This app is a mess
Update July 2026: PLEASE MAKE THE JERKING STOP!!!! You fix it, then fix something else which makes it jerk again. Please hire someone with even a fraction of a modicum of Apple iOS knowledge! I don’t use my computer to bid.
Original review: If you want people to buy, you can’t have the screen continually jumping up and down, yanking the photos or the auction out of your view! Makes one nauseated to look at it!
Update Spring 2026: Also you could make the title a bit smaller because you can’t see the whole picture let alone any of the description as you are browsing through the lists. We don’t need to see AUCTION TITLE AT WHATEVER TOWN in GIGANTIC LETTERS - At the top taking up half the screen - we know what auction we picked to browse! Maybe get someone who *knows* about about iOS to work on it? Ugh.
Original review: If you want people to buy, you can’t have the screen continually jumping up and down, yanking the photos or the auction out of your view! Makes one nauseated to look at it!
Update Spring 2026: Also you could make the title a bit smaller because you can’t see the whole picture let alone any of the description as you are browsing through the lists. We don’t need to see AUCTION TITLE AT WHATEVER TOWN in GIGANTIC LETTERS - At the top taking up half the screen - we know what auction we picked to browse! Maybe get someone who *knows* about about iOS to work on it? Ugh.
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Was decent; now it’s broken
Update: apparently, the developers have zero interest in fixing this mess of an app, as the few responses I’ve read to the recent updates that is causing so many crashes is along the lines of “so glad to hear you are happy with the app”. Perhaps, if we reviewed in zeros and ones instead of words, which seem to be confusing you, you would comprehend that no one is happy right now and your app is BROKEN?!
I’m deleting this app now, and ATTN, CT BIDS: I will not be using or recommending your sales until you have fixed this mess. The website is also a mess now. Maybe you need to spend some of those 18% profits on a new web and app designer? Really disappointing.
The website is much easier to use than the app, but the app was good for quick searches or monitoring your bids on the go. A few weeks ago, that all changed. Now the app opens for a split second, and then closes. I’ve tried deleting and redownloading the app, switching to the app from the website, and both options had the same results. It shows a “check Internet connection” message at the top of the CT Bods Home Screen on the app, and then codes out quickly. This occurs, regardless of WiFi connection strength, so that message is actually an error as well.
The good news is that I didn’t realize how much I was using the app, and now that I can’t open it, I rarely bid on anything, so that’s a money saver for me. But I really enjoyed the auction site, so it’s sad that they broke the app.
I’m deleting this app now, and ATTN, CT BIDS: I will not be using or recommending your sales until you have fixed this mess. The website is also a mess now. Maybe you need to spend some of those 18% profits on a new web and app designer? Really disappointing.
The website is much easier to use than the app, but the app was good for quick searches or monitoring your bids on the go. A few weeks ago, that all changed. Now the app opens for a split second, and then closes. I’ve tried deleting and redownloading the app, switching to the app from the website, and both options had the same results. It shows a “check Internet connection” message at the top of the CT Bods Home Screen on the app, and then codes out quickly. This occurs, regardless of WiFi connection strength, so that message is actually an error as well.
The good news is that I didn’t realize how much I was using the app, and now that I can’t open it, I rarely bid on anything, so that’s a money saver for me. But I really enjoyed the auction site, so it’s sad that they broke the app.
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Incredibly unreliable.
I waited for 9 days for a group of auctions to end, they ended today so I went to place bids, app wouldn’t load, the page come up and then closed immediately, every single time. I restarted my phone to see if it’s my phone, nope. After about 5 minutes of trying, it opens, then it shows that I have no favorite auctions listed, which I do, quite a few.
So thanks to this app I missed the auctions I patiently waited in for 9 days on items that were incredibly hard to find that I was willing to spend quite a lot of money on. Every single item in the group that I was watching ended before the app started working again.
I also tried the website, it had issues as well. And I screen recorded all of this because I’m sure I’ll be told it was my phone. It wasn’t, I recorded and internet speed test to show it was working pert.
So thanks to this app I missed the auctions I patiently waited in for 9 days on items that were incredibly hard to find that I was willing to spend quite a lot of money on. Every single item in the group that I was watching ended before the app started working again.
I also tried the website, it had issues as well. And I screen recorded all of this because I’m sure I’ll be told it was my phone. It wasn’t, I recorded and internet speed test to show it was working pert.
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Will not launch
Downloaded 3x to iPhone 17 pro and the app refuses to open. It attempts to launch but as it lands to sign in page it crashes every time
Crashes at the worst time - Zero Stars
Once again the ap crashes at the end of an auction while trying to place bid. Not the first time. Other auction sites managed to figure how this works. Why can’t CTBIDS???
