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Zbiddy Reviews Summary

Zbiddy has a rating of 1.5 stars from 150 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Zbiddy most frequently mention credit card, customer service and live chat. Zbiddy ranks 174th among Auction sites.

Canada
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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I won plenty of stuff!
November 6, 2013

I won plenty of stuff! But I never received anything! I payed for it and called them when they finaly will send me my winnings (and the coupon for gas worth of 100 Dollar!). Did not received one bid! A compleet rip-off!

Date of experience: November 6, 2013
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Zbiddy advertises selling items such as iPods for $29. Sure they do... the only catch is that you have to pay 60 cents every time you bid. The way they make their money is capping the bid at $29 and letting everyone bid themselves into an early bankruptcy by clicking the BID button. By the time it's over there will be HUNDREDS of bids for the item at that capped cost and zBiddy makes off with five or six times what an iPod would cost if you went to Best Buy.
One also must look at the inventory of material they sell. Up front they tell you about computers and cameras and consumer electronics but in reality, 90% of what they sell are more bid packages, restaurant cards and other material worth nothing close to the value attached to it. STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: November 1, 2013
North Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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COMPLETE RIP OFF!
October 31, 2013

COMPLETE RIP OFF! They take your money and you get near NOTHING for it! The auctions are almost impossible to win on the items that are higher end. DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS SCAM!

Date of experience: October 31, 2013
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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DON'T EVER use this website; it is a total ripoff. You sign up, give credit information thinking it's like PayPal - then they nab you for some $99 bid package automatically
Had to fight to get a refund, But when I said I would just go to PayPal and file the claim since the card was Paypal I got thru to them and the refund was a done deal...

Date of experience: October 28, 2013
Tennessee
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DON'T EVER use this website; it is a total ripoff. You sign up, give credit information thinking it's like PayPal - then they nab you for some $99 bid package automatically. Then, when you dispute their transaction, they refuse to refund your money, despite 3 "logos" promising 100% satisfaction. I doubt I'll ever see my money again, but this place is totally fraudulent and a complete rip off!

Date of experience: October 28, 2013
Minnesota
1 review
2 helpful votes
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SCAM of all scams. I got a text message, responded to it. It said I got free bids, but they ended up costing me $97.00. I complained and they offered a $100 gas card. After almost 2 months, I got a voucher for $10 rebate on gas. You will get 10 $10 vouchers, but can only use 1 at a time. I sent my first one in and have waited 2 months for the voucher.

I also "bought" 4 gift cards $10, $10, $25, $25. I didn't win the auction, but used the "Buy It Now" option. It has been 3 months and I haven't received a thing, not even a response to my numerous emails.

Stay away from this website, unless you are a hacker and can bring this site down!

Date of experience: October 16, 2013
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This is THE WORST online bidding site... they have no products worth 1/2 of what they say they are worth, the couple I did win arrived a month after paying for them, and only after many contacts to their customer service department. The poor girl who has that job should get a raise as obviously those who run the Bull$#*! site don't give a damn about customers or feedback. Check out the BBB rating on this company and you'll see they currently have 186 complaints against them, one more as soon as I go file mine!

Date of experience: October 13, 2013
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I won 25 bids and 50 ebook downloads 8 august 13 and paid for them right away. I got my bids but not the ebook code. I contacted customer service 5 Times and was told to wait and it would be taken care of any day. Well I guess any day means any day from now til hell freezes over and I still won't get my books. IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT USING THIS SITE, PLEASE CONTACT ME AND GIVE ME YOUR MONEY! I WILL AT LEAST TELL YOU THE TRUTH! I have won a few other small things and when I received them they were things that I would have been mad to get out of a. 25 bubble gum machine. SAVE YOUR MONEY!

Date of experience: October 7, 2013
Kansas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Won a few low end items, not worth much, then won an ipod in august, still to this day have not rec'vd it, now its october, contacted their chat many times, always got same answers, like they are robots, finally today got a phone number to call, got a live person, asked for my $ back plus shipping because I don't believe they will ever ship out the item, STAY AWAY
I still have bids to use, am going to use them on the high end items, maybe win, AND THEN NOT PAY

Date of experience: October 3, 2013
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I was using Zbiddy for the first time and thought I was bidding on a tablet and ended up winning the bid on 250 bids for $99. I immediately sent them an email saying I did not make that bid and if I did it was done in error. I asked that they release my money and that did not happen. I am disputing the charge. They steal your money. I bought an expensive lesson.

