Swoggi penny auction site or scam?

Alex55

I bid for an item on Swoggi and unlike most users here, I was notified that I won the item. I then received an email asking me to send ID proof before they can send out the item.
Has anybody had the same experience and what is the advice? Bearing in mind they have already my address and the item is less than £10 I cannot believe I they need more information.

obemike

extrapole wrote: »

I feel foolish to have fallen for this but cannot un-do what I have done .
Attracted by what appeared to be a good way to get high tech goods for a bargain basement price,I became a Swoggi Member and had to buy credits in order to bid for the items I wanted .Foolishly,I bought £250 credit because I thought I might have to go that high to get my hands on the iPad I wanted .
I started bidding and soon grew tired of having to bid constantly ,only to be outbidded at the last second .So,I decided to call it a day and cancelled my account .
And this is when the problem started ! I asked for a refund of the money left on my now closed account and was told by their "customer service" ,the matter was now in the hands of their refund department and that I would get my money -minus- £15 for admin - within three weeks .That was on the 2nd of May and now more than three weeks later ,I still do not have the funds refunded and worse ,they do not answer my emails .
I wonder if I am ever going to have my money back ?
Is Swoggi a scam or a genuine online auction site ?

Swoggi is nothing more than a SCAM. This is a betting site covering more than 11 countries all showing the same items on offer at the same time, a little bit like a worldwide lottery but a lot more expensive. You are more likely to win the UK Lottery Jackpot every week than win anything with Swoggi. If you treasure you hard earned cash STAY AWAY. The only winners are their own robots. Thieving B******S

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RaveyDavey

If like me, you are feeling a bit foolish for trying Swoggi out and spending £50 or more like I did, only to realise what a swindle this site really is - then here's possibly a little lifeline for you:


I paid through PayPal which in turn was paid from my credit card. As soon as I realised what was happening on the site, I stopped, cancelled my account on Swoggi and rang the credit Card company and explained what had happened.


They agreed it sounded like a swindle and have cancelled the £50 payment to PayPal. Perhaps PayPal will soon stop their support of this nasty little crooked operation called Swoggi

RaveyDavey

jms1961 wrote: »

I don't think this is a scam, but it is only useful if, say, you want to gamble 50 quid on getting a 300 pound item for the price of the bid credits plus whatever the auction price ends up as. That might be fifty pounds down the toilet, or it might be a big saving - how lucky do you feel? I used a voucher from another site, which made it clear that I would have to purchase further credits; personally I would have been surprised otherwise - Santa Claus these people ain't. But the refund experiences in this thread sound bad, since they punish those who have bid cleverly and ended up with unused credit. And as ever it is not something for those who can't afford it; people have a duty to be circumspect. I shan't use Swoggi again, but simply because I don't want any more high-value items.

If like me, you are feeling a bit foolish for trying Swoggi out and spending £50 or more like I did, only to realise what a swindle this site really is - then here's possibly a little lifeline for you:


I paid through PayPal which in turn was paid from my credit card. As soon as I realised what was happening on the site, I stopped, cancelled my account on Swoggi and rang the credit Card company and explained what had happened.


They agreed it sounded like a swindle and have cancelled the £50 payment to PayPal. Perhaps PayPal will soon stop their support of this nasty little crooked operation called Swoggi

barneygumble

Looks like someone is already onto them
http://swoggiscam.blogspot.co.uk/

They don't sound particularly great!

gerbi2000

SCAM SCAM SCAM. No doubt about it. The only winners are Swoggi when they fleece your credit card. Don't waste your time and money. You know the saying, if it is too good to be true. it probably is. In this instance BEWARE!!!!! SCAM SCAM SCAM

ballisticbrian

Just a warning that the two people who created accounts here to say they had actually won something never logged back in to see if there were any replies and I suspect are posts carefully crafted to have an air of truth about them (sounded like a complaint about having to produce ID) I suspect that the swoggi owners are fielding google results for "swoggi detractors". It would be great if MSE admin can look at the IP addresses of the two pro-Swoggi posts and see if either they are the same or originate with Swoggi.

Chris_Cur

This scam site is actually being promoted by T3 the gadget magazine through links from their site which actually offer discount codes,,,,how bad is that from, what I always thought was a great mag. I contacted them after I foolishly lost £40 on Swoggi and I thought I would never have gone to such a site had it not been recommended by T3. They said they would take off the links but they never did, they stated that they make money from the referrals,,,,why would they admit to that?

ballisticbrian

Thank you Chris, I've just deleted T3 from my Internet Favourites.

RFW

Chris_Cur wrote: »

This scam site is actually being promoted by T3 the gadget magazine through links from their site which actually offer discount codes,,,,how bad is that from, what I always thought was a great mag. I contacted them after I foolishly lost £40 on Swoggi and I thought I would never have gone to such a site had it not been recommended by T3. They said they would take off the links but they never did, they stated that they make money from the referrals,,,,why would they admit to that?

Can I urge anyone who has been misled to report to your local Trading Standards Office, it may not help you get any money back but it will help to get them investigated.

They seem to work in generally affordable amounts (although not always so to some) so rely on people losing and moving on.

Follow this link to find your nearest one to complain to http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/advice/index.cfm