Salvex is not worth your time --trust real reviews The 5-star reviews here do not reflect my experience. In my opinion, this company is a joke and is scamming people. Would you want real money you wired contingent on inspection to be turned into a digital IOU “credit” without your permission after they admit the goods were “sold by the owner”? That’s exactly what happened to me. My Salvex account still shows an unauthorized $15,229 “credit” tied to a lot of 500 SKF bearings from a wire I sent in December 2024 (I have screenshots). I have no goods and no refund. How Salvex works (from my experience): This is nothing like eBay. Buyers do not know who the seller is and never deal with them directly. You deal only with Salvex staff in the middle. Their “office” phone goes to an answering service. I made multiple calls, left messages, and never got a real Salvex person to resolve anything. When I asked the answering service when anyone from “accounting” would be in, they couldn’t tell me any time or date or explain how this could be a real office number if nothing is ever handled. Their advertised office is in a downtown Houston high-rise with shared/virtual offices. I sat in that building for about two hours in December 2024. The call center told me Salvex staff were “in a meeting” and would come down. The building staff later told me the doors on that floor were locked and the lights were off. In my opinion, it felt like a paper presence, not a real operating office. Timeline of my experience: Early December 2024 – My bid for the bearings was accepted contingent on me inspecting them in person. Mid-December 2024 – I wired $15,229 to Salvex in good faith, to be held until inspection. A few days later – I flew to Texas with my young son and rented a vehicle to go inspect. I was never given an inspection address, never saw the bearings, never received any goods. Shortly after – A Salvex rep emailed that the bearings had been “sold by the owner” and my refund would be marked urgent. I wired funds contingent on inspecting goods Salvex represented as available. I have never been able to verify that the goods existed or were available as advertised, and Salvex has never provided proof of any legitimate sale. To this day, I still do not know if the goods were real. In January 2025, I emailed a legal demand asking for my $15,229 to be returned to my bank account. My tracking records show it was opened multiple times. Nearly a year later, I still have no goods and no refund—only an internal “credit” I never agreed to at any time. Looking back, it would be very easy for someone to post a high-value listing, act as a middleman, take a wire, and then tell the buyer “the owner sold it” while keeping the money. I’m not saying that’s what happens every time, but that is how my experience feels. I have filed a police report, opened a financial crimes case, and filed a federal online fraud complaint. Date of my experience: December 2024 – almost a full year of chasing my own money. In my opinion, regulators should be looking very hard at this platform. I will never do business with Salvex again.

Date of experience: 09 November, 2025