A New Sponsor - TINBIDS

[cigrmaster]

Th never touch it they are the middle man that handles the money and shipping logistics by supplying the seller with shipping labels and documents.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[AJL67]

Well now that “market” is saturated and more sellers than bidders i get ?

 

[scloyd]

I have two auctions where the buyers have not paid. I'm not talking high dollar auctions, but if they were $100+ auctions for a tin, it would be disappointing. It'll be interesting to see how this works out. There really isn't any penalty for not paying. Non-paying bidders account will be flagged and could be possibly suspended.

Good luck to all the sellers who have auctions with high dollar bids. My success rate so far on Tinbids is 50%.

I'm not out anything, I can still smoke the tobacco.

 

[AJL67]

I have two auctions where the buyers have not paid. I'm not talking high dollar auctions, but if they were $100+ auctions for a tin, it would be disappointing. It'll be interesting to see how this works out. There really isn't any penalty for not paying. Non-paying bidders account will be flagged and could be possibly suspended.

Good luck to all the sellers who have auctions with high dollar bids. My success rate so far on Tinbids is 50%.

I'm not out anything, I can still smoke the tobacco.

Had my test auction sell, $31 and got $26 and change for my end. They do need stronger language for people that don’t pay, the one strike system, you get one and the second you’re banned, simple as that. Makes you wonder if anyone is going to actually pay 590 for that esoterica.

Also my personal opinion is people should put things up with low starting bids and just have a reserve to get interest going and mb a bidding war, people putting things up for stupid amounts aren’t doing anyone favors there. If one or more of y’all are those people good luck to you, just my opinion as someone that would like to see the site take off.

 

[solideogloria86]

I have two auctions where the buyers have not paid. I'm not talking high dollar auctions, but if they were $100+ auctions for a tin, it would be disappointing. It'll be interesting to see how this works out. There really isn't any penalty for not paying. Non-paying bidders account will be flagged and could be possibly suspended.

Good luck to all the sellers who have auctions with high dollar bids. My success rate so far on Tinbids is 50%.

I'm not out anything, I can still smoke the tobacco.

Was thinking about posting a tin and came here first to see if you'd posted any updates. I think I'll keep watching for a while.

 

[AJL67]

Was thinking about posting a tin and came here first to see if you'd posted any updates. I think I'll keep watching for a while.

Good system got my money, it was easy, when a lot is paid you get a notification and a big green “print label” button and you’re off to the races.

 

[AJL67]

Also the ppl that don’t know how the date codes work tick me off. Oh yah I’ve had this bag for 40 yrs and it’s a 2019 date code.

 

[AJL67]

Little mini bidding war .. lol ok not a war, but a couple hours to go on my auction and up 20 bucks, that's what an extra 15 and change in my pocket, I'm not greedy extra money is extra money, that's another tin of something.

 

[AJL67]

Ended up with $41 more, it’s the little things in life, sure i spend that lottery tickets every day, THAT is the thing i need to change

 

[AJL67]

Well looks like I’m shipping to china have to see how this crap works. I used the contact for to ask about customs forms they said they would fill out and supply. I’ll update when i know more

 

[AJL67]

So clicked generate label and got this.

 

[shanez]

It's nice to have another resource for the community in general and another sponsor as well but the site needs some work.

I bid on 2 auctions. I wone 1 and lost 1. I have received 0 notifications from the site that I had been outbid, lost, or even won.

Signing up and bidding was easy enough but until I saw this thread a few minutes ago I completely forgot I had bid. With the reminder I logged in and saw the results.

How to pay was not bad to figure out but not as straightforward as it should be. Also not having other payment options other than a credit card directly through the site is concerning. I realize I pay a small amount more by using third parties like PayPal but I do so for the added protection.

It was also annoying to find out I lost a bid by $1 and would have gladly bid more had I known. I know I could have simply placed a higher bid to begin with but I was the first person to bid and I wanted to watch the auction to see how it went before doing anything else. Apparently you have to be logged into the site to actually "watch" the progress.

