Catawiki Reviews

Name: Catawiki
Rating: 1.30

1.3 Rating 691 Reviews

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1.3

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Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time	Over 7 Days
On-time Delivery	Greater than 36%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 44%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.2 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult
Returns Process	Could Be Better

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Catawiki 1 star review on 16th October 2025

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Catawiki 1 star review on 12th September 2025

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Catawiki 1 star review on 11th June 2025

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Catawiki 1 star review on 5th April 2025

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Catawiki 1 star review on 14th January 2025

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Won two lots from the same seller. Seller doesn’t agree with the price he gets for the lots. I then get my orders cancelled by Catawiki. Absolute trash customer service. They don’t respond to email and their chat function is terrible. The customer service is rude and dismissive and just ignores the blatant lies of the expert who covered up the cancellation under false pretenses. If you don’t want to sell under an amount, set a reserve price. Don’t cancel after the auction, break the agreement, and make the buyer email, chat and be frustrated just to get his money back, and waste all this time. Absolute trash.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I would not use this auction company. They don't prominently disclose little things that prevent you from getting your item like, a $100 ring they claimed could not be sent to the United States and when I went to the trouble of having a friend potentially pick it up in Paris they put the wrong shipping label on it so he couldn't pick it up anyway. They finally refunded my money and I'll be done with them forever. I highly recommend not using this company. There are many other auction companies with better disclosures and procedures.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“account blocked, this is the real reason why your articles are never accepted, not because they are not good but because they are very likely to favor accounts or are more likely to be linked to them, otherwise they would have no problem. When you ask for explanations they make up everything and in the end they block your account so as not to bother you. French expert in wedding rings favors 3 unique French accounts to sell, same photos, same finger even if sometimes the expert has recently changed tactics, buys items on eBay and resells on Catawiki, Italian expert in decorative minerals favors three accounts, same photos, different sellers buys on eBay for little money and resells on Catawiki. .FALSE GUIDELINES CORRUPT CRIMINAL SITE DICTATORIAL MAFIA STYLE. HERE ARE THE PHOTOS. AND YOU CAN ALSO check yourself in person.”

Catawiki 1 star review on 20th September 2023

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Posted 2 years ago

“You already know perfectly what went wrong and your pretence at ignorance is fooling nobody. I purchased a Seiko watch on the basis of an "expert " opinion that the watch was in very good condition when it is totally unfair for purpose. You have refused completely to reply to my correspondence making complaint and demanding my money back in accordance with contract. Before you took my money you communicated with me freely and often. I have now read the many reviews from people who have had similar experience and a definite modus operandi is evident. I intend to take action alone, if necessary. I have a professional background over many years in the investigation of fraud and the regulation of service providers. In addition, I am proposing to urge fellow victims to take the following immediate steps: 1. Set up an independent website for victims free of access or control by Catawiki and its fake positive reviewers. 2. Make a joint complaint to Netherlands police. 3. Notify the police forces of domestic states for liaison purposes with Netherlands police on behalf of all all victims and prosecution of conspirators in their domestic jurisdictions . 4. Advise victims to notify MEPs in their domestic states of their complaints with a view to seeking strict and comprehensive EU regulation of online auction houses which is ineffective at present. Your questions below are ridiculous. I give less than O* rating for customer service. You have completely failed to reply to my queries. The Irish State has closed down and imprisoned fraudulent financial service providers as they were damaging Ireland's trading reputation just as Catawiki damages the good reputation of the Netherlands as a trading nation.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Worst customer service ever. Experts have no clue about the stuff you want to sell! Never ever again”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Complete scam. Complete scam. They send you broken items. You get a few hours to complain, then after over x amount of days you get a few hours to arrange return or they get to keep your money if you can't make 4 hours free of working hours to arrange the return of worthless broken items that they charged a minimum of almost 200 euros payment and the keep unless you find packing material and a printer before the courier is knocking Great gamble on their part.”

Catawiki 1 star review on 6th September 2023

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Posted 2 years ago

“I recently entered two antique oil lamps for auction on Catawiki. The lamps had years ago been bought for around 200 Euros each. I wanted to put in a reserve price, but was told that this was not possible and that the starting price should be set low to attract bidders. I trusted their advice, and the pieces were sold at a price of 1 Euro each! After the sale I received an e-mail asking if I was hungry for more. Needles to say I declined. This organisation is completely incompetent and I would strongly recommend against using them”

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Posted 2 years ago

“This is what Catawiki "experts" are! A joke.”

