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I think this is a bit scam anyhow. It is very hard to win an auction item, even if you have been trying several times to be the last bidder for certain items. I have been spending time and money at Swoopo (former Telebid) for some time now and no success yet.
I think this must be a good business for those who run the businesses. There seems to be an invasion to this business. Since last spring I found Swoopo, I have also found Yellmann.com and Madbid.com. There must be lost of people how are willing pay for the bids. I am no more one of them.0 -
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Took me over a month to receive my goods when I did win... and then they ran out of my winning item, so had to give me a different item! (Admittedly I agreed to this, but didn't have that much choice!)What shall I put here?
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Why agree to a different item? You should get the item you bid on! - how can they "run out" of something they have put up for auction? - unless they never owned it in the first place that is.... which seems highly likely....
Taking money for auction bids on an item you don't even have in stock is fraud, surely?
I'd be straight on to trading standards and demanding they give me the item I had bought, not some substitute...
It is the telebid/swoopo scammers problem if they can't get the item they sold you, not your problem!In the probably unlikely event that I actually post something of use to someone, an ickle vote of thanks would be much appreciated, in fact I might frame it and put it up on the wall next to my cycling proficiency certificate
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luvvabargin wrote: »Why agree to a different item? You should get the item you bid on! - how can they "run out" of something they have put up for auction? - unless they never owned it in the first place that is.... which seems highly likely....
Taking money for auction bids on an item you don't even have in stock is fraud, surely?
I'd be straight on to trading standards and demanding they give me the item I had bought, not some substitute...
It is the telebid/swoopo scammers problem if they can't get the item they sold you, not your problem!
Swoopo provides the items themself usually. They gave me "the next model up" which they reconed was a reasonable offer.
Although it still took about a month or more to arrive!
I have removed my Swoopo account in disgust!
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If swoope were really shipping the item from their own stock, it ought to have taken 2-3 days max, not over a month!
Oh well, I certainly shall not be registering an account with them, or the other similar dodgy scam auction sites where the goalpost constantly moves... especially as there is no way to tell if you are bidding against a real person or a bot.In the probably unlikely event that I actually post something of use to someone, an ickle vote of thanks would be much appreciated, in fact I might frame it and put it up on the wall next to my cycling proficiency certificate0 -
one of my friends mentioned this to me
http://www.swoopo.co.uk/auction/ps3-playstation-3-sony-console-80gb-hdd/122206.html
and was like, where's the catch, what a great deal
so with 0.1 seconds to go, you pay £0.50 for your bid, plus the price the item ends at, but no! the auction will automatically extend itself to 8 minutes from now if someone places a bid, soo, 22.82 for a PS3, and it's got there in increments of 0.07, so people have spent £163.00 on bids already, and if people continue bidding, the item will end on the 27th of December at the latest, likely having made swoopo thousands! great concept they've got going there lol. Even worse, there's a built in automated "bid butler" to bid automatically upto a maximum price (this forgets the fact each bid costs 50p regardless of if you win or not, and you can't bid "late" 'cos the auction will just keep extending itself til the end of '08.
They've got another incentive to excite bidders "100% off" where you don't pay the final price for the item, just the cost of your bid. On these auctions people happily pay much more than the indicated RRP, which simply means there's tons more bids making the company 50p each lol.0 -
Its a brilliant scam - you have to give them credit where its due! ... I'm just amazed that after watching the thing for a few minutes that *anyone* would waste their money on it!
I hope your friend came to their senses quickly??In the probably unlikely event that I actually post something of use to someone, an ickle vote of thanks would be much appreciated, in fact I might frame it and put it up on the wall next to my cycling proficiency certificate0 -
A fool and his money.......
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Anglingman wrote: »Bamber, I am not at all involved with Telebid, frankly I wish I was ! The final bid price is often NOT the price that is actually paid, items that "sell" for large "auction" prices are invariably 100% or fixed price auctions, don't confuse the screen price with the sale price they are very much different. Yes, I agree they are making extraordinary amounts of money. But it is legal and people being people it will continue. Like you I get disillusioned when I bid and spend money but don't win an item, I have yet to win anything however Telebids future is secure as peoples greed will always bring both new customers and retain the old ones. Unless legislation changes to control auctions, which I don't believe it will then Telebid will thrive. It would be interesting to find out just how many people have complained about the site.
Like all things the simple ideas are often the most effective, I wish I had thought of it, then I would not be sitting here writing on a money saving forum !
Probably not on the boardbut definately scouring forums & replying to feedback.
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