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  • BigDeal

8/22/10

This is one of the most exploitative and misleading sites I've ever seen.

1. For every "big deal," most people lost money, sometimes quite a lot of it. The key difference this site and a legitimate auction site, like Ebay, is that it costs you money JUST TO BID. Every single time you bid,. 75 cents out the window. As a result, that $50 bargain they promote, well, it took 5000 penny bids to get there, at a cost of 75 cents each, so a lot of people lost a lot of money.

2. The site is astonishingly misleading, verging on fraud. Those boxes that proclaim "75% off!" Do not account for the money the person had to spend bidding just to get there, nor do they reflect the often staggering amount of money people other people lost who did not win (I've seen people spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars and end up with nothing.)

They claim that, oh, no worries, you just can buy it now. Well, you frequently cannot buy it now on some of the more desirable items, and it takes hours, even days on some items, to get to a winner.

They also say, oh, you get these loyalty bucks for giving us your money that you can use for big discounts!

Hardly. You can get about 5% off a bunch of items you wouldn't even want. Some deal.

For the love of God, don't throw your money away with this site. You'd be better off in a casino.

Sure, some people are incredibly lucky and actually do get good deals, but the portion of people who come out having not lost money is vanishingly small. This might not be such a problem if they portrayed themselves as the lottery, but they don't. They are woefully misleading about the risks and real chances of actually saving anything, or, just as likely, throwing a lot of money out the window.

The people who run this site should be ashamed of themselves. Despicable.

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