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Overview

BidFun has a rating of 1.63 stars from 119 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about BidFun most frequently mention total scam, and countdown timer problems. BidFun ranks 141st among Penny Auction sites.

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  • You do NOT get your money back if you don't win the auction.
  • It must be that overall they make more money than they lose by selling the item for cheap.
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Top Positive Review

“This website is no scam...”

brock e.
9/13/10

This website is no scam... you guys seem to be angry that they're making money? Who cares? Good on them! If you lost $200.00 on bids then that's your own irresponsibility. The site's terms are clearly stated and make perfect sense. You have to buy credits before you even bid! Did you really think that after buying credits that you are guaranteed to win? Grow up and stop whinging about the money you lost on your own part.

Top Critical Review

“This site took $350 in bids from my teenage daughter...”

Deb S.
12/28/11

This site took $350 in bids from my teenage daughter whi thought she would win an iPad for me for Xmas only to lose her money and someOne else won it for $281 what a rip off. I do not believe this other person or the other bidders were genuine and made up by bidfun to extract more money from unsuspecting people. Have lodged complaints with them and PayPal who won't do a thing to recover the money. These operators are to be avoided at all costs. They steal from people and are common thiefs!

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Thumbnail of user debs8
1 review
4 helpful votes
December 28th, 2011

This site took $350 in bids from my teenage daughter whi thought she would win an iPad for me for Xmas only to lose her money and someOne else won it for $281 what a rip off. I do not believe this other person or the other bidders were genuine and made up by bidfun to extract more money from unsuspecting people. Have lodged complaints with them and PayPal who won't do a thing to recover the money. These operators are to be avoided at all costs. They steal from people and are common thiefs!

Thumbnail of user koenz
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 31st, 2011

Two words: Complete, and scam. Totally ridiculous. I sat there for about thirty minutes, watching people throw their money away. Every time you bid, it costs you about a dollar, and only adds a cent to the bid, plus twenty seconds. Even when there is like a second left, someone bids a cent, and you have to wait twenty more seconds to see if you win. Even if the clock DOES run down to zero, a word on the screen says, checking...
Just in case anyone wants to make a last minute bid!

Thumbnail of user joshl23
5 reviews
9 helpful votes
May 14th, 2013

DO NOT USE BIDFUN.COM! I won an item, chose the Paypal credit, and never recieved ANYTHING! It's been about a month since I won the auction and I have not recieved anything in the mail or in my Paypal account... I've emailed them multiple times and recived no response... I spent $20.00 on bids. Theres a 20 dollar bill I'll never see again... YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! I'm sticking with Quibids... atleast I recieve my stuff when I win...

Thumbnail of user iriss
1 review
2 helpful votes
June 15th, 2011

Has anyone actually gotten an item from their website? I bid and won an i touch about 5 weeks ago. Never mind that I agree with what everybody says about getting sucked in before you start understanding, but I never got the i touch delivered! And you can only contact them via their website and of course I never got an answer. Contacted paypal's dispute site now but don't have much hope...

Thumbnail of user kenm9
1 review
4 helpful votes
January 1st, 2011

I was so stupid to use this website. I spend $50 just to bid. I thought I won but always someone or the same person appears and bit over again that add some more time and seems the bitting time gover forever. Really time consuming. If you are honest person and no time for this kind of bull$#*! this site is not for you. I am very happy with eBay. This site is scam, stay away from this. One bit costs you $1 and can't refund the money for the points once you bought them.

Thumbnail of user christopherl1
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 28th, 2010

I agree with an earlier post on this site... not a scam just a very clever way to pander to our greed and cheapness... that inner gambler or risk taker in us all... I spent $100 (not all gone yet but close) to watch the scramble for success while the site owners slept the widgets were making money... oodles of money... so paly on or go and play the slots at the local casino... not much difference but realize you're not being scammed your simply playing the odds

Thumbnail of user jonathanh1
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
April 2nd, 2010

Complete and utter scam. Not because of the way in which payment works but because some of the bidders on the site are almost certainly planted by bidfun in order to force you to bid again and again. You may eventually win but it will cost you a lot. Also I have yet to find one person who claims to have won and subsequently received their item. Just a point...