Catawiki 1 star review on 31st August 2023

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Posted 2 years ago

“Recently bought vintage watches from catawiki. Both stopped working outside of the three day payment window to seller. Both sold as in perfect working order. Catawiki support say they can do nothing, after the three days. Messaging sellers shut down after period so no comeback whatsoever. Avoid this platform. Spend your money somewhere they have protection and support for customers.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Catawiki is a scam. First they deleted bad review from VIP sellers outside the EU who are scamming customers. That is the best way to scam on this platform people allready paid the VAT and tax when importing it and they are not so eager to send ot back. They only can leave bad reviews on Catawiki Platform. Catawiki deleted this on request off the seller. No there is a new law you cannot delete it. They chang it into neutral. But every seller has a feedback score. With this bad sellers they donnot show their feedbackscore anymore because it is so bad. Catawiki is a bad compagny giving professional scammers a platform to earn money.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Απαράδεκτη πλατφόρμα. ΕΞΑΠΑΤΟΥΝ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ. Αγόρασα ένα δίσκο που σύμφωνα με την περιγραφή ήταν ασημένιος. Τον παρέλαβα και παρά τη σφραγίδα και την υπογραφή με γυμνό μάτι φαινόταν ότι δεν ήταν ασημένιος!!! Μου το επιβεβαίωσαν επιπλέον 3 αργυροχόοι στη συνέχεια. Ζήτησα τα χρήματα μου πίσω καθώς το προϊόν δεν ήταν Ασημένιο όπως αναφερόταν στην περιγραφή. Η πλατφόρμα ανέφερε ότι δεν μπορεί να κάνει τίποτα γι'αυτο και να επικοινωνήσω με τον πωλητή! Από τα 308 ευρώ που πλήρωσα ο πωλητής ανέφερε ότι αν του έστελνα πίσω το δίσκο μπορούσε να μου επιστρέψει 213!!! ΑΠΑΡΑΔΕΚΤΟΙ”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Trust me the staff at catawiki don’t have any real rules in place for anything , such as if a buyer refuses the parcel . I sent an item to Germany ( he refused ) they’re not paying me even tho they’ve had tracking and proof of address of receipts from me , because the buyer told them verbally it went the wrong address ( and offered no proof to back this claim ) they r took the word of of a buyer over proof of tracking ( incredibly bad service & zero seller protection ) This is just 1 example of things I can give many . EBay is light years ahead in every department.don’t waste your time unless you want to find out the hard way , it’s not safe and with no rules to follow themselves it makes it a very arduous process as youl get fobbed off by everyone you talk to if problems occur . Extremely poor service”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I have few and always just perfect experience with Catawiki. Have already purchased about 10 objects from different sellers. You can see sellers rewiews, so you can choose from whom you want to buy. Communication has always been very professional with both, Catawiki team when needed and also sellers. Definitely recommend !”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I would leave zero stars if possible. Their support is pretty bad and their sellers are incompetent. The seller filled out the shipping label listing the item weighing 128 grams instead of 1.8 grams thus causing an increase in the import VAT. CataWiki says the form was correctly filled in because they know nothing.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“parcel did not come because seller set incorrect phone number. Parcel go back to seller and no refund was provided. -395 euro. I opened claim with bank and open police claim for scamming... will for for them to punish BTW - my reviews on their website they delete. All other review websites - only negative reviews.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Catawiki est le Roi... le Roi des Arnaqueurs !! Avis négatifs modifiés, avis d'experts sans queue ni tête, compte bani dès qu'on les contre... ce site est malhonnête au possible!”

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Posted 2 years ago

“This website is completely corrupted. I found that sellers are asking shipping cost which some time more than even double the items. When I check to sell an item I found Catawiki offers a shiping cost much less than when you are going to buy an item. Also, I found that this website always gave preference to some perticular sellers and when you gave a feedback they delete it ignoring the facts. So, not all the sellers here are authentic. All products mentioned in the websites are fake and forgery. I think a legal action against this website must be taken.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I have had no issues at all selling or buying on Catawiki . I’m a fairly new to the site , but all items I’ve won have been delivered in good condition . I have sold an assortment of items again no issues . I had a problem last week , I had not added worldwide postage to 6 items . I contacted customer service , by the end of the day they had pulled them off auction and let me edit and add worldwide shipping . They then put them back in to Auction . So honestly in have got no negatives to say about them .”

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Posted 2 years ago

“1. If you bid with under 60 seconds remaining, Catawiki, automatically tacks on another 1:30 seconds. Is that legal? Certainly, highly unethical. 2. I placed a Maximum Bid with 10 seconds left. Catawiki reset the Bid Clock to 1:30 seconds and automatically took my Maximum Bid even though nobody else had bid since I placed it. They will take the Maximum Bid and not increase in set increments. So, you cannot bid and forget it, they will immediately take that Maximum Bid. They present it as increasing in increments but that is not the case. Fraudulent? Certainly, highly unethical. This is a corrupt auction/bid house. Be very careful!”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I've sold several items on Catawiki without any problem and would like to put some negative remarks from other persons in perspective (I'm not affiliated with Catawiki in any way). 1. The "experts" have to assess the products offered online, they can't touch or feel the objects. This fundamentally makes evaluation of some products hard if not impossible 2. Likewise, as a buyer only online assessment is possible with all it's drawbacks. Some items need to be assessed in person. Personally, I would never buy a car or expensive item without being able to see it in person first. The whole online thing is totally different from real person-to-person trades and a buyer should bid according to the extra risks - not on assumptions that everything is fine just because an expert has assessed the stuff. The expert just can't asses properly through online pictures only. If online wasn't possible, many items wouldn't even been available for buyers. About the shipping costs: a buyer should check shipping costs and again not assume things. Catawiki allows bidding from all over the world. I have items I don't want to ship to certain countries because shipping to those countries is unreliable or insurance is impossible. Therefor for those countries I specify very high costs on purpose to discourage bids from there. Reaction times from Catawiki support are indeed slow. However all my questions were answered eventually. Finally, Catawiki is for special products with collector value. The reason why I've ditched eBay for those products is that eBay support is 10 times worse than Catawiki, at least for me here in Europe, and that eBay doesn't seem to have the right exposure anymore for this kind of products. eBay has become a sort of Amazon for run-of-the-mill consumer stuff.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Catawiki is rated 1.3 based on 691 reviews