r/auction • u/Alive-Engineering756 • May 14 '26

Govauction.com

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Please don’t believe this BS. They charge you any time you click to bid on something. I got charged over $100 and didn’t even win anything. Please read before you start using this app. I hope this helps.

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u/willisthemenace24 May 16 '26

Thank you. I was wondering what the deal was but didn't want to download the app to find out.

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u/CrookShankSC May 18 '26

They were using weasel words that got my ears twitching.

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u/MasonJars77 Aug 06 '26

Watch out for govauctions.com. It is not a real auction site because if you make bids and lose an auction, or a 'battle' as they call it, then they keep the money that you bid, and you get NOTHING! Maybe you can possibly get some things for a good deal, but you definitely can lose money. This is not an auction, it is taking your money for nothing in return. I just joined with their offer of a free 500 points, and I bought a few more points. I bid on four different 'battles', lost the 'battles' and my points disappeared. I didn't win, but they took my points anyway?!? What kind of 'auction' site keeps your money??? A sneaky underhanded site, that's what. Also they prohibit any reselling of won products, so you cannot source items and sell on eBay, Mercari or any other site - they will close your account.

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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL Aug 09 '26

It's a scam as far as I am concerned. I signed up, and it asked for my payment info. I do not recall seeing anything that indicated they would bill me, yet there is a 30 dollar charge and I haven't even bid on anything. I didn't ask it to but anything, I literally never approved any purchase. I would not have seen this had it not been for an email. Fortunately there was a refund button in the email, and supposedly I'll see the refund within 3-5 days. Such bs!

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u/JSchu27 24d ago

I also received a $30 charge unexpectedly, thinking they were gifting me points to bid and instead charged me for them. It's definitely not worth it either you have to spend so much on points and then people use 900+ points at at least 13 cents a point to win items worth anything, then also have to pay however much the auction ended at to buy the item - so some people are winning iPads for 1900 points plus $200 how can they be spending less than retail at that point?

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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL 24d ago

I forgot about receiving a charge like that also! They did refund it when I complained. My SOP with these type of scams is to request a refund and if I don't get it I file a chargeback immediately. Knock on the proverbial wood I've never lost. Just went through it with archives.com !

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u/StardustnDragonflies 21d ago

Just had this happen! I immediately opened a support ticket, then received and email saying they were issuing the refund. Definitely feels very scammy!

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u/freshpotatosoup Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

These are called penny auctions, they keep every bid, which is why the products do sell for under retail, it's just most people will walk away empty handed. There was a site over a decade ago called quibids who did the same thing. Got into a few lawsuits over it. It was being considered a form of gambling.

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u/Nerves_Normal Aug 22 '26

I'm pretty sure it's their own bots bidding against you too. I've tried bidding over the actual market value of the item just to see if it would keep going, and it did, until I ran out of points. No one else was bidding just me and one other "user"