Catawiki - Online Auctions

Impossible to do those things: Confirm the phone number. The confirmation code never arrived! Confirm e-mail- it leads to page that just says forbiden. And accept your terms of use didnt work neither in website or app, always said : not available, try again later. Its getting me on my nerves, I just spent way too much time with trying to set it up. So frustrating! Please fix this!!

Most of the items have set minimum price tag they would sell for. But the amount is secret. So if the items looks cheep, you bid, you usually realise that the seller is not will to sell for that price. And you are not allowed to know what is the amount he is actually willing to sell for. Whats the point of starting from 1€ bid?? If minimum is over 300.. Also you cannot contact the seller for more information or shipment arrangements before you win. Which make the items that has shipping cost 1200€ impossible to buy..

Great articals, Interesting prices. Just possibilities of search are a bit limited

Be careful ! Customer service, when something goes wrong (which it often does), is rude, uninformed, late to reply and to address the issues. They take a huge percentage of buyers and sellers money for a bad service. You can never be sure about the quality of the items - for example jewelry - you will find the SAME SELLERS on EBay selling the SAME items for far far less than the Catawiki estimate. Refunds ( when things go wrong) are done through a third party company that collects and sells your data, and charges you an additional fee. Having bought several gems from Israel , I found them to be cracked, and seen their photos retouched or taken in such a way that the imperfections were not visible until I saw the actual gems and jewelry. Refunds take weeks to months and I have still lost the money spent on import tax and duties - Catawiki refused to help. Be careful how you click to bid because the site makes it easy to make a mistake and click on the minimum reserve bid rather than the maximum bid you are prepared to make. Do not trust the “expert” opinions! When selling a set or collection they may also decide to separate the items so they make more profit from you, and do not understand the value of keeping all the set together. In several years of using this awful platform, I only use it to follow trends in my particular field and make sporadic purchases when nothing else is available. You can ALWAYS find the same items far cheaply by buying direct and through other auction sites. Be careful!

They selling but not sending goods. Be carefull.

Can’t register, message with verification didn’t come

When someone overbids you there is no in-app notification.

I had to delete this app as the bidding system is really very idiotic and consumes a lot of your time. Even if you have the highest bid, you will not win an auction as you did probably reach minimum (reserve) price. Unfortunatelly the minimum price is not known (it is known only to Catawiki and an owner of an item), so it could happen that you will spend a lot of your time bidding with other losers and at the end knowbody will reach “secret” minimum price- and it means an item is not sold to anybody. I also have not found how to sort items by time:-( Fot those who can waste their time: Check delivery costs as it could be higher than a bidding price! Remember the provision fee for Catawiki (10%) that you have to pay at the end in case you will win an auction....

Ho acquistato su questa piattaforma 2 sneakers da collezione del valore totale di quasi 2000 euro rivelatesi poi FALSE. Faccio presente la situzione al servizio clienti fornendo loro due certificati di autenticaizione dove le scarpe vengono certificate entrambe false. La risposta è stata, testuali parole: “La ringraziamo per il tempo e l’impegno dedicati, le sue conoscenze e competenze personali sono state preziose per aiutarci a mantenere Catawiki sicuro e affidabile….per dimostrarle la ns riconoscenza le offriamo un buono di 10 euro” Cioè avete capito!?!??! Si vantano che i loro espertoni controllano tutti gli oggetti, che quelli sono tutti pezzi autentici ecc ecc, fanno pagare ben il 9% di commissione tutela acquirente(che tutela cosa poi??? Bho) e questo e quello che si ottiene. Quindi occhio prima di comprare roba da migliai di euro convinti che sia autentica perchè i loro espertoni l’hanno controllata da cima a fondo, perchè poi potrebbe non essere cosi e e cose fatte loro se ne lavano le mani…

Sconsiglio vivamente la vendita su questa app, è gestita da pseudo esperti incompetenti che tendono a sottostimare i vostri oggetti. Ho sottoposto un lampadario Torpedo di Carlo Nason per Mazzega con 2 vetri mancanti su 24, rifiutato dagli esperti e venduto su altra piattaforma considerando i pezzi mancanti per 3000€. Ho sottoposto sempre a sti espertoni mezze calzette una casa delle bambole stile moderno, interamente fatta a mano valutata 102€ e venduta su altra piattaforma per 600€ dopo che innumerevoli persone mi consigliavano di alzare il prezzo. Sapete cosa vuol dire per voi? Mancate vendite mancati incassi, pessima figura, errata capacità di giudizio…… conclusione? Questa app fa pena e non proverei a venderci più nulla neanche sotto tortura ……. Ribadisco esperti incompetenti, spero che non li pagate