I’m guilty! I’ve done a lot of them lol and to be honest I’ve never really got burnt there’s one exception but I’ll get to that.
eBay I’ve had fantastic luck with kastons corals, fb I’ve done coral garage, clean cut corals, corals r us, Long Island corals, our own sponsor
@CrazyCorals does typically two a year, and lastly apex aquatics (avoid). All except the last had great looking corals packed well and shipped on time and as expected. Some but not all are willing to hold orders for a week or multiple so you can hop in their next auction and fill your box some more so the shipping charge doesn’t hurt so much and you get more bang for your buck. I have got some fantastic deals for corals through auctions but as stated most of them you need to be up when they end to bid last minute and get the steal.
Now the exception apex aquatics I won some items and it was middle of summer she’s in Texas and said she didn’t cover doa when temps are over 100 ok fair enough hold it till it cools off. That was 2-3 months until it was cool enough the corals that did arrive that I won in the auction looked in poor shape and I was missing a few items on top of that and got a green hammer instead of a gold. She has since gone under is my understanding and burned quite a few people I still got majority of my order but still to this day am out $80 I think. Clearly didn’t stop me from trying again and buying online/fb and that was my only negative experience.
Happy bidding don’t steal my corals!!