Thumbnail of user coutureg
1 review
2 helpful votes
May 10th, 2011

I suspect a computer system in place to make sure that you not win... please join "bidfun is a scam" on facebook

Thumbnail of user coleenw
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 2nd, 2010

This site is a scam, first you pay for your bids, so it looks like your getting a deal until you see how it works. Ou end up paying more for th product than you would if you bought it outright. If you look at what there doing you'll notice if a product is bought off the auction for lets say $32.01. The company just sold that for $3,201.00 each bid takes the price up. 01 cents. But each bid costs the bider appox. 1.00 each bid. This is a huge scam. Stay AWAY!

Thumbnail of user andrear1
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
August 18th, 2010

Anything but fun, this site will separate you from your money faster than a pickpocket. It is a total scam and I would be willing to bet they have computers running up the bids. Has anyone ever won an auction and how much did you end up paying? I jumped in before I read the "fine print" and lost $60.00. I assumed it worked kind of like eBay. Buyer beware!

Thumbnail of user chloep
1 review
5 helpful votes
June 13th, 2011

If it's too good to be true then it can't be true. There are only 2 ways of getting something for nothing. 1. Somebody buys it for you. 2. You steal it. Don't go throwing good money at something that you know is impossible to get. Caveat emptor...

Thumbnail of user sorak
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 13th, 2011

Geez. I didn't bid or anything because those prices look way too good to be true!
I got jumped and had my DSi, iPod and my Pokemon game (300 something Pokemon!) stolen. I've been devastatingly looking around for anyone who is willing to sell me one for around $100...
I saw this site and its prices and thought 'no f***ing way...'
Thankfully, I went snooping and found HORRIBLE reviews.
Honestly, it's a great money making idea, but the people making the money aren't us. And we're not getting the product.
The site is just rediculous.

Thumbnail of user bd
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 15th, 2010

If you take any of the user names from a person that has won there aka"crazytrucker68" and google search that name you will find them on every site. bidfun.uk-- bidfun.ca-- bidfun. Dk-- bidfun.ie--- so Why would someone want to be bidding on stuff that isn't from that country this makes no sense except that its a SCAM! Please do put any money on this site! I sure didn't

Thumbnail of user shellyj1
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 8th, 2010

I purchased $20 bids. It's a total scam. They just made $20 off of me. Do not think this site works. They say you get sweet deals, but all your doing is giving them money.

Thumbnail of user tonic2
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 14th, 2011

It should be called Bid Scam. No fun here. I think that they have computers that bid automatically against you to drive the price up. I would really like to hear if anyone really got something for nothing!

Thumbnail of user ellisond
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 13th, 2010

I should have seen these comments before buying credits. $70 down the drain >:-(... 10 odd people bidding at the last second and increasing the time... VERY DISAPPOINTED!

Thumbnail of user taddh
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 5th, 2010

This site is a complete scam, the worst i have ever fallen for, if what they're doing isn't illegal it should be, it would take days to win an item, and a boatload of money to bid with. When I fell for it I thought it was more like
E-bay, where you say what you will pay for an item and you either get it or you dont, instead the bid goes up 1 cent every time you bid and they charge you a dollar for clicking your mouse.

Thumbnail of user emilyrosec
1 review
4 helpful votes
December 9th, 2010

Bunch of scammers. These people are the lowest of the low. Not only does it seem they have false bidders to ramp up the price, they also let most of their perhaps false bidders win the actual prizes at the end, I imagine only to put back on the web for more suckers. I believe you will only lose on this website, stay away, stay far away.

