Written on: 01/11/2012
You have a degree in computer science but cannot spell break, not to mention your grammatical skills are on par with a 3rd grader. No, give me a break!
Belangers's reply to Chrisj67's Comment
Written on: 01/10/2013
isn't there anybody that can stop bad mouthing anybody else for a minute that we could actually see what Bonanza is or isn't about? Who cares if somebody is a college graduate holding a degree and misspells a word or two. This could have been written on a cellphone for gods sake, and the words could have been replaced with the wrong words by those stupid spelling correctors.
please do let me know when the childish idiots are off of the internet for a few minutes so I may read the reviews without seeing the high school arguing, bickering and drama.
Maybe there a bunch of 45 and 46 year olds here that do not care about giving us the real reviews, but they would rather be showing us how much of a twot they really are.