There are two operating auctions in Lithuania today. But real purchasing rarely occurs here.

There are two operating auctions in Lithuania today. And aukcionai.lt should perhaps be considered as the leading one. This is the biggest auction in Lithuania where more than 5 thousands users are registered. Offered products are divided into categories, users have their ratings. Traditional and English auctions, also the auction of the fixed price are offered. Another large auction where 4 thousands of users are registered is pirk.lt has its own advantages and peculiarities: more coloured design, interesting categories (prompt auctions, particular auctions), discussion club, special everyday offers. And there is one more auction called in English MONEY.LT , not so large, where one can purchase only one or few products.

Perhaps the most serious problem concerning Lithuanian auctions is that here the merchant and the purchaser only get acquainted with each other. Real purchasing rarely occurs hear. The merchants announce they are only intermediaries and are not responsible for the quality or timely payments. Furthermore, if the auction occurs this doesn’t mean that an agreement is made. This is because often when a merchant and purchaser meet together one of them lays down their own new conditions or sometimes refuse to buy or sell the product at all. And now some words about the imperfections of each.

Ratings system of the website aukcionai.lt is very suspicious. Only total index of ratings of the participant is shown; negative opinions are shown after positive or neutral, so they mostly remain unnoticed; one user may vote more than once. Thus, there is a high probability that large ratings index is artificially made.

In the rules you may read that it is forbidden to register more than once. But the comments that some registrations under different names occurred are ignored.
Besides, though the rating index of the user is very low (-6 for instance) he is not excluded from the list of participants.

Though the ratings system of Pirk.lt is better managed: here artificial clicks are excluded and one user has only one vote, users of the website are not very active in giving their evaluations. That’s why it is difficult to evaluate potential buyer and seller at all. How can one value if, for example, only few participants of the auction are evaluated by only one comment?
This is very unusual that while registering in the auction such information as personal code must be entered when the security is not so safe.
Differently from the auctions in the website aukcionai.lt where e-mail of the user is available only to the concrete participants of the website in this page every user is allowed to view it.
Some statements in the rules and advertising contradict each other. Some of the participants claim just mentioned auction is “more expensive”. Prices there are almost the same as in the shops. And if the price doesn’t reach the needed level it is refused to sell the product at all.

As the administrators of the both networks haven’t answer to inquiries given by e-mail, we can judge only at the base of our own experience and opinions of the users.