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Overview

Bonanza has a rating of 2.0 stars from 941 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Bonanza most frequently mention customer service, credit card, and phone number problems. Bonanza ranks 568th among Marketplace sites.

  • Service
    170
  • Value
    153
  • Shipping
    134
  • Returns
    121
  • Quality
    137

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 20%
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Top Positive Review

“Bonanza is a fantastic eCommerce platform with excellent customer service”

Pham Loc G.
6/25/24

Bonanza is a fantastic eCommerce platform with excellent customer service, I'm very satisfied working with. They have real email to reply my question, not automatic email. Thank you very very much Bonanza

Date of experience: 6/24/24
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Top Critical Review

“Horrible company!”

Jennifer B.
8/9/24

This is probably the shadiest companies I have ever used! Fair warning selling on this site or buying for that matter. Look at all their reviews on here, BBB, etc. Speaks volumes on how they are as a company.

Date of experience: 8/9/24
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Thumbnail of user jt319
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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November 27th, 2019

I decided to move some of my shop inventory over to Bonanza, just to try out the platform, as I heard they were a decent place. After uploading some products and getting my Virtual Assistant to help me with my Booth (as I have never sold on this platform before), I got a sudden notification from Bonanza telling me my Booth was put on hold indefinitely because Bonanza believed I had another seller's account.
They claimed I owned a shop named Boujie. I responded to them immediately to tell them, I don't own two accounts. In fact I just recently decided to sell here.
I contacted the support team as I was prompted to do, and also contacted my VA, asking her if she ever heard of the booth name. Apparently, the store had been her prior client--and I was stuck in the middle of the mess.
I immediately informed Bonanza of the misunderstanding, letting them know that if there was any info they needed in which I could prove I did not own the account they were attempting to link me to, I was more than willing to provide it. I waited several days for a response from Bonanza, and after hearing silence for 48hrs, I began fervently emailing them.
They responded to me today only after I called them out on their unprofessionalism and the fact that I had to practically beg to get a response. Hayley from support at Bonanza, simply sent me an automated email, stating the same thing I knew already: Bonanza linked my account to this random Boujie store, and I was shut down. She even had the gall to tell me that I was free to keep running my 'Boujie store', one I did not own, nor had access to.
I normally don't even write reviews, but to be accused on something I did not do, and be punished for it, and essentially to have Bonanza lie on me, instead of trying to actually figure things out---I can't even express how DISGUSTED, I am with this marketplace.
The worst treatment of a PAYING seller!

If there is anyone even considering selling on this platform, I would strongly advise against it. I would never, ever wish such a terrible experience on anyone.

Date of experience: November 27, 2019

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Hi J T., we're very sorry to hear about the trouble getting started on Bonanza. We understand how that would be frustrating. Please respond to our support agent's most recent email to get back in touch. They will be glad to continue assisting you with this matter. We appreciate your interest in Bonanza!

Thumbnail of user ysjunkie7
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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September 28th, 2023

So far after my first few months, 2 Scammer Buyers filed Unauthorized Chargebacks for a total of $1745

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Support is No help. All they say is sorry, we don't handle payments here that is Paypal.

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Date of experience: September 28, 2023

Thumbnail of user vanessaw34
Missouri
1 review
7 helpful votes
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April 3rd, 2017

I ordered a Playskool Tonka bounce-back racer remote control car for my son and I received a can opener!

Date of experience: April 3, 2017

Thumbnail of user yvette.stith
Louisiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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May 1st, 2023

I loved the eggs I got. I got the Mickey Mouse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eggs, and so far a huge success.

Date of experience: April 29, 2023

Thumbnail of user rebeccaa127
California
1 review
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July 24th, 2018

IT WAS EASY SHOPPING ON YOUR SITE, VERY SECURE TO USE YOUR CREDIT CARD AND THE SELLER WAS DEFINITELY SELLING GOOD QUALITY PRODUCTS..

Date of experience: July 23, 2018

Thumbnail of user abigailw6
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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February 18th, 2016

This is the worst place ever.
Never received my item and never got a call back.

Date of experience: February 18, 2016

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Bonanza has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Thumbnail of user matthewn16
Nevada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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September 1st, 2014

Scam! Took my $$. Never received order and impossible to contact anyone. Scam. Fraud. Be warned.

Tip for consumers:
Don't buy anything on the site

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Date of experience: September 1, 2014

Thumbnail of user chriss2195
France
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 2nd, 2020

For my purchases i buy has **TOP RATED SELLER** and no problems.
GOOD site, support and services!
RECOMMANDED!