Phyllis Jackson

Date of experience: October 2, 2013
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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After being shown a bid taking place where a Mac Air went for $9 in the promo i was surprised to see that the number of items you can bid are are small and very spread out over 30+ days! I feel like this is a total bait and switch and I want my money returned. As it stands they have no return policy so I am contacting my credit card company today! This place is a total scam!

Date of experience: September 27, 2013
Virginia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Bid and won numerous restaurant.com gift vouchers. Took a lengthy period of time to get the vouchers issued (as a matter of fact,... I'm still waiting on a $50 one,... been waiting nearly 6 weeks). I've redeemed all the other vouchers and enjoyed the restaurants. I recently tried to get the name of CEO or head of Customer Care & an address of the company but got the run around by the chat line representative (Nancy). She did finally give me the mailing address but wouldn't give me the name of anyone at the company that I could address my letter of concern to. Things that make you go Hmmmmm!

Date of experience: September 17, 2013
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Lousy selection of items, so the few decent items they do have; run forever. I have been watching for a month for a few specific items (a dyson vacuum, a laptop, etc.) I had the day(s) memorized for when these items would be available to be sold. For instance, I knew that today at 1PM one of my items would be at the final countdown and ready to be finally sold. I was shocked when I went to my "Watch List" (a month old, mind you) and saw that all of these items had another (at least) 2 weeks tacked on to them. Fraud? I think so. This isn't a good sign for this site. I'm spending my remaining bids and getting out while the "going's good".

Date of experience: September 11, 2013
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very few useful things to bid on, Its a bit of a scam.

Date of experience: August 24, 2013
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Just a simple remark, notice that they do not accept paypal and it is a good indication of there intention. NO PAYPAL MEANS NOT A SERIOUS BUSINESS AT ALL

Date of experience: August 12, 2013
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Thieves
August 5, 2013

Thieves - Plain and Simple.

I was the last bidder on 3 "Gift Cards" and won none. The timer ran to zero with no winner then the auction was restarted with the clock at 24 hrs.

Unable to pay for items won. Comes back with credit card expiration date error. Worked 5 times previously.

Date of experience: August 5, 2013
Oregon
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Well run site, few large items and always the same, a bunch of travel, cruise, vacation items All with restrictions or sending you to a travel agency to up sell you. No use as you can not simple use as you wish. Even cash wins for travel has restrictions. Very poor selections over all that again don't change. I have won bids only to find restriction I can not use on other then household items. Once again, you will see the same items all the time. I think they are missing an opportunity and happy for you to buy bids on useless items. It takes the fun out of this experience but I'm told all the sites are the same way

Date of experience: August 3, 2013
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I signed up with ZBiddy, paid the $100.00's to bid on items, up to now I have not gotten any bids. Then all of a sudden I cannot get the web site that I was signing in on, so now I can't bid any more and I lost my money

Date of experience: July 13, 2013
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I would never give my CC info for a one cent charge, and I'm glad I checked them out, too!
I thought I had read over the Terms pretty carefully, but missed this one little part, which I guess alot of other people did, too:

"... Bid credits, referred to as bids, are sold in the form of multiple-use packages referred to as Bid Packages. Such Bid Packages must be purchased and paid for prior to a user claiming any item won during any promotional or rookie auction or used in specific ULYL auctions or premium auctions as determined by ULYL"

In otherwords, those "free" tokens mean SQUAT! They won't even let you claim a prize until you purchase a Bid Package!
Not to mention getting SPAMMED from a bunch of other sites... I'm glad all they got out of me was my email address... LOL!

Caveat emptor! (Buyer beware)

Date of experience: June 30, 2013
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Zbiddy has not allowed me to win an item even if I was bidding fairly aggressively. There are fewer items on this site vs. others and it is almost impossibe to win unless watching it 24/7. I seriously hope you consider refunding me a portion of my $80 due to my complete dissatisfaction.

Date of experience: June 24, 2013

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