Well Bargainland used to be one of the largest sellers on ebay, and it did so not under some controversy. As everything they sold and still sell was lost, unclaimed or otherwise abandoned freight the volume of listings is huge and the quality of descriptions at times lacking.

When they stopped selling on ebay their rating was something in the low 90% range, this was due to a number of things, the quality of their merchandise, people not reading the entire description, ebays lack of being able to handle their entire my ebay page which made it impossible to easily follow up with buyer questions and complains, and lastly people excepting more then they would get from a seller selling lost, damaged and abandoned freight.

The current Bidtopia has a few significant differences to ebay auctions, first and foremost you obviously do not have ebay/paypal protection and are left to directly take it up with them. 2nd the auctions do not end at a set time, if there is a bid in the last 60 seconds the auction is extended by 60 seconds. Hence sniping doesn't work and you have to check over and over if you actually won. I presume this measure was put into place to drive the price to ebay sale levels which where lost on them. Early listings finished at fractions of ebay listings hence this measure insures everyone can get a bid in.

Checkout with PayPal is basicly the same, my main caution is that basicly you are getting the same quality goods as before and people still aspect better things then they are really getting .... their slogan Don't Blame the Platypus still holds true.

Lastly it also didn't help when they just started up their warehouse in TN caught fire and burned down.