Is opalauctions.com Safe?

The owners of the auction site and the top sellers have personal relationships and some are even related. The site is located in Australia and they have questionable relations with some of the Australian sellers that result in serious ethical violations such as deleting and altering customer/buyer ratings that are deemed unsatisfactory. For example, a buyer may have left a Negative or Neutral rating after a purchase and those sellers that have personal relationships with the site's owners or administrators, will contact the site to have the bad ratings removed and replaced with a positive rating WITHOUT the customers comsent or knowledge. Comments from customers with a Negative experience are sometimes DELETED by the site's administrators without the customers consent. Opening a Service Ticket to question the unethical and immoral adjustments from customers will result in ignored requests and administors will even send notices of Ticket Closures to indicate the issue is resolved in their attempts to disregard the issue. Very corrupt back patting and pocket lining from the close associations with the family and friends who sell on this site. A quick online investigation using online sources such as the site's About us section and their Facebook page shows the family connections to all aspects of the site and the extended family ties to online businesses selling on Opalauctions.com. A corrupt and unethical site with altered Seller ratings. Do not open an account or buy. Sellers wishing to register their stores with the site face a losing battle to the sellers related to the site's owners. Stay away.