madbid

OlliesDad

RHemmings wrote: »

Oh, and personally I'm suspicious of a Daily Hate journalist winning the IPad. It could have happened by chance, but I wonder if madbid.com knew that a journalist was experimenting with the system, and did something to make sure that they won.

It's not actually a Daily Mail article at all.. there is a link to an advert at the bottom of the actual DM news articles that is made to look like it is just another article.

Pollycat

Jellytots831 wrote: »

I saw an article in the daily mail on Tuesday about this editor
Who didn't believe that you could truly "win" the stuff so cheap
And she went on it signed up used a trial thing and bam got an iPad
For £25... I thought I could do with that so I started signing up for this trial just to have a look and the trial required my card details

I've searched the Daily Mail website - way further back than last Tuesday - and can't see any article about madbid, but maybe it's just a small article.

I think the moral of this story is that if something looks and sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
And also best to do some research before giving your financial details out.

Jellytots831 wrote: »

I had never heard of this until I started trying to find reviews of them or indeed the original article I read once

Even if they state something vague in the terms and conditions which I have since read surely charging 40 randomly should be something they have to make clear not only that it says it will charge it when you fall below a certain credit limit...

As Browntoa suggests, if you really think their advertising is misleading, report them.

You can't report them direct to Trading Standards, you need to do it through CAB.
Phone number is on this link:
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/advice/index.cfm

I'm not sure if there is anything you can do to get your money back but I suspect it's a harsh lesson you have learned.

Pollycat

OlliesDad wrote: »

It's not actually a Daily Mail article at all.. there is a link to an advert at the bottom of the actual DM news articles that is made to look like it is just another article.

I'm not surprised by that.

Pollycat wrote: »

Are you sure it was actually an article or was it an ad?

OlliesDad
Do you have a link to that?

marliepanda

I saw an advert for it a few years back with Fiat 500's going for a £1.

I immediately thought 'why? What's the catch' and very quickly found out it costs you to bid, hence why they sell things so cheap as they've already got way above the market price from the bids. Yes someone might get lucky but not very likely...

It's do obviously a 'catch' but it's not a scam.

OlliesDad

Pollycat wrote: »

I'm not surprised by that.


OlliesDad
Do you have a link to that?

The links rotate at the bottom of the articles.. the title above them says "From the web". For example on this sports article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2605883/Wayne-Rooney-behaves-streets-Manchester-just-days-three-United-players-fined.html

I get a link with the title "Crazy online trick to save 80%" that goes to this page:

http://megabargain24.com/how-to-save-on-an-ipad-or-iphone-5/?KW=DSPTBL&CAMP=A33

brendon

I was tempted to say that MadBid was not at fault here, because I visited the website a few years ago and it was quite clear that the website was a penny auction site. It was clear that you have to purchase bids, and so was essentially a form of gambling. And, it looked like fun.

However, having visited the new website, I am shocked. There is absolutely no mention of it being a penny auction website, and everything is presented as if it was a regular auction. I can understand why people would be mislead by this, particularly with MadBid being a TV-advertised brand. If what they are doing isn't illegal, it should be.

Pollycat

OlliesDad wrote: »

The links rotate at the bottom of the articles.. the title above them says "From the web". For example on this sports article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2605883/Wayne-Rooney-behaves-streets-Manchester-just-days-three-United-players-fined.html

I get a link with the title "Crazy online trick to save 80%" that goes to this page:

http://megabargain24.com/how-to-save-on-an-ipad-or-iphone-5/?KW=DSPTBL&CAMP=A33

I've looked at the last link and can see why Jellytots831 was caught out.

The article (I can't see anywhere where it says it's an ad) is written by Elsabeth Morgan and at the bottom it says "Elisabeth Morgan is Deputy Editor and responsible for the shopping and new trends topics. For questions and suggestions can be reached by email."

Do we really believe she paid £28.22 for an iPad?
And then a MacBook Pro for £79.22?
Fairly - in competition with lots of other bidders?

And should we believe that a Deputy Editor of a national daily newspaper has been hankering after this item 'for so long'?

I started with a bid on the item I’d wanted for so long… a brand, spanking new iPad.

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Get Adblock Plus. Then you wont see these useless ads.

keyser666

Pollycat wrote: »

I've looked at the last link and can see why Jellytots831 was caught out.

The article (I can't see anywhere where it says it's an ad) is written by Elsabeth Morgan and at the bottom it says "Elisabeth Morgan is Deputy Editor and responsible for the shopping and new trends topics. For questions and suggestions can be reached by email."

Do we really believe she paid £28.22 for an iPad?
And then a MacBook Pro for £79.22?
Fairly - in competition with lots of other bidders?

And should we believe that a Deputy Editor of a national daily newspaper has been hankering after this item 'for so long'?

The second link is advertising site for madbid constructed to look like a website that moneysaves on numerous things but if you look only a few articles placed since 8th feb but more madbid articles than others

Domelo

Man, I've been using AB+ ad blocker internet explorer and chrome extensions, but they disappointed me a lot somewhere in March. I am now using adguard.com's ad blocking software and had no issue of ads so far.