Date of experience: April 2, 2020

Thumbnail of user aureliene
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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September 26th, 2016

SOMEONE HACK MY PAGE AND BOUGHT $250.00 US AND NOW THERE TELLING ME WE ARE SORRY! WE CAN NO HAPPY YOU!

SAD

Date of experience: September 26, 2016

Thumbnail of user noth10
Texas
1 review
13 helpful votes
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August 20th, 2013

Sellers new to Bonanza won't understand all of the negative reviews until after they've spent a lot of time, money and effort trying to sell their wares on Bonanza for nothing. I had one of the best maintained and optimized booths there for over three years and barely sold a thing.

Yet, I can sell a decent amount in a month on a different site that I hadn't done anything with in years because I was putting all of my time, money and effort into Bonanza. And all I had to do was add a few new listings to it every time it started getting slow. I did little to no promoting of my store on that site either and my listings there usually ranked higher in Google organic than those on Bonanza.

Now that time has passed and the old-timers have started figuring out why their Bonanza stores were doing so poorly despite all of their efforts, management mistreats them in a big way, including closing their booths for trumped up reasons that do not apply. They are particularly spiteful towards those who have decided to open up shop somewhere else -- many resorting to starting their own sites.

So, yes, there are a great number of sellers who have nothing but bad reviews for Bonanza. We are trying to spread the word in the hopes that those who are new to Bonanza will learn from our mistakes and not be fooled by how easy it is to use or any of the "improvements" they make.

Improvements usually mean site-wide problems will arise and never get fixed like wiping out your traits, messing up your attributes, causing ghost listings in your feed so Google Shopping drops you, checkout problems, listing problems, disappearing listings, shipping problems, and the list goes on. So, that pretty much wipes out the ease of use.

If you're a seller, do yourself a favor and put your eggs in a different basket. If you're a shopper, you'll probably find yourself directed to Amazon to shop by Bonanza themselves, which would be another reason why sellers should steer clear.

If you do choose to sell on Bonanza, just remember "We told you so" when your eyes are finally opened to what our eyes have been witnessing for a long while now. In the beginning, we didn't want to believe it either, but now we're wondering how we let ourselves be fooled for so long. We should have known better.

Date of experience: August 20, 2013

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California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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July 30th, 2019

THEY STEAL YOUR MONEY!
I bought a very fragile bracelet made of thin wire, from one of their vendors, Scarlettsbags. It was mailed to me in a bubble wrap envelope, so naturally it was broken when it arrived. I was out of town and when I got back home and opened the mail, the return date had expired. I explained to the seller that I had no reason to assume the product would be damaged upon arrival and thus could not foresee that I would need to return it and hopefully get a replacement. The seller, Scarlettsbags, was extremely rude from the get-go, but finally she suggested I get my money back from PayPal, which I now regret attempting because it was not their fault; but glad PayPal's email ended up in my junk mail and thus I thought I didn't receive a response. Scarlettsbags told PayPal a bunch of lies about me. I mailed her the bracelet and bubble wrap envelope back at my own expense in a proper shipment box in the hope that she'd acknowledge her mistake. I gave up hope dealing with her in a civilized manner, so I contacted Bonanza.com directly. Got a response - they were investigating. Then nothing. I followed up, but nothing. In the meantime my right as a paying customer to write a review on Scarlettsbags EXPIRED! I've contacted Bonanza.com so many times. L've written long explanations, but to no avail. They refuse to communicate on a logical level. I've not asked, but told them to escalate my complaint to the owners of the company because I'm sure they'd like to know how their customers and ultimately the people paying for their livelihood are being treated. Rather quickly they email me saying they've closed out my case. I have nothing good to say about such lowlifes and hope they will be out of business asap so that people don't have to deal with their fraudulent business practices anymore. The bracelet was $23.76. So why am I spending all this time on this issue? What if it was $*******? I'm not doing this because of the money, but because of the principle. The injustice from Bonanza.com has to be stopped because they are supposed to, but fail to, protect consumers from predatory and fraudulent vendors, such as Scarlettsbags, so ultimately they end up being complicit. Very unethical business! I spend a lot of money via the internet, and I'm happy to say Bonanza.com and Scarlettsbags will never get another cent from me. Cut & paste! Spread the word!

