has anyone won on swoopo? merged

abargainhunter

I was told about this site by an employee( who was unsuccessful)and I've been watching couple of days now, looking at digital cameras. Previous blogger's advice to just observe a while and suss out how it works. Seems to me there's only two partie whi will come out of this satisfied; 1) the winner, having bagger a bargain, to a geater or lesser extent, and of course 2) SWOOPO, having not only been paid by the winner, the sale winning price plus all bids, but also for every unsuccessful bid the doxens and dozens of "loosers" have made @ 50p over an auction period time which could theoretically last for weeks.
You only have to look at the front page and watch the items ending soon have the finishing time relentlessly extended and consider how many additional bids have been made. Are these last second bids genuine of just the site robots keeping the auction going???It's been seen before!
How many times do you try to win different examples of the same item before you realise that with competitors across the globe bidding for the same item you've actually very little chance of winning. You could spend hundreds bidding for nothing.
The front page even shows a couple of auctions for 300 bids, so you're bidding for bids. Madness?? Addiction?? you decide.
The very vast majority of bidders are going to waste their money and time chasing an item and loosing. Don't waste time loosing the bid-fest, just find it on e-bay, at least you know what your getting.
Would you pay per bid at a real auction? Of course you wouldn't, the suggestion would cause a riot. This site is absolutely raking it in at the expense of a lot of people who are looking for a bargain because the need one, not because they have money to burn on bidding. The site/process isn't illegal but it's certainly unethical.
Good insight, isn't it though, into the mindset of the few winners who trumpet their success without really appreciating the bigger picture of the position of all those who lost out at no little expense. We all like to see a winning format and keen business sense, but I don't like to see the little man hammered to line the pockets of the greedy.

dacouch

Its seems to be a another poor tax

dacouch

I believe Scoopo was inspired by how the American and British Bankers "invested" their banks money in the American Subprime marke...or maybe the banks came up with a great way to make money, they decided to bid on Scoopo and make money that way.

brightonman123

is this any different to the various auction bid channels on tv?

extrasafe

12:09pm – Charleville
12:08pm – echap
12:07pm – matt4820
12:07pm – jake1962
12:06pm – luken
12:05pm – Charleville
12:04pm – echap
12:03pm – matt4820
12:02pm – jake1962
12:02pm – luken
12:01pm – Charleville

These were the last few bids on Madbid and has been this way for a while, other than a couple odd ones here and there who seem to be genuine bidders. These are definitely bots.

milfhunter

I read on here the true definition of these sites.

A tax on the stupid.

chrisb1983

extrasafe wrote: »

12:09pm – Charleville
12:08pm – echap
12:07pm – matt4820
12:07pm – jake1962
12:06pm – luken
12:05pm – Charleville
12:04pm – echap
12:03pm – matt4820
12:02pm – jake1962
12:02pm – luken
12:01pm – Charleville

These were the last few bids on Madbid and has been this way for a while, other than a couple odd ones here and there who seem to be genuine bidders. These are definitely bots.

lol if that is for the ford focus, have a look at the bid history now, morer than 1 week later:

11:30pm – Charleville
11:30pm – luken
11:29pm – Charleville
11:29pm – luken
11:28pm – Charleville
11:27pm – luken
11:26pm – Charleville
11:26pm – luken
11:25pm – Charleville
11:24pm – luken
11:23pm – Charleville

That is obviously bots, and if it is, then that is fraud by madbid... full stop

bargainbuyer123

in response to the original question - not swoopo, but I just won on spree4, £50 amazon vouchers for £38. not a massive saving, but I'm ok with that. There's some quality items on there