Used to LOVE HAGGLEBIDS. Now everything has changed, office staff is BAD. The attitude is "their sh*t don't stink" we (the customer) are lucky to be allowed to bid. Yvette is the worst. She acts as if she owns the place, has zero customer skills, & needs to be replaced.
PICK UPS BAD! By appt only & limited times. Nearly impossible for a working person/business to pick up items. 3 Days ONLY. WED 1-4pm, TH & F 8:30-4pm. NO SAT. Hire more people so you can have pickups M-F 9am-5pm during normal business hours like other auction houses. We have to physically call in to make an appt & slots are often "all taken", & you can only get a 1/2 hr. time slot- to the already limited days. "Oh, Wednesday is all full, we have 1-1:30 on Thurs, left." - A horrible way to conduct business. We buy weekly, hard to accommodate a 30 min. window on a Thurs, during an eclipse when purple unicorns are hibernating. AND, if you happen to not show for that 30 minute golden, timeframe, you get a ding/strike on your record- 3 strikes SUSPENDED FOR 6 MONTHS! PLUS, you have to have THEIR auction # ready to make the appt. "Hi, I won GENERAL AUCTION that ended yesterday, I'd like to make an appointment". "Sorry we cannot book appts without OUR auction #". "Please, it was yesterday's GENERAL auction, can you please look up YOUR #?" "Nope, sorry we cannot look it up, call back". WTF. It's YOUR weekly auction #. Put a cheat sheet on the reception desk each week of your auctions. There are only 3 auctions each week! The effort the girls give is zero. I bend over backwards for my customers. THEY all need to be replaced with efficient polite employees who are willing to offer some sort of customer service. Every time I am in there the girls are sitting down, not on computers, not in the back pulling items, sitting, eating, or talking to each other. But way too busy to look up an auction # for a week.
PRICES.. yeah, BUY IT NOW used to be awesome. Great prices. Now everything is inflated to almost retail prices & the items are not in "new" retail-priced condition, most have some small flaw. So it's really not a deal anymore. Maybe an occasional deal but not for repeat customers. Same items sit in BUY IT NOW because they are not turning over as fast due to pricing. I'm barely buying B.I.N. any longer.
PICK UPS: You cannot back right up to the warehouse door. Even though you have your appt. slot & you are the ONLY ONE picking up. DO NOT ask for any help. None given. Excuses given are Covid or Insurance reasons. Hmmm.. I deal with 5 different auction houses. All have a BIT of assistance if you REALLY need it, and most try to assist their customers to get them in & out efficiently and safely. I used to love Hagglebids. Now it's being run by uneducated, girls w/ attitudes who do not want to put effort into their positions. The owner should implement a month-long 'secret shopper' into this business to see how we are treated.
Next, please research into an automated calendar appointment for pick ups. There is software that should be implemented into Hagglebids like all other auction houses use. We can login the moment the auction ends to chose our pick up time. A simple link is embedded into your automated-winning invoices or on your auction page. Being forced to physically call in to make an appointment with the incompetent staff is painful. The 1 week abandonment date is a joke. I get WE lose our item. That would be fair if normal hours were implemented. BUT WE still get that ding/strike. 3 STRIKES YOU'RE OUT, even if we've paid! If you were open normal times people wouldn't "abandon". So, let me summarize.. We pay, we abandon, they re-sell (OK, I get it), but still ding US? WE paid and they re-sold yet still a ding. That's double the $$ Hagglebids gets and still a STRIKE. Doesn't make sense. I could see if item was a NON-PAYMENT & abandoned & a ding (you are not a storage unit). But WE PAID you got your $$, you re-sell, then you win twice. Item is gone, But still ding! You lose out on repeat business for 6 months as you have suspended your repeat customer. Who loses? Whomever implemented this rule didn't think it through. If we pay, & don't pick up the loss is punishment! Who wants to toss away $$. You make double, item is gone, & suspend a regular customer who buys weekly.
FINALLY: To the owner: PUHLEEZE consider replacing this office staff with a competent customer-service staff. Please purge power-tripping Yvette who thinks this is HER business. Not new. Going on for years. She is not an asset to your business. Please replace with an office manager who knows how to deal professionally (w/ kindness, yet still structured with your policies), with your customers. We pay her salary. She forgets that. Survey your repeat customers w/ anonymous questions. As the owner I hope you understand what a detriment she is for Hagglebids & a poor leader for your staff. I am not a disgruntled customer. I still buy from your business, I just cringe doing it. read more