I'd suggest the site owners/administrators add email notifications of auction progress similar to what other sites do and at least consider third party payment options. Also add a "pay now" but in the "My Account/Auctions Won" section instead of having to click to go back to the item auction page to pay.

This is just my thoughts.

 

[Swiss Army Knife]

Not a fan of bid style auctions or bidding wars myself, would just rather have a price and pay it. But for those that have the blood pressure for that kind of thing TinBids looks like a great option. They've got a pretty nice mobile site as well.

 

[AJL67]

It's nice to have another resource for the community in general and another sponsor as well but the site needs some work.

I bid on 2 auctions. I wone 1 and lost 1. I have received 0 notifications from the site that I had been outbid, lost, or even won.

Signing up and bidding was easy enough but until I saw this thread a few minutes ago I completely forgot I had bid. With the reminder I logged in and saw the results.

How to pay was not bad to figure out but not as straightforward as it should be. Also not having other payment options other than a credit card directly through the site is concerning. I realize I pay a small amount more by using third parties like PayPal but I do so for the added protection.

It was also annoying to find out I lost a bid by $1 and would have gladly bid more had I known. I know I could have simply placed a higher bid to begin with but I was the first person to bid and I wanted to watch the auction to see how it went before doing anything else. Apparently you have to be logged into the site to actually "watch" the progress.

I'd suggest the site owners/administrators add email notifications of auction progress similar to what other sites do and at least consider third party payment options. Also add a "pay now" but in the "My Account/Auctions Won" section instead of having to click to go back to the item auction page to pay.

This is just my thoughts.

I think the only time i saw an outbid notification was when i logged back in and yes it was after the auction was over before i even saw you.

I spoke with them a bit and there is a phase one of the project coming out in October, not sure of all the features but I know being able to edit your auction should be a feature delivered in the Oct update.

Takes time to get the bugs out and roll out features.

 

[Ahi Ka]

This is more fun than watching an ant farm.

 

[AJL67]

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This is more fun than watching an ant farm.

And twice as much as watching a Cricket match.

 

[PipeIT]

I won my first two auctions in a row, quite easy.

I was about to post what I won, one auction no one placed any bids, which I thought was odd, and the other had quite a few bidders.

@Swiss Army Knife some sellers do place a Buy option, so it depends on who’s selling, if they give you that option.

@AJL67 Hmm, if I sold there, I would not want to hassle with international shipping, hope that works out painless for you.

Seeing that we might have to ship internationally, I’ll put up anything I have here on the forum, to support my fellow smokers!.

On a side not, if TinBids doesn’t have a shipping/choice option, they should, why, because when .com was first created, it was considered way back then a Commercial USA Domain, and I still associate .com to USA businesses which is still common place.

 

[PipeIT]

They have what appears to be a USA toll free number, combined with a .com domain in cyberspace, this assumes we do business only in the USA not overseas.

But then, it’s my understanding if you sell on ebay.com, you could be shipping overseas too, at least I know deadmanspipes has shipped pipes overseas.

It’s been so long that I’ve dealt with FleaBay, that I don’t know if you sell on their .com domain, you can choose to only ship USA.

I mean seriously, rhetorically speaking of, don’t these people understand Geo Location domains? .com .uk .ie .ch etc. etc...

My point being, since a lot of people don’t understand this, or have forgotten about this, is the original domain structure was to help people navigate the web and work within those countries for business.

 

[AcesAndEights]

So I decided to throw out a flyer and bid on something just for fun. Here it is a week later, and I’m about to win it. It says “reserve not met” though. Does that mean the seller gets to choose whether or not to accept my bid if it holds?

 

[PipeIT]

So I decided to throw out a flyer and bid on something just for fun. Here it is a week later, and I’m about to win it. It says “reserve not met” though. Does that mean the seller gets to choose whether or not to accept my bid if it holds?

So the bid ended and you were the highest bidder, but it didn’t meet the reserve price? hmm