Swoggi penny auction site or scam?

soolin

mellee wrote: »

My first knowledge of Swoggi came from a blog from none other than Martin Lewis, founder of MSE.
Martin's experience was favourable having successfully won on 2 out of 2 bids. He did point out that your chance of winning increases significantly when you are bidding for less popular items e.g food blender rather than Iphone 7.
However - that does not seem to be an experience shared by the majority of forum members. On that basis I think I will avoid Swoggi. and any similar bid sites
Remember one thing - If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Martin has not endorsed Swoggi, you were on a look a like site , probably moneysaving 360. If you are using the internet you must be careful when using sites set up to mislead people, they rely on people not bothering to actually look at the site properly, and to just assume they are on a legit site.

RHemmings

mellee wrote: »

My first knowledge of Swoggi came from a blog from none other than Martin Lewis, founder of MSE.
Martin's experience was favourable having successfully won on 2 out of 2 bids. He did point out that your chance of winning increases significantly when you are bidding for less popular items e.g food blender rather than Iphone 7.
However - that does not seem to be an experience shared by the majority of forum members. On that basis I think I will avoid Swoggi. and any similar bid sites
Remember one thing - If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

I don't believe that Martin ever blogged about Swoggi. There was a site which pretended to be MSE, I think it was called 'moneyexpert.com', but this had nothing to do with Martin.

EDIT: Distracted after I started posting and then beaten to it.

Andrew_Marshalleck

The address they use i fake . After being told by paypal i didnt have a leg to stand on i almost lost it but then i remembered that the verifcation screen didnt show i was about to spend moey. So i told paypal that the customer was able to have paypal at a dodgy address but when i wanted to sell something i had to forward id before they would let me also the verificaton screen was blank so that only means paypal has been hacked that being said either they or you (paypal) are at fault now give me my money.by the tine i logged into my online bank the funds were returned

rosina40

Got the same problem. Major scammers.

rosina40

I saw the same blog promoting it and thought I would give it a try.
However I didn`t I didn`t finish the registration, having second thoughts and had it completed for me. I thought the credits were to pay for goods. It is a scam. I enquired about getting my money back and they said I could cancel by email and they would keep £15.00. So I said leave it I will use it rather than have it stolen too only to find I don`t have an account. Con artists

bxboards

This site and others have had their ads. banned

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/feb/22/auction-sites-ads-banned-claims-madbid-asa

diatkine

Hi
A POSITIVE OUTCOME :j
I'll sum up my case: I paid 28£ for an auction. Got debitted 2x28£. I first asked to be refunded for 28£. They replied they couldn't but would double my credits as an apology. Then they said I could cancel the whole transaction, but that they'd keep 15£ for processing my record. I asked for a full refund. In the meantime I had tried their auction system, and realized it was a scam. So They said that since I "used my credits" I couldn't be refunded.
I had to fill 2 different reclamations through Paypal, for the 2 payments. I didn't fill the 1st correctly, saying I didn't receive the item I purchased. Swoggi said they had provided the service I paid for, and Paypal closed the case in their favour. For the 2nd, I said the service was not conform. It worked for the 2nd. That was very quick. I phoned paypal, I phone them and asked that they'd reopen the case, which they did. I explained everything, and especially that this website is uses robots to keep the auctions permanent. THey also told me if they notice a large amount of reclamations regarding this website, they'll suspend their partnership with them.
Conclusion : send as many reclamations you can, and describe your issue precisely. You'll get a refund, and they'll ban Swoggy.
Also, write to any website that advertises for them.

ballisticbrian

I don't know how the directors sleep at night worrying what people might do to them. Surely if they have brains they could think up a legitimate way to make money?

DoraB2

Hi, I was caught by the advert from Money Expert extolling the virtues of swoggi.com but thought I would check it out first - so glad I did. I went back to Money Expert and thought I would contact them from their web page and this is a copy of the email I have sent them - I think it is disgusting the way they feel they have the right to dupe people.

"I actually thought I was contacting Money Expert as the contact link was on their web page but, lo and behold, it is actually swoggi.com

I am so glad I researched swoggi.com beforehand as everything points to this being a scam. Several years ago, I was caught by a company called MadBid.Com and every time, and I mean every time, I got to 1 second of winning an item, a bid would be entered leaving me no time to rebid and I would lose my credits and the auction – the strange thing was that it was always one of the same 3 people who made the final bid. I did complain to the company and was told they would put the money I had spent on credits and offset it against the actual price of the item which I could then purchase for that price!!!!! Even with automatic bidding, I was always outbid no matter how high my maximum bid. I must admit, I did fall for it for some time and wasted quite a bit of money until I realised what was happening and noticed the link between the time of the winning bid and the winning bidder.

As one person says, this is not a shopping experience this is pure and simply gambling and should be placed on a gambling site.

I feel you should remove the web page as Money Expert as this is making people think that it must be OK –“ after all these are money experts” – and disclose your relationship to swoggi.com and stop misleading people.

Dora Boulding"

ballisticbrian

The Money Expert site has a similar name to this one Money Saving Expert, but there is no other connection.