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Prime Time Auction Pocatello Idaho

I got this from https://auctionhints.wordpress.com

Reviews of Prime Time Auctions

Prime Time Auctions has a way of leaving positive reviews on their own google ratings page. After our feud that I had with them, they have accused me of leaving negative reviews with multiple accounts on their google reviews.

Such as this one:

BAD BUSINESS

“CONSUMERS BE WARNED PRIME TIME AUCTIONS ARE SELLING LOCAL USED CAR STORES JUNK CARS AND THEY ARE BIDDING THE VEHICLES UP ONLINE THEMSELVES. THESE ARE VEHICLES THAT CAN’T OR DON’T WANT TO SELL RETAIL TO THE PUBLIC. LOOK AT THE REVIEWS THEY ARE PERSONALLY BURYING THE BAD REVIEWS WITH PHONY ACCOUNTS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED WHEN YOU BUY THESE VEHICLES AS IS WITH NO RECOURSE IS IT REALLY A GOOD DEAL IF IT NEEDS A MOTOR OR TRANSMISSION.”

They said this in response:

“Ryan Thompson – Creating multiple accounts to leave one-star reviews (Disruptarian Radio, BAD BUSINESS, Ryan Thompson) is both unprofessional and illegal. This review does not reflect how we do business or handle arbitration. We know that the issue was resolved in summer 2014 and no further issues have arisen since then. For your reference again, and for the benefit of other customers, know that we do allow soft reserves on some vehicles through our frequent sellers program, but we strongly discourage people from bidding on their own items. We welcome and encourage people to come inspect items and test drive vehicles before they bid. We also ask anyone with questions about the auction process to give us a call or stop in.

We’ve been in business a long time and are here to serve our community. We successfully sell thousands of items each month, and honesty and integrity are very important to us. We sell vehicles every month for banks, government agencies, estates, moving sales and new car dealers, and we believe buyers are just as important as sellers. We do everything we can to bring our sellers and buyers together in a fair market. The process works wonders, and we truly appreciate our sellers and buyers who continue to support this wonderfully unique business.”

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I can say for certain that I did not leave this review. However they are wrong about it being “illegal” even if it were me. If that were illegal, then it would likewise be illegal for them to use fake accounts to leave positive reviews on their own page.

Further more, the same exact kind of reviews can be found on their google reviews page, from long before I ever lived in that area, and many after. If they think anyone who has this opinion of them is me, then they are barking up the wrong tree, they need to realize that I am one of many with this opinion. Just look up and potentially contact the other people who have left the very same kind of reviews with the same circumstances as myself. They can all be found at www.whitepages.com

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For example, this jackie moore person, she can be found in the local phone book, and she has been to their auction, and this is easily confirmed that it is her review.

“Prime Time Auctions loves to bid up the prices during online auctions. I had two experiences where this has happened. I was bidding for a car and was getting outbid this went on and on until I decided to stop bidding. The price was too high for me so I stopped bidding. I then went and bought a better car from a local guy the same day. I went home and saw Prime Time sent me an email saying I had one the car I had been bidding on that day. I called them and said I didn’t but they said it didn’t matter you signed a contract saying you would pay. I told them I had an email from them saying I was outbid at a lower price and that is the only proof I had saying I didn’t win the car. This exact thing happened to my father in law a year ago. He was bidding on a junker that shouldn’t have gone for more then $800 but he got caught in a bidding war and bid it up to 1200. The guy outbid him so my father in law stopped and figured oh well. The next day though my father in law got a call saying the buyer fell through and wanted to sell him the vehicle for his last bid price.

These guys are bidding up the price. They fought so much with me when I didn’t win that car, they told me I had to pay for it, and the only thing that saved me was an email showing I was outbid. They lied about seller falling through for my father in law. They just bid up the price and then said it feel through to make more money. Way shady business.”