Date of experience: July 30, 2019

Thumbnail of user rickyl8
Colorado
6 reviews
27 helpful votes
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February 7th, 2016

It's super hard to sell items on this site. They only voting on the best websites to the seller that they think still might like the site. It's way to hard to sell items on this site because there a bunch of cheap owners that refuse to advertise the site because they want you to pay a way high percentage by joining there advertising programs. They lie about it bringing you 3x or 5x as many item sells. It's a flat out lie and they should be thrown in jail for b it. If you ask them why if there better than sliced bred they don't take pride in the company and advertise it so all your members can sell more items they will pull the rug from under your booth. It's complete B. S since you invested $50,000; in your booth and you have the right to know why they aren't advertising there site and lie about the high priced fees with them. Your better to do a shopify store or your own online store because you can easily can sell just as much on your site as you can on this $#*! bag site because most your sells come from Google shopping. The only thing good about bonanza is the designers did a great job designing it and making it to use. The CEO is a girly face son of a beep and getting good customer service is hard. It's a pain in the arse getting your sellers fees on here if some one returns something. I give them a big thumbs down just like ebay. Same corperate fake people under a different umbrella. So don't bother with this horrible site that shouldn't be in the rankings of online market places. There pissing yellow rain on Seattle so don't give them any b respect because theere a fake unethical company that will lie and cheat people out of money to make a product and provide horrible servic.

Date of experience: February 7, 2016

Thumbnail of user debd10
Michigan
3 reviews
22 helpful votes
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April 12th, 2015

Seller who used Bonanza website took my money and ran no refund no item

Date of experience: April 12, 2015

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Bonanza has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Thumbnail of user robertag3
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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September 30th, 2014

VERY happy with Bonanza. Have had several transactions so far and am very pleased.

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Date of experience: September 30, 2014

Thumbnail of user francisc319
Arizona
1 review
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January 6th, 2022

Without question the WORST selling platform in existence. It would take me HOURS to explain. If you are a seller STAY away!

Date of experience: January 6, 2022

Thumbnail of user edmundod9
Florida
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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April 8th, 2023
Verified purchase

ONE ITEM SHOWED IN THE DESCRIPTION AND OTHER COMPETELY DIFERENT RECEIVED I REVEIVED AN SUNCOVER FOR MI ELANTRA COMPLETE DIFERENT AT THE ITHEM SHOWED IN THEIR WEB PAGE DESCIPTION, NEVER BUY AGAIN.

Tip for consumers:
No trust

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Car part

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Date of experience: April 8, 2023

Thumbnail of user mattb88
California
1 review
25 helpful votes
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August 31st, 2015

At first, I was very excited about Bonanza as an alternative to Ebay. I'm a powerseller on Ebay, but I'm tired of their fees and Nazi like tactics, so I decided to give Bonanza a try. I spent several hours listing my items, waited for them to activate my account, which took longer than the 24 hours they tell you it will take. Eventually I had to email them and tell them it had been almost 36 hours. They immediately activated my account.

After a full day, I had not received a single view on any of my items. Not one. Nobody had visited or looked at any of my items and they are all pretty popular items. I even signed up for additional advertising in which you pay more commissions, and still nada.

I emailed them about this and they responded with a canned response that was completely irrelevant. They clearly didn't take any time to research my issue. The email told me to do a bunch of things that I had already done.

I have since emailed them 3 times requesting assistance and they have not responded. Then, I finally got a response and it said "We are marking this ticket as resolved"! LOL. Resolved!? No one had ever gotten back to me.

I wrote back one more time and told them this was not resolved. I explained that I was an Ebay powerseller and I am looking for an alternative to Ebay. They still have not responded, so they must not care.

I won't be using them again and I cannot recommend them to anyone. Awful, waste of time.

UPDATE: I wrote a negative review on the Better Business Bureau and here is how shady this company is: They deleted my account and then told the Better Business Bureau there was no such customer. Luckily I had the email thread between myself and them which I sent to the BBB. Scammers!

UPDATE 12/13/2015: Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks Bonanza is terrible. Look at the negative reviews! What's funnier is that the Bonanza rep responds to all of them with the exact same cut and paste response, which is a total lie. I did go to the BBB - See my remarks about it above. This is one terrible company. I bet their rating with the BBB is a scam too. I'll bet you any amount of money that they themselves are filing complaints with the BBB and then resolving them. Why do I say this? Because everywhere else online, they have awful reviews - like terrible! But it just so happens they have an A+ rating with the BBB? Lies!

Date of experience: August 31, 2015

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Bonanza has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Thumbnail of user kenr38
Arizona
1 review
12 helpful votes
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February 2nd, 2016

If you want to be disappointed with a site and you are on Bonanza you have found it.