Thumbnail of user brendaw4
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
November 26th, 2010

Don't waste your money. Allows you to use paypal or cred card to buy first bidding points. When those run out, they want you to enter a bank acct. It cost me more than several points before I understood the only way to possibly win. Even then, with my 1 point left I placed a very high bid on an item, clicked to possibly buy more points, then when I clicked back to item, I no longer had a "robot" bid and no points. My placed bid was still more than $35 than the ongoing bidding price. SCAM imho!

Thumbnail of user eccparisp
1 review
2 helpful votes
June 9th, 2011

First of all, let me say that I'm DEFINITELY NOT connected to the bid fun site in any way. I actually won the iPad 2 (16 GB / 3G+wifi model) that I'm writing on right now, won when I was home in France where I live but using it right now while visiting my family in sunny California. Basically I stumbled upon on that site at some ungodly hour on a Sunday morning, and "feeling lucky" I decided to try it since I had never gambled in my life. After reading the rules carefully, I first spent 37.50 Euros for 50 points. But when my points began to run out I spent another 75 Euros for 100 points. Lo and behold, I actually won it maybe an hour later, using up 98 points with the final 'price' of only 3.31 Euros. And the iPad was shipped to me from the Apple Store some 3 weeks later as had been clearly indicated at the website, as opposed to faster delivery for less 'popular' or older items. (The iPad 2 had just been released at least in Europe at that time hence the backlog.) The long and the short of it is, even if I never bid on another item again (thereby forfeiting my remaining points), my iPad 2 cost me a total of 37.5 + 75 + 3.31 = 115.81 Euros, or $169.31 USD at today's exchange rates. A real bargain as the same iPad sells for $629 + local tax(es) in a US Apple Store, or 609 Euros in the French Apple Store, or 379 Euros at Orange France WITH a two-year contract.

SO, I for one can't say that this website is a scam, though I'd probably not go back there because I wouldn't dare count on beginner's luck or dumb luck again!

Thumbnail of user christineb1
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
December 4th, 2010

Came across this site thought ok, joined bought $20 bid points kept bidding then thiught I will have to buy more, but for some reason they said i could'nt use that credit card (lucky me) so I rang my credit card company, yes that $20 went through but there are also 5 transactions of $1 can not work that out, any way those 5 transtions have been reported as a fraud

Thumbnail of user deenah
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 20th, 2010

I wish that I had come here to read the reviews before handing over my hard earned money. I should have known that you don't get something for nothing... This is a well thought out scam site. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if BidFun didn't have a few robots set up to drive up prices and keep people bidding. I knew within a few bids that I had been had...

Thumbnail of user michaell31
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 2nd, 2011

I was hooked in by the low prices advertised as past sales. This site is a total scam I didn't realise untill I had bid $350 that I was bidding against a computer robot? I think PAYPAL should not be associated with this scam site.
A total rip off.

Thumbnail of user louised1
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 9th, 2011

For every bid you place, you pay $1 (or 1 point as they politely put it). I placed an automated bid for $50 with 50 attempts... hell, no wonder my money (or points) vanished so quickly. Each bid cost you a $1 but only adds $0.02 to the bidding price... so if your automated bid is $50 with 50 attempts and the current bid stands at $1.54... 50 bids (minis $50 out of your pocket... poof - gone!) will only adds $1 to the current bidding price, making it $2.54... and you've just lost $50 by placing a bid...

Anyone thinking they are getting something very cheap, even if it seams that way - think again. Take my example above, you may think you've bought sosmething for $2.54 but you've actually paid $2.54 + $50 (or how ever many times you've bid on the item) --- This screams of SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM and these people should be STOPPED IMMEDIATELY!

Don't use this site - you're gonna loose your money for sure!

Thumbnail of user dougg1
1 review
4 helpful votes
February 6th, 2011

Man, do I feel like an idiot. I wish I had come to this site first. Why does an outfit like PayPal allow itself to be associated with these criminals? I get it how they are legally covered, but still, why would any reputable organization continue to participate with them.

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