Funny that Prime Time responds to some of their reviews but not all of them. Most of their negative reviews, the write google and claim they are “fake”, and then the reviews disappear. The only way to get them back, is to write google, and send google your paperwork proving that you are a real customer of this business, like I had to do.

Here is another one, this is a local person, who has left 22 reviews over the course of a decade with google, and she is also easily confirmed;

“Hanna Geshelin

22 reviews

a year ago-

“Prime Time wrote appallingly bad descriptions of my items so that everything looked cheap. A $1,000 solid wood dining table with three leaves in a storage rack and high-quality table pads sold for $35. A pair of recliners was described as “arm chairs.” A kitchen table that matched a sideboard was sold separately. DO NOT list your items with them!! I had to get out of my house quickly so I couldn’t sell items myself, but there is absolutely no question in my mind I would have done much better if I had had the time.

When I finally was able to speak to the owner, he tried to guilt-trip me about how hard his people worked picking up my things, photographing them, and listing them–as though I should be grateful for his company doing what they do. I did not ask him for anything–I had read the contract and knew I had no recourse–I just wanted him to be aware that whoever wrote descriptions did a poor job, which cost not only me but him money. There was no apology, no suggestion that he’d remind his marketing people they need to be careful, just a diatribe about how I should be grateful for the hard work they did selling my things.”

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This is another which is easily confirmed:

“Jeremy Welch

2 reviews

2 years ago

DO NOT TRUST THE ONLINE BIDDING SYSTEM. I placed a bid on the online system 3 days before the actual auction. The day of the auction I checked my account and it indicated that I had won the item I bid on. I went to pick up my item and the attendant told me that they did not have any won items under my name. I pulled up my account on my phone and showed him that I had in fact won the item. He replied that maybe the person that was in his system as having won the item placed the bid right before I did. I explained that I had placed my bid online days before the auction and my top bid was greater than the actual price realized. He told me that he would have to get back with me. I called the next day and the person that answered the phone told me there was a clerking error and that they were going to give me a credit “for my trouble”. The credit didn’t even cover the cost of the bid. Every other auction I’ve been to where there is a bid discrepancy either honers the bid for everyone or puts the item back up for auction. Instead, because the other bidder got there first they got the item and I got screwed. So, don’t trust the online bid system and if you do win something hightail it to the auction site to pick up your item before they give it away to someone else.”

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This is another easily confirmed local resident and buyer of the auction:

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DeWayne Hodges

2 reviews

2 years ago

they are the most dishonest auction house I know. they know there selling crap. they tell you after you buy it. they do not disclose what they are told by the sellers until after you pay then only sometimes. it not only once or twice every time. ive called some people apparently auction people have the right to rip people off with no one keeping them honest. you do have a chance to inspect item but a lot of things cant be seen by eye.they have no problem screwing their customers for 20% save your money buy somewhere else they are getting worse every auction.

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This one from Hussein M:

Zero stars….. it has been over 60 days and I have not received my title… I have always to call to check with them with no result instead they will be missing something I already gave 2-3 times before I call such as the social security number…

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Cynthia Clarke

Very disorganized which led to a lot of confusion. Disappointed in recent transactions both buying and selling. Will not do business with them again.

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There are dozens of these in fact, since google links the person’s profile to their reviews, and since the person can be found in the local white pages, these reviews are easily confirmed.

They have some strong armed tactics at their auction, and if people do not leave their names, I don’t blame them. Just write and ask me, I will provide 2 recorded conversations with their manager Drew, who threatened me with violence over our disagreement, as well as about 50 text messages from Drew.

But I can say for a fact that I have only left 2 reviews, and one of which they contested with google with some kind of lie, to have it removed.

So I left a second review. And then my first review was given back, because I petitioned google to reinstate it, and I showed google my paper work from the bad business transaction that I had with this company. So google graciously gave the review back. So in reality I have only left one review.

They are crazy to think otherwise, and launching false accusations at me in public will result in defamation.

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