Date of experience: February 2, 2016

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Bonanza has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Thumbnail of user mathews21
New York
1 review
11 helpful votes
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July 9th, 2015

Is very bad company no replay to any of email is not safe to buy from them

Date of experience: July 9, 2015

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Bonanza has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Thumbnail of user josephs1881
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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May 5th, 2021

I will say that when I had opened an account with this company that I was hoping for a better experience. I was so wrong to assume that, some time last week (writing this on the 5th of May), I made an account, got paypal and everything set up and ready to go. I was setting a "booth," or a listing, and it made mention that it was for review and could take a couple of days. 3 or 4 day go by, and I try to log back in, which doing so led me back to the home page with the message, "logout successful." I was so confused by this and tried again and again, with the same message showing up. I tried resetting my password, which like most websites, requires you to go ahead and put your email down. I did so, and I had done so on Sunday, and nothing shows up in my inbox. I waited a couple of days, and contacted their support, and a few hours later I had received this, "Thank you for contacting us. Our system is preventing us from opening an account on Bonanza for you at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. It is our priority to keep Bonanza the safest possible marketplace for our buyers and sellers to use. Due to security restrictions, our team is unable to provide further details involved with this action.

Fortunately, we are able to recommend a few great alternatives such as ioffer(dot)com or ecrater.com, both of which have strong monthly traffic and a good base of buyers and sellers. EBid(dot)net is a good site for those who wish to deal in the auction format."
I was baffled and completely shocked, I then take to the internet today, to look this up and I had just found out that, this is what they send to those suspended, or deactivated. I had just barely set things up on their site, just about to make a listing, to just get banned for no reason explained, leaving it up to you to find your mistake through their guidelines. I'm not sure still what I have done, and I doubt they'll tell me (just tried to reach out on why this was the cause), but at least give a warning, that's all I ask. This really does drive me away from this site, and if it does for you, and if at all this is making you re-think this site, run while you can. Very interesting way to do business, best to use a different website, or you'll get the same fate I suppose.

Tip for consumers:
stay away, or be highly cautious

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couldn't use a single product, got banned on my second day.

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Date of experience: May 5, 2021

Thumbnail of user cherry
New Jersey
1 review
9 helpful votes
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July 22nd, 2015

The order was shipped on time, good quality, will order again.

Date of experience: July 21, 2015

Thumbnail of user jeffreys470
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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July 9th, 2019

Ordered an item, needed refund, no answers. Terrible. Not again. No.

Date of experience: July 9, 2019

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Hi Jeffrey S., sorry to hear about the trouble finding assistance with your order. If you haven't already done so, please send an email to our support team at support@bonanza.com. They are best able to assist through that channel and will be glad to help!

If you've already sent an email to our support team but did not receive a reply, please DM us here with your email address. We'll be glad to help connect you with our support team.

We appreciate you shopping on Bonanza!

Thumbnail of user melanieh215
Mississippi
1 review
4 helpful votes
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May 8th, 2020

WORKING WITH PAYPAL TO GET MY MONEY BACK

DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT BUY FROM BONANZA

THEY TAKE MONEY NO PRODUCT ID SENT THEN THEY GHOST

Date of experience: May 8, 2020

Thumbnail of user joycer18
Texas
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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November 5th, 2015

Easy to navigate, easy to purchase and great communication.

Date of experience: November 5, 2015

Thumbnail of user shajuanp
Ohio
1 review
4 helpful votes
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December 26th, 2014

Never received my package, ripped off. Would not recommend using these vendors. Rip offs.

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Date of experience: December 26, 2014

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Jackson B. – Bonanza Rep

Bonanza has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

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Bonanza has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and actively monitors and assists all inbound queries that are submitted via the Better Business Bureau. If you can please direct your inquiry via the BBB we will do everything we can to assist.

Business History

Bonanza was launched in June of 2008.

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Jackson B.
Bonanza Support
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Welcome to Bonanza! Bonanza is like an online shopping mall that connects buyers and sellers from all over the world to transact directly.

If you have questions about a particular item prior to purchase, you'll want to contact the seller directly on Bonanza. Visit the item description page and click 'Send a message' (labeled 'Message' on mobile).

If you have questions or trouble with an existing order, you can contact the seller directly from your order summary. Log into your Bonanza account and hover your mouse over the 'Account' tab at the top left of the site, then click 'Recent Purchases' from the dropdown menu. Scroll down to your order summary and click the link at the bottom labeled 'Contact Seller'.

If our support team can be of assistance, please feel free to contact us anytime via email at support@bonanza.com and we'll be happy to help.

Thanks for being part of the Bonanza community!

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