Sab23
Hello,
Did any of you hear about these bidding websites (BidZeed, BidAffairs, fancybid, ...)?
I encountered BidZeed yesterday and it seems to be introducing a nice concept.
Not sure though about scam, original items, warranty, additional delivery fees...
If you have used any of these or similar websites, please share your experience.
Thanks.
chosen2k
Personally I would avoid any website that takes my money to place a bid.
Guitaret
Not a scam, but something worse and I recommend avoiding them.
I agree that their model is attractive but:
They are not completely honest about the bidding process and only one has to buy bids, to understand the full process. They sell it as ex: "An item that costs 1500$ was sold at 45$ => you saved 1455$". That is a blunt LIE. The bidding is an increment by a unit of 1 cent and each cent actually costs a bid, a bid will cost you around 0.5$ to buy it. So you cannot bid your price, you have to go by increment; If you want to raise the price by 1$ you will have to pay 50$. And guess what, as a result you can pay thousands of bid just to have someone outbids you by 1 bid. He wins the item by paying few bids, you lose hundreds of dollars for nothing. It is not fair, more like gambling.
Bids cannot be refunded, transfer and will get expired if you don't use them.
The worst part is:
The deadline for bidding is ridiculously flexible. The bidding deadline may sometimes be prolonged to a whole day after the deadline by resetting the counter to 15 seconds if someone bids. You may think this is understandable. Trust me it is hell, you will have to stay up all night staring at the screen waiting for the bidding to end and refusing to be outbid because you paid big money and you don't want to lose it to another bidder. You'll end up paying more and staring for 12 hours on the screen, and probably you will lose because either you will spend all your bids/empty your credit card or you will lose the waiting game to stress.
Their business model is evil.
Hope I helped.
Sab23
Thanks Guitaret.
I believe the info comes from personal experience?
Upon signing up, I received 5-20 free bids and these are the ones I will use for now.
The bid price at BidZeed is $0.6 and surprisingly they also have auctions on the bid packs - 25 to 200 bids per pack.
Anyway, I will not blindly spend my money nor exhaust myself waiting for something I might never have.
Isn't that how every addiction starts? Kidding.