There's no evidence that the business is shady, just speculation that there are shills, and no proof of that.
I think that this sums up what everyone came to say, except we had more fun doing it as a group, ha ha.
Nobody has trashed the site itself, in which I think the site is a necessity. But it's just like talking about quality of tobacco or miss drilled pipes or whatever. It's a "conversation" that is leaning towards what the OP was ment for. A discussion about weather or not this is a common occurrence or I'm just tripping, either way it's a convo nothing more. The site itself is great but as I stated earlier, people use sooooo there us bound to be a bad apple or 2.
If that's the case and you can't pass judgment then what are Google reviews for? It's a forum, If we didn't have conversations like this and WAYS or any other topic there wouldn't be a need for sponsors.
Completely different conversation, if someone's first option is to trash somebody or something on a forum before contacting the person or business first is just dumb. I'm sure it's happened before but that's not what this is. How many times have I seen people trash dunhill or hell what about the crap @briarlee puts up with. Even is somebody doesn't agree with the convo it shouldn't mean getting upset at the conversation being had.
What you stated is only part of what I've noticed, which is not the issue that has me wondering if anybody else has noticed. But also the fact that it may or may not be the individual selling an item also bidding on the item they are selling with a separate account. The only way to find that out is the same way ebay finds out. Which is too complicated for me to explain but it's possible I assume. Then again tinbids isn't even a blip on the ebay scale of things so who knows. Just something I was wondering.
And that sir was the point of this. I gave it my shot noticed some weird things and thought I'd share what i found, in hopes it will help somebody else some day. If your wealthy and have mad cash to spend like some people on there obviously then by all means buy the whole site. But if your a person like me who is willing to pay a bit more for something I've been wanting to try every now and then its ok but you gotta be smart about it.
Obviously the people operating this website, or they wouldn’t have enumerated them in the rules section. That’s why they are called rules and not suggestions.
Just so you know they have a one strike rule, you eff up and you are out, unless maybe its a 1 time thing and you've had a bunch of good auctions, I'm sure you get to plead your case, and for bidders if they don't pay they get banned. I had a guy in Cali not pay, they banned him, simple as that.
I think it twas a joke.
Thank you for the info its good to know I can agree to an extent. Life happens way to much to straight out ban someone because they bid on something and couldn't pay. 1 time ok 2 times a warning 3rd time ban, I think as an auction site losing 1 customer is worse then losing 1 seller because if they ain't buying nothing is selling, then again if nobody is selling then you can't buy. It's weird situation that is business related. Whoever owns can make whatever rules they want. So that 1 is a wobbler to me
The only reason I go to that site is to see the brands I've never heard of before. Though the prices seem to jump from next to nothing to oh my freaking sweet jeebus levels in no time at all.
Like most things tobacco hobbyist, there's the abstract art dynamic. Rich people don't really like Jackson Pollock, but they will pay out the ass for it just to own it so they may pretend that they understand some subtlety that poor pleebs don't. It's the same with alcohol collecting, briar pipe collecting and "finer" tobaccos. A $6 ounce smokes just as well in a $8 cob when processed correctly as an $80 ounce in a $600 briar. Rich people add feigned value to universally appreciated habits to keep it